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U. S. History: Diagnostic Three
Directions:
 On your answer sheet, fill in the circle that corresponds to your answer for the
multiple-choice question.
 Mark only one answer for each question.
 If you do not know the answer, make your best guess.
Multiple Choice:
1. On April, 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of
war on Germany. Which action most influenced President Wilson’s decision?
a. Germany blockading American ports
b. Germany placing a tariff on American goods
c. German submarines sinking American merchant ships
d. German spies destroying U.S. munitions factory
2. Which of the following factors was most significant in contributing to the onset of
the Great Depression in the United States?
a. Declining agricultural prosperity
b. Increasing reliance on foreign imports
c. An inadequate skilled workforce
d. Vast military expenditure during World War I
3. With which of the following are Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes most
closely related?
a. Great Depression
b. Harlem Renaissance
c. Women’s Suffrage
d. World War II
4. What was the goal of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
a. To impose punitive measures on aggressor nations
b. To provide a plan for a just and lasting peace
c. To distribute colonial possessions equitably
d. To implement a comprehensive reparations plan
5. What notable legal contest exposed the widening cultural rift between religion and
modern science during the twentieth century?
a. Plessy v. Ferguson
b. The Sacco and Vanzetti trial
c. The Scopes trial
d. Korematsu v. United States
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6. Prior to U. S. entry into World War I, what factor most challenged the nation’s
neutrality?
a. Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare
b. Mexico’s support of the Central Powers
c. Russia’s withdrawal of troops after the Bolshevik Revolution
d. Great Britain’s blockade of European ports
7. What labor issue did the Wagner Labor Relations Act of 1935 address?
a. Workplace safety
b. Health insurance
c. Collective bargaining
d. Minimum wage
8. How would an African American during the Great Depression most likely have felt
about the New Deal?
a. Disappointed, because the TVA’s Rural Electrification Program failed to bring
electric power to sharecroppers
b. Outraged, because minorities were ineligible for benefits under the federal
programs
c. Frustrated, because the Civilian Conservation Corps and other work
programs did not provide equal employment opportunities
d. Surprised, because President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not attempt to
support racial equality
9. This photo depicts an early automobile assembly line.
Which developments are directly associated with the mass-production method
shown?
a. Consumerism, advertising, and the installment plan
b. The Nineteenth Amendment and child labor laws
c. Trust-busting, muckraking, and the Square Deal
d. The Red Scare and the Great Depression
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