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US HIST A Finals Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which innovation led to the development of time zones?

a)

railroads

b)

steamboats

c)

communication

d)

cannals

2.

Why was the development of steamboats important?

a)

The steamboat eliminated the use of canals.

b)

The steamboat made upstream travel easier.

c)

The steamboat made downstream travel easier.

d)

The steamboast made communication easier.

3.

What was the outcome of the Corrupt Bargain?

a)

Andrew Jackson became president.

b)

John Quincy Adams became president.

c)

Henry Clay became president.

d)

James Monroe became president.

4.

It is 1828. James supports the supremacy of Congress over the presidency and favors a program of modernization and economic protectionism. To which political party does James most likely belong?

a)

Republican

b)

Federalists

c)

Whigs

d)

Democratic

5.

This document states that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to European colonization.

a)

The Roosevelt Corollary

b)

The Manifest Destiny

c)

The Proclamation of 1763

d)

The Monroe Doctrine

6.

If you had lived during the 1860 US presidential election, which would have been the only state you would have been able to vote for Abraham Lincoln in?

a)

New York

b)

Georgia

c)

South Carolina

d)

Alabama

7.

You live in a border state and are trying to decide which side of the Civil War to join. What are two options you notice in your comparison?

a)

The southern army paid better, but the northern army ate better.

b)

Both armies consistent mostly of white male farmers, but the southern army paid more.

c)

The soldiers had very different diets and the northern army paid more.

d)

The southern army paid better, but the northern army ate better.

8.

Which issue continued to be the most divisive one in the United States during the middle 1800s?

a)

presidential succession

b)

westward expansion

c)

global conquest of other countries

d)

slavery

9.

What was the outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

both proslavery and antislavery settlers went to the Kansas territory, with this different perspective, violence erupted - Bleeding Kansas.

b)

both proslavery and antislavery settlers went to the Kansas territory and lived in harmony.

c)

only proslavery settlers flooded into the Kansas territory, with this similar perspective, violence erupted - Bleeding Kansas.

d)

both proslavery and antislavery settlers went to the Kansas territory and paved way for the admission of Maine to the Union.

10.

If you had been a wealthy landowner from the South during President Johnson’s administration, which of the following would he have wanted you to do?

a)

Contribute 10% of your wealth to the United States.

b)

Gain a presidential pardon.

c)

Appear before Congress to regain citizenship.

d)

Admit that you were a war criminal.

11.

Why was the Panama Canal important to the US?

a)

for the expansion of domination

b)

for both trade and military purposes

c)

for international police power

d)

for military intervention

12.

Who would you be working for if you were providing relief and education for the freed and poor people of the South?

a)

Democratic Reconstructionists

b)

Radical Republicans

c)

Congress

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

13.

This Amendment guaranteed US citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and granted them federal civil rights.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

14.

This Amendment abolished slavery all throughout the US territory.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

15.

This group of people was believed to have gone to the South with the goal of purchasing land, leasing plantations, or partnering with destitute planters in the hopes of making money.

a)

Scalawags

b)

Southerners

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Northerners

16.

He was the chief of the Lakota Sioux during much of the Great Sioux War.

a)

John Ross

b)

Black Coyote

c)

Fort Laramie

d)

Sitting Bull

17.

Which one was NOT a consequence of the western settlement?

a)

Ku Klux Klan

b)

Ranching

c)

Barbed Wire

d)

Dawes Act of 1887

18.

James owns an oil company and decides to buy all the oil companies that exist within a given region. What type of business structure is James using?

a)

Up-Down approach

b)

Horizontal Approach

c)

Vertical Approach

d)

Carnegie Approach

19.

What was established in Chicago to provide Kindergardten and day care facilities for children of working mothers?

a)

Jane Addams Institute

b)

Social Gospel

c)

The Hull House

d)

The Settlement House

20.

Which Amendment established that senators would be directly elected?

a)

16th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

21.

Which Amendment granted women suffrage?

a)

16th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

22.

Which Amendment prohibited "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors"?

a)

16th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

23.

To which concept is the American Imperialism partly based on?

a)

exceptionalism

b)

inclusion

c)

big stick policy

d)

moral diplomacy

24.

This system states that support would only be given to countries whose moral beliefs are parallel to that of the US.

a)

Dollar Diplomacy

b)

Big Stick Policy

c)

Roosevelt Corollary

d)

Moral Diplomacy

25.

This system "substitutes dollars for bullets" to secure markets and opportunities for American businessmen.

a)

Big Stick Policy

b)

Dollar Diplomacy

c)

Roosevelt Corollary

d)

Moral Diplomacy