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U.S. History I Honors Final Exam Review

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 43mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following traits contribute to the American ideal of the self-made man?

a)

Formal education

b)

Wealthy lineage

c)

Hard work

d)

American birth

2.

Which of the following best describes republican marriage?

a)

A shift towards affection-based relationships

b)

Arranged between a father and a potential suitor

c)

Cousin marriages among the upper class to keep the bloodline intact

d)

Financial agreement between an impoverished couple

3.

The Missouri Compromise stated

a)

Future states north of the 36*30 parallel would be free states; south of the line would become slave states

b)

Missouri would be admitted as a free state

c)

All lands acquired by Mexico would have the option of popular sovereignty

d)

For every slave state, there needed to be two free states

4.

All of the following ideals stemmed from the Second Great Awakening EXCEPT

a)

Predestination

b)

Salvation can be achieved by all people

c)

Preaching openly and freely

d)

People can be "revived" into the faith

5.

The cotton gin brought upon all of the following changes EXCEPT

a)

Separating seeds more quickly from cotton fibers

b)

Cotton becoming the leading cash crop in the South

c)

The increase of slavery

d)

The decrease of slavery

6.

Nativism is

a)

Preserving an immigrant group's culture in the U.S.

b)

Protecting the Native Americans from the effects of westward expansion

c)

Racism towards Native Americans

d)

Protecting the interest of native-born peoples over those of immigrants

7.

Which of the following best describes the Election of 1824?

a)

John Quincy Adams won due to his and Henry Clay's corrupt bargain

b)

Jackson won in a landslide against Adams

c)

Jackson was reelected over Henry Clay

d)

Martin Van Buren ran on the coattails of Andrew Jackson

8.

Andrew Jackson was criticized for all of the following EXCEPT

a)

Abuse of the veto power

b)

Abuse of the spoils system

c)

Ending the Second National Bank

d)

Creating the Missouri Compromise

9.

Whig candidate William Henry Harrison used which of the following campaigns to successfully win the Election of 1840?

a)

The "log cabin and hard cider" campaign, relating to the common people

b)

"Who is Van Buren?" implying that Martin Van Buren was an unknown

c)

"Free Soil, Free Labor," calling to stop the expansion of slavery

d)

"First in war, first in peace," celebrating Harrison success as a military general during the Mexican-American War

10.

Minstrel shows originated in

a)

Southern plantations

b)

Southern town squares

c)

Trade stops along the Oregon trail

d)

Northeastern cities

11.

By the 1840s-1850s, the popular southern opinion on slavery was

a)

It was a necessary evil

b)

It was a positive good

c)

It needed to be abolished gradually

d)

It needed to be abolished immediately

12.

All of the following describe this region EXCEPT

a)

It had the majority of slaves right before the Civil War

b)

It produced the most textiles in the U.S.

c)

It was the first region that seceded from the Union

d)

The majority of U.S. cotton was grown here

13.

Manifest destiny is

a)

A mass migration of 80,000 men to California

b)

America's God-given right to civilize the west

c)

Life, liberty, and property

d)

A religious movement that promoted the salvation for all

14.

The Compromise of 1850 allowed for

a)

Popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico

b)

Missouri to be admitted as a slave state

c)

Popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska

d)

California to be admitted as a slave state

15.

The Dred Scott Decision led to all of the following EXCEPT

a)

Dred Scott did not have the right to sue

b)

Dred Scott remained a slave

c)

Northern abolitionists were infuriated by the decision

d)

Dred Scott was freed by Roger B. Taney

16.

The significance of the Election of 1860 was

a)

It was the closest electoral race in U.S. history

b)

It was the ultimate event that led to the Lower South's secession

c)

The South predominantly voted for Stephen Douglas

d)

Lincoln only earned electoral votes from the South

17.

The states in the yellow

a)

Seceded upon Lincoln's election

b)

Seceded after the Battle of Fort Sumter

c)

Relied on slavery the most

d)

Kept slavery but stayed with the Union

18.

Select TWO contributions of Eli Whitney to the Industrial Revolution.

a)

He built the first textile plant in Waltham, Massachusetts

b)

He designed tools that could rapidly produce interchangeable musket parts

c)

He invented a machine for twisting yarn to give it a smooth surface

d)

He doubled the speed of power looms

e)

He created a version of the cotton gin that aided in the American cotton boom

19.

All of the following were social classes of Industrial-Revolution America EXCEPT

a)

Aristocracy

b)

Middle class

c)

Business elite

d)

Urban workers

20.

All of the following were immigrant groups during the wave of "Old Immigration" EXCEPT

a)

Russians

b)

English

c)

Germans

d)

Irish

21.

Source: Ernest Hagen, skilled cabinet maker, memoir, circa 1858


In the fall we bought the property #213 East 26th Street and built a shop on it, and all went well for the next 2 or 3 years, when the great change came over the cabinet making; trade of New York. The factory work... drove everything else out of the market. All the smaller cabinet makers were simply wiped out. There are very few left now which make a scanty living by repairing; and even the larger establishments have a hard time in competing with the Western concerns of Grand Rapids in Michigan and other out of town concerns.

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Hagen's excerpt depicts which impact of the Industrial Revolution?

a)

The Erie Canal connecting New York to Michigan

b)

The efficiency of cabinet-making factories in the Northeast

c)

The overcrowded and unsanitary conditions of major cities

d)

The decline of artisanal work due to the increase of factories

22.

What change over time do these maps display?

a)

An increase in women's suffrage

b)

Greater restrictions on suffrage

c)

An increase in white male suffrage

d)

Greater restrictions on African-American suffrage

23.

All of the following were part of the Jacksonian Democrat platform in 1828 EXCEPT

a)

Equal rights and popular rule for all white men

b)

Encouragement of big business and the American System

c)

Hostility towards Native Americans

d)

Seeking a fair tariff to replace that of the Tariff of 1828

24.

As I child, I knew I surely would be a prophet, as the Lord had showed me visions of things that had happened before my birth. My father and mother said I was intended for some great purpose. I was a child of uncommon intelligence and I knew I was never meant to be a slave. To a mind like mine, restless, curious and observant of everything that was happening, religion became the subject that occupied all of my thoughts.


From the Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831


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Nat Turner's purpose was

a)

Condemnation of the institution of slavery

b)

Justification for eulogizing Nat Turner as a hero

c)

Justification for imposing the death penalty on 60 slaves

d)

Justification for killing 55 white men, women, and children

25.

The Emancipation Proclamation called for freeing the slaves in __________________________

a)

the United States

b)

the border states that remained with the Union

c)

the Confederacy

d)

throughout the entire United States

26.

All of the following were Northern advantages during the Civil War EXCEPT

a)

Home turf advantage

b)

Larger population and military

c)

Better balance between farming and industry

d)

An established government and military

27.

All of the following were Southern advantages during the Civil War EXCEPT

a)

Greater motivation to fight

b)

Home turf advantage

c)

More military academies

d)

More railroads

28.

All of the following were a part of the Union’s military strategy EXCEPT

a)

Blockading the Confederacy

b)

Taking control of the Mississippi River

c)

Splitting the South in half

d)

Fighting a war of attrition

29.

Which of the following best summarizes the course of the Civil War?

a)

The Confederacy earned early victories; however, the Union dominated the second half of the war

b)

The Union earned early victories; however, the Confederacy dominated the second half of the war

c)

The Confederacy quickly defeated the Union and earned its independence

d)

The Union captured Richmond within one year of the war

30.

All of the following are significant of the Emancipation Proclamation EXCEPT

a)

It promised that enslaved people would be free when the North won the war

b)

It ended any chance that France and Great Britain would aid the Confederates

c)

It demonstrated Abraham Lincoln's new dedication to ending slavery in addition to reuniting the country

d)

It immediately freed the slaves throughout the United States

31.

Which of the following best characterizes the Union's economy during the Civil War?

a)

It stubbornly continued to solely grow cash crops, leading to hunger

b)

It had a balance of farming and industry

c)

It heavily relied on trade with Great Britain and France

d)

Men simultaneously served in the army and made their own weapons in factories

32.

All of the following were significant about women's participation in reform EXCEPT

a)

It was the first time that many women worked towards a goal outside of the home

b)

Middle class women, out of all the social classes, became aware of women's inferior status to that of men

c)

Women began to advocate for their social, political, and religious rights, including suffrage

d)

Men eagerly accepted women's demands for equal rights, expediting a suffrage law in the mid-1840s

33.

Moderate reform, as advocated by Benjamin Lundy, can be best described as

a)

The immediate abolition of slavery

b)

A gradual abolition of slavery

c)

A violent end to slavery

d)

Sending all African-Americans to Liberia

34.

Radical abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison called for

a)

The immediate abolition of slavery

b)

The gradual abolition of slavery

c)

A violent abolition of slavery

d)

The use of the Underground Railroad

35.

Frederick Douglass led abolitionist movements using all of the following EXCEPT

a)

Sharing his personal experiences through his autobiography

b)

Delivering powerful speeches

c)

Instigating violent attacks on plantations

d)

Starting abolitionist newspapers

36.

We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.


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This document is [the]

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

Declaration of Sentiments

c)

Constitution

d)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

37.

All of the following were African-American "freedoms" that resulted from Reconstruction EXCEPT

a)

Freedom from slavery

b)

Freedom of religion

c)

Freedom to obtain an education

d)

Freedom of universal suffrage

38.

All of the following were Southern attempts to hinder the rights of freed African-Americans EXCEPT

a)

Establishing black codes, which tended to inflict harsher punishments on African-Americans than those for whites

b)

Voting barriers, such as literacy tests and grandfather clauses

c)

The formation of the Ku Klux Klan

d)

Bounding all African-Americans to sharecropping

39.

Which of the following presidents was the most lenient to Southerners during Reconstruction?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

Rutherford B. Hayes

40.

Who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?

a)

Northern Democrats

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Southern Democrats

d)

Moderate Republicans

41.

Full rehabilitation of the South failed for all of the following EXCEPT

a)

Corrupt politicians pocketing funds meant for rebuilding the South

b)

Racial discrimination via Jim Crow laws in the South

c)

Violence from the Ku Klux Klan and secret societies

d)

African-Americans attempted to overthrow whites in power