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WorksheetsSSO U.S. History Part I
Total questions: 71
Worksheet time: 34mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Complete the analogy.
______________ are to trading posts as the
English are to establishing settlements.
______________ are to trading posts as the
English are to establishing settlements.
a)
The Spanish
b)
The French
c)
The Portueguese
d)
The Irish
2.
Which one of the following colonies was not established for religious reasons?
a)
Plymouth
b)
Massachusetts Bay
c)
Pennsylvania
d)
Georgia
3.
Which key leader of the American Revolution helped gain French support for American independence?
a)
Paul Revere
b)
Benjamin Franklin
c)
Patrick Henry
d)
John Adams
4.
Which was NOT an area of conflict between the American Indians and Europeans?
a)
Competition for trade
b)
Difference in cultures
c)
Disease
d)
Crops
5.
Which pair of events occurred prior to (before) the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
a)
Lexington and Concord & Battle of Saratoga
b)
Surrender at Yorktown & Treaty of Paris
c)
Boston Massacre & Lexington and Concord
d)
Boston Tea Party & Battle of Saratoga
6.
Which compromise provided for a Senate and House of Representatives to settle the debate about representation between the small and large states?
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
Great Compromise
d)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
7.
Which invention created by Eli Whitney unintentionally increased the need for slave labor?
a)
cotton gin
b)
reaper
c)
steam locomotive
d)
steamboar
8.
Which African American helped finish the plans for the national capital?
a)
Benjamin Banneker
b)
Robert Smalls
c)
Harriet Tubman
d)
Frederick Douglass
9.
Which invention provided for faster land transportation?
a)
Steam Locomotive
b)
Reaper
c)
Cotton Gin
d)
Steamboat
10.
Which Civil War leader was offered command of the Union forces but refused to fight against his home state of Virginia?
a)
Ulysses S. Grant
b)
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
Jefferson Davis
11.
Which geographic region borders the Pacific Ocean?
a)
Coastal Plain
b)
Canadian Shield
c)
Basin and Range
d)
Coastal Range
12.
Which ancient settlement is located on the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia?
a)
Cactus Hill
b)
Jamestown
c)
Roanoke Island
d)
Georgia
13.
Which of the following were Union victories in the Civil War?
a)
Ft. Sumter & Gettysburg
b)
Bull Run & Vicksburg
c)
Gettysburg & Vicksburg
d)
Manassas & Ft. Sumter
14.
Which of the following would be considered a capital resource?
a)
bows
b)
trees
c)
Indian fishing
d)
fish
15.
Which body of water on the map runs through the Interior Lowlands and the Great Plains?
a)
Columbia River
b)
Missouri River
c)
Rio Grande
d)
Colorado River
16.
Which of the following was NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
a)
provided for a strong national government
b)
Congress did not have the power to tax
c)
Provided no common currency
d)
Provided no judicial or executive branch
17.
Which abolitionist leader wrote the Liberator newspaper and worked for the emancipation of all enslaved African Americans?
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
William Lloyd Garrison
d)
Benjamin Banneker
18.
Which explorer claimed land in the southwest United States for Spain?
a)
Francisco Coronado
b)
Samuel de Champlain
c)
John Cabot
d)
Robert La Salle
19.
Which Indian group is correctly matched with the region they inhabited?
a)
Iroquois--southwest U.S.
b)
Inuit--Pacific Northwest
c)
Lakota--Great Plains
d)
Pueblo--Eastern Woodlands
20.
The economy of the northern part of the United States was:
a)
industrial
b)
dependent on slave labor
c)
agricultural
d)
dependent on military victories
21.
The economy of the southern part of the United States was:
a)
industrial
b)
dependent on factory workers
c)
agricultural
d)
dependent on military victories
22.
A Confederate who lived in the south would probably want the new states created out of the western territory to be:
a)
slave states
b)
industrial states
c)
free states
d)
agricultural states
23.
The conflict between the eastern and western counties of Virginia led to:
a)
the buying of the Louisiana Purchase
b)
the formation of a new state, West Virginia
c)
the southern states seceding from the Union
d)
the freeing of the slaves
24.
When the southern states seceded, they formed their own country and named it:
a)
The Confederate States of America
b)
The United States of the South
c)
West Virginia
d)
The Rebels of America
25.
The northern states called themselves the
a)
Union
b)
Abolitionists
c)
Confederacy
d)
Rebels
26.
During the Civil War most white Virginians:
a)
fought for the Confederacy
b)
fought for the Union
c)
fought on both sides
d)
did not take sides
27.
The Confederacy relied on enslaved African Americans to:
a)
build houses and work in factories
b)
raise crops and provide labor for the army
c)
work in factories and raise crops
d)
provide labor and blockade southern ports
28.
Some free African Americans felt that their limited rights could best be protected by:
a)
supporting the Union
b)
supporting the Confederacy
c)
staying neutral
d)
moving north
29.
During the Civil War most Native American Indians
a)
fought for the Confederacy
b)
fought for the Union
c)
fought on both sides
d)
did not take sides
30.
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
a)
"Stonewall" Jackson
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Nat Turner
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
31.
Led a raid on the US Arsenal in Harpers Ferry
a)
Nat Turner
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
John Brown
d)
Robert E. Lee
32.
Union general that took control of the Confederate capital
a)
Robert E. Lee
b)
"Stonewall" Jackson
c)
Ulysses S. Grant
d)
General Burnside
33.
Supported a route that enslaved African Americans took. A "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
Nat Turner
c)
John Brown
d)
Abraham Lincoln
34.
Confederate general that played a major role in the battle of Bull Run (Manassas).
a)
"Stonewall" Jackson
b)
General Burnside
c)
Ulysses S. Grant
d)
Robert E. Lee
35.
President Abraham Lincoln was elected as President in
a)
1607
b)
1860
c)
1776
d)
1865
36.
An important battle took place between two ironclad ships named the _____ (Union) and the _____(Confederate) took place off the coast of Virginia in the Battle of Hampton Roads.
a)
Merrimack, Monitor
b)
Monitor, Discovery
c)
Marrymack, Monitoring
d)
Monitor, Merrimack
37.
The Civil War ended at ___________ when ___________ surrendered.
a)
Appomattox Court House, Robert E. Lee
b)
Appomattox Court House, Ulysses S. Grant
c)
Fort Sumter, Robert E. Lee
d)
Fort Sumter, Ulysses S. Grant
38.
Capital of the Confederacy
a)
Charleston
b)
Montgomery
c)
Richmond
d)
Fort Sumter
39.
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?
a)
Lenin
b)
Trotsky
c)
Stalin
d)
Khruschev
40.
What country did Hitler invade in 1941 after signing a non-Aggression Pact with it in 1939?
a)
Soviet Union
b)
France
c)
Austria
d)
Norway
41.
What was the turning point battle in the war in Russia?
a)
Battle of Stalingrad
b)
Battle of Leningrad
c)
Battle of Moscow
d)
Battle of Kiev
42.
What was the turing point battle in the War in the Pacific?
a)
Coral Sea
b)
Midway
c)
Truk
d)
Wake Island
43.
What was the turning point battle in the war in North Africa?
a)
Tobruk
b)
Kasserine Pass
c)
El Alamein
d)
Libya
44.
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during most of World War II?
a)
Chamberlain
b)
Daladier
c)
Churchill
d)
Atlee
45.
What AXIS power was knocked out of the war in 1944?
a)
Japan
b)
Germany
c)
Bulgaria
d)
Italy
46.
Which countries were part of Indochina?
a)
Vietnam
b)
Laos
c)
Cambodia
d)
All of them
47.
What country controlled Indochina prior to their independence?
a)
Britain
b)
France
c)
United States
d)
China
48.
Who led the rebellion against France for Vietnam?
a)
Ngo Dihn Diem
b)
Ho Chi Minh
c)
President Kennedy
d)
Sui Chin
49.
What was the domino theory?
a)
A Game
b)
A strategy for the communists
c)
A reason to stop the spread of communism
d)
An app
50.
Who were the Vietcong?
a)
The army of South Vietnam
b)
The army of Laos
c)
The army of North Vietnam
d)
The army the U.S. was training
51.
Nixon's plan to end U.S. involvement in Vietnam
a)
Vietnamization
b)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
c)
Geneva Plan
d)
Paris Peace Accords
52.
The U.S. got involved in Vietnam because of what foreign policy?
a)
containment
b)
Good Neighbor policy
c)
isolationism
d)
Roosevelt Corollary
53.
South Vietnamese guerilla fighters; opposed Diem & supplied by Ho Chi Minh
a)
Vietcong
b)
Vietminh
c)
Flying Tigers
d)
Indochinese
54.
South Korea was occupied by ________________ and had a _________________ government
a)
U.S.S.R./communist
b)
U.S.S.R./democratic
c)
U.S.A./communist
d)
U.S.A./democratic
55.
Who was the non communist leader of South Korea?
a)
Dr. Syngman Rhee
b)
Kim Il Sung
c)
Ho Chi Minh
56.
Who was the General in charge of the U.N. led mission to stop the North Koreans from taking over South Korea?
a)
Eisenhower
b)
Patton
c)
MacArthur
57.
Who gave his famous "I Have a Dream" Speech at the March on Washington?
a)
Malcolm X
b)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
c)
Medgar Evars
d)
Robert F. Kennedy
58.
Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson & integrated public schools
a)
Brown v. Board of Education
b)
Sweatt v. Painter
c)
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
d)
Hernandez v. Texas
59.
Where did President Eisenhower send the 101st Airborne to enforce integration of a public high school?
a)
Little Rock, Arkansas
b)
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
c)
Birmingham, Alabama
d)
Jackson, Mississippi
60.
What immediately followed Rosa Parks's arrest?
a)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
b)
Greensboro Sitins
c)
March on Washington
d)
Freedom Rides
61.
What state laws created separate public facilities for African Americans in the South?
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
affirmative action
c)
Civil Rights Acts
d)
Force Acts
62.
The March on Washington led to what landmark congressional law that banned discrimination based on race, religion, sex, or national origin?
a)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
b)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
c)
Civil Rights Act of 1957
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1968
63.
What was the goal of the Black Panthers?
a)
to turn American citizens against democracy
b)
to end the Vietnam War
c)
to convince African Americans to support "black power"
d)
to gain equal pay for black Americans
64.
In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that
a)
private schools should be controlled by the federal government
b)
issues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.
c)
racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional
d)
the "separate but equal" doctrine should be contnued
65.
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in what sport?
a)
Baseball
b)
Football
c)
Basketball
d)
Hockey
66.
Segregation caused by private action & not legislation
a)
de facto segregation
b)
de jure segregation
c)
affirmative action
d)
ex post facto segregation
67.
President Eisenhower responded to the Little Rock crisis by
a)
arranging for Martin Luther King's release from a Birmingham jail.
b)
placing the Arkansas National Guard under federal control.
c)
introducing voting rights legislation to Congress.
d)
introducing civil rights legislation to Congress
68.
The main goal of the freedom riders was to
a)
pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses
b)
inspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crow
c)
encourage Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights agenda
d)
desegregate urban bus systems in the south
69.
Where did the first sit-ins for civil rights take place?
a)
on busses
b)
in schools
c)
at polling places
d)
at lunch counters
70.
Truman ordered the desegregation of this, known as Executive Order 9981?
a)
armed forces
b)
public schools
c)
public transportation
d)
automobile factories
71.
I was a lawyer for the NAACP & the first black Supreme Court Justice
a)
Thurgood Marshall
b)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
c)
Barry Goldwater
d)
Medgar Evars
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