SDC WORLD HISTORY CHALLENGE COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
● By 1900, the richest ten percent controlled perhaps _______ percent of the nation's
wealth.. Answer: 90%
● which of the following most accurately describes the arguments of social
Darwinism?. Answer: state welfare and private charity would lead to degeneration by
perpetuating the survival of the weak
● What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West?. Answer: access to
land for agriculture
● Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from
______ ranchers.. Answer: mexican
● The Paiute prophet Wovoka promised that which of the following would occur if
Indians obeyed his instructions and participated in the ceremony that came to be
called the Ghost Dance. Answer: -Dead relatives would return to Earth.
● How did railroads transform the American economy?. Answer: increased the role of
government in the economy
● By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to
what percent of the population?. Answer: 60%
● wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped
inspire the anti-lynching movement.. Answer: Ida B. Wells
● What was the Lost Cause?. Answer: A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and
a romanticization of the Old South
● Which of the following definitions best describes the work of muckrakers?. Answer:
investigative journalists
● what legal principle was enshrined by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?.
Answer: Separate but equal
, ● Why did so many die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?. Answer: unsafe working
conditions
● .. Answer: was not bold enough
● Which of the following writers most effectively used photography in their work?.
Answer: Jacob Riis
● what was the particular spark that ignited World War I?. Answer: assassination of
Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie
● What was the Zimmerman Telegram?. Answer: A German offer to help Mexico recover
land lost in the Mexican-American War if Mexico would side with Germany in WWI.
● Why did the League of Nations fail?. Answer: American refusals to join
● What was the Red Summer of 1919?. Answer: Racial violence in twenty-five American
cities
● What was the primary purpose of the failed Equal Rights Amendment?. Answer:
eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex
● How did increased availability of consumer credit in the 1920s influence American
expenditures?. Answer: expenditures increased
● Two events are widely credited with inspiring the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. One is
the release of the film The Birth of the Nation. What was the second?. Answer: lynching
of Leo Frank
● What was the Bonus Army?. Answer: A group of World War I veterans who petitioned the
government to make an early
● The environmental catastrophe of the Great Depression was partly the result of
agricultural mismanagement. Which of the following was the most consequential
example of this mismanagement?. Answer: Farmers plowed up natural ground cover to
grow more crops, cover that had taken ages to form in the relatively dry states of the Plains.
● What did the Works Progress Administration (WPA) do?. Answer: put unemployed men
and women to work on projects designed and proposed by local
● what was the most dramatic result of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act?. Answer: the
creation of a national minimum wage
STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
● By 1900, the richest ten percent controlled perhaps _______ percent of the nation's
wealth.. Answer: 90%
● which of the following most accurately describes the arguments of social
Darwinism?. Answer: state welfare and private charity would lead to degeneration by
perpetuating the survival of the weak
● What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West?. Answer: access to
land for agriculture
● Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from
______ ranchers.. Answer: mexican
● The Paiute prophet Wovoka promised that which of the following would occur if
Indians obeyed his instructions and participated in the ceremony that came to be
called the Ghost Dance. Answer: -Dead relatives would return to Earth.
● How did railroads transform the American economy?. Answer: increased the role of
government in the economy
● By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to
what percent of the population?. Answer: 60%
● wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped
inspire the anti-lynching movement.. Answer: Ida B. Wells
● What was the Lost Cause?. Answer: A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and
a romanticization of the Old South
● Which of the following definitions best describes the work of muckrakers?. Answer:
investigative journalists
● what legal principle was enshrined by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?.
Answer: Separate but equal
, ● Why did so many die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?. Answer: unsafe working
conditions
● .. Answer: was not bold enough
● Which of the following writers most effectively used photography in their work?.
Answer: Jacob Riis
● what was the particular spark that ignited World War I?. Answer: assassination of
Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie
● What was the Zimmerman Telegram?. Answer: A German offer to help Mexico recover
land lost in the Mexican-American War if Mexico would side with Germany in WWI.
● Why did the League of Nations fail?. Answer: American refusals to join
● What was the Red Summer of 1919?. Answer: Racial violence in twenty-five American
cities
● What was the primary purpose of the failed Equal Rights Amendment?. Answer:
eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex
● How did increased availability of consumer credit in the 1920s influence American
expenditures?. Answer: expenditures increased
● Two events are widely credited with inspiring the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. One is
the release of the film The Birth of the Nation. What was the second?. Answer: lynching
of Leo Frank
● What was the Bonus Army?. Answer: A group of World War I veterans who petitioned the
government to make an early
● The environmental catastrophe of the Great Depression was partly the result of
agricultural mismanagement. Which of the following was the most consequential
example of this mismanagement?. Answer: Farmers plowed up natural ground cover to
grow more crops, cover that had taken ages to form in the relatively dry states of the Plains.
● What did the Works Progress Administration (WPA) do?. Answer: put unemployed men
and women to work on projects designed and proposed by local
● what was the most dramatic result of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act?. Answer: the
creation of a national minimum wage
