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WorksheetsSocial Studies Review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 38mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This was the rebuilding of the country after the Civil War?
a)
Sherman's March to the Sea
b)
Reconstruction
c)
WWI
d)
Freedmen's Bureau
2.
This amendment abolished slavery.
a)
12th
b)
13th
c)
14th
d)
15th
3.
This amendment says if you are born here you are a citizen.
a)
12th
b)
13th
c)
14th
d)
15th
4.
This amendment says all male citizens can now vote.
a)
13th
b)
15th
c)
19th
d)
23rd
5.
Sharecroppers had little chance of making a profit and getting ahead.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling.
a)
Sharecropping
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Freedmen's Bureau
7.
Segregation means .......
a)
separation based on race
b)
separation based on gender
c)
coming together
d)
get rid of
8.
With Jim Crow laws, blacks and whites could attend the same schools.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
System of farming where plantation owners would lend former slaves a place to live in exchange for farming crops
a)
Sharecropping
b)
Freedmen's Bureua
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
Slavery
10.
Who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?
a)
Democrats
b)
Radical Republicans
c)
Scalawags
d)
Carpetbaggers
11.
What best describes Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan?
a)
Creating an income tax
b)
Creating a larger military
c)
Re-uniting the United States
d)
Conquering 10% of the South
12.
Which of the following was not a goal of Reconstruction?
a)
Reunite the North and the South
b)
Rebuild the South
c)
Develop the system of sharecropping
d)
Determine what to do with African Americans
13.
Northerners who went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called
a)
Scalawags
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Carpetbaggers
d)
Sharecroppers
14.
These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working. Once arrested they would be forced to work for white landowners.
a)
Freedman's Bureau
b)
Reconstruction
c)
Black Codes
d)
Jim Crow Laws
15.
The House of Representatives tried to get rid of President Andrew Johnson by doing what to him:
a)
impeaching him
b)
killing him
c)
bribing him to leave
d)
trying to get him out in the next election
16.
During Reconstruction the South was under Military rule
a)
True
b)
False
17.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)
Manifest destiny
b)
Monroe Doctrine
c)
Great Awakening
d)
Louisiana Purchase
18.
Which of the following inventions made communication over long distances possible in the 1800s?
a)
Steamboat
b)
Steam Locomotive
c)
Telephone
d)
Telegraph
19.
What do you call a town that experiences a sudden growth?
a)
exoduster
b)
boom town
c)
reservation
d)
vigilante
20.
The ________________ was a law in 1860 that offered acres of land to anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for 5 years.
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Meeting at Promontory Point
c)
Homestead Act
d)
boom town
21.
__________________ was land set aside for Native Americans.
a)
sodbuster
b)
vaquero
c)
reservation
d)
granger
22.
What development helped Americans expand westward?
a)
transcontinental railroad
b)
automobiles
c)
industrialization
d)
Native American expansion
23.
Battle of 1876 in which Sioux and Cheyenne tribes killed an entire force of US troops.
a)
Battle of Little Bighorn
b)
Sand Creek Massacre
c)
Meeting at Promontory Point
d)
Wounded Knee Massacre
24.
This was the name that Native Americans gave to African American soldiers in the west.
a)
vaqueros
b)
buffalo soldiers
c)
grangers
d)
sodbusters
25.
This is where the Union and Pacific railroads met.
a)
Promontory Point
b)
Sand Creek
c)
Little Bighorn
d)
Wounded Knee
26.
Name the immigrant who invented the telephone.
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Alexander Graham Bell
27.
What was a quick and cheap way to make steel by blasting hot air through melted iron?
a)
Assembly Line
b)
Bessemer Process
c)
Patent
d)
Free Enterprise
28.
This man controlled a large chunk of the U.S. steel market.
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
d)
J.P. Morgan
29.
Favoring the interests of native born people over foreign born people
a)
Discrimination
b)
Favoritism
c)
Nativism
d)
Urbanism
30.
War, poverty, and discrimination are all examples of.......
a)
Pull Factors
b)
Push Factors
c)
Jump Factors
d)
Falling Factors
31.
Economic opportunities, religious freedom, and political and social equality are all examples of...
a)
Push Factors
b)
Pull Factors
c)
Falling Factors
d)
Jump Factors
32.
Which industrialist is best known for his monopoly of the oil industry?
a)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
John D. Rockefeller
d)
Abraham Lincoln
33.
A monopoly is the total or complete control of an industry. Unfortunately for consumers, this prevents ___________.
a)
unions
b)
capitalism
c)
competition
d)
regulation
34.
The telephone replaced the:
a)
Pony Express
b)
Telegraph
c)
Telephone
d)
Morse Code
35.
Many immigrants were forced to live in __________, or run-down, dirty, and cramped apartment-like buildings.
a)
Tenements
b)
Ghettos
c)
Townhouses
d)
Plantations
36.
Who invented the telegraph in 1840?
a)
James Hargreaves
b)
John Deer
c)
Samuel Morse
d)
John Montressor
37.
What suggested that those who had great wealth were entitled to it?
a)
Social Darwinism
b)
Selective Process
c)
Communism
d)
Socialism
38.
What is the Panama Canal?
a)
a northwest passage through Canada
b)
a waterway through northern Egypt
c)
A waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Panama
d)
A river that runs through Panama
39.
What was the United States warship called that exploded killing over 200 American sailors?
a)
U S Maine
b)
USS Maine
c)
USS Maybe
d)
US Maritime
40.
What term describes building an empire by conquering other nations?
a)
Isolationism
b)
Repubicanism
c)
Militarism
d)
Imperialism
41.
Yellow Journalism is....
a)
The Loudoun Sun Times
b)
Exaggerated News Reports
c)
Yellow Paper Reports
d)
Nonfiction News Reports
42.
What was a result of Yellow Journalism?
a)
Economic growth for the readers
b)
Public opinion for the war increased
c)
Public outcry against the war increased.
d)
US won the Spanish American War
43.
The United States acquired the territory shaded in green during the Spanish-American War. The name of that territory is
a)
Cuba
b)
Japan
c)
Philippines
d)
Spain
44.
What does this political cartoon BEST represents ?
a)
Exploration
b)
Imperialism
c)
Diplomacy
d)
Big Stick Policy
45.
This word means pride in one's country; it was a cause of WWI.
a)
Militarism
b)
Alliances
c)
Nationalism
d)
Imperialism
46.
This word means strengthening a country's military; it's a cause of World War I.
a)
Nationalism
b)
Militarism
c)
Alliances
d)
Imperialism
47.
This word means seeking other colonies; it was a cause of World War I.
a)
Militarism
b)
Imperialism
c)
Alliances
d)
Nationalism
48.
This word means support for different sides during war; there were the Allied and Central powers during WWI.
a)
Nationalism
b)
Imperialism
c)
Alliances
d)
Militarism
49.
Germany used their U-boats to sink ships of the Allied powers; this British passenger liner was destroyed in 1917.
a)
Lusitania
b)
USS Maine
50.
WWI sets the stage for the rise of what German leader?
a)
FDR
b)
Adolf Hitler
c)
Winston Churchill
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