“The Americans”
Grade 11
McDougal Littell
NAME ___________________________________
Unit 4 Chapter Test
Main Ideas
Choose the letter of the best answer.
1) What might an anarchist have said about the scandals that
plagued President Harding’s administration?
(a) In a successful government, all officials should be
chosen by the public.
4) According to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, what was
“eating its way into the homes of the American workman, its
sharp tongues…licking the altars of the churches”?
(f) the danger of communist revolution
(b) The scandals are more proof that all forms of
government should be abolished.
(g) the philosophy of nativism
(c) Such scandals would not happen in a government run
by communists.
(j) governmental abuse of civil rights
(d) Mistakes made by cabinet members should not
damage the reputation of the president.
2) Why was the Kellogg-Briand Pact considered useless?
(f) It didn’t prevent war; it only punished countries that
started wars.
(g) It made the process of repaying war debts too easy.
(h) It provided no means enforcing the “no war” agreement.
(j) It failed to include several of the strongest military
powers.
(h) the hopelessness of poverty
5) Which of the following was most closely tied to the public’s
negative reactions to organized labor in the 1920s?
(a) anger about rising prices
(b) fears of communism
(c) fears of a depression
(d) resentment of labor’s advances
6) John L. Lewis is most closely associated with which of the
following?
(f) the coal miners’ strike
3) Which of the following called for the abolition of private
property in order to equally distribute wealth and power?
(a) anarchism
(b) isolationism
(c) nativism
(d) communism
(g) the steel mill strike
(h) the Boston police strike
(j) the Teapot Dome scandal
Map Skills
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
Civil Air Routes, 1918 – 1930
Victoria
CANADA
Seattle
Portland
Great Falls
Montreal
Boise
Boston
Minneapolis
New York
Detroit
Salt Lake
City
San Francisco
Chicago
Cheyenne
Denver
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Washington
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Louis
Las Vegas
Nashville
Albuquerque
Los Angeles
Airport
Oklahoma
City
N
Tucson
El Paso
0
Air Routes
Fort Worth
Dallas
Jacksonville
New
Orleans
500 Miles
1000 Kilometers
1930: Flights begin to Mexico
and Central America
Brownsville
1930: Flights begin to Cuba
and South America
In 1918
By 1921
Pilottown
MEXICO
0
Atlanta
Miami
By 1930
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Civil Air Routes, 1918–1930
Second Proof
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7) Which of the following statements is supported by the
map?
8) According to the map, which of these statements most
accurately describes civil air routes by 1930?
(a) The earliest purpose of civil air routes was connecting
large northern cities with large southern cities.
(f) The purpose of civil air route development was to
connect the United States and Canada.
(b) Flights crossing any body of water were not scheduled
until well after 1930.
(g) Civil air routes were added only to cities that had
previously lacked service.
(c) Air routes connecting the East coast to the West coast
were in place before routes that serviced southern
cities.
(h) The rate of civil air route development consistently
slowed after 1921.
(d) Civil air routes serviced all major U.S. cities before
servicing any cities in other countries.
(j) Civil air routes serviced most major U.S. cities and were
expanding to foreign countries.
Interpreting Political Cartoons
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
9) The title of the cartoon is “Shutting Out the Light.” The
metaphorical “light” that the men are shutting out
represents
(a) the principles of labor unions.
(b) Communist propaganda.
(c) radical foreign ideas.
(d) fundamental American ideals.
10) According to the cartoon, radical ideas come from
(f) the American people.
(g) activists in the labor movement.
(h) foreign and Communist countries.
(j) the U.S. government.
Main Ideas
Choose the letter of the best answer.
11) The main significance of the trial of John T. Scopes was
that
13) Charles Lindbergh was famous as a(n)
(a) politician.
(a) it ended the career of William Jennings Bryan, who
was unable to defend fundamentalism.
(b) composer.
(b) its outdoor setting allowed many Americans to witness
the justice system in action.
(d) pilot.
(c) it highlighted the struggle between science and religion
in American schools.
(d) it led to the repeal of a law that made teaching evolution
in schools illegal.
(c) inventor.
14) Who led the NAACP in its fight to protect AfricanAmerican rights?
(f) Marcus Garvey
(g) Langston Hughes
12) “Double standard” refers to
(f) stricter social and moral standards for women than for
men in the 1920s.
(g) lower wages women earned compared to those
earned by men in the 1920s.
(h) amount of work that women did at home and outside
the house in the 1920s.
(j) unfair treatment of women in the workplace in the
1920s.
(h) James Weldon Johnson
(j) Claude McKay
15) The Harlem Renaissance refers to
(a) a political and social struggle for civil rights led by the
NAACP.
(b) a population increase in Harlem in the 1920s.
(c) a program to promote Africian-American-owned
businesses.
(d) a celebration of African-American culture in literature
and art.
Map Skills
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
African-American Migrations, 1890–1920
States that had significant loss
of African-American population
States that had significant gain
in African-American population
2%
Gain or loss of African Americans as a
percentage of a state's total population
NY
+1%
MI
+1%
IL
+1%
OH
+1%
IN
+1%
PA
+1%
DE –3%
WV
+2%
KY
–5%
OK
–1%
MS
–5%
TX
–6%
LA
–11%
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African-American Migrations, 1890–1920
First Proof
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16) According to the map, what do the southern states have
in common?
(f) They experienced an increase in African-American
population.
(g) They experienced a decrease in African-American
population.
(h) They all relied heavily on African-American industry.
(j) They all had laws that discriminated against African
Americans.
NC
–5%
SC
–9%
TN -5%
AR
–1%
AL
–6%
VA
–8%
GA
–5%
FL
–9%
MD –4%
Main Ideas
Choose the letter of the best answer.
17) In calling shantytowns “Hoovervilles,” people conveyed
their
19) Causes of the farming crisis of the 1920s included the fact
that
(a) belief in patriotism.
(a) demand for crops fell after World War I.
(b) trust in Hoover.
(b) most people did not own electric refrigerators.
(c) disgust with Hoover.
(c) the Dust Bowl took much land out of production.
(d) grudging respect for Hoover.
(d) federal price-supports of corn and wheat were not
effective.
18) Herbert Hoover’s approach to the Depression economy
was based on a belief in
(f) voluntary cooperation.
(g) separation of church and state.
(h) the golden rule.
(i) direct government relief.
Map Skills
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
The Dust Bowl, 1933–1936
ME
WA
ND
MT
VT
R
O
MN
Y
C K
OR
ID
MI
CA
Bakersfield
Flagstaff
AZ
PA
IA
NE
66
MD
OH
IN
IL
WV
CO
KS
MO
NC
Amarillo
NM
Oklahoma
City
SC
AR
MS
AL
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
GA
LA
TX
Area of damage
Area covered by May 1934 dust storm
Route 66, roadway used by migrants
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The Dust Bowl, 1933–1936
Second Proof
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20) In which region did most of the damage from the Dust
Bowl occur?
(i) the Pacific Northwest
NJ
DE
TN
Area of Dust Bowl
(h) the Rocky Mountains
RI
VA
FL
(g) the Great Plains
MA
CT
KY
OK
Albuquerque
PACIFIC
OCEAN
(f) the Midwest
NH
WY
S
A I N
N T
O U
UT
WI
SD
M
NV
NY
0
0
400 Miles
400 Kilometers
N
Main Ideas.
Choose the letter of the best answer.
21) Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath about the grim
lives of Oklahomans fleeing the Dust Bowl during the
Depression?
23) Who used music to express the hardships of American life
during the Depression?
(a) Grant Wood
(a) Woody Guthrie
(b) John Steinbeck
(b) Grant Wood
(c) Richard Wright
(c) Diego Rivera
(d) Dorothea Lange
(d) Richard Wright
22) Who helped organize the “Black Cabinet,” a group of
influential African Americans who advised the Roosevelt
administration on racial issues?
24) Which of the following New Deal policies had the biggest
long-term impact on the American economy?
(f) Social Security Act
(f) Dorothea Lange
(g) Civilian Conservation Corps
(g) Mary McLeod Bethune
(h) Tennessee Valley Authority
(h) Frances Perkins
(j) Federal Emergency Relief Administration
(j) Eleanor Roosevelt
Interpreting Political Cartoons.
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
25) What does the National Recovery Administration (NRA)
death warrant represent in the cartoon?
26) Which of the following statements is supported by the
cartoon?
(a) the NRA’s limiting product production
(f) Only Congress is happy with the NRA death warrant.
(b) Roosevelt’s attempts to silence New Deal critics
(c) the NRA’s putting an end to child labor
(g) Both Wall Street and small business are pleased with
the end of the NRA.
(d) the Supreme Court’s declaring the NIRA
unconstitutional
(h) The NRA neglected laborers to instead serve the
needs of small business owners.
(j) Wall Street and labor are on the same side of the NRA
issue.
Map Skills
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
27) Which of the following statements is supported by the
map?
28) Which is the easternmost dam shown on the map?
(f) South Holston
(a) Every river within the map has at least one dam built
on it.
(g) Wilbur
(b) The Ohio River is not an integral part of the
Tennessee Valley Authority.
(j) Chatuge
(c) The Wilson, Wheeler, and Guntersville dams are the
only dams built outside of Tennessee’s state borders.
(d) Every dam millustrated on this map is within
Tennessee.
(h) Pickwick Landing