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Total questions: 43
Worksheet time: 22mins
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Class
Date
1.
The United States fought in what war to keep Iraq from invading Kuwait?
a)
The Persian Gulf War
b)
The War on Terror
c)
The Middle East War
d)
The Red Sea War
2.
Who was the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center?
a)
Saddam Hussein
b)
Osama Bin Laden
c)
Isis
d)
Hamal Karib
3.
About how many people died on September 11, 2001?
a)
About 1,000
b)
About 2,000
c)
About 3,000
d)
About 4,000
4.
Who was the president on September 11th, 2001?
a)
Barak Obama
b)
Bill Clinton
c)
George W. Bush
d)
George Washington
5.
Was is NAFTA?
a)
A trade agreement between Canada, the U.S, and Mexico
b)
A trade group between the U.S, Europe, and Mexico
c)
A trade agreement between China and the U.S
d)
A trade agreement between North and South America
6.
What is the purpose of the United Nations?
a)
To end world hunger
b)
The keep wars from happening and spread peace
c)
The help trade
d)
To help prevent global warming
7.
What is ethnic cleansing or genocide?
a)
Killing people because of their race or religion
b)
Killing people because of their heritage
c)
Killing people because of their name
d)
Killing people for no reason
8.
What is OPEC do to help the 12 most oil producing countries?
a)
Helps them get along
b)
Helps them trade oil fairly
c)
Helps them have jobs
d)
Helps them communicate
9.
Osama Bin Laden was the leader of what terrorist group?
a)
Isis
b)
Al Queda
c)
Muslims
10.
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
a)
Osama Bin Laden
b)
Mark Twain
c)
John Wilkes Booth
d)
Jim Crow
11.
What did the South do to restrict blacks so they could not travel, get married, or work for someone else?
a)
Black Codes
b)
Black Laws
c)
Black Rules
d)
Black Belts
12.
What was the nickname given to a Southerner who worked for the Federal government?
a)
A scalawag
b)
A carpetbagger
c)
An idiot
d)
A Southerner
13.
What did they call a Northern businessman who came to the South to take sell stuff to and take advantage of people who were hurting?
a)
A scalawag
b)
A carpetbagger
14.
What amendment made slavery illegal?
a)
The 13th
b)
The 14th
c)
The 15th
d)
The 16th
15.
What amendment gave blacks American citizenship ("due process")?
a)
The 13th amendment
b)
The 14th amendment
c)
The 15th amendment
d)
The 16th amendment
16.
What amendment gave blacks the right to vote?
a)
The 13th amendment
b)
The 14th amendment
c)
The 15th amendment
d)
The 16th amendment
17.
Name the famous court case where a white man sued the train company because he was told he could not sit in the white train car. The supreme court ruled "separate but equal" was okay.
a)
Brown vs. Board of Education
b)
Jackson vs. Saint
c)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
18.
Name the famous court case that made segregation in any public place or school illegal (Thurgood Marshall was the lawyer).
a)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
b)
Brown vs. Board of Education
c)
The Dred Scott Decision
19.
What replaced the Black Codes as the South's way of keeping whites and blacks separate (separate hospitals, cemeteries, schools, etc).
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
The Black Codes
c)
John Smith Laws
d)
The Blue Codes
20.
What was a system in which farmers would rent land in exchange for a cut of their crop's profits? They would rent the land, buy the seed and tools from the landowner, and were constantly in debt.
a)
Sharecropping
b)
Borrowing
c)
The South
d)
Agriculture
21.
Who is this man?
a)
Malcolm X
b)
Thurgood Marshall
c)
Martin Luther King
22.
Who is this man?
a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
Thurgood Marshall
c)
Malcolm X
d)
Jackie Robinson
23.
Who is this woman?
a)
Ruby Bridges
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Ida Wells
d)
Susan B. Anthony
24.
What is the meaning of the word "segregation?"
a)
Separate but equal
b)
To be together
c)
To be united
d)
To be misunderstood
25.
What law was passed in 1964 to end segregation in any public place?
a)
The Civil Rights Act
b)
The Black Codes
c)
The War on Terror
d)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
26.
What were some ways of non-violent protest MLK led?
a)
burning crosses, looting, preaching
b)
preaching, bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, marches
c)
Just preaching
d)
Walking and marching only
27.
What did the Freedman's Bureau provide to poor whites and blacks after the Civil War?
a)
Medical care, schools, food, clothes
b)
Schools
c)
Shelter
d)
Freedom
28.
Who's idea was it to create the Transcontinental Railroad?
a)
George Washington
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Theodore Roosavelt
29.
What was the company that built the railroad from Nebraska?
a)
The Union Pacific
b)
The Central Pacific
c)
The Transcontinental
d)
Amtrak
30.
The Chinese helped build the Transcontinental Railroad by working for which company in California??
a)
The Union Pacific
b)
The Central Pacific
c)
Amtrak
d)
The Polar Express
31.
What was the first major physical obstacle the Chinese had in building the railroad?
a)
The Grand Canyon
b)
The Rocky Mountains
c)
The Sierra Nevada Mountains
d)
The Snake River
32.
How did the government pay the railroad companies for their work?
a)
By giving them land according to how much track they laid
b)
By giving them vouchers
33.
Where did the two railroad companies meet and place a golden spike?
a)
Arizona
b)
Promontory Point, Utah
c)
California
d)
Nebraska
34.
What do you call someone who broke up the grass and make their homes in the West?
a)
An Exoduster
b)
A Sodbuster
35.
True or False...
Most cowboys were African American
Most cowboys were African American
a)
True
b)
False
36.
What animal almost became extinct because so many killed them in masses (especially if they got in the way of building a railroad).
a)
Deer
b)
Elk
c)
Buffalo
d)
Rhinocerous
37.
Which one was NOT a new technology that impacted Westward Expansion..
a)
The steel plow
b)
The telegraph
c)
Barbed Wire
d)
The Toilet
38.
What invention provided cheap fencing and put the cowboy out of business?
a)
Wooden fencing
b)
Steel fencing
c)
Barbed Wire
d)
Electric fencing
39.
What was NOT an obstacle for pioneers going West?
a)
Freezing to death
b)
Crossing rivers
c)
Rain or no rain
d)
Coyotes
40.
What battle was the last battle before ALL Native Americans would be forced to live on reservations?
a)
Custer's Last Stand
b)
The Battle of Wounded Knee
c)
The Battle of Sitting Bull
d)
The Battle of Crazy Horse
41.
What was the invention that could send messages across an electrical wire? Invented by Samuel Morse?
a)
The telegraph
b)
Barbed Wire
c)
The record player
d)
The railroad
42.
During Westward Expansion, why did farmers and cowboys not get along?
a)
Because the farmers thought cowboys were stupid
b)
Because of barbed wire
c)
Because the cowboys would herd the cattle and cross over the farmers land
d)
Because they stunk
43.
What did Abraham Lincoln do to encourage settlers to go West?
a)
He passed the 14th Amendment
b)
He passed the Homestead Act
c)
He bought the Louisiana Purchase
d)
He declared all Native Americans go to reservations
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