PTA History and Social Studies 3

Question 1

Which war was fought between the Northern and Southern states of the United States from 1861 to 1865?

Accepted Answer

The Civil War

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The Revolutionary War

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The War of 1812

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The Mexican-American War

Question 2

What is the term for the movement of formerly enslaved African Americans to northern cities during the early-to-mid 20th century?

Accepted Answer

The Great Migration

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The Reconstruction

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The Harlem Renaissance

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The Southern Exodus

Question 3

Which Native American leader was known for his resistance to U.S. government expansion and led the Lakota Sioux at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876?

Accepted Answer

Sitting Bull

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Geronimo

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Crazy Horse

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Chief Joseph

Question 4

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803, which doubled the size of the United States, was negotiated with which European nation?

Accepted Answer

France

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Spain

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Great Britain

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Portugal

Question 5

During the New Deal era, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created programs primarily to address what national crisis?

Accepted Answer

The Great Depression

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World War II

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The Korean War

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The Dust Bowl alone

Question 6

What is the term for the policy of keeping racial groups separate in schools, transportation, and public facilities, which was common in the American South after Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Segregation

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Apartheid

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Redlining

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Exclusion

Question 7

The Berlin Wall, built in 1961 and torn down in 1989, symbolized the division between which two ideological systems?

Accepted Answer

Capitalism and communism

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Democracy and monarchy

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Fascism and liberalism

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Colonialism and independence