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WorksheetsKC2: Growth and Conflict
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Where was the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
a)
Chicago
b)
St. Louis
c)
Kansas City
d)
Las Vegas
2.
What is the name of the land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
a)
Manifest Destiny
b)
The Mexican Cession
c)
Texas Annexation
d)
Louisiana Purchase
3.
This former slave who changed her name, spoke for abolition and women's rights.
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Harriet Tubman
d)
Sojourner Truth
4.
This former slave published THE NORTH STAR and worked to end slavery through political means.
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
William Lloyd Garrison
c)
Brigham Young
d)
John Brown
5.
Who was one of the first supporters of the abolitionist movement, he published THE LIBERATOR starting in the 1830's and continued until 1865.
a)
Andrew Jackson
b)
John Ross
c)
William Lloyd Garrison
d)
Frederick Douglass
6.
This person along Lucretia Mott, organized the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York.
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Alice Paul
d)
Edith New
7.
This reformer focused on helping the mentally ill.
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Susan B. Anthony
c)
Mary Lyon
d)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
8.
What invention increased the demand for land to grow cotton in the South?
a)
Archimedes Screw
b)
Barbed Wire
c)
Cotton Gin
d)
Steam Engine
9.
In 1820 what compromise maintained an equal number of slave and free states.
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
The Three-Fifths Compromise
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Compromise of 1877
10.
What compromise resulted in Maine entering the Union as a free state and Missouri entering as a slave state?
a)
Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
b)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Fugitive Slave Act (1793)
11.
A movement for more democracy in American government in the 1830s. Led by President Andrew Jackson, this movement championed greater rights for the common man and was opposed to any signs of aristocracy in the nation.
a)
Jacksonian Democracy
b)
Women Suffrage
c)
Temperance Movement
d)
Abolition Movement
12.
How were voting rights expanded during Andrew Jackson's presidency?
a)
Most former slaves gained the right to vote.
b)
Most women gained the right to vote.
c)
In most states, property ownership was no longer a requirement to vote.
d)
The right to vote included all persons born in the US regardless of race, color, or religion.
13.
Nativists in the 1840's believed......
a)
immigration brought many Catholics and therefore was harmful to the country.
b)
the new immigrant should be encouraged to move to cities rather than farms.
c)
the new immigrants were not dangerous because they had radical political ideas.
d)
immigrants should be educated in U.S. schools but also retain their native cultures.
14.
Which of the following was NOT a new improvement to transportation from 1800-1850?
a)
canals
b)
railroads
c)
horse & wagons
d)
national roads
15.
Which of these changes was NOT a direct result of industrialization?
a)
an increase in worker productivity
b)
the shift to a manufacturing economy
c)
the growth of the factory system
d)
an increase on dependence on animals for labor
16.
Which person was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, that resulted in the deaths of 55 to 65 white people.
a)
James Trezevant
b)
Nat Turner
c)
John Floyd
d)
James Monroe
17.
What were the consequences of Nat Turner's revolt?
a)
Turner successfully used the military to free families
b)
Whites avoided suffering from violence during the slave revolts.
c)
Slave revolts were often successful.
d)
The rebellion had horrible consequences for free blacks and slaves.
18.
What was the goal of the temperance movement?
a)
to help men learn to control their tempers.
b)
to increase the number of people convicted of murder.
c)
to ban the use of alcohol because it makes people violent.
d)
to use alcohol to calm people who are violent.
19.
What is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico.
a)
isolationism
b)
perfectionism
c)
manifest destiny
d)
assimilation
20.
What is the main idea of this painting?
a)
Americans were guided to the west by Indians.
b)
Americans were divinely guided by God and their superior technology.
c)
Americans were in need of new land because of all the new immigrants.
d)
Americans were chasing the buffalo which was their major food source.
21.
All of the following are consequences of the California Gold Rush EXCEPT:
a)
an increasingly diverse population in California
b)
greater tension between slave and free states
c)
the dependency of the United States on slave labor in the gold mines
d)
the fulfillment of the idea of Manifest Destiny
22.
The conflict that resulted in the Texas-Mexican war can best be summarized as:
a)
The Texans believed that Mexicans weren't protecting their rights while Mexicans believed Texans weren't following their laws.
b)
The Mexicans did not use English or practice the Texan religion.
c)
The Texans didn't want a new Constitution that would allow them to use their own customs and judges.
d)
Mexicans wanted Texans to serve in the Mexican military.
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