US History Unit 2 Test

This event promoted the rights of railroad works and was progressive in the movement for U.S. labor laws. It proved that laborers who were being mistreated could stand up for themselves and create a work environment more suitable for them. (SSUSH11E)

• Pullman Strike
• Shay's Rebellion
• Nat Turner's Rebellion
• Bleeding Kansas

The ____________________ provided all citizens of the United States the right to vote, including African-Americans. (SSUSH10C)

• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

This was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries which existed between the North and South in the early 19th century. At the time, the United States was evenly split between free and slave states. Through this agreement, Congress set a political boundary at the 36’30” line which stated that any new states north of that line would be free and south of the line would be slave states. (SSUSH8A)

• Sherman's Compromise
• Compromise of 1830
• Missouri Compromise
• Adams-Onis Treaty

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address This famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln was instrumental in providing the nation… (SSUSH9B)

• False hope as the Civil War had ripped the Union apart and was in a state of decay.
• A sense of purpose, direction, and new hope for preserving the Union and finishing the Civil War.
• Fury as many husbands and sons had been killed fighting for their respective sides of the once unified nation.
• Happiness due to the men fighting for a purpose rather than “pawns in a chess match”.

This famous rebellion led to the massacre of 50-70 white Americans residing in Virginia in the 1830’s. This caused widespread fear across the American South as many thought more rebellions could breakout as a result of motivation for freedom and equality. (SSUSH7D)

• Shay's Rebellion
• Radical Republicans
• Nat Turner's Rebellion
• Bleeding Kansas

The Nullification Crisis proved that… (SSUSH7A)

• States could overpower the federal government with enough vetoes at the legislative level.
• America was being strengthened through economic gains in industry.
• Without total consent of all states, states did not have to agree to fight in the Civil War.
• States could threaten to secede from the Union if they found acts of the federal government unconstitutional.

Which of the following statements BEST describes the Industrial Revolution’s impact on the United States at the turn of the 19th century? (SSUSH7B)

• Industrial workers protested either violently or peacefully to earn higher wages, employment rights, and better working conditions.
• An economical revolution that moved work from fields to factories and implemented machine labor, especially in the North.
• A mass importation of slaves to capitalize on the wealth which existed all throughout the Southern states.
• An era in which cities such as New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh created a vast trade network while moving valuable industrial resources throughout the North.

The _____________________ abolished slavery in the United States and had a great impact on the Reconstruction Era. (SSUSH10C)

• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Which statement correctly describes a business practice of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company during the late 1800s? (SSUSH11B)

• Only native-born U.S. citizens were hired to work as laborers.
• Cooperation with unions was encouraged to protect working conditions.
• Native American peoples were relocated to make room for industrial growth.
• Smaller companies were purchased and combined to create a monopoly.

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." This excerpt is from what famous document from our nation’s past? (SSUSH9B)

• Gettysburg Address
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Emancipation Proclamation