Practice Exam

Question 1

In 1929, ongoing economic issues led to

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a stock market crash.

Question 2

Which of these most accurately compares handmade products with mass-produced products?

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Handmade products are made slowly by skilled workers. Mass-produced products are made quickly by machines.

Question 3

Which is true about the “lost generation”?

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They did not think the lifestyle of the 1920s was desirable.

Question 4

Which effect of industrialization made city centers somewhat unpleasant for residents?

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the rise of railroads and stockyards

Question 5

What led to dust storms during the 1930s?

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both farming and drought

Question 6

Under the Dawes Act, the reservation land not allotted to Indigenous people was sold

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to white settlers and railroad companies.

Question 7

The United States decided to try to build a canal across Panama instead of Nicaragua because:

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the land was less expensive and offered a shorter route.

Question 8

Which of these is true of Great Britain’s participation in World War II in 1940?

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Its Royal Air Force won the Battle of Britain.

Question 9

John D. Rockefeller was an entrepreneur, which means he

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started his own business.

Question 10

When Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland in 1936 and Austria in 1938, other European nations

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offered no resistance.

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