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Who started the American Red Cross and worked to help the victims of wars and natural disasters?
 
Clara Barton
 
Susan B. Anthony
 
Eleanor Roosevelt
Who led the protests of field workers against grape and lettuce growers and began the United Farm Workers of America?
 
Cesar Chavez
 
Samuel L. Clemens
 
Samuel L. Clemens
 
Benjamin Franklin
Who loved nature and painted pictures of birds? There is a society named after him working to protect birds.
 
John James Audubon
 
Cesar Chavez
 
Hideyo Noguchi
 
Lawrence Welk
Who was a Founding Father of the United States known for his roles in writing and publishing, creating inventions, contributing to the Declaration of Independence and the U.S Constitution, and serving as a diplomat to other countries?
 
Benjamin Franklin
 
Thomas A. Edison
 
Samuel L. Clemens
 
Henry Ford
Who made discoveries about polio and other diseases? His work led to a vaccine for yellow fever.
 
Hideyo Noguchi
 
Benjamin Franklin
 
Lawrence Welk
 
Samuel L. Clemens
Who led the battle for women's rights, esp. the right to vote and fought against slavery and for Black rights?
 
Susan B. Anthony
 
Clara Barton
 
Eleanor Roosevelt
Who was the wife of a President and worked for many causes and as a U.N delegate, she was a leader in the fight for human rights.
 
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
Clara Barton
 
Susan B. Anthony
Who wrote newspaper stories and spoke on issues such as the responsibility of the white man toward other peoples and was also the author of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and other famous stories?
 
Samuel L. Clemens
 
Thomas A. Edison
 
Henry Ford
 
Duke Ellington
Who was an automobile manufacturer and the first to sell cars with eight-cylinder engines?
 
Henry Ford
 
Susan B. Anthony
 
John James Audubon
 
Thomas A. Edison
The _________________ gave amnesty to many illegal aliens and allowed them to legalize their status. The law puts penalties on employers who hire employees without work authorization.
 
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
 
Immigration Act of 1965
 
McCarran-Walter Act of 1952
 
Displaced Persons Act of 1948
Which act had been set up to help Europeans? It also opened up largescale immigration from other parts of the world.
 
Immigration Act of 1965
 
McCarran-Walter Act of 1952
 
Displaced Persons Act of 1948
 
National Origins Act of 1924
In 1952, the_____________ allowed small numbers of Asians to immigrate again. But the quota system still discriminated against non-Europeans.
 
McCarran-Walter Act
 
National Origins Act
 
Displaced Persons Act
 
Chinese Exclusion Act
In 1948, the U.S. began to admit war refugees. The ____________ allowed 500,000 war victims to immigrate to the United States.
 
Displaced Persons Act
 
National Origins Act
 
Literacy Test Act
 
Chinese Exclusion Act
When did the U.S. begin to admit war refugees?
 
1948
 
1950
 
1966
 
1975
Which act set limits for people from each country outside the Western Hemisphere
 
National Origins Act of 1924
 
Literacy Test Act of 1917
 
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
 
National Origins Act of 1929
Which act was the first national language restriction on immigration and was used as a means of excluding "undesirable" linguistic minorities?
 
The Literacy Test Act of 1917
 
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
 
National Origins Act of 1929
Which agreement was the one between America and Empire of Japan whereby Japan would not allow further emigration to the United States and the United States would not impose restrictions on Japanese immigrants already present in the country?
 
Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
 
Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
 
Treaty of Versailles of 1919
What years were dominated by immigration from Italy?
 
1900 – 1919
 
1880 – 1899
 
1920 – 1939
 
1940 – 1959
Which law was the first federal attempt to limit immigration by nationality?
 
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
 
Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
 
National Origins Act of 1924
 
Fulbright Act of 1946
Why did America welcome more immigrants to the country?
 
All are correct
 
Because they were moving west
 
Because they needed more workers
 
to boost the economy and stimulate growth.
Before _____, the United States welcomed immigrants from all countries.
 
1880
 
1870
 
1865
 
1900
In the 1980s, almost half of all immigrants were
 
Asian
 
African
 
Hispanic-Americans
 
European
Who are Hispanic-Americans?
 
People of Spanish or Spanish American origin
 
West Africans
 
Europeans
 
Asians
When did the immigration of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe begin?
 
from the 1870s to the 1930s
 
in the 1820s
 
in the 1860s
When did the immigration of immigrants from Northern and Western Europe begin?
 
in the 1820s
 
from 1620s
 
from the 1870s to the 1930s
From 1620 to 1820 by far the largest group of people to come to the United States came, not as willing immigrants, but against their will. These people were______
 
African-Americans
 
The Native Americans
 
Indians
 
Asian-Americans
The story of the westward growth of the United States was also the story of the destruction of _____
 
Native Americans or Indians
 
Hispanic-Americans
 
Asian-Americans
 
African-Americans
Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his negotiations to end the Russo-Japanese War and spearheaded the beginning of construction on the Panama Canal?
 
Theodore Roosevelt
 
Woodrow Wilson
 
William Howard Taft
 
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who was the 26th President in 1901?
 
Theodore Roosevelt
 
Woodrow Wilson
 
William Howard Taft
 
Franklin D. Roosevelt
On what year did John F. Kennedy become the 35th President?
 
1961
 
1963
 
1965
 
1960
He tried to stop Communism with the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps and was against nuclear weapons.
 
John F. Kennedy
 
Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
Jimmy Carter
 
George Washington
He supported civil rights, fair housing, and programs to stop poverty, and he wanted more money for education and medical care for elderly people.
 
John F. Kennedy
 
Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
Jimmy Carter
 
Abraham Lincoln
He was a man for the future, and one of his goals was to land a man on the moon before 1970
 
John F. Kennedy
 
Abraham Lincoln
 
Thomas Jefferson
This youngman Roman Catholic was President for only three years because he was assassinated in 1963.
 
John F. Kennedy
 
Abraham Lincoln
 
Thomas Jefferson
On what year did Abraham Lincoln become the sixteenth President?
 
1861
 
1865
 
1860
 
1855
His Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, but he was assassinated before he could vring the South back into the Union.
 
Abraham Lincoln
 
John F. Kennedy
As the sixteenth President, he used power that was not given by the Constitution when he led the northern states in the Civil War.
 
Abraham Lincoln
 
John Adáms
 
John F. Kennedy
He was against salvery but wanted the states of the North and South to work together as a nation
 
Abraham Lincoln
 
Thomas Jefferson
 
John F. Kennedy
This honest man taught himself and became a lawyer and a Congressman from Illinois
 
Abraham Lincoln
 
George Washington
 
John Adams
 
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of U.S. from?
 
1801 to 1809
 
1801 to 1808
 
1801 to 1810
 
1801 to 1815
He bought the Louisiana Territory for the U.S. from France.
 
Thomas Jefferson
 
George Washington
 
Abraham Lincoln
 
John Adams
He was an Ambassador, Secretary of State, and Vice President before he became the third President of the United States.
 
Thomas Jefferson
 
George Washington
 
Abraham Lincoln
 
John Adams
Many of his ideas (about equlity, "the consent of the governed", free press, and free speech) are basic principles of the government of the U.S.
 
Thomas Jefferson
 
George Washington
 
Abraham Lincoln
This farmer and lawyer from Virginia was also a scientist, an inventor, a philosopher, and an architect, and he knew many languages.
 
Thomas Jefferson
 
George Washington
 
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington was the first President of U.S. from?
 
1789 to 1796
 
1789 to 1800
 
1789 to 1792
 
1789 to 1795
He did not think the U.S. sould have strong ties to other nations.
 
George Washington
 
John Adams
 
Abraham Lincoln
 
John F. Kennedy
The colonists trusted this farmer from the colony of Virginia because he did not want power for hĂ­melf
 
George Washington
 
Benjamin Franklin
 
Abraham Lincoln
 
John F. Kennedy
Who served as a military leader in the Revolutionary War?
 
George Washington
 
Benjamin Franklin
 
Thomas Jefferson
 
John Adams
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