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Which description best characterizes the jazz of the Harlem Renaissance?

A
Jazz featured sorrowful songs about love and loss.
B
Jazz was a new type of music uninspired by any other genera.
C
Jazz featured songs with strong religious themes.
D
Jazz combined Native American and European elements.
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Progressive and conservative Republicans disagreed on which of these in the early 1900s?

A
the importance of trade
B
the importance of freedom
C
the role of US government
D
the role of foreign governments
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In the late 1800s, the Populist movement arose out of the concerns of

A
the middle class.
B
farm workers.
C
the wealthy.
D
factory owners.
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Which sentence best describes why European powers competed for new colonies in Africa and Asia in the early 1900s?

A
Europeans wanted more territory to prepare for the threat of war.
B
Europeans wanted to help people in colonies become more European.
C
Europeans wanted to demonstrate their power.
D
Europeans wanted to make more accurate maps of the world.
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Which best describes the aim of the Dawes Act?

A
to strongly encourage Indigenous people to become farmers
B
to strongly encourage Indigenous people to sell their land
C
to strongly encourage Indigenous people to change religions
D
to strongly encourage Indigenous people to speak English
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In support of the Thirteenth Amendment, President Lincoln argued that

A
slavery should be allowed in the North only.
B
slavery should be allowed in the South only.
C
slavery should be made illegal everywhere.
D
slavery did not impact the Civil War.
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Which best describes a major effect of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle ?

A
It created a controversy that influenced President Roosevelt to take action.
B
It prompted government reform on a state and city level.
C
It exposed the scandal of railroad business practices.
D
It created a controversy that led the Supreme Court to break up a monopoly.
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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff had the direct effect of

A
foreign countries refusing to buy American goods.
B
shantytowns being built across the country.
C
providing loans to help banks and businesses.
D
Bonus Army demonstrations in Washington, DC.
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In the system of sharecropping in the late 1800s,

A
farmers bought land from landowners in return for shares of crops.
B
farmers and landowners shared ownership of land and profits equally.
C
farmers worked for landowners in exchange for fair wages.
D
farmers rented land from landowners in return for a share of the crops.
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In the late 1800s, how did European countries build empires?

A
by settling newly discovered lands
B
by buying land from other countries
C
by taking over other countries
D
by expanding their existing borders
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Which of these best summarizes the achievements or career of Theodore Roosevelt?

A
He was born after the Civil War and fought during World War I.
B
He was a president whose reform policies were known as the New Deal.
C
He was the youngest person ever appointed police commissioner in New York.
D
He was elected to many different positions and had a broad range of interests.
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What fueled the consumerism of the 1920s?

A
Americans buying only essential goods on credit
B
Americans buying essential goods with cash
C
Americans buying nonessential goods on credit
D
Americans buying nonessential goods with cash
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The Niagara Movement led to the formation of the

A
United Negro Improvement Association.
B
Anti-Defamation League.
C
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
D
Negro Factories Association.
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What was Jacob Riis’s goal in the late 1800s?

A
to expose corruption in city governments
B
to preach a gospel of social justice for the less fortunate
C
to start settlement houses for the less fortunate
D
to make Americans aware of problems in cities
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Trench warfare most likely led to stalemates during World War I by making it

A
easy for soldiers to fight..
B
easy to attack the enemy.
C
difficult for soldiers to fight.
D
difficult to gain an advantage.
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Which statement about longitude and latitude is true?

A
Lines of latitude measure the distance east or west of the prime meridian.
B
Latitude measures the distance from the equator.
C
Lines of longitude measure the distance north or south of the equator.
D
Longitude measures the distance from South America.
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Which government agency controlled the use of valuable resources including oil, metal, and rubber during World War II?

A
the Defense Plant Corporation
B
the Federal Reserve System
C
the War Production Board
D
the Office of War Mobilization
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Hitler’s earliest involvement with the Nazi Party resulted in

A
his election as German chancellor.
B
his wife’s suicide.
C
a year spent in prison.
D
the beginning of the Holocaust.
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In the early 1900s, what did it mean for cities to be “dry”?

A
Cities imposed extremely high taxes on water usage.
B
Cities restricted the sale and consumption of alcohol.
C
Cities had severe water shortages and restricted water usage.
D
Cities allowed consumption of alcohol as long as it was taxed.
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The 1935 Social Security Act paid retirees a stipend based on

A
the amount of time dedicated to one job.
B
the size of their economic needs.
C
the size of their bank accounts.
D
the amount contributed to the fund while working.

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