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Worksheets2nd Semester Final
Total questions: 49
Worksheet time: 27mins
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was the president of the Republic of Texas after the Texas Revolution?
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Houston
Davey Crockett
Based on the timeline, which three states adopted women suffrage in 1910-1918?
Washington, Missouri, Utah
Wyoming, Colorado, Utah
Washington, Kansas, Michigan
Washington, Kansas, Tennessee
Based on the timeline, in what year were women granted voting rights in Wyoming Territory?
1869
1919
1893
1869
The movement in the early to mid 1800s that focused on eliminating slavery in the United States was called what?
Suffrage Movement
Pro-slavery Movement
Anti-slavery Movement
Abolitionist Movement
Land, Labor, and capital are all _________________.
Factors of Production
Cotton Textiles
The Industrial Revolution
Certificates of Credit
What was the name of the mountain pass the Mormons used to get through the Rocky Mountains?
South Pass
Salt Lake City Pass
Snake River Pass
Rocky Mountain Pass
Which group took the law into their own hands during the California Gold Rush?
Merchants
Vigilantes
Mormons
Miners
What allowed people from both Britain and the United States to settle in Oregon country?
Rendevous
Manifest Destiny
Oregon Country Occupation
Joint Occupation Agreement
Which people were forcibly removed from their native land in Florida? (use the map)
Seminole
Cherokee
Chicasaw
Choctaw
Based on the information on the map above, who tried to lead his people back to their native land in Illinois in 1832?
Spotted Eagle
Chief Black Hawk
Chief Joseph
Chief Red Cloud
The Kickapoo and Osage lived on the land that was taken during which time period?
land taken after 1810
land taken 1750-1783
land taken 1810-1820
land taken 1784-1810
Which people lived in present-day Florida? (use the map)
None of these
Seminole
Cherokee
Chickasaw
Study the timeline above. What event in Europe occurred in the same year that the United States declared war on Britain?
Battle of Tippecanoe
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
Napoleon invades Russia
Congress of Vienna meets
The Supreme Court reviewing and ruling on acts of other branches of the government is called ________________.
Judicial Review
Supreme Court Ruling
Law Review
Supremacy Clause
What movement called for voting rights be extended to both genders?
Transcendentalist
Women's Suffrage
Women's Temperance
Abolition
The expression "pleading the Fifth," means that a U.S. citizen wants _________________________.
to exercise the right of free speech
to exercise the right of free association
a trial by jury
to choose to remain silent to avoid self-incrimination
The branch of government that enforces the laws and maintains order is the _____________________________.
executive branch
judicial branch
legislative branch
olive branch
The branch of government that creates the law is the ______________.
Olive Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
Legislative Branch
"The whole of this small [religious] nation occupy themselves as usefully as the working bees of a hive." -A visitor to the Utah Territory in the 1850s
What group does this quotation describe?
Mormons
Gold Rush Miners
Oregon Trail Pioneers
Mountain Men
A potato famine cause people from which country to immigrate to the United States.
England
Scotland
Sweden
Ireland
Appomattox Court House is famous because it is the site of __________________.
Lee's surrender to Grant
The Union headquarters
The Confederate headquarters
a bloody battle
"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that."
Who took the above position on the issue of slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
William Lloyd Garrison
Fredrick Douglas
Elijah Lovejoy
"Upon the considerations, it is the opinion of the court that the Act of Congress [the Missouri Compromise] which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void; and that neither Dred Scott himself, nor any of his family, were made free by being carried into this territory; even if they had been carried there by the owner, with the intention of becoming a permanent resident..." -Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford, March 6, 1857
Many Southerners were pleased by the above decision because it said ___________________________.
Dred Scott now would be freed
slavery was unconstitutional
restricting slavery was unconstitutional
slaves were not property
Who invented the cotton gin?
Samuel Morse
James Rumey
Eli Whitney
Francis Cabot Lowell
The American Industrial Revolution began to take shape in what states?
Mid Atlantic States
Southern States
In the Western States
New England States
The most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls convention concerned women's _________________.
suffrage.
slavery.
jobs.
education.
What Confederate capital was only about 100 miles from Washington, D.C.?
Philadelphia, PA
Lexington, KY
Baltimore, MD
Richmond, VA
The main goal of the North at the beginning of the war was to ___________________.
end slavery
gain independence
punish the South
reunite the country
The admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial in the Senate because ____________.
it would upset the balance of slave states and free states
the Senate was proslave
the Senate was antislave
it would create sectionalism
What event ended in a few years but had long-lasting effects on California's economy?
Gold Rush
Oregon Trail
Mormon Trail
Manifest Destiny
What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system?
Slavery in the South
Slavery's System
African Americans in Bondage
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people was the _________________.
The Great Escape
Southern Escape Route
The Slave Network
The Underground Railroad
James Madison is known as __________________.
The Father of the Constitution
The First Signer of the Constitution
The First Signer of the Declaration of Independence
The Author of the Declaration of Independence
The belief that God had set the United States apart to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific was called_________________
Joint Occupation
Rendevous
Emigration
Manifest Destiny
The revolution that changed the way people worked with the invention of the factory system was the _________________________.
Technological Revolution
Industrial Revolution
American Revolution
Revolution of Machines
The leaders of the exploration of the Louisiana Territory were Lewis and ___________________.
Jefferson
Pike
Clark
Burr
Some Southerners wanted to break away from the United States, or to _____________________, or break away and form their own country.
ratify
secede
nullify
caucus
Which people made huge profits during the Gold Rush?
miners
merchants
pioneers
teachers
The changes in the way goods were made using factories (the Industrial Revolution) in the mid-1700s first appeared in _______________________.
Italy
Britain
Spain
Germany
How did many mountain men earn a living before being guides for pioneers?
farming fertile soils
building houses for pioneers
clearing mountain passes for wagon trains
trapping and selling furs
What made it a crime to teach enslaved people to read or write?
Slave Codes
Spirituals
Overseers
Credits
"We are aware that some persons suppose it will be for our advantage to remove beyond the Mississippi. We think otherwise...We wish to remain on the land of our fathers. We have a perfect and original right to remain without interruption or molestation. The treaties with us, and the laws of the United States made in pursuance of treaties, guaranty our residence and our privileges, and secure us against intruders. Our only request is, that these treaties may be fulfilled, and laws executed."
The statement that best interprets this passage is that the Cherokee_________________.
wish to change the treaties they made with the U.S. government
wish to remain on the land where they live
are willing to move to other lands provided for them
wish to move back to the lands of their fathers
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the ___________, that freed slaves in states in rebellion against the US government.
14th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
Free Slave Bill
The bloodiest day of the entire Civil War was the Battle of
Antitem
Shiloh
Bull Run
Gettysburg
Which of the following must be born a citizen of the United States?
Governor of Missouri
President
State Senators
State Representatives
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution _________________________.
Ended Slavery
barred former Confederate leaders from holding national or state office
prohibited poll taxes in elections
all of these
What is the Bill of Rights?
the preamble to the U.S. Constitution
the first seven articles of the U.S. Constitution
the first five amendments to the U.S. Constitution
the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
What major cash crop transformed the stagnant economy of the South into a prosperous, robust economy?
tobacco
cotton
indigo
corn
