WorksheetsUS History Foundations Final Exam Review
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 1hrs 1mins
Which of the following created a collective national anger towards France?
The Louisiana Purchase
The XYZ Affair
The War of 1812
The Battle of Tippecanoe
Which of the following groups used of force or coercion to prevent citizens from voting?
Ku Klux Klan
The Anti-Slavery Society
The Freedmen's Bureau
The Electoral Commission of 1877
Ulysses S Grant's administration was best known for:
Grant's hands on presidential style
scandal
great leaders surrounding him
ending Reconstruction
Which of the following laws created a system of thirteen federal district courts?
The Judicial Act of 1789
The Judicial Act of 1801
Thomas Jefferson served in what capacity in Washington's Cabinet?
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of War
Secretary of State
Secretary of Defense
Though the War of 1812 ended in a militaristic and political draw, its long lasting impact was that:
America and Great Britain would be allies ever after
America was here to stay
America's alliance with France was strengthened.
The Indian Wars came to an end.
Which law(s) looked to limit the power of the Democratic Republican Party.
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Judicial Act of 1789
The Enforcement Acts
The Fugitive Slave Act
Which Supreme Court Chief Justice is synonymous with Judicial Review?
John Jay
John Marshall
Roger Taney
Washington DC was captured and burned
By the British during the War of 1812
By Santa Anna's forces during the Mexican War
During the Quasi War with France
When Lee crushed John Pope's army at Second Bull Run
Southern states:
are in favor of high tariffs
looked to nullify tariffs
believed tariffs are a necessary evil towards a good economy
seceded in 1832 because of the tariff
Growing sectionalism over the issue of slavery became a growing national issue for the first time after:
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Ostend Manifesto
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
John Quincy Adams won the election of 1824 by:
A popular vote plurality
A popular vote majority
An electoral vote majority
The House of Representatives vote
The purpose of the Indian Removal Act of 1831 was:
To kill Indians in the Southeast
To open up areas for White settlement
To give Indians more property in the Southwest
To establish White schools in the Southwest
Northern industrialists:
Were in favor of the Compromise of 1850
voted predominantly Democrat
voted predominantly Republican
Favored tariffs
Which of the following groups of people would have supported slavery (multiple answers)
Irish immigrants in northern cities
Abolitionists
Planters
Southern Democrats
Which group of people potentially saw blacks as potential competitors in the labor force? (multiple answers)
Irish immigrants in northern cities
Irish immigrants in southern cities
Planters
Free Soilers
All of the following are examples of the day to day life for a slave in the antebellum period EXCEPT:
backbreaking work from dawn to dusk
floggings were common and “Breakers” were hired to weaken a strong-willed slave.
higher mortality rate than whites
working in factories for low wages
To push the discussion of slavery out of Congress for several years, Southern congressmen implemented the:
Compromise of 1820
Gag Resolution
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Present day Utah was settled by Latter Day Saints (Mormons) lead by
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Gordon Hinckley
Russell Nelson
Santa Anna was known for which of the following? (multiple answers)
Seizing power in Mexico City through a revolt
Siging the terms of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Signed the Treaty of Velasco
Acted as first president of the Texas Republic
The Oregon issue was decided under which President?
Jefferson
Lincoln
Polk
Tyler
Oregon was split between the United States and Canada at:
the 49th parallel
the 36 30' line
the Rio Grande
the Nueces River
The Mexican War was also known as ______________ because he actively pursued war with Mexico and many people actively opposed it
Polk's War
Taylor's Manifesto
Tyler's Rout
Harrison's Burden
Manifest Destiny- the right for White Americans to spread all the way across the continent, spreading Christianity and civilization- was a term coined by:
John L. O'Sullivan
James Polk
John Tyler
Samuel Morse
Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at ________________
The Battle of San Jacinto
The Battle of the Alamo
The Battle of the Goliad
The Battle of San Antonio
The Wilmot Proviso divided Congress because:
It proposed to stop the expansion of slavery into the territories of the Mexican Cessian
It proposed to expand slavery into the territories of the Mexican Cessian
It proposed to compensate slave owners for runaway slaves
It proposed to give freedom to slaves who escaped into non-slave territory
True/False:
The Mexican Government openly invited Americans to settle in Texas in the 1820s
true
false
Which of the following increased federal intervention in the affairs of independent states?
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The Missouri Compromise
Personal Liberty Laws
Sherman's March to the Sea
For his attempt to raid the arsenal at Harper's Ferry:
John Brown was executed
John Brown was offered asylum in Canada
John Brown became the first governor of West Virginia
John Brown was convicted to a life sentence
Which of the following groups was morally opposed to slavery? (multiple answers)
Free Soilers
Cotton Whigs
Conscience Whigs
Abolitionists
After Martin Van Buren failed a re-election bid in 1840, he ran again, unsuccessfully, in 1848, as the first presidential candidate for the:
Southern Whig Party
Republican Party
Know Nothing Party
Free Soil Party
Stephen Douglas wrote which of the following?
The Ostend Manifesto
The Compromise of 1877
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Dred Scott Decision majority opinion
What Claim Did Dred Scott Sue With?
Slavery Is Illegal
Since He Had Once Lived In An Anti-Slavery Area He Would Always Be Free
No One Should be a Slave or Own Slaves.
People with Slaves Should be Prosecuted
Who was Dred Scott?
Ex-slave, Lincoln's advisor
Escaped slave, ended free in Iowa
Pro-slavery sheriff
Slave who sued the government for his freedom
The Supreme Court ruled all of the following in the Dred Scott case EXCEPT:
Slaves are not citizens, so he could not sue in federal court
Slavery cannot be denied in any territory because property is protected by the Fifth Amendment
Congress had no power to ban slavery in the territories, hence, the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
Slaves can not become free until they have been in a free territory for five years
The attack on Fort Sumter:
Was the last battle of the Civil War
Was John Brown's last defiant act, which lead to his hanging
Directly lead to beginning of the Civil War
Gave Abraham Lincoln his first military victory in the Civil War
Which of the following WAS NOT a part of the Compromise of 1850?
California was admitted into the Union as a free state
The territories of New Mexico and Utah were open to slavery based on popular sovereignty
Washington DC would allow slavery, but abolished the slave trade
The new Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, “the Bloodhound Bill,” was passed.
Kansas was admitted into the Union as a free state
The election of Lincoln prompted:
Bleeding Kansas
The caning of Charles Sumner
South Carolina to secede
The surrender at Appomattox
A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelty of slavery and helped solidify the abolitionist movement in the North.
Gone with the Wind
Across the Lines
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Gettysburg
What was the first major battle in the Civil War?
Battle of Anaconda
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Bull Run
First Bull Run surprised both sides of the Civil War because:
No one expected it to be as brutal as it was
The Confederacy lost few men
The Union won without having as many men as the Confederates
It prompted the end of the Civil War
The Southern economy:
improved throughout the Civil War
worsened through the Civil War until it finally collapsed
was helped with financial backing from Great Britain and England after treaties
remained fairly strong throughout the war
Which of the following IS NOT an advantage of the South during the Civil War?
Fighting on their own territory
Good Military Leadership
Industrialization
Fighting a defensive war
Which of the following IS NOT an advantage of the South during the Civil War?
Fighting on their own territory
Good Military Leadership
Industrialization
Fighting a defensive war
Which of the following IS NOT an advantage of the Union during the Civil War?
Industrialization
Good Military Leadership
Larger Population
Established Government
Many Freedmen: (multiple answers)
returned to their former plantations and became sharecroppers for their former masters
migrated to the North and West
Started businesses in the towns they were once slaves
Became bank managers and supervisors in northern mills
Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan said all of the following EXCEPT:
10% of a state’s voters, who were eligible to vote in 1860, would have to pledge their oath of allegiance to the United States
Southerners also had to pledge to abide by emancipation
Full pardons would be granted to most southerners who took an oath of allegiance to the Union and Constitution and accepted emancipation
Southerners had never really left the Union, they were just in rebellion
Southerners had to ratify the 13th amendment to be admitted back into the Union
Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan referred to:
The United States had to raise a ten percent tax to fund the war
The South must free ten percent of their slaves to become part of the Union again
The southern states had to have ten percent of its people pledge allegiance to the Union to politically rejoin the United States
The Confederacy must give ten percent of its cotton exports to the Union to be readmitted
The Ku Klux Klan was made illegal through:
The Enforcement Act of 1870
The Civil Rights Bill of 1866
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
The Civil Rights Bill of 1875
(5) What was the compromise of 1877?
an agreement made between republicans and democrats that allowed Hayes to become President , if the republicans ended reconstruction in the south
an agreement between Hayes and Tilden that allowed Hayes to become President if Tilden could be his Vice President
an agreement between republicans and democrats that made Tilden President, but allowed Reconstruction to continue in the South
(6) What did the democrats agree to do in the Compromise of 1877?
they agreed to accept Hayes' election to the Presidency
they agreed to accept Tilden as becoming Hayes' Vice President
they agreed to end reconstruction in the south
they agreed to rebel again, thus starting another war
(7) What did the republicans agree to do in the Compromise of 1877?
to remove federal troops from the south, appoint democrats to powerful positions, and create laws to spur industrialization in the south
to outlaw slavery, provide federal aid to freedmen, and to provide government jobs to ex-slaves
to provide farm aid for southern planters, reduce high taxes created under Grant, and appoint Democrats as electors in the next election
Period from 1865 to 1877 in which the U.S. government attempted to rebuild Southern society and governments
Reunion
Reconstruction
Repair Policy
Antebellum
Constitutional amendment that made all the people born in the U.S. (including former slaves) citizens
16th Amendment
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
White southerner who supported Radical Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
jay hawker
scalawag
carpetbagger
Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to participate in Reconstruction
Democrat
Republican
scalawag
carpetbagger
System in which landowners gave poor farmers seeds, tools, and land to cultivate in exchange for part of their harvest
communal farming
sharecropping
contract work
crop rotations
Hiram Revels was:
The first Black US Senator
The Secretary of War under Lincoln and Johnson
The Vice President under Johnson
US Grant's opponent in the 1872 election
Under Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction, all Confederate states had to:
ratify the Thirteenth Amendment
ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
ratify the Fifteenth Amendment
Swear "Iron Clad" oaths
James Polk was the President during all of the following important expansionist events EXCEPT:
Mexican War
The dividing of Oregon
The Annexation of Texas
California Gold Rush and statehood
Which of the following was a method Thomas Jefferson used to avoid war with France: (more than one answer)
The Louisiana Purchase
The Missouri Compromise
The XYZ Affair
The Embargo Act of 1807
The War of 1812:
Was a clear victory of the British over the Americans
Was a clear victory of the Americans over the British
Was a clear victory for Indians in the West
Was a clear indication of America's staying power as a nation
Was a clear indication of America's dependence on Great Britain
The Embargo Act of 1807 resulted in all of the following EXCEPT:
A massive recession of the American economy
A resurgence of the Federalist Party
A massive recession of the French and English economies
A weakening of support for the Democratic-Republican Party
Which group of people believed an invasion of British-controlled Canada would restore America's national pride?
Federalists
Northern Democrats
War Hawks
Southern Federalists
The picture represents:
The British capture of Washington DC
General Jackson's victory in New Orleans
William Henry Harrison's victory and burning of Prophet's Town
The American capture of Fort Detroit
Which of the following is true (multiple choices)
After the War of 1812, the Federalist Party faded away once and for all
After the War of 1812, America surged with national pride
The Embargo Act of 1807 was an effective way of avoiding war with Great Britain or France
The Age of Jefferson ended the Age of Jackson
The controversy over the rechartering of the Bank of the United States was:
Democrats (mostly southern and westerners) believed the Bank favored the wealthy over the poor and working class
National Republicans (mostly easterners and northerners) believed the Bank favored the poor and working class over the wealthy
The bank was controlled by the Supreme Court
The Bank did not have the power to produce its own money, which crippled its ability to give loans
States' Rights became a major issue during the:
War of 1812
Nullification Crisis
Election of 1824
Embargo of 1807
Zachary Taylor provoked the Mexican War by:
Invading Mexico City
Capturing Santa Anna in the disputed area
Forcing the Treaty of Guadalupe
A military showdown near the Rio Grande
Who won the Election of 1844 as a "Dark Horse":
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
America gained northern Mexico in the Mexican Cessian and completed manifest destiny for the United States through the:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Embargo Act of 1807
Peace of Paris of 1783
War of 1812
This political cartoon would be from the perspective of ______________(more than one answer) because of the vetoing of the rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States (SBUS).
Democrats
Federalists
National Republicans
Whigs
What did the Monroe Doctrine proclaim?
That Europeans are not to further colonize in the Western Hemisphere.
That the United States had the right to interfere in Latin American affairs
That the United States had the right to interfere in European affairs
That the United States could never be divided into separate countries
Federal organization that provided food, housing and medical aid for former slaves.
Freedmen's Bureau
Wade Davis Bill
scalawags
carpetbaggers
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared that
slaves in U.S. territories were free.
slaves throughout the world were free.
slaves in Confederate (rebelling) states were free.
slaves in Border states were free.
As a response to the Alien and Sedition Act, Jefferson and Madison penned The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. What did the Resolutions state?
stated that individual states do not have to enforce laws that states consider unconstitutional
expressed support for the US Constitution
expressed opposition to the government actions in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion
were written in opposition to the economic policies of Alexander Hamilton
Why did the Wade-Davis bill not go into effect
Lincoln used a pocket veto
Hayes ripped it up
Grant veto'd it
Congress did not pass it
The image here is associated with:
Military districts governed by Union Generals during Reconstruction
The five zones of emergence for rebuilding the south
The Anaconda Plan devised by Winfield Scott
Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan
Which group would be more interested in passing protective tariffs because they raise the cost of European goods and thereby promote American goods.
northern industrialists
southern plantation owners
poor white southerners
poor white northerners
Which of the following, envisioned by Grant after Gettysburg and employed by Sherman, is the systematic destruction of an entire land—not just an army?
blockade
slash and burn
terminal war
total war
Which political party was more likely to support nullification?
Democrats
Whigs
Republicans
Know-Nothings ("American Party)
After laying siege to this city, and forcing its surrender, Grant took complete control of the Mississippi River
Gettysburg
Antietam
Fort Henry
Vicksburg
