Praxis - Social Studies American History

What is Manifest Destiny?

• A time when Americans strove to expand the nation's boundaries. Specifically, it is the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable

• A group of civilians from the East Coast who travelled to California during the gold rush

• A reform movement beginning in 1910 that incentivized the suffrage

• The 14th amendment to the Constitution

When did the Civil War occur?

• 1772-1776

• 1810-1815

• the second half of the 20th century

• the first half of the 1860s

Which of the following did NOT help lead to the Civil War?

• California entered the Union as a free state, giving free states a Senate majority

• Fugitive Slave Act passed to help Southerners recover enslaved people who escaped to the North; act caused outrage in the North

• The meeting of Abraham Lincoln and ex-slave Frederick Douglass in 1854

• Uncle Tom's Cabin (the book) was published, angering many Southerners

The generals of the Civil War were

• Frederick Douglas (South) vs. John Brown (North)

• Ulysses S. Grant (South) vs. Robert E. Lee (North)

• Harper Ferry (North) vs. Abraham Lincoln (South)

• Ulysses S. Grant (North) vs. Robert E. Lee (South)

Which of the following did NOT occur AFTER the Civil War?

• A Modern United States emerged

• a dynamic period in American History began with the settlement of the West

• Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address

• American industry grew, bringing revolutionary changes to society

Which of the following was NOT a factor that contributed to industrialization?

• abundant natural resources and a cheap immigrant labor force

• the publishing of Uncle Tom's Cabin and John Brown's raid of Harper's Ferry

• high tariffs that reduced foreign goods

• national communication and transportation networks

In an attempt to improve working conditions, industrial workers came together to form unions in the late 1800s

• True

• False

European and Asian immigrants arrived in the US in great numbers during the late 1800s and providing cheap labor, they made rapid industrial growth possible

• True

• False

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865?

• Lee Harvey Oswald

• Frederick Douglas

• John Brown

• John Wilkes Booth

Which of the following did NOT happen in the late 1800s?

• Many states passed laws segregating African Americans and limiting their voting rights

• The Civil Rights Movement

• Rural Americans suffered economically

• an independent political movement called populism emerged to challenge the two major political parties (Republican and Democrat)