Starter quiz

  • ______ is a form of discrimination or prejudice based on someone's race or ethnicity.
    • 'Racism' ✓
  • Which President of the USA was responsible for implementing the New Deal?
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt  ✓
    • Calvin Coolidge
    • Herbert Hoover
    • Harry S. Truman
  • Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into the order in which they happened.
    • 1
      ⇔
      The Great Depression
    • 2
      ⇔
      The New Deal
    • 3
      ⇔
      World War Two
    • 4
      ⇔
      The Red Scare
  • Which statements are correct?
    • Roosevelt promised that his New Deal would deliver relief, recovery and reform.  ✓
    • All Americans were lifted out of poverty by the New Deal.
    • Many Americans were lifted out of poverty by the New Deal.  ✓
    • The New Deal did not end unequal treatment of African Americans in the USA.  ✓
  • Which statements are correct?
    • African Americans did not gain new opportunities for employment during the war.
    • African Americans gained new opportunities for employment during the war.  ✓
    • African Americans faced discrimination in the military and on the home front.  ✓
  • Match the following words with their definitions.
    • Civil rights
      ⇔
      protections that ensure equal treatment and prevent discrimination ✓
    • Inequality
      ⇔
      disparity in the distribution of resources or opportunities ✓
    • Abolition
      ⇔
      the movement to permanently end the practice of enslaving humans ✓
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