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WorksheetsUS Regents Greatest Hits (2023)
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 44mins
The _ is the document that explains the reasons why the 13 colonies wanted to be independent from British control.
Articles of Confederation
(1783-87)
Declaration of Independence
(1776)
Constitution
(1787-now)
Emancipation Proclamation
(1862)
The United States's first system of government (after it became an independent nation in 1783) was called...
the Haudenosaunee Confederation
the Articles of Confederation
the Constitution
the Confederacy
The Articles of Confederation failed (and had to be replaced by the Constitution) because...
they made the federal government too weak to do its job
they gave the federal government too much power
The _ is the document that explains the rules for how the US system of government works.
Articles of Confederation
(1781-1787)
Declaration of Independence
(1776)
Constitution
(1787-now)
Emancipation Proclamation
(1862)
Consent of the governed means
women and ethnic minorities have equal rights
the police must have your consent to search your property
the state and federal government are equally powerful
the people are the source of government's power
In the Constitutional Convention (1787) the Great Compromise resolved the issue of
length of presidential terms
number of justices on the Supreme Court
how many representatives each state should get in Congress
how many branches of government there would be
In the Constitutional Convention (1787), the 3/5 Compromise solved the conflict between
big population states and small population states
Federalists and Antifederalists
the north and the south
abolitionists and slaveowners
The 3/5 Compromise in the Constitution gave more political power to...
enslaved people
the white male leaders of southern states
Which of these is an example of checks and balances?
president issues an executive order
president negotiates a treaty with a foreign country
president chooses a vice presidential running mate
president vetos a bill passed by Congress
The process for choosing the president (according to the Constitution) is called the _.
impeachment process
electoral college
popular vote
ratification
The electoral college is controversial because...
it causes presidential candidates to focus too much attention on New York, California, and Texas
it's possible for a candidate to get less votes and still win the presidency
Federalism means...
the right of states to secede from the Union
division of Congress into 2 parts
separation of power into 3 branches
division of power between state and national governments
The Constitution can adapt to changing times through the _.
system of federalism
amendment process
system of checks and balances
electoral college
Antifederalists refused to ratify the Constitution because they feared that...
the federal government was too weak to do its job
the federal government would abuse the peoples' rights
states held too much power
Communism would invade the United States
The Antifederalists demanded _ before they would agree to ratify (approve) the Constitution.
universal suffrage (everyone can vote)
an electoral college
a Bill of Rights
a system of checks and balances
The 5th amendment right to be considered "innocent until proven guilty" is known as...
freedom of speech
habeas corpus
equal protection
due process
Why did Alexander Hamilton want to create a national bank?
to increase tariffs
to regulate the stock market
to stabilize US currency (system of money)
to reduce inequality
Early presidents (including George Washington) followed a foreign policy of...
imperialism
neutrality
containment
interdependence
What did we gain in the Louisiana Purchase?
Mississippi River
New York City
Appalachian Mountains
Harbors
What else did we gain in the Louisiana Purchase?
the city of New Orleans
the city of Los Angeles
the state of New Mexico
the state of Texas
At the end of the Mexican American War, the US took half of Mexico's land in the _.
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of New Echota
Treaty of Payne's Landing
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
America's motivation in fighting the Mexican American War (1846-48) was...
Manifest Destiny
expanding the number of slave states
taking farmland from Mexico
all of the above
The Seneca Falls Convention (1848) was a meeting of...
abolitionists
muckrakers
civil rights activists
feminists
The Cherokees won the case of _, but President Andrew Jackson refused to obey the Supreme Court's decision, and kicked them off their land anyway.
TLO v. New Jersey
Worcester v. Georgia
Griswold v. Connecticut
Mapp v. Ohio
The common goal of the Indian Removal Act (1838), the Homestead Act (1862), and the Dawes Act (1887) was to...
take land from Indigenous people and give or sell it to whites
help Native people move west in search of a better life
assimilate Indigenous children
provide a homeland for Native Americans
The main purpose of Indian Boarding Schools was to...
forcibly assimilate Native American children
develop leadership skills
provide more economic opportunities to Indigenous tribes
teach Indigenous traditions to the next generation
The Homestead Act was...
when the government gave away free land in the west
a plan to give land to former slaves
a program to eliminate poverty and homelessness
a plan to assimilate Native Americans
What did Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and William Lloyd Garrison all have in common?
they were all former slaves who escaped
they were all suffragists
they were all abolitionists
they were all moderates
The network of people who helped enslaved people escape was called...
the Harlem Rennaissance
the Civil Rights Movement
the slave patrol
the underground railroad
Reorder the following events:
Lincoln was elected president
Southern states seceded and formed the Confederacy
Lincoln decided to fight the Civil War to preserve the Union
Lincoln decided to free the slaves
In 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, Lincoln announced his intention to free the slaves in the _.
13th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation announced Lincoln's promise to free all the slaves after winning the Civil War. However, it only freed _ of the slaves right away.
1%
10%
50%
80%
Reconstruction ended in 1877 because...
former slaves were not successful political leaders in the south
Republicans and Democrats made a corrupt deal that gave Republicans the presidency in exchange for allowing white supremacists to take over the south
Immediately after the Civil War (1865), southern states passed _ to try to recreate slavery without calling it slavery.
slave codes
black codes
Jim Crow laws
reconstruction amendments
Sharecropping was...
a way to redistribute Confederate land to former slaves
a way to provide social mobility to former slaves
developed by radical Republicans during Reconstruction
a system of labor that kept farm workers trapped in a cycle of poverty
Laws requiring racial segregation were called...
black codes
Jim Crow laws
Reconstruction Amendments
the Civil Rights Act
_ advised Black people to demand the right to vote immediately, and to seek high level jobs as lawyers, writers, and professors.
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
_ advised Black people to focus on manual labor and to be patient about gaining equal political rights.
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois agreed that...
Black people should protest against Jim Crow laws
white people must be forced to confront the problem of lynching
radical change was necessary
the education of Black people was an important step toward equality
Ida B. Wells was famous for being...
a suffragist
a muckraker who exposed the truth about lynching
a founder of the NAACP along with W.E.B. DuBois
all of the above
Alice Paul used marches, pickets and hunger strikes to fight for _.
an end to women's suffrage
women's suffrage
sexism
the 15th amendment
During the Great Migration, black people left the south and moved north because...
the government forced them into internment camps
they wanted to escape slavery
there was no racism in the north
they got jobs in northern factories
13th Amendment (1865)
ended slavery
14th Amendment (1868)
birthright citizenship + equal protection
15th Amendment (1870)
right to vote for all male citizens
19th Amendment (1920)
right to vote for women
Laissez Faire is an economic policy that means
increasing tariffs (taxes on imports)
government financing (paying for) railroad construction
government subsidizing (paying for part of) housing for the poor
government does not interfere in the economy
A monopoly is...
when workers join together to fight for higher wages
when companies compete against each other to attract customers
a rich person
a company that has put all of its competition out of business
"Trustbusting" is when a politician...
abuses his or her power
punishes convicted criminals
enforces Supreme Court decisions
breaks up monopolies
A progressive is a person who believes in
laissez-faire
Social Darwinism
government regulation of businesses
rugged individualism
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller were famous...
monopolists
trustbusters
progressives
socialists
A _ is a group of workers who unite together to fight for better wages and working conditions.
strike
labor union
monopoly
trust
The muckraker (journalist) who exposed disgusting conditions in the meat packing industry was...
Ida B. Wells
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
President Woodrow Wilson created the Federal Reserve to...
balance the budget
control the money supply
insure savings account deposits
regulate the stock market
Colonial Era
(1600s - 1783)
The east coast of north America was controlled by Britain
Reconstruction
(1865-1877)
period after the Civil War; some successes for former slaves
Gilded Age
(~1870s-1900)
rise of industries and monopolies; extremes between rich and poor
Progressive Era
(~1890-1920)
muckrakers and activists try to correct the problems of the Gilded Age
Jim Crow Era
(1877-1965)
racial segregation + people of color denied the right to vote
The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy that stated...
the U.S. must defend its allies Britain and France
Europeans should stay away from the Western Hemisphere
the U.S. has a right to trade with China
the U.S. should annex islands to use as naval bases
_ is when a nation uses violence (or the threat of violence) to take land or resources from another country
capitalism
communism/socialism
alliance
imperialism
The word for discrimination against immigrants is...
nativism
Islamophobia
classism
racism
An example of nativism is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1872), which...
required Chinese kids to go to segregated schools
forced Chinese immigrants to live in Chinatowns
banned Chinese immigrants from entering the US
banned Chinese American citizens from voting
Immigration Quotas in the 1920s...
were biased against British immigrants
restricted immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia
increased the number of immigrants from Africa
ended the Chinese Exclusion Act
The Red Scare in the 1920s was the fear that
communists were inside the U.S. government
immigrants would bring communism to the U.S.
immigrants would cause competition for jobs
the Soviet Union would launch a nuclear attack on the U.S.
The Dust Bowl in the 1930s was caused by
deforestation
drought (lack of water)
global warming
flooding
Which of the following was a cause of the Great Depression?
overproduction
crop shortages
a lack of credit
labor shortages
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)'s New Deal...
was a return to laissez-faire policies
reduced the spending of the federal government
expanded access to healthcare for all Americans
increased the role of government in the economy
According to this cartoonist, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) was trying to...
increase respect fo the Supreme Court
have too much control over the Supreme Court
give additional power to the Supreme Court
veto New Deal legislation
When Congress put a stop to President FDR's "court packing" plan, it was an example of...
federalism
checks and balances
bicameralism
the unwritten constitution
What was the purpose of President Woodrow Wilson's idea for a League of Nations?
mutual defense against the Soviet Union
to maintain isolationism
to eliminate tariffs and promote free trade
to prevent future wars
Why did the senate reject the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations?
it was too expensive to join
it violated the Monroe Doctrine
they wanted Germany to pay reparations
they thought it would drag us into foreign conflicts
Japanese Internment was when the US government...
created job opportunities for immigrants
forced Japanese-Americans into concentration camps during WW2
dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan at the end of WW2
banned immigration from Japan
In Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court said that Japanese Internment was constitutional because...
Japanese-Americans cannot be citizens
Japanese-Americans received due process
immigrants don't have civil rights
civil liberties can be limited during war time
McCarthyism was an effort to...
prevent communists from immigrating to the US
investigate suspected communists in the US government
contain the spread of communism around the world
provide money to anti-communists in Asia and Latin America
During the Cold War (1945—1990), America's main foreign policy was...
isolationism
neutrality
containment
the Monroe Doctrine
The goal of containment was...
world peace
global interdependence
free trade
to stop the spread of communism
What was the goal of the Berlin Airlift?
to spy on East Germany
to drop bombs on communist controlled areas
to defeat Hitler
resist a Soviet blockade
Match the following Great Society programs to their purpose
Civil Rights Act of 1964
ended racial segregation
Voting Rights Act of 1965
ended racist discrimination against voters of color
Medicaid
healthcare for people with low income
Medicare
healthcare for the elderly (old)
The goal of President Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)'s Great Society program was to...
end the Great Depression
reduce government spending
reduce taxes
eliminate poverty
President Nixon resigned due to...
losing the Vietnam War
increasing levels of poverty and inequality
the Court Packing scandal
investigation of the Watergate Scandal
One effect of the Watergate Scandal (1972) was that it...
decreased American's trust in government
caused the government to protect our rivers and lakes
ended America's involvement in the Vietnam War
led to the impeachment of President Richard Nixon
