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WorksheetsA Young People's History of the USA Week 4
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which of these was a reason that people were against the war in Mexico?
Because it was an excuse to add slave states.
Because it was an excuse to end slavery.
Because it was necessary to protect Native Americans.
Because they supported the idea of manifest destiny.
Who wrote the poem Civil Disobedience?
Frederick Douglass
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Bacon
Dred Scott
One of the largest slave revolts, perhaps the largest in the U.S., happened in 1811 near what city?
New Orleans, La.
Atlanta, Ga.
Richmond, Va.
Nashville, Tn.
Abraham Lincoln said he entered the Civil War to end slavery.
True
False
What was formed to give people more power in the workplace?
A draft
Contracts
Labor Unions
Political parties
Why were Irish immigrants fleeing to the United States in the 1830s?
For religious freedom
To join the American army
Because of a potato famine
To become farmers in the American west
Eight anarchists were hanged following the ...
The Pullman Strike
Sherman Antitrust Act
Civil War
Haymarket Affair
An economic system in which the government or the people as a whole own the means of production is called ...
Communism
Capitalism
Socialism
Anarchism
Who wrote to a friend, "I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one."
Abraham Lincoln
Nat Turner
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Which of the following rose up in revolt of the US in 1899?
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
