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WorksheetsU.S. History Final Review
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What congressman broke the Compromise of 1850 into individual parts in order to pass it?
a)
Henry Clay
b)
Daniel Webster
c)
John C. Calhoun
d)
Stephen Douglas
2.
Who was the radical abolitonist who led both the LeCompton Massacre and the Raid on Harper's Ferry?
a)
John Brown
b)
William Garrison
c)
Nat Turner
d)
Frederick Douglass
3.
The president who won the election of 1856 and failed to halt the rising tensions between North and South was:
a)
James Buchanan
b)
Stephen Douglas
c)
Millard Fillmore
d)
Henry Clay
4.
Which battle officially began the Civil War?
a)
Fort Sumter
b)
Seven Days Battle
c)
First Bull Run
d)
Antietam
5.
The Union strategic plan for victory over the Confederacy was called the:
a)
Anaconda Plan
b)
Rattlesnake Plan
c)
Copperhead Plan
d)
Garden Snake Plan
6.
What was the turning point of the Civil War that saw Lee's second invasion of the North defeated?
a)
Shiloh
b)
Chancellorsville
c)
Gettysburg
d)
Fredericksburg
7.
Where did the Emancipation Proclamation free slaves?
a)
The Union
b)
The Confederacy
c)
The Border States
d)
Western Territories
8.
By 1863 what financial legislature had the Union Government passed to help fund the war effort?
a)
Minimum Wage
b)
Income Tax
c)
Protective Tarrifs
d)
Embargos on Britain
9.
The infamous Confederate prison camp that saw more than a third of its prisoner die was:
a)
Andersonville
b)
Elmira
c)
Camp Douglas
d)
Auschwitz
10.
Where did Robert E. Lee officially surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?
a)
Appomattox Court House
b)
Richmond
c)
Mobile Bay
d)
Bull Run
11.
Lincoln's plan for reconstruction was the:
a)
Ten Percent Plan
b)
Congressional Reconstruction
c)
Wade-Davis Bill
d)
Civil Rights Act
12.
Which of the following Constitutional Amendments passed during Reconstruction is NOT matched with its correct description?
a)
13th Amendment - Abolished slavery
b)
14th Amendment - Established the right for anyone to run for political office, regardless of race
c)
15th Amendment - Forbade voting rights being denied on the basis of race
d)
All of the above are correct
13.
What caused President Andrew Johnson to be impeached?
a)
Violating the Tenure of Office Act
b)
Enforcing Black Codes in Northern States
c)
Pardoning former Confederate generals and officers
d)
Embezzling funds from government contracts
14.
After the abolition of slavery, what became the most popular form of agriculture?
a)
Sharecropping
b)
Cash Crops
c)
Plantations
d)
Subsistence Farming
15.
What piece of legislature sought to "Americanize" Native Americans?
a)
McKinley Tariff
b)
Wade-Davis Bill
c)
Dawes Act
d)
Chinese Exclusion Act
16.
What political party was begun by farmers in the West upset about currency values and unregulated business practices?
a)
Populist Party
b)
Republican Party
c)
Know-Nothing Part
d)
Free Soil Party
17.
Due to Social Darwinism and the advancement of large businesses, what kind of economics was mostly promoted in the Gilded Age?
a)
Communism
b)
Socialism
c)
Command Market
d)
Laissez-Faire Capitalism
18.
Which of the following Robber Barons is not matched with his correct industry?
a)
Andrew Carnegie - Steel
b)
John D. Rockefeller - Oil
c)
J. P. Morgan - Banks
d)
Cornelius Vanderbilt - Automobiles
19.
Political machines, organized groups that controlled city politics, often targeted what group of voters?
a)
Immigrants
b)
Wealthy Southerners
c)
Working class Whites
d)
African Americans
20.
Which of the following was NOT one of the main goals of Progressivism?
a)
Protect Social Welfare
b)
Fostering Efficiency
c)
Creating Moral Improvement
d)
Halting Economic Progress
21.
Which of the following was NOT a territory that was annexed into American control in the early 1900s?
a)
Philippines
b)
Hawaii
c)
Puerto Rico
d)
Cuba
22.
What piece of literature inspired the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act?
a)
The Bible
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
The Rigorous Life by Theodore Roosevelt
d)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
23.
What party did Theodore Roosevelt run under in the 1912 election against Taft and Wilson?
a)
Democrat
b)
Republican
c)
Bull Moose
d)
Socialist
24.
Which of the following was NOT one of the causes of World War I?
a)
Nationalism
b)
Militarism
c)
Imperialism
d)
Communism
25.
Which of the following was the end result of the Treaty of Versailles?
a)
All of the above
b)
Britain and France ensured Germany was punished and humiliated for their part in the war
c)
Nations like Japan, Italy, and Russia felt Britain and France had neglected them despite their role in winning the war
d)
United States rejected the treaty and withdrew into isolationism
26.
Which of the following was NOT one of the causes of the Great Depression?
a)
High use of credit & speculation
b)
Expensive costs of building a new army
c)
Uneven distribution of income
d)
Collapse of agricultural business
27.
When conservative justices declared New Deal legislature unconstitutional, how did Roosevelt deal with the situation?
a)
Declaredwar on the court
b)
Passed new legislation that modified the original bill
c)
Declaredthe courts unconstitutional
d)
Tried to pack the courts with new justices
28.
What event served as a "practice run" for German and Italian military practices in World War II?
a)
Spanish Civil War
b)
Phony War
c)
Italy-Abyssinian War
d)
Munich Conference
29.
The secretive project that saw the Americans develop the Atomic bomb was:
a)
The Miami Project
b)
The Minnesota Project
c)
The Missouri Project
d)
The Manhattan Project
30.
What battle served as a major turning point in the Second World War?
a)
Battle of Midway
b)
Battle of Stalingrad
c)
Battle of El Alamein
d)
All of these battles were turning points in different theatres
31.
What meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin saw the Allies agree to divide Germany after the war and establish free elections in Eastern Europe?
a)
Yalta Conference
b)
Nuremberg Conference
c)
Berlin Conference
d)
Potsdam Conference
32.
The plan by the United States to provide financial aid and loans to European countries to rebuild the continent and prevent another Great Depression was called the:
a)
Truman Doctrine
b)
Roosevelt Corollary
c)
Stalin Declaration
d)
Marshall Plan
33.
What was the Cultural Revolution?
a)
The rise of R&B, pop, and rock music in the United States and Europe in the late 1970s
b)
A treaty between China and the Soviet Union that saw China adopt more Soviet-esque Communist policies
c)
A series of economic reforms that centered around large communal farms
d)
A purging of intellectuals from China following the failure of the Great Leap Forward
34.
What was the end result of the Korean War?
a)
It escalated into a larger war between Russia, China, and the USA
b)
North Korea's communist regime collapsed
c)
Little territorial change, but South Korea remained democratic
d)
South Korea was reunited with North Korea in one Communist nation
35.
How was the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved?
a)
American troops invaded the Bay of Pigs
b)
President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev were both assassinated and the situation resolved
c)
American U-2 planes dropped bombs on the Soviet missiles to disarm them
d)
The Soviets agreed to withdraw their missiles in exchange for American promises to not invade Cuba
36.
The foreign policy used by Richard Nixon to attempt to ease tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union was:
a)
Detente
b)
Mutually Assured Destruction
c)
Escalation
d)
Brinkmanship
37.
Who was the first American in space?
a)
Buzz Aldrin
b)
Neil Armstrong
c)
Alan Shepard
d)
Jim Lovell
38.
What court case saw abortion legalized in the United States?
a)
Roe vs. Wade
b)
Brown vs. Board of Education
c)
NAACP vs. Alabama
d)
Topeka vs. Ferguson
39.
What book written in the 1980s convinced many that environmentalism needed to be seriously addressed by the U.S. government?
a)
"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
b)
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
c)
"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
d)
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
40.
What terrorist organization was behind the September 11th Attacks on the U.S.?
a)
ISIS
b)
Al-Qaeda
c)
Hamas
d)
Boko Haram
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