WorksheetsEnd of Year Benchmark Review 1
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 10mins
During the Industrial Revolution, what were working conditions like?
Great pay
Lots of breaks
Safe conditions
Long hours
Why did so many families sent their children to work during the Industrial Revolution?
To punish the kids
Children could make more money than the parents
They were VERY POOR!
They did not care about education
Andrew Jackson believed in Manifest Destiny so much that he caused this event:
Assimilation
The Declaration of Independence
The Trail of Tears (Cherokee Removal)
The Holocaust
How did the Louisiana Purchase change the U.S.?
We doubled in size overnight.
We got California.
It led to better relationships with the Natives.
We stole it from France.
How did Lewis and Clark help future settlers to the West?
They mapped their route
They met Pocahontas
They claimed California for the United States
They found lots of gold
President Andrew Jackson is know as the champion of the common man, why?
He lowered the voting age
He stopped taxes
For the first time, ALL white men could vote (even poor men)
He rewrote the Constitution
Before Andrew Jackson only these people could vote (there is more than one answer):
White
Owned property
Men
Women
How did the War of 1812 affect the United States?
It gave us the Louisiana Purchase
It showed that we were willing to fight to keep our freedom
We defeated Spain once and for all
We lost and had to be a British colony again
What song came out of the War of 1812?
The Star Spangled Banner
America the Beautiful
We Wish you a Merry Christmas
Oh Canada
What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief that all people are created equal
A railroad company slogan
When Natives tried to live like white Americans
The belief that God wanted white people to go west
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A time when we fought for our freedoms
A time when the Natives gained more territory
A time when factories and technology changed America
A time when children's education was really valued
Why did Dred Scott think he might be granted his freedom under law?
Dred Scott was born free.
His long term residence in a free state.
President Lincoln had made slavery illegal in the entire United States.
Dred Scott was a white man.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Laws that restricted African Americans rights in the South.
Laws that restricted African Americans rights in the North.
Amendments added to the Constitution.
If you are named Jim, you can't vote.
