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History Semester 2 Exam

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the second President of the United

a)

Charles Pinckney

b)

Aaron Burr

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

John Adams

2.

Who is the nation's first vice president?

a)

Ben Franklin

b)

John Adams

c)

George Washington

d)

Samuel Adams

3.

Which barred French and British warships from American ports?

a)

Treaty of Britain

b)

Proclamation of neutrality

c)

Treaty of Paris

d)

Declaration of war

4.

What did George Washington consider a grave danger to the new nation?

a)

National taxes

b)

Settlers moving West

c)

Growth of political parties

d)

France's influence

5.

Which party feared that a strong central government would endanger people's liberties?

a)

Republican

b)

Democratic

c)

Federalists

d)

Anti-Federalists

6.

Who had John Adams name to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Aaron Burr

c)

George Washington

d)

John Marshall

7.

The great leader Tecumseh was killed in the

a)

Battle of the Thames

b)

Battle of Tippecanoe

c)

Battle of Toronto

d)

Francis Scott Key

8.

Star Spangled Banner was written by

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

George Washington

d)

Francis Scott Key

9.

Regional courts were set up for the United States with the

a)

Marshall Supreme Court

b)

Judiciary Act of 1801

c)

Midnight Judges

d)

Marbury versus Madison Case

10.

The size of the United States was doubled with

a)

The expedition of Lewis and Clark

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Zebulon Pike's Expedition

d)

The adoption of New Orleans

11.

In what area did many new industrial towns develop?

a)

Along mountain ranges

b)

Near other large towns

c)

Along rivers and streams

d)

Near oceans and Bays

12.

Which of the following called for a stop to European colonization of the Americas?

a)

Bush bagot treaty

b)

Monroe Doctrine

c)

Adams Onis Treaty

d)

Convention of 1818

13.

What was the significant development in the way goods were made?

a)

Development of Mills

b)

Factory system

c)

Economic factors

d)

Wealthy merchants Association

14.

What helped increase cotton production?

a)

Steam generator

b)

Factory system

c)

Cotton mill

d)

Cotton gin

15.

Which road connected Ohio with the east?

a)

Vandalia Road

b)

East West Road

c)

National Road

d)

Ohio road

16.

The only Americans allowed to vote in 1824 and 1828 were

a)

White women

b)

White men and women

c)

White men who own land

d)

White men

17.

Which symbol did the Whigs adopt for themselves during the

a)

A donkey

b)

A log cabin

c)

An elephant

d)

A bank

18.

Two months after President Martin van Buren took office, the United States entered in

a)

The prosperity era

b)

A light recession

c)

An international profit trade era

d)

Severe depression

19.

Andrew Jackson's supporters replaced caucuses with

a)

Nominating conventions

b)

Selection meetings

c)

State conventions

d)

Delegate conventions

20.

Who were the only Native Americans who successfully resisted their removal?

a)

Fox

b)

Seminole

c)

Cherokee

d)

Sauk

21.

Which president refused Texas has request for annexation?

a)

James Polk

b)

Henry Clay

c)

Sam Houston

d)

Andrew Jackson

22.

What was one of Joseph Smith's basic beliefs?

a)

Mormon should leave Illinois

b)

President Polk treated Mexico unfairly

c)

Property should be held in common

d)

California should have become a state

23.

Who was one of the first Americans to settle in Texas?

a)

William Travis

b)

Stephen Austin

c)

Jim Bowie

d)

Davy Crockett

24.

Discoveries made in California more than doubled the world's supply of which item?

a)

Oil

b)

Gold

c)

Water

d)

Farmland

25.

What was the largest single migration in American history?

a)

Trailers to Mexico

b)

Mormons to Utah

c)

Mountain into Oregon

d)

49ers to California

26.

What did John Deere invent in 1837?

a)

Telegraph

b)

Steel-tipped plow

c)

Clipper ships

d)

Morse code

27.

Which South Carolina Merchant opened a textile Factory?

a)

William Gregg

b)

Eyre Crowe

c)

Joseph Reid Anderson

d)

Eli Whitney

28.

What were people called who were opposed to immigration?

a)

Yeoman

b)

Nativists

c)

Overseers

d)

Anti aliens

29.

By 1860 the United States had almost 31,000

a)

Clipper ships

b)

Miles of railroad tracks

c)

Miles of telegraph lines

d)

Canal's

30.

The network of safe houses that assisted runaway enslaved people was known as

a)

The secret passage

b)

The slave code

c)

The Runaway homes

d)

The Underground Railroad

31.

Which abolitionist was shot and killed by angry whites while escaping his burning newspaper office?

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

David Walker

c)

Elijah Lovejoy

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

32.

Founded by Mary Lyon, Mount Holyoke was a school for

a)

Astronomers

b)

Ministers

c)

Women

d)

Lawyers

33.

Who opened Hartford School for the Deaf in Connecticut in 1817?

a)

Thomas Gallaudet

b)

Samuel Gridley Howe

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

Horace Mann

34.

Which was the first state to allow women to divorce their husbands if their husband had an alcohol problem?

a)

Mississippi

b)

New York

c)

Indiana

d)

California

35.

Who helped to organize the Seneca Falls Convention?

a)

Susan B Anthony

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c)

Amelia Jenks Bloomer

d)

Mary Lyon

36.

Which was the first state to vote to secede from the Union?

a)

South Carolina

b)

Missouri

c)

Georgia

d)

Maryland

37.

Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

a)

Lincoln Douglas debates

b)

Lincoln inauguration

c)

Attack on Fort Sumter

d)

Secession of South Carolina

38.

Which party did the anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats, and free-soilers join together to form?

a)

Republican Party

b)

Abolitionist party

c)

Anti-slavery party

d)

Northern party

39.

What approach did Senator Stephen A Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?

a)

Gadsden purchase

b)

Popular sovereignty

c)

Free Soil

d)

Texas Maine Act

40.

Which term refers to pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote?

a)

Border patrollers

b)

Lowans

c)

Missourians

d)

Border Ruffians

41.

Who was the Union general who captured Fort Henry?

a)

David Farragut

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

George B. McClellan

42.

Confederate leaders hoped that a victory in union territory would win support from?

a)

Spain and Britain

b)

Spain and Germany

c)

Britain and France

d)

France and Spain

43.

From where did most Confederate and Union Soldiers come from?

a)

The Far West

b)

Farms

c)

Cities

d)

Coastal areas

44.

Which was the most vital border state for the Union?

a)

Maryland

b)

Kentucky

c)

Missouri

d)

Delaware

45.

General Grant let it 47-day Siege against which city?

a)

Vicksburg, Mississippi

b)

Fort Hudson, Louisiana

c)

Mobile, Alabama

d)

Atlanta, Georgia

46.

Which Southern State immediately ratified the Fourteenth Amendment?

a)

Maryland

b)

North Carolina

c)

Tennessee

d)

Kentucky

47.

Who was the only Southern Senator to support the union during the Civil War?

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

John C Calhoun

d)

Daniel Webster

48.

Which type of society did Jim Crow laws enforce?

a)

Segregated

b)

Poor

c)

Affluent

d)

Integrated

49.

To keep poor people and African Americans from voting, many Southern States enforced

a)

Jim Crow laws

b)

Poll taxes

c)

Reconstruction taxes

d)

Property taxes

50.

Northerners who moved to the South and supported the Republicans were called

a)

Carpetbaggers

b)

Republican scalawags

c)

Sharecroppers

d)

Freedman