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WorksheetsHistory Semester 2 Exam
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Who was the second President of the United
Charles Pinckney
Aaron Burr
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Who is the nation's first vice president?
Ben Franklin
John Adams
George Washington
Samuel Adams
Which barred French and British warships from American ports?
Treaty of Britain
Proclamation of neutrality
Treaty of Paris
Declaration of war
What did George Washington consider a grave danger to the new nation?
National taxes
Settlers moving West
Growth of political parties
France's influence
Which party feared that a strong central government would endanger people's liberties?
Republican
Democratic
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Who had John Adams name to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
George Washington
John Marshall
The great leader Tecumseh was killed in the
Battle of the Thames
Battle of Tippecanoe
Battle of Toronto
Francis Scott Key
Star Spangled Banner was written by
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
George Washington
Francis Scott Key
Regional courts were set up for the United States with the
Marshall Supreme Court
Judiciary Act of 1801
Midnight Judges
Marbury versus Madison Case
The size of the United States was doubled with
The expedition of Lewis and Clark
Louisiana Purchase
Zebulon Pike's Expedition
The adoption of New Orleans
In what area did many new industrial towns develop?
Along mountain ranges
Near other large towns
Along rivers and streams
Near oceans and Bays
Which of the following called for a stop to European colonization of the Americas?
Bush bagot treaty
Monroe Doctrine
Adams Onis Treaty
Convention of 1818
What was the significant development in the way goods were made?
Development of Mills
Factory system
Economic factors
Wealthy merchants Association
What helped increase cotton production?
Steam generator
Factory system
Cotton mill
Cotton gin
Which road connected Ohio with the east?
Vandalia Road
East West Road
National Road
Ohio road
The only Americans allowed to vote in 1824 and 1828 were
White women
White men and women
White men who own land
White men
Which symbol did the Whigs adopt for themselves during the
A donkey
A log cabin
An elephant
A bank
Two months after President Martin van Buren took office, the United States entered in
The prosperity era
A light recession
An international profit trade era
Severe depression
Andrew Jackson's supporters replaced caucuses with
Nominating conventions
Selection meetings
State conventions
Delegate conventions
Who were the only Native Americans who successfully resisted their removal?
Fox
Seminole
Cherokee
Sauk
Which president refused Texas has request for annexation?
James Polk
Henry Clay
Sam Houston
Andrew Jackson
What was one of Joseph Smith's basic beliefs?
Mormon should leave Illinois
President Polk treated Mexico unfairly
Property should be held in common
California should have become a state
Who was one of the first Americans to settle in Texas?
William Travis
Stephen Austin
Jim Bowie
Davy Crockett
Discoveries made in California more than doubled the world's supply of which item?
Oil
Gold
Water
Farmland
What was the largest single migration in American history?
Trailers to Mexico
Mormons to Utah
Mountain into Oregon
49ers to California
What did John Deere invent in 1837?
Telegraph
Steel-tipped plow
Clipper ships
Morse code
Which South Carolina Merchant opened a textile Factory?
William Gregg
Eyre Crowe
Joseph Reid Anderson
Eli Whitney
What were people called who were opposed to immigration?
Yeoman
Nativists
Overseers
Anti aliens
By 1860 the United States had almost 31,000
Clipper ships
Miles of railroad tracks
Miles of telegraph lines
Canal's
The network of safe houses that assisted runaway enslaved people was known as
The secret passage
The slave code
The Runaway homes
The Underground Railroad
Which abolitionist was shot and killed by angry whites while escaping his burning newspaper office?
William Lloyd Garrison
David Walker
Elijah Lovejoy
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Founded by Mary Lyon, Mount Holyoke was a school for
Astronomers
Ministers
Women
Lawyers
Who opened Hartford School for the Deaf in Connecticut in 1817?
Thomas Gallaudet
Samuel Gridley Howe
Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
Which was the first state to allow women to divorce their husbands if their husband had an alcohol problem?
Mississippi
New York
Indiana
California
Who helped to organize the Seneca Falls Convention?
Susan B Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Mary Lyon
Which was the first state to vote to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Missouri
Georgia
Maryland
Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Lincoln Douglas debates
Lincoln inauguration
Attack on Fort Sumter
Secession of South Carolina
Which party did the anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats, and free-soilers join together to form?
Republican Party
Abolitionist party
Anti-slavery party
Northern party
What approach did Senator Stephen A Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?
Gadsden purchase
Popular sovereignty
Free Soil
Texas Maine Act
Which term refers to pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote?
Border patrollers
Lowans
Missourians
Border Ruffians
Who was the Union general who captured Fort Henry?
David Farragut
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
George B. McClellan
Confederate leaders hoped that a victory in union territory would win support from?
Spain and Britain
Spain and Germany
Britain and France
France and Spain
From where did most Confederate and Union Soldiers come from?
The Far West
Farms
Cities
Coastal areas
Which was the most vital border state for the Union?
Maryland
Kentucky
Missouri
Delaware
General Grant let it 47-day Siege against which city?
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Fort Hudson, Louisiana
Mobile, Alabama
Atlanta, Georgia
Which Southern State immediately ratified the Fourteenth Amendment?
Maryland
North Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Who was the only Southern Senator to support the union during the Civil War?
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Jackson
John C Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Which type of society did Jim Crow laws enforce?
Segregated
Poor
Affluent
Integrated
To keep poor people and African Americans from voting, many Southern States enforced
Jim Crow laws
Poll taxes
Reconstruction taxes
Property taxes
Northerners who moved to the South and supported the Republicans were called
Carpetbaggers
Republican scalawags
Sharecroppers
Freedman
