Big Quiz about 7th Grade US History

What region is in red on this map?

• Great Plains

• Basin and Range

• Canadian Shield

• Middle East

Which improvement in transportation meant a cheaper, faster way to get to the Great Plains?

• Transcontinental Railroad
• sod houses
• steel plow
• windmills

Windmills provided a better way for settlers on the Great Plains to access _________.

• oil

• water

• sod houses

• food

What invention allowed western settlers to keep cattle from wandering off of their land or from trampling their wheat?

• split rail fences

• barbed wire

• windmills

• dry farming

What type of house allowed the settlers to live in the Great Plains?

• log cabin

• sod house

• adobe house

• igloo

What was the name of the time period when the South was being rebuilt after the Civil War?

• Reconciliation
• Reconstruction
• Reestablishment
• Freedmen's Bureau 

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 12th 
• 13th 
• 14th
• 15th

Segregation  means .......

• separation based on race
• separation based on gender
• coming together 
• get rid of

What is the definition of suffrage?

• to fight against child labor
• to suffer from social unfairness
• to stop drinking alcohol
• to have the right to vote

Which amendment granted women in the United States the right to vote?

• 13th
• 15th
• 18th
• 19th