WorksheetsSTAAR Review
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which president is credited with starting the Democratic Party?
a)
George Washington
b)
Andrew Jackson
c)
John Adams
d)
Bill Clinton
2.
What is the spoils system?
a)
giving govt. jobs to friends instead of people who earned it
b)
system where the White House chef get rid of old food
c)
a system where rewards are given to the speaker of the house
d)
none
3.
The Indian Removal Act is responsible for doing what?
a)
Removing white settlers from Indian territory
b)
removing Indians from their land and forcing them to places like Oklahoma
c)
telling Native Indians if they leave willingly they will get paid millions
d)
removing all Canadians from America, eh
4.
What effect did the steam engine have on the Industrial Revolution?
a)
It actually hurt the economy by killing the fish in the river
b)
improved transportation, downriver and being able to go against the current
c)
created air pollution and didn't help anything
d)
none
5.
Eli Whitney invented which of these:
a)
Telegraph & Steam boat
b)
Steam boat & assembly line
c)
Cotton Gin & Telegraph
d)
Interchangable Parts & Cotton Gin
6.
Which of the following did NOT contribute to a sense of nationalism?
a)
Better communication (telegraph)
b)
Slavery (needed labor for crops)
c)
Transportation (Steam engine)
d)
Economic Dependence
7.
_________ favored tariffs.
a)
The North
b)
The South
8.
In what year did Thomas Jefferson double the size of America? (Louisiana Purchase)
a)
1776
b)
1787
c)
1803
d)
1814
9.
What is Manifest Destiny?
a)
The belief that the Native Americans had first dibs on all Western land
b)
The belief that slaves should be given property after 7 years of service
c)
The belief that the United States was better than everyone else because we won the war against Britian
d)
The belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the entire North American continent from Atlantic to Pacific
10.
The 2nd Great Awakening led to all of the following reform movements except:
a)
Temperance Movement
b)
Abolition Movement
c)
Women's Rights Movement
d)
Men's Rights Movement
11.
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which convinced many to oppose slavery.
a)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
b)
Thomas Paine
c)
Walt Whitman
d)
Edgar Allen Poe
12.
What was the cause of the rise in American philosophy & literature?
a)
More industry & inventions caused more people to have free time and think
b)
Less people had slaves so they had more work to do
c)
people were bored with their lives
13.
Which author wrote "Civil Disobedience" and argued for peacefully refusing to obey laws that they thought were unfair.
a)
Edgar Allen Poe
b)
Henry David Thoreau
c)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
d)
Washington Irving
14.
Which is NOT a pull factor for immigrants coming to America?
a)
Freedom of religion
b)
population growth
c)
Economic opprotunities
d)
lots of land
15.
What is sectionalism?
a)
loyalty to the nation you live in
b)
loyalty to a section of the country rather than to the nation as a whole.
c)
loyalty to your family and town rather than the state you live in
16.
What issue was the most divisive (caused the most division) in the 1800s?
a)
invention of the steamboat
b)
slavery
c)
nullification
d)
the war of 1812
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