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Mid Term Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which state is located directly north of Wyoming?
a)
Colorado
b)
Montana
c)
South Dakota
d)
Kansas
2.
Which Pacific Region city did miners rush to after the discovery of gold?
a)
Seattle
b)
Cheyenne
c)
Los Angeles
d)
San Francisco
3.

Part of the Southeast region is located in

a)

B3

b)

C4

c)

A2

d)

C1

4.
What did the 13th Amendment do?
a)
granted citizenship
b)
banned slavery
c)
sent soldiers to supervise the south
d)
guaranteed voting rights
5.
Which amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
18th Amendment
6.

Which amendment guarantees citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

18th Amendment

7.
Carpetbaggers were...
a)
Northerners who took advantage of southern hardships after the war
b)
Southerners who took advantage of northern hardships after the war
c)
Radical Republicans who came to the south to reform the laws
d)
White Supremacists who fought against African American Rights
8.
Abraham Lincoln's believed...
a)
that the south should pay for the war
b)
that the north needed to get revenge
c)
that preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south
d)
that the south would rise again
9.
This law gave people land on the Great Plains for $10 if they farmed it for 5 years.
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Civil Rights Act
d)
Reconstruction Act
10.
This military officer was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
a)
George Custer
b)
William Miles
c)
William Sherman
d)
Robert E Lee
11.
Forcing Native American children to cut their hair and go to boarding schools are examples of...
a)
Interpretation
b)
Individuation
c)
Segregation
d)
Assimilation
12.

Homesteaders made their homes out of what material on the Great Plains?

a)

sod

b)

wood

c)

steel

d)

concrete

13.

The list above shows...

a)

Reasons for the Civil War

b)

Reasons that the Civil War ended

c)

Reconstruction Policies

d)

Reconstruction Amendments

14.

What new technology provided faster, safer travel to west after the Gold Rush?

a)

Airplanes

b)

Cars

c)

Railroads

d)

Stagecoaches

15.
Adventure, better opportunities, religious freedom and escape from oppressive governments were all...
a)
Reasons for Westward Expansion
b)
Reasons for Immigration to Europe
c)
Reasons for rural development
d)
Reasons for increased immigration to the United States
16.
Who founded the Hull House in Chicago?
a)
Jane Austen
b)
Susan B. Anthony
c)
Alice Paul
d)
Jane Addams
17.

The Statue of Liberty was an important symbol of hope for which group of people?

a)

American Indians

b)

French Tourists

c)

Immigrants

d)

Gold Miners headed west

18.
Settlement Houses were important to which group of people?
a)
Temperance Crusaders
b)
Americans living in the country
c)
Immigrants living in the cities
d)
The Women's Suffrage Movement
19.
Factories were built in urban areas because of new technology. As a result, 
a)
the population of cities increased
b)
there were less successful factories
c)
people got out of the cities
d)
there were less immigrants
20.
Which Captain of Industry was in the Oil Industry?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
d)
J.P. Morgan
21.
This image shows what negative effect of the Rise of Industry?
a)
easy work
b)
plentiful jobs for everyone
c)
child labor
d)
short hours
22.
Who believed that drinking alcohol was wrong, that no one should make alcohol and wanted an amendment to ban alcohol?
a)
Suffragists
b)
Political Bosses
c)
Temperance Crusaders
d)
Labor Unions
23.
Who believed that African Americans should improve themselves through hard work and vocational education?
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
W E B DuBois
c)
Jacob Lawrence
d)
Booker T Washington
24.
What system did southern states use to separate whites and blacks?
a)
eenie meenie miney moe
b)
Black Codes
c)
Apartheid
d)
Jim Crow Laws
25.
Who demanded political, social and civil rights for African Americans and helped found the NAACP?
a)
Booker T Washington
b)
Jacob Lawrence
c)
W E B DuBois
d)
Frederick Douglass
26.
What amendment is represented by the picture shown here?
a)
the 15th Amendment
b)
the 18th Amendment
c)
the 19th Amendment
d)
the 21st Amendment
27.
How did workers fight for shorter hours and safer working conditions?
a)
they created groups to find jobs
b)
they created associations to discuss their problems
c)
they created unions to negotiate with owners
d)
they created their own corporations owned by workers
28.
What were the goals of the Women's Suffrage Movement?
a)
promoting alcohol prohibition
b)
education and the right to vote
c)
protection of domestic roles for women
d)
acceptance of inferior status
29.

Improved safety conditions, shorter hours and restrictions on child labor were all...

a)

immigration reforms

b)

industrial reforms

c)

progressive reforms

d)

post industrial reforms

30.

Headlines such as these are an example of Yellow Journalism. Which are the best descriptions of it?

a)

truthful and objective

b)

fair and balanced

c)

hard to understand

d)

exaggerated and sensational

31.

This picture shows which cause of the Spanish American War?

a)

the Lusitania

b)

the USS Arizona

c)

the USS Maine

d)

the USS Indianapolis

32.

Which of these was a result of the Spanish American War?

a)

The United States bought Alaska

b)

The United States acquired Hawaii

c)

The United States became a world power

d)

The United States practiced isolationism

33.

Why did Teddy Roosevelt want to build the Panama Canal?

a)

so that US Navy ships could get from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean more quickly

b)

so that cargo ships could bring supplies from China

c)

so that they could even out the oceans

d)

so that US Navy ships had to travel further to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

34.

Teddy Roosevelt said that he would speak softly to other countries and back up what he said with a strong US Navy. What did he call his approach?

a)

Detente

b)

Big Stick Diplomacy

c)

Dollar Diplomacy

d)

Domino Theory

35.

What country was defeated by the US naval attack at Manila Bay?

a)

the Philippines

b)

Spain

c)

the United States

d)

Cuba

36.

Economic and political ties to which country led the United States into World War I?

a)

Germany

b)

Great Britain

37.

Which of the following countries were part of the Central Powers during World War I? (3 correct)

a)

Germany

b)

Great Britain

c)

Austria-Hungary

d)

France

e)

Bulgaria

38.

The United States didn't join the League of Nations because...

a)

the Supreme Court ruled against it

b)

Woodrow Wilson refused to join

c)

American people didn't want the US to join

d)

the US Senate failed to ratify the treaty

39.

Before and after World War I, the United States practiced ____________________________, meaning the US didn't get involved in other countries fights.

a)

Isolationism

b)

Imperialism

c)

Globalization

d)

Conservationism

40.

the most important part of Wilson's plan for peace was...

a)

The United Nations

b)

The Unique Nations

c)

The League of Nations

d)

The National League