U.S. History — Semester B Practice

Question 1 of 10

TEKS 12A-14CEasy Word

The Dust Bowl occurred primarily in:

Athe Great Plains

Bthe California coast

Cthe coastal Southeast

DPennsylvania

Explanation

📌 Great Plains (Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas) in the 1930s. Drought + poor farming → massive dust storms → migration.

Question 2 of 10

TEKS 1A-6BEasy Word Image

Martin Luther King Jr. is best known for:

Aleading the Civil Rights Movement

Bleading the colonists' revolt

Cdrafting and signing the US Constitution

Dinventing the telephone and light bulb

Explanation

📌 Leading the Civil Rights Movement through nonviolent protest. 'I Have a Dream' speech (1963). Assassinated 1968.

Question 3 of 10

TEKS 20A-22EEasy Word Image

Rosa Parks is famous for:

Arefusing to give up her bus seat, sparking a boycott

Bhelping to write the entire U.S. Constitution

Cserving as the first female President of the United States

Dleading the entire Underground Railroad network

Explanation

📌 Refusing to give up her bus seat (1955, Montgomery, Alabama). Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Civil rights icon.

Question 4 of 10

TEKS 1A-6BEasy Word Image

The diagram shows the structure of the United Nations, founded in 1945. What was the primary purpose of creating the United Nations after World War II?

ATo maintain international peace and prevent future world wars

BTo establish one single, unified world government

CTo spread democracy to all nations of the world by military force

DTo punish Germany and Japan for having started the war

Explanation

The United Nations was created to maintain international peace and security and prevent another world war through diplomacy and collective security.

Question 5 of 10

TEKS 1A-6BEasy Word Image

Pearl Harbor was attacked on:

AJune 6, 1944

BNovember 11, 1918

CDecember 7, 1941

DAugust 6, 1945

Explanation

📌 December 7, 1941. Japan attacked the US naval base in Hawaii. US entered WWII the next day.

Question 6 of 10

TEKS 1A-6BEasy Word

D-Day (June 6, 1944) was:

Athe bombing of Pearl Harbor

Bthe Allied invasion of Normandy

Cthe dropping of the atomic bomb

Dthe end of WWI

Explanation

📌 Allied invasion of Normandy, France. Largest amphibious invasion in history. Turning point of WWII in Europe.

Question 7 of 10

TEKS 1A-6BEasy Word

The US entered World War I in:

A1918

B1917

C1920

D1914

Explanation

📌 1917. Reasons: unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmermann Telegram. Allies won 1918.

Question 8 of 10

TEKS 20A-22EEasy Word Image

The Civil Rights Act of 1964:

Agave American women the constitutional right to vote

Boutlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex

Cestablished a national Social Security retirement and pension system

Dpermanently abolished slavery throughout the entire United States

Explanation

📌 Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Ended Jim Crow laws.

Question 9 of 10

TEKS 1A-6BEasy Word Image

The graph shows U.S. unemployment during the Great Depression. Based on the graph, unemployment peaked in 1933 at 25%. Which program was primarily responsible for the eventual decline?

AState-level welfare programs created by governors

BThe Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates

CPresident Hoover's policy of rugged individualism

DPresident Roosevelt's New Deal programs

Explanation

FDR's New Deal programs (CCC, WPA, TVA, Social Security) provided jobs and economic relief, though full recovery came with WWII mobilization.

Question 10 of 10

TEKS 17A-19EMedium Diagram

The map below shows how many seats each state gained or lost in the U.S. House of Representatives between the 1950 and 2020 apportionments.

All but one of the states shaded in red gained population over these seventy years, yet every one of them lost seats. Which explains that best?

AA state forfeits seats whenever it fails to file its census returns on schedule

BThe Supreme Court redistributes seats among the states after each decennial census

CThe total number of seats is fixed at 435

DThe Constitution places an upper limit on how many members any one state may send

Explanation

Because the size of the House has been held at 435 since 1929, apportionment is a matter of shares rather than totals. A state that grows more slowly than the country as a whole loses ground even while its own population rises — which is what happened to New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio as California, Texas and Florida grew.

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