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WorksheetsU.S. Wars 1750-1900
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Who, along with Paul Revere, warned Samuel Adams that the British were coming?
William Dawes
Thomas Gage
John Adams
George Washington
The American people wanted a declaration of war against Spain after the explosion of which warship?
Maine
Luzon
Lusitania
Philadelphia
Which act stated that Parliament did have the right to tax colonists?
Declaratory Act
Townshend Acts
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
What helped Lincoln win the 1864 election?
promotion of Grant
Sherman's capture of Atlanta
Lee's surrender
winning at Gettysburg
Which British practice was a violation of neutral rights?
embargos
impressment
U.S. trading
smuggling
"The Star-Spangled Banner" was written by
Andrew Jackson.
Francis Scott Key.
George Washington.
Thomas Jefferson.
What was the name of the small post that George Washington established in Ohio country?
Fort Albany Union
Fort Duquesne
Fort Monongahela
Fort Necessity
Where was the first major battle of the Civil War?
Bull Run
Antietam
Richmond
Shiloh
Which event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Lincoln inauguration
attack on Fort Sumter
Lincoln-Douglas debates
secession of South Carolina
41. President Lincoln’s address at which battlefield honored soldiers and stated his vision for the country?
Chancellorsville
Shiloh
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America?
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
The man who turned the ragged Continental Army into a more efficient fighting force was
Thaddeus Kosciuszko.
Juan de Miralles.
Friedrich von Steuben.
Casimir Pulaski.
The nation that made an alliance with the revolutionary United States in 1778 was
Canada.
France.
Great Britain.
Spain.
What document marked the end of France as a power in North America?
Treaty of France and Britain
Adams–Onís Treaty
Treaty of the Ohio River Valley
Treaty of Paris
On October 17, 1777, General John Burgoyne surrendered to the Americans at
Saratoga.
Trenton.
Philadelphia.
Concord.
Which act taxed colonists without their consent?
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townshend Acts
Declaratory Act
In 1898, the Congress declared war against Spain due to events that occurred in which country?
Germany
England
Mexico
Cuba
What did President James K. Polk use as grounds for declaring war against Mexico?
a Mexican attack on American forces
annexation of Texas by Mexico
Mexico’s nonpayment of debts
declaration of the border by Mexico
The "Swamp Fox," known for his imaginative war tactics, was
Francis Marion.
Benedict Arnold.
George Washington.
George Rogers Clark.
In which confrontation were more than 200 Lakota Sioux killed?
Sand Creek
Little Bighorn
Wounded Knee
San Carlos
Who led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
Dred Scott
Southern whites who supported Republican policy throughout Reconstruction were sometimes called
freedmen.
scalawags.
Republican hostages.
carpetbaggers.
Northerners who moved to the South and supported the Republicans were called
freedmen.
Republican scalawags.
carpetbaggers.
sharecroppers.
What was one of the main advantages of the South?
excellent military leaders
a larger population
strong industries
belief in states' rights
The British recognized the United States as an independent nation in the
Treaty of America.
Treaty of Paris.
Treaty of the United States.
Treaty of Great Britain.
What happened to the Texan forces at the Alamo?
They declared Texas independent.
They were defeated.
They won a major victory.
They negotiated a truce.
Which foreign troops helped defeat British forces at Yorktown?
African
French
Spanish
German
Which type of law required Confederate men between certain ages to serve in the army for three years?
bounty
habeas corpus
draft
corpus
President Abraham Lincoln was shot at
the White House.
Ford’s Theater.
William Peterson’s house.
Samuel Mudd’s house.
The Ku Klux Klan set out to terrorize
Democratic voters
white voters.
African Americans and Republican voters
the “New South.
For the South, what was the primary aim of the war?
to become the center of U.S. trade and commerce
to become a separate, independent nation
to increase its wealth
to build a strong fighting force
Which battle made Andrew Jackson a national hero and, eventually, helped him win the presidency?
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Lake Erie
Battle of the Thames
Battle of New Orleans
General Grant led a 47-day siege against which city?
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Atlanta, Georgia
Mobile, Alabama
Port Hudson, Louisiana
Which of the following relates to a Supreme Court decision that ruled that the Constitution protected slavery?
Harpers Ferry
Lincoln-Douglas
Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott
Anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen, according to the
black codes.
Fourteenth Amendment.
Civil Rights Act of 1866.
Thirteenth Amendment.
Due to George Washington's strategy, Charles Cornwallis was defeated at the
Battle of New York.
Battle of Chesapeake.
Battle of Boston.
Battle of Yorktown.
Who was the leader of the Lakota Sioux who refused to sell the Black Hills of the Dakotas?
Black Kettle
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Chief Joseph
After winning which battle did the British learn that defeating the Americans would not be easy?
Battle of Boston
Battle of Concord
Battle of Lexington
Battle of Bunker Hill
Who disguised herself as a man so she could fight with the army?
Margaret Corbin
Betsy Ross
Deborah Sampson
Molly Pitcher
Paul Revere’s engraving of which event was an example of propaganda that led to more intense anti-British
feelings among the colonists?
Intolerable Acts
Liberty Affair
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Why did the South suffer most of the destruction during the Civil War?
because of its extensive railroad mileage
because schools and churches were used as hospitals
because most of the fighting took place there
because most battles were fought in Georgia
A merchant ship that is privately owned and armed with weapons is called a
merchant warship.
coastal warship.
privateer.
garrison.
Who was the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence?
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
John Hancock
Who was one of the first Americans to settle in Texas?
Jim Bowie
Stephen Austin
Davy Crockett
William Travis
What was the dramatic act of defiance that some colonists celebrated?
Intolerable Acts
Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts
Boston Massacre
Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Sixteenth Amendment
To keep poor people and African Americans from voting, many Southern states enforced
crop taxes.
poll taxes.
Reconstruction taxes.
Jim Crow laws.
What approach did Senator Stephen A. Douglas propose as an alternative to the Missouri Compromise?
free soil
Fugitive Slave Act
Texas-Maine Act
popular sovereignty
The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was called
Reconstruction.
Civil Rebuilding.
amnesty.
war spoils.
Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant?
Richmond
Appomattox Court House
Vicksburg
Gettysburg Cemetery
