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Review- Prior to 1877

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the desire for change in Christianity and resulted in a split of the Catholic church?

a)

Protestant

b)

Enlightenment

c)

Reformation

d)

Market revolution

2.

Who opened up trade from Europe, Africa, and the Americas?

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

George Washington

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

Andrew Jackson

3.

The global transfer of goods between Europe & Asia, Africa and the Americas.

a)

Triangular trade

b)

Colombian Exchange

c)

Market revolution

d)

Lowell Textile Mills

4.

These ideas challenged religious beliefs and lead to the foundations of the US government.

a)

Reformation

b)

Protestant

c)

Enlightenment

d)

Catholicism

5.

The process of goods and enslaved people were exchanged across the Atlantic Ocean.

a)

Colombian Exchange

b)

Triangular Trade

c)

The Colonies

d)

Market Revolution

6.

This group is known for - port cities and wheat/corn

a)

northern colonies

b)

middle colonies

c)

southern colonies

7.

The Sugar, Stamp, and Tea Acts were examples of

a)

market revolution

b)

taxation

c)

declaring war

8.

This group is known for cash crops like tobacco, rice and cotton which relied heavily on slaves

a)

northern colonies

b)

middle colonies

c)

southern colonies

9.

"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" to be unalienable rights that can't be taken away from the government. Written by Thomas Jefferson

a)

The Articles of Confederation

b)

The Constitution

c)

The Declaration of Independence

d)

Federalism

10.

This group is known for a large population, large cities and industries.

a)

northern colonies

b)

middle colonies

c)

southern colonies

11.

1st Government-- too weak!

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

Constitution of the United States

c)

Articles of Confederation

12.

This prevents any one branch of the government to become to powerful.

a)

popular sovereignty

b)

checks and balance

c)

amendments

d)

taxation

13.

Congress makes the laws and is what branch?

a)

executive

b)

legislative

c)

judicial

14.

This is one of our first political parties which wanted a strong central government, led by Alexander Hamilton.

a)

Federalist

b)

Democratic-Republican

c)

Whigs

d)

Free Soil Party

15.

This party was led by Jefferson and wanted strong state governments but a strict interpretation of the Constitution.

a)

Federalist

b)

Democratic - Republicans

c)

Whigs

d)

Jeffersonian Republicanism

16.

A nationalist policy on foreign affairs

a)

Jeffersonian Republicanism

b)

Monroe Doctrine

c)

Jacksonian Democracy

d)

Democratic Republicans

17.

This president came up with the spoil system, which put his friends and supporters into the government administration.

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

John Adams

d)

Andrew Jackson

18.

Which president believed that people should control the government and it should be simple and serve the needs of its people?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

James Madison

d)

James Monroe

19.

This resulted into two states entering the US; one free, one slave and a dividing line of the 36 degree latitude line.

a)

The compromise of 1850

b)

Missouri compromise

c)

Nebraska-Kansas act

d)

popular sovereignty

20.

The nations economy driven by technological advances and industries.

a)

Erie Canal

b)

Lowell Textile Mills

c)

market revolution

d)

sectionalism

21.

Aided with the market economy but changed American culture and family life by hiring women and children.

a)

Erie Canal

b)

Lowell Textile mills

c)

Underground Railroad

d)

Tobacco plantations

22.

Did not free slaves but stated that slavery was no longer a compromise!

a)

The Gettysburg address

b)

13th amendment

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

15th amendment

23.

16th president, born into poverty, self-educated and became a lawyer. He became known through a series of political debates.

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Robert E Lee

d)

Abraham Lincoln

24.

This amendment ended slavery.

a)

12th

b)

13th

c)

14th

d)

15th

25.

This speech helped unite the country during the worst of times.

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

The Gettysburg Address

c)

Reconcilation

d)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

26.

This amendment allowed for male African Americans to vote.

a)

12th

b)

13th

c)

14th

d)

15th

27.

The right to vote for or against slavery.

a)

secession

b)

sectionalism

c)

popular sovereignty

d)

confederacy

28.

Who was Dred Scott?

a)

President of the Confederacy

b)

Famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad

c)

Slave sued for his rights to be freed

d)

14th president

29.

Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Jefferson Davis

30.

Who was President during the Civil War for the Union?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Franklin Pierce

d)

Andrew Jackson

31.

What was NOT a feature of the Compromise of 1850?

a)

California entered as a free state.

b)

Strengthened fugitive slave laws.

c)

Missouri entered as a slave state.

d)

Called for popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah.

32.

How did people take action against slavery?

a)

violence

b)

helping slaves escape

c)

showed slavery's horrors to bring awareness

d)

all the above

33.

What political party was born out of the slavery issue?

a)

Whig Party

b)

Free Soil Party

c)

Know - Nothing Party

d)

Republican Party

34.

What led to the Southern states seceding from the United States?

a)

lack of political power

b)

slave rebellions

c)

the Compromise of 1850

d)

the Douglas-Lincoln debates

35.

Who was Dred Scott?

a)

famous conductor of the Underground Railroad

b)

author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

c)

President of the Confederacy

d)

slave who sued for his freedom

36.

What is conscription?

a)

civilians that became nurses during the war

b)

drafting of civilians to serve in the army

c)

an individuals income

d)

states leaving the country to form their own

37.

Which advantage was NOT one for the North/Union during the war?

a)

more people

b)

more food production

c)

better railroads

d)

better generals

38.

The Emancipation Proclamation did all the following except

a)

add pressure to Lincoln to abolish slavery

b)

ended the war

c)

freeing slaves behind Confederate lines

d)

gave the war a moral purpose

39.

Which one describes the South's economy during the war?

a)

growing due to factories producing war supplies

b)

Workers went on strike due to low wages

c)

Taxes on individual's earned income

d)

lack of agriculture and sales production

40.

What event was the turning point to the Civil War?

a)

The Gettysburg Address

b)

The Battle at Gettysburg

c)

Lee and Grant meeting at the Appomattox Court House

d)

The Battle at Bull Run

41.

The Freedmen's Bureau

a)

gave African Americans the right to vote.

b)

provided food and clothing to former slaves.

c)

regulated states re-entering into the United States.

d)

passed an act that said states could not discriminate against African Americans.

42.

Congress passed a law saying states couldn't enact laws that discriminated against African Americans called

a)

Reconstruction Act 1867

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

Civil Rights Act 1866

d)

14th Amendment

43.

The era of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War is called

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Radical

c)

Republican Era

d)

The reconstruction acts

44.

What is the system in which landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops?

a)

scalawag

b)

sharecropping

c)

carpetbagging

d)

tenant farming

45.

Violence erupts in the South by many not wanting to allow African American rights, one main contributor of this was

a)

the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

b)

Congress passed the Enforcement Acts.

c)

the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President.

d)

The Panic of 1873.