U.S. History final review

"No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due." -- U.S. Constitution Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3

The above provision in the U.S. Constitution was later reaffirmed in an 1850 law. What was that law called?

• Slavery

• Abolition Law

• Fugitive Property Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

Jim Crow laws made it possible for black people to become citizens and vote

• True.

  Democrats passed Jim Crow laws to improve the lives of the newly freed slaves after the Civil War.

• False.

  Democrats passed Jim Crow laws to make it more difficult for the newly freed slaves, and their descendants, to exercise their right to vote.

Who were two prominent runaway slaves that became leading advocates for the abolition of slavery in the U.S. prior to the Civil War?

• Harriet Tubman and Louis Armstrong

• Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass

• Frederick the Great and Harriet Cleaver

Tensions between employers and workers led to the creation of labor unions, and workers' strikes, in what era?

• Gilded Age

• Age of Discovery

• Bolshevik Revolution

• Civil Rights Movement

Pick the option that puts the named events in the correct order.

• American War for Independence, Mexican-American War, Civil War, Reconstruction, Progressive Era

• Civil War, Reconstruction, Progressive Era, Mexican-American War, American War for Independence

• American War for Independence, Progressive Era, Civil War, Mexican-American War, Reconstruction

• American War for Independence, Reconstruction, Civil War, Progressive Era, Mexican-American War

Industrial growth in U.S. cities led to what social changes?

• Social reform movements like feminism and abolitionism began & had a big impact on U.S. politics; many people moved from the countryside to the city; immigrants came to the U.S. for high tech jobs; living conditions in cities were improved

• Living conditions in cities became better, cleaner & cheaper; few people moved from the countryside to the city; immigrants stayed away from the U.S. because of Jim Crow laws & patriarchy; many social reform movements began & had a big impact on U.S. politics

• Many people moved from the countryside to the city; immigrants came to the U.S. for industrial jobs; living conditions in cities were crowded, dirty & expensive; many social reform movements began & had a big impact on U.S. politics

• Many people moved from the city to the countryside; immigrants came to the U.S. for farming jobs; living conditions in cities were crowded, dirty & expensive; many social reform movements began but only had a small impact on U.S. politics

After the economic prosperity of the Roaring '20s, came the stock market crash of Black Tuesday and a long period of high unemployment, homelessness, and worldwide unrest known as the...

What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's proposal to get the U.S. out of the Great Depression called?

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of what Communist nation that was allied with the Soviet Union?

• Russia

• Ukraine

• Venezuela

• Cuba

Which 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision affirmed the practice of segregation, and which later 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturned the previous decision and made segregation illegal?

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

  Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

  Brown v. Board of Education

• Marbury v. Madison

  Plessy v. Ferguson

• Plessy v. Ferguson

  Roe v. Wade