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Worksheets5th Grade End of Year Review #2
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Why did President Lincoln's Reconstruction policy change soon after he started it?
Vice President Johnson was assassinated.
President Lincoln was assassinated.
Congress did not agree with the plan.
Southerners did not agree with the plan.
How did Congress's Reconstruction plan differ from what most Southern whites wanted?
Congress wanted to restrict the rights of African Americans.
Congress did not want the South to rejoin the Union.
Congress didn't want the military to help Southern whites.
Congress wanted to give African Americans more basic rights.
How did the fifteenth amendment change some people's lives?
It ended slavery and freed the slaves in the South.
It gave legal protections to all US citizens.
It made everyone in the U.S. citizens.
It gave African American men the right to vote.
How did the sharecropping system affect African Americans during Reconstruction?
It left them dependent on plantation owners.
It gave them enough money to buy land.
It gave them power over plantation owners.
It allowed them to afford moving to the North.
What was a major accomplishment of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction?
It won the right to vote for African Americans.
It established citizenship for African Americans.
It provided land for most African Americans.
It built schools for some African Americans.
What is one way landowners had an advantage over newly freed slaves during reconstruction?
Landowners could build new churches.
Landowners had access to schools.
Landowners owned their own land.
Landowners could search for missing family members.
Why did groups such as the Ku Klux Klan use violence and intimidation against African Americans?
They wanted to hold onto power in the South.
They wanted to punish people who were moving North.
They wanted Republicans to win elections.
They thought African Americans should vote.
How was segregation different in the South compared to the North?
It did not exist in the South.
It was legal in the South.
It did not exist anywhere in the North.
It was legal in the North.
Which landform shown on the map caused problems for pioneers who were travelling to the West?
Appalachain Mountains
White Mountains
Green Mountains
Rocky Mountains
Which of the following was an environmental impact of Westward Expansion?
Decreased population in Western cities
Increased air and water pollution
Increase wheat crops due to the use of fertilizers
Decreased wheat crops due to soil contamination
The bison population in the West decreased after which of these was built?
factories
houses
railroads
highways
Which of these most helped the development of the West?
Native Americans
factory workers
railroads
highways
Which parts of the country did the transcontinental railroad help connect?
The West and the East
The South to the North
the Midwest to the East
The Northwest to Southeast
Why were many immigrants discriminated against during the time of the western settlement?
The immigrants were not nice to others.
The immigrants did not want jobs.
The Americans already here wanted to know more about them.
The Americans already here distrusted them and feared the new job competition.
Which of the following caused conflict between farmers and cowboys in the west?
They both wanted to use the same land.
Farmers wanted the era of cattle drives to continue.
They competed to control the railroads.
Cowboys wanted to fence in the land with barbed wire.
What was one effect of the US government's relocation of Native Americans onto reservations?
Native Americans welcomed white settlers onto their reservations.
It became hard for Native Americans to get food.
The US government began honoring Native Americans' way of life.
Native Americans enjoyed travelling to many new places.
Which of these spread to some American homes as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
airplanes
streetcars
relativity
telephone
Which person invented the electric light and phonograph?
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Samuel Morse
James Watt
What was one effect immigration had on the American economy during the Industrial Revolution?
It was responsible for farmers moving to cities.
It was responsible for the stock market crash.
It was responsible for the growth of a strong labor force.
It was responsible for jobs moving to countries overseas.
How did the Progressives most likely find out about the crowded tenements and dangerous factories in the early 1900s?
newspapers
television
internet
radio
What is one way in which labor changes during the Progressive Era?
Many child labor laws were enacted.
People began to work longer hours.
More people moved to work on farms.
Many jobs went overseas.
What event led to the US gaining control of Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico?
World War 1
World War II
Spanish American War
Great Depression
Which consumer product changed daily life in America during the 1920s?
radio
television
books
airplanes
What forced many African Americans to move from the South in the Great Migration?
They weren't allowed to live in the South.
There were no longer any jobs in the South.
There was violence and discrimination in the South.
The South had a climate that was too hot.
What is one event that occurred before the beginning of the Great Depression?
People traveled to Harlem to listen to music.
People built shantytowns to live in.
The stock market crashed.
Unemployment rates became very high.
Which New Deal program created by FDR put men to work planting trees and tending parks?
Federal Deposit Insurance Program
Civilian Conservation Corps
Works Progress Adminsitration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Which of these was a lasting impact of the New Deal?
Minimum wage laws were banned in most states.
The government took on a more active role in trying to solve people's problems.
Bank deposits were no longer guaranteed by the government.
The size and importance of the Social Security programs shrunk.
Which event led to the eventual surrender of the Axis Powers in Europe?
D-Day Invasion
Battle of Iwo Jima
Soviet Union Invasion
Hiroshima
What happened during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II?
Japanese Americans were not allowed to serve in the military.
Japanese Americans were forced into prison camps.
Japanese Americans were not allowed to emigrate.
Japanese Americans were made to work in wartime factories.
World War II generated new developments in technology, aviation, and weapons. Which of these developments was created for fighting in World War II?
telephone
airplane
telegraph
jet plane
Which of these was one effect of increased global trade after World War II?
Products became better quality.
Products were often cheaper.
Products were very expensive.
Products were made from bad materials.
The decrease in the price of building homes after World War 2 led to which of the following
The Baby Boom
The Great Depression
World War III
The rapid growth of suburbs
What helped popular culture develop after WW2?
The government paid for it.
Global trade allowed ideas to spread.
Europeans introduced it.
The United States wrote international articles about it.
Which of the following MOST LIKELY helped the service industry grow after World War 2?
Rock n Roll
Better airplanes
cars and highways
radios
Which of these did not help consumerism (buying things) grow after WW2?
Cold War
TV advertisements
Development of new products
Creation of suburbs (small neighborhoods outside of cities)
Which of these was a non violent protest method used during the civil rights movement?
boycotts
riots
looting
bombing
What did the landmark case Brown v. Board of education legally desegregate?
hospitals
schools
grocery stores
trains
Which of the following Civil rights activists believed that rights should be won using any method possible (violence or non-violence?)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
Kanye West
The Korean War and the Vietnam War were similar in some ways. Which of these happened after the Korean War that made it different from the end of the Vietnam War?
South Korea and North Korea were joined together.
Communism did not spread to neighboring countries.
Hundreds of thousands of people became communist.
North Korea and South Korea stayed separate countries.
Why is OPEC important to the United States?
The US must get OPEC's permission before going to war.
The US depends on oil and OPEC controls the world's oil supply.
The US coordinated peacekeeping missions with OPEC.
The US must protect OPEC against communism.
Which parts of the world have experienced much war and natural disasters and receive humanitarian aid from the US?
Greenland and Iceland
The United Kingdom and SPain
Antarctica and Italy
Haiti and Darfur
Which of the following is an environmental problem caused by humans?
The extinction of dinosaurs
Volcanic eruptions
Air pollution
Immigration of Europeans to America
Which term is used to describe the potentially harmful increase in Earth's base temperature?
Global Warming
Warming of the World
Solar Radiation
World Heating
What is one way new technology has changed daily life for Americans since the 1990s?
Most Americans now listen to the radio.
Most Americans now watch television.
Many Americans now own VCRs.
Many Americans now own personal computers.
Which of these is an example of American culture that has spread to other nations?
Tacos
German Chocolate Cake
Chinese Checkers
Hamburgers
Which is a country the US invaded as part of the war on terrorism?
Turkey
Iraq
Kurdistan
Syria
Who was the leader of Al Qaeda that planned the attacks on September 11?
Saddam Hussein
Osama bin Laden
Adolph HItler
Joseph Stalin
During the 1920s, African American culture began to grow popular in society. What was this time period where they became artists, musicians, and poets called?
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Music Fest
The Roaring Renaissance
The Jazz Time
During the 1930s in the Great Plains, there was a huge dust storm called the Dust Bowl. What was one reason that this happened?
Homesteaders cut down the trees whose roots held the dust and dirt down.
Homesteaders planted forests all over the Great Plains area.
Cattle drives caused the dirt to be unable to settle after cowboys brought their animals through.
The big population of people on the Great Plains caused a famine to occur.
African Americans moved in large quantities from the south to the North between 1917 and 1970. This event is called what?
The Exoduster Move
The Great Migration
The Kansas Trail
The Jazz Age
