Worksheets5th Grade SS Review
Total questions: 142
Worksheet time: 2hrs 43mins
Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" dealt with
his idea for instituting an income tax.
how to draft more men into the Union Army.
re-admitting Southern states into the Union.
his quest to reconquer only 10% of the South
Which is the BEST description of the southern economy during Reconstruction?
The southern economy was stabilized because of trade relationships with Great Britain and France.
The southern economy was still based on agriculture and cotton, but now depended on sharecropping rather than slave labor
The southern economy was transformed from being based on agriculture to being completely dependent on industry and manufacturing.
The southern economy was completely restored by 1866 and was actually more productive and profitable than the pre- Civil War economy.
Who would have most likely NOT supported the Freedmen's Bureau?
An abolitionist
a carpetbagger
a former slave owner
a northern business owner
Under the Homestead Act, a person could claim up to _____ acres of public land.
100
160
640
250
Which of the following were requirements under the Homestead Act?
$10 fee was required
you had to plant trees
you had to live on and cultivate the land for 5 years
you had to raise cattle and plant wheat
Immigrants came to Kansas from which of the following (from the video). Select all that apply.
Russia
Germany
Switzerland
England
A tenant farmer cultivates (farms) the land for someone else but only keeps a small portion of the profits.
True
False
The Homestead Act attempted to promote development of western lands by
creating a system of dams for crop migration
removing all restrictions on immigration
placing Native Americans on reservations
providing free land to settlers
What were towns called that grew rapidly when gold was discovered nearby?
Rush towns
Cities of gold
Boomtowns
Golden towns
|A law that gave settlers 160 acres of land for $10
homesteaders
drought
Homestead Act
Proclamation
Long periods of no rain
irrigation
drought
sodbusters
Why was traveling west extremely long and dangerous ?
Because their were no railroads
There were Native American attacks.
Covered wagons and animals moved slow.
All of the above.
What is the Golden Spike?
The last of the iron in the mine.
The first railroad line connecting the East to the West.
The last of the gold in California.
A spiked hair cut.
What was a benefit of the railroad?
The seats were made of leather.
Transportation of people and goods were quicker and cheaper.
They drove backwards.
They went 100 miles an hour.
Did the settlers moving west know that the Native Americans already owned the land?
Yes
No
The "Roaring Twenties" was not a good time for all Americans. For example, _____________________ were not able to afford the new advances in technology that improved standard of living because the boll weevil was destroying their profits.
immigratns
factory workers
sharecroppers
African Americans
In the 1920's, African Americans still faced discrimination in the south because of __________________.
lynchings and slavery
Jim Crow Laws and lynchings
suggrage and lynchings
slavery and Prohibition
Which answer most closely represents what African Americans found in the north during the Great Migration?
no jobs but social equality
better job opportunities but continued discrimination and segregation
worse conditions than they faced in the south
many jobs and much fairer treatment
The main purpose of the women's suffrage movement was to get ___________________________.
voting rights for women
women electred to Congress
people to take inventions by women seriously
women the right to work on farms
What event changed the role of the US and led to us declaring war and sending troops into battle?
attack on Pearl Harbor
Lend-Lease Act
Operation Torch
This was a military tactic used by the US in the Pacific Theatre
Blitzkreig
Island-hopping
Trench warfare
Where was the second theatre of war?
The Atlantic
The Pacific
The Indian
The Artic
Atlanta born Civil Rights activist that believed in non-violent protests.; gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cesar Chavez
Thurgood Marshall
More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freedom Riders
March on Washington
Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.
Mary Washington
Jackie Kennedy
Cesar Chavez
Rosa Parks
Desegregated all public schools. This was a major court case that involved Linda Brown attending an all-black school when an all-white school was closer to her home.
Brown vs. the Board of Education
13th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Jim Crow Laws
First African American Supreme Court judge. He was the attorney for Linda Brown with Brown vs. the Board of Education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
President who was assassinated during a campaign visit in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald for his Civil Rights efforts
Robert Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
15th Amendment
Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.
13th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1964
Separation of two or more races based on skin color
segregation
racism
oppression
facism
Enforced racial segregation in the South; all were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period.
13th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1964
