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History Thus Far

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What 1862 law offered 160 acres of land for a small fee and a requirement someone stays there for 5 years.

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

13th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

2.

Which of these states is found in the Great Plains region?

a)

Virginia

b)

Hawaii

c)

California

d)

Kansas

3.

How did homesteaders adapt to having no wood on the Great Plains for housing?

a)

fishing more

b)

building sod houses

c)

raising Longhorn cattle

d)

assembly line

4.

Which amendment to the Constitution banned slavery in the US?

a)

1st amendment

b)

13th amendment

c)

15th amendment

d)

21st amendment

5.

Which group of people made most laws for Reconstruction?

a)

President Johnson and President Lincoln

b)

Southern Governors

c)

Radical Republicans in Congress

d)

Local Officials

6.

Andrew Carnegie made millions of dollars in what industry?

a)

steel

b)

oil refining

c)

car production

d)

banking

7.

Which of the following words best describes the term urban?

a)

rural

b)

factory

c)

farming

d)

city

8.

A person who moves from one country to another country is a/an _______________.

a)

visitor

b)

immigrant

c)

employee

d)

entrepreneur

9.

Which of the following are the factors of production?

a)

land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship

b)

Schinstock, Haley, Oney, Lopynski

c)

earth, air, fire, water

d)

solid, liquid, gas, aerosol

10.

Cornelius Vanderbilt is most closely associated with which industry?

a)

oil refining

b)

steel

c)

banking

d)

railroad shipping

11.

The period of rebuilding the nation legally, physically and politically after the Civil War was called _________________.

a)

Industrialization

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Expansion

d)

Globalization

12.

From 1860-1890, the US government forcibly moved Native Americans onto ____________________.

a)

sod houses

b)

reservations

c)

churches

d)

Great Plains

13.

Jim Crow Laws were laws that segregated people based on ________________.

a)

gender

b)

religion

c)

race

d)

nationality

14.

Which American city is known as the "Motor City" because the automobile companies like Ford, Chevrolet and Cadillac were located there?

a)

Detroit, Michigan

b)

Chicago, Illinois

c)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

d)

McLean, Virginia

15.

When a nation transitions from mostly hand-made products to machine-made products, the nation is ________________.

a)

regional

b)

industrialized

c)

reconstructed

d)

united