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WorksheetsUS History II Midterm Review
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 37mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who invented the electric light bulb in 1879?
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
The Wright Brothers
2.
Who invented the telephone in 1876?
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Washington Carver
d)
The Wright Brothers
3.
Who focused his efforts on steel making?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
Henry Ford
c)
Coach Webb
d)
Mike Ford
4.
What was steerage?
a)
Where people sat on the bus
b)
Where people sat for fun
c)
In the back of the boat
d)
Large compartments usually held cattle
5.
Movement of Southern blacks to urban Northeast, Midwest & West.
a)
Harlem Renaissance
b)
Great Migration
c)
Fundamentalism
6.
Which 1899 statement established America's right to trade with China without interference from European nations?
a)
Monroe Doctrine
b)
Fourteen Points
c)
Open Door Policy
d)
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
7.
Which BEST completes the diagram?
a)
Communism
b)
Imperialism
c)
Liberalism
d)
Nationalism
8.
What is the name of the American ship that exploded in Cuba?
a)
U.S.S. Maine
b)
Lusitainia
c)
Titanic
d)
U.S.S. Panama
9.
What is it called when newspapers exaggerate the headlines to sell more papers?
a)
purple journalism
b)
green journalism
c)
yellow journalism
d)
fake news
10.
What did the United States build that connects North and South America to make trading easier?
a)
Colombia Canal
b)
Protectorate Canal
c)
Mexico Canal
d)
Panama Canal
11.
The process of rebuilding the infrastructure, politics, and society of the South while bringing it back into the Union following the Civil War is known as…
a)
The Reformation
b)
The Reconstruction
c)
The Great Migration
d)
The Great Awakening
12.
Following the Civil War, the President who oversaw the South’s re-entry in to the United States was…
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
James K. Polk
c)
Andrew Johnson
d)
Thomas Jefferson
13.
What amendment guaranteed full citizenship status and rights to every one born within the United States, including African Americans?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
19th Amendment
14.
What amendment guaranteed all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
19th Amendment
15.
What amendment ended slavery?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
19th Amendment
16.
What means the “separation of people based upon race”?
a)
Segregation
b)
Urbanization
c)
Corporation
d)
Assimilation
17.
Most freed Southern slaves did for a living immediately after slavery?
a)
Lawyers,
doctors, professionals, etc.
b)
Factory Work
c)
Sharecropping
d)
Owned
the plantations they used to work
18.
What type of economic system allows businesses to operate without government intervention?
a)
Laissez-faire Economics
b)
Isolationism
c)
Socialism
d)
Collective Bargaining
19.
Making large quantities of goods quickly using machines is known as…
a)
Mass Production
b)
Horizontal Integration
c)
Vertical Integration
d)
Stock Corporation
20.
Passed in 1890, this was the first act passed by Congress to limit the power of powerful companies and was seen as a “competition law”.
a)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
b)
Federal Reserve Act
c)
Teller Act
d)
Smoot-Hawley Act
21.
A company would try to buy out its competition or drive them out of town in order to achieve a _____________.
a)
Patent
b)
Monopoly
c)
Cartel
d)
Company Town
22.
Which of the following tycoons owned and operated the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York?
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
d)
J.P. Morgan
23.
Which of the following tycoons revolutionized industry through the steel business, starting near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
d)
J.P. Morgan
24.
Rockefeller used ___________ integration, where he bought out almost all of his competitors in the same line of business.
a)
Horizontal
b)
Vertical
c)
Lateral
d)
Corporate
25.
Carnegie used ___________ integration, where he bought smaller businesses that make up all phases of his product‘s development.
a)
Horizontal
b)
Vertical
c)
Lateral
d)
Corporate
26.
Sweatshop conditions include everything BUT…
a)
High Pay
b)
Hazardous
Machinery and/or Materials.
c)
Long Working Hours
d)
Poor Ventilation
27.
Samuel Gompers formed this union and set high membership dues in order to provide disabled workers’ compensation and strike pensions.
a)
Knights of Labor
b)
American Federation of Labor
c)
American Railway Union
d)
Industrial Workers of the World
28.
New immigrants often rode in “steerage” to the United States. What part of the boat was this?
a)
In
the Captain’s Chambers
b)
First Class
c)
The
worst accommodations on the ship
d)
In
private cabins
29.
Immigrants to Ellis Island were generally from what world region?
a)
Africa
b)
Eastern and Southern Europe
c)
Southeast Asia
d)
South America
30.
Immigrants to Angel Island were generally from what world region?
a)
Africa
b)
Eastern and Southern Europe
c)
Southeast Asia
d)
South America
31.
Settlement houses taught immigrants English as well as American diet and customs. They did this to help with this process…
a)
Urbanization
b)
Rural-to-Urban Migration
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Americanization
32.
Who did Nativists view as being superior to all?
a)
White Immigrants
b)
American-born Africans
c)
American-born Whites
d)
Asian Immigrants
33.
Nativist policies led to the creation of the __________-Exclusion Act of 1882.
a)
Irish
b)
Chinese
c)
Japanese
d)
Italian
34.
Urbanization is the movement of people to __________.
a)
Suburbs
b)
Farms
c)
Cities
d)
Coasts
35.
Low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible are called…
a)
Tenements
b)
Settlement Houses
c)
Skyscrapers
d)
Suburbs
36.
Mark Twain referred to late 19th Century America as the “Gilded Age” because…
a)
It
was a period of strong growth and success
b)
It
looked better from the outside than those participating in it
c)
It
was an ugly all-around period
d)
The
gold and precious metal market was booming
37.
Specific areas of land set aside by the government for the Indians’ use were known as…
a)
Trusts
b)
Vigilantes
c)
Sweatshops
d)
Reservations
38.
The American general ambushed and killed by Sioux forces at Little Big Horn was…
a)
George A. Custer
b)
John Chivington
c)
William Fetterman
d)
Biff Willows
39.
Leader of the Nez Perce, who led federal troops on a 1,300 mile trek, and was quoted as saying, “I will fight no more forever”.
a)
Chief Joseph
b)
Red Cloud
c)
Sitting Bull
d)
Chief Piapot
40.
____________ came to be known as “Custer’s Last Stand”.
a)
Battle of Little Big Horn
b)
Sand Creek Massacre
c)
Red River War
d)
Battle at Wounded Knee
41.
More than 100 Sioux were killed in South Dakota as a response to the Ghost Dance; a practice that bemoaned the return of the Great White Buffalo spirit to restore Native American power in America.
a)
Battle of Little Big Horn
b)
Sand Creek Massacre
c)
Red River War
d)
Battle at Wounded Knee
42.
The _____________ replaced the reservation system by giving each Indian family 160 acres of land to settle upon.
a)
Hepburn Act
b)
Dawes Act
c)
Homestead Act
d)
Sherman-Anti Trust Act
43.
Growing industry in the West led to the formation of the…
a)
Transcontinental Railroad
b)
Social Gospel
c)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
d)
Panama Canal
44.
The ___________ offered 160 acres of land to anyone who was willing to settle the land, live there five years, dig a well, and build a road.
a)
Hepburn Act
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Dawes Act
d)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
45.
Exodusters were _____________ seeking a new opportunity in the West.
a)
Northern Whites
b)
Southern Blacks
c)
Mexican-Americans
d)
European Immigrants
46.
These required voters to prove they could read before voting.
a)
Grandfather Clauses
b)
Literacy Tests
c)
Poll Taxes
d)
Wussy Tests
47.
Born as a slave, this African American educator called for blacks to “pull themselves up from their own bootstraps” by receiving educations and attaining wealth.
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Susan B. Anthony
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
William Jennings Bryan
48.
The African American lawyer who helped to form the NAACP and wanted immediate equality in society for blacks was…
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Susan B. Anthony
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
William Jennings Bryan
49.
Upton Sinclair’s book, the Jungle, focused on the horrible conditions of the ___________ industry.
a)
Oil Refining
b)
Steel
c)
Meat-Packing
d)
Automotive
50.
Jane Addams’ Hull House is the best-known example of one of these.
a)
Reservation
b)
Tenement
c)
Skyscraper
d)
Settlement House
51.
This group believed that alcohol contributed to men wasting their money, neglecting their children, and abusing their wives.
a)
Muckrakers
b)
Temperance Movement
c)
Social Gospel
d)
Progressivists
52.
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
19th Amendment
53.
What 1896 Supreme Court case created the precedent, “separate but equal”?
a)
Dred Scott Case
b)
Brown V Board of Education
c)
Roe V Wade
d)
Plessy V Fergusson
54.
Founded by the leaders of the Niagara Movement, this group worked to end discrimination against African Americans in society.
a)
WCTU
b)
NAACP
c)
NAWSA
d)
NCL
55.
Former Progressive governor of New York, Rough Rider in the Spanish-American War, and President in 1901...
a)
Teddy Roosevelt
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
William Howard Taft
d)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
56.
Teddy Roosevelt’s plan to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor became known as the…
a)
Square Deal
b)
New Deal
c)
Great Society
d)
New Freedom
57.
Which of the following acts created an agency to oversee the production, packaging, and advertising of foods and drugs?
a)
Hepburn Act
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Meat Inspection Act
d)
Pure Food and Drug Act
58.
In 1867, Alaska was bought from ___________ for $7.2 million.
a)
Native American tribes
b)
Canada
c)
Russia
d)
Japan
59.
Which of the following best describes the admission of Hawai'i to the United States?
a)
Voluntary annexation
b)
Forced military takeover
c)
War
d)
Political Alliance
60.
Who led guerrilla warfare against Spain in an effort to gain independence for Cuba?
a)
Jose Marti
b)
Emiliano Aguinaldo
c)
Venustiano Carranza
d)
Pancho Villa
61.
Teddy Roosevelt led this tough, cavalry detachment at San Juan Hill…
a)
U.S. Marines
b)
Army Rangers
c)
Rough Riders
d)
Green Berets
62.
Sensationalist journalism helped lead to the Spanish-American War. We call this journalism…
a)
Yellow journalism
b)
Blue journalism
c)
Black journalism
d)
Red journalism
63.
Who was the Filipino freedom fighter who lead the fight against Spain?
a)
Jose Marti
b)
Emiliano Aguinaldo
c)
Venustiano Carranza
d)
Pancho Villa
64.
The Open Door Policy reflected the United States’ desire to…
a)
conquer China
b)
make an alliance with China.
c)
trade with China.
d)
surrender to China.
65.
Which foreign policy focused on military strength?
a)
Big Stick Diplomacy
b)
Moral Diplomacy
c)
Dollar Diplomacy
d)
Law and Order Diplomacy
66.
In order to gain the territory necessary to complete the Panama Canal, the United States backed a rebellion against which country in order to gain independence for Panama?
a)
Nicaragua
b)
Colombia
c)
Mexico
d)
Venezuela
67.
The Roosevelt Corollary was an extension of Monroe Doctrine and extended American power over what region?
a)
Western Europe
b)
Southeast Asia
c)
Latin America
d)
Oceania
68.
California, Washington, and Oregon are all part of the _________________ region.
a)
Southwest
b)
Pacific
c)
Non-contiguous
d)
Midwest
69.
Which of the following cities is located in the Rocky Mountains region?
a)
Boston
b)
Los Angeles
c)
Denver
d)
Atlanta
70.
Which two cities are located in non-contiguous states?
a)
Honolulu and Juneau
b)
Chicago and Detroit
c)
Los Angeles and Seattle
d)
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
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