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2nd Semester Final

Total questions: 49

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Robert E. Lee

d)

Ulysses S. Grant

2.

Who was the president of the Republic of Texas after the Texas Revolution?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Stephen Houston

d)

Davey Crockett

3.

Based on the timeline, which three states adopted women suffrage in 1910-1918?

a)

Washington, Missouri, Utah

b)

Wyoming, Colorado, Utah

c)

Washington, Kansas, Michigan

d)

Washington, Kansas, Tennessee

4.

Based on the timeline, in what year were women granted voting rights in Wyoming Territory?

a)

1869

b)

1919

c)

1893

d)

1869

5.

The movement in the early to mid 1800s that focused on eliminating slavery in the United States was called what?

a)

Suffrage Movement

b)

Pro-slavery Movement

c)

Anti-slavery Movement

d)

Abolitionist Movement

6.

Land, Labor, and capital are all _________________.

a)

Factors of Production

b)

Cotton Textiles

c)

The Industrial Revolution

d)

Certificates of Credit

7.

What was the name of the mountain pass the Mormons used to get through the Rocky Mountains?

a)

South Pass

b)

Salt Lake City Pass

c)

Snake River Pass

d)

Rocky Mountain Pass

8.

Which group took the law into their own hands during the California Gold Rush?

a)

Merchants

b)

Vigilantes

c)

Mormons

d)

Miners

9.

What allowed people from both Britain and the United States to settle in Oregon country?

a)

Rendevous

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Oregon Country Occupation

d)

Joint Occupation Agreement

10.

Which people were forcibly removed from their native land in Florida? (use the map)

a)

Seminole

b)

Cherokee

c)

Chicasaw

d)

Choctaw

11.

Based on the information on the map above, who tried to lead his people back to their native land in Illinois in 1832?

a)

Spotted Eagle

b)

Chief Black Hawk

c)

Chief Joseph

d)

Chief Red Cloud

12.

The Kickapoo and Osage lived on the land that was taken during which time period?

a)

land taken after 1810

b)

land taken 1750-1783

c)

land taken 1810-1820

d)

land taken 1784-1810

13.

Which people lived in present-day Florida? (use the map)

a)

None of these

b)

Seminole

c)

Cherokee

d)

Chickasaw

14.

Study the timeline above. What event in Europe occurred in the same year that the United States declared war on Britain?

a)

Battle of Tippecanoe

b)

Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

c)

Napoleon invades Russia

d)

Congress of Vienna meets

15.

The Supreme Court reviewing and ruling on acts of other branches of the government is called ________________.

a)

Judicial Review

b)

Supreme Court Ruling

c)

Law Review

d)

Supremacy Clause

16.

What movement called for voting rights be extended to both genders?

a)

Transcendentalist

b)

Women's Suffrage

c)

Women's Temperance

d)

Abolition

17.

The expression "pleading the Fifth," means that a U.S. citizen wants _________________________.

a)

to exercise the right of free speech

b)

to exercise the right of free association

c)

a trial by jury

d)

to choose to remain silent to avoid self-incrimination

18.

The branch of government that enforces the laws and maintains order is the _____________________________.

a)

executive branch

b)

judicial branch

c)

legislative branch

d)

olive branch

19.

The branch of government that creates the law is the ______________.

a)

Olive Branch

b)

Executive Branch

c)

Judicial Branch

d)

Legislative Branch

20.

"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?

a)

Mormons

b)

Gold Rush Miners

c)

Oregon Trail Pioneers

d)

Mountain Men

21.

A potato famine cause people from which country to immigrate to the United States.

a)

England

b)

Scotland

c)

Sweden

d)

Ireland

22.

Appomattox Court House is famous because it is the site of __________________.

a)

Lee's surrender to Grant

b)

The Union headquarters

c)

The Confederate headquarters

d)

a bloody battle

23.

"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?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

Fredrick Douglas

d)

Elijah Lovejoy

24.

"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 ___________________________.

a)

Dred Scott now would be freed

b)

slavery was unconstitutional

c)

restricting slavery was unconstitutional

d)

slaves were not property

25.

Who invented the cotton gin?

a)

Samuel Morse

b)

James Rumey

c)

Eli Whitney

d)

Francis Cabot Lowell

26.

The American Industrial Revolution began to take shape in what states?

a)

Mid Atlantic States

b)

Southern States

c)

In the Western States

d)

New England States

27.

The most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls convention concerned women's _________________.

a)

suffrage.

b)

slavery.

c)

jobs.

d)

education.

28.

What Confederate capital was only about 100 miles from Washington, D.C.?

a)

Philadelphia, PA

b)

Lexington, KY

c)

Baltimore, MD

d)

Richmond, VA

29.

The main goal of the North at the beginning of the war was to ___________________.

a)

end slavery

b)

gain independence

c)

punish the South

d)

reunite the country

30.

The admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial in the Senate because ____________.

a)

it would upset the balance of slave states and free states

b)

the Senate was proslave

c)

the Senate was antislave

d)

it would create sectionalism

31.

What event ended in a few years but had long-lasting effects on California's economy?

a)

Gold Rush

b)

Oregon Trail

c)

Mormon Trail

d)

Manifest Destiny

32.

What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system?

a)

Slavery in the South

b)

Slavery's System

c)

African Americans in Bondage

d)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

33.

The network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people was the _________________.

a)

The Great Escape

b)

Southern Escape Route

c)

The Slave Network

d)

The Underground Railroad

34.

James Madison is known as __________________.

a)

The Father of the Constitution

b)

The First Signer of the Constitution

c)

The First Signer of the Declaration of Independence

d)

The Author of the Declaration of Independence

35.

The belief that God had set the United States apart to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific was called_________________

a)

Joint Occupation

b)

Rendevous

c)

Emigration

d)

Manifest Destiny

36.

The revolution that changed the way people worked with the invention of the factory system was the _________________________.

a)

Technological Revolution

b)

Industrial Revolution

c)

American Revolution

d)

Revolution of Machines

37.

The leaders of the exploration of the Louisiana Territory were Lewis and ___________________.

a)

Jefferson

b)

Pike

c)

Clark

d)

Burr

38.

Some Southerners wanted to break away from the United States, or to _____________________, or break away and form their own country.

a)

ratify

b)

secede

c)

nullify

d)

caucus

39.

Which people made huge profits during the Gold Rush?

a)

miners

b)

merchants

c)

pioneers

d)

teachers

40.

The changes in the way goods were made using factories (the Industrial Revolution) in the mid-1700s first appeared in _______________________.

a)

Italy

b)

Britain

c)

Spain

d)

Germany

41.

How did many mountain men earn a living before being guides for pioneers?

a)

farming fertile soils

b)

building houses for pioneers

c)

clearing mountain passes for wagon trains

d)

trapping and selling furs

42.

What made it a crime to teach enslaved people to read or write?

a)

Slave Codes

b)

Spirituals

c)

Overseers

d)

Credits

43.

"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_________________.

a)

wish to change the treaties they made with the U.S. government

b)

wish to remain on the land where they live

c)

are willing to move to other lands provided for them

d)

wish to move back to the lands of their fathers

44.

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the ___________, that freed slaves in states in rebellion against the US government.

a)

14th Amendment

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Free Slave Bill

45.

The bloodiest day of the entire Civil War was the Battle of

a)

Antitem

b)

Shiloh

c)

Bull Run

d)

Gettysburg

46.

Which of the following must be born a citizen of the United States?

a)

Governor of Missouri

b)

President

c)

State Senators

d)

State Representatives

47.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution _________________________.

a)

Ended Slavery

b)

barred former Confederate leaders from holding national or state office

c)

prohibited poll taxes in elections

d)

all of these

48.

What is the Bill of Rights?

a)

the preamble to the U.S. Constitution

b)

the first seven articles of the U.S. Constitution

c)

the first five amendments to the U.S. Constitution

d)

the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution

49.

What major cash crop transformed the stagnant economy of the South into a prosperous, robust economy?

a)

tobacco

b)

cotton

c)

indigo

d)

corn