WorksheetsUS History -December Final - Part I -
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 2hrs 15mins
The Sons of Liberty were:
the children of our Founding Fathers.
loyalists to England
patriots who protested taxes.
the writers of the Declaration of the Independence.
Signed a contract to work for 6-10 years in exchange for transport to the New World, food, housing, and clothing.
Slave
Indentured Servant
Both
The enslaved in North America mostly came from which continent?
South America
Europe
Asia
Africa
What act divided up Indian reservations into individual plots of land?
Hayes Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Bland-Allison Act
Dawes Act
The French and Indian War led to...
Spanish control of Florida and the Caribbean.
The Slave Trade
French control of the Ohio River Valley
Britain raising taxes on the 13 colonies
Patriots from the American Revolution argued: "No ________ without representation"
voting
taxation
rights
liberty poles
Who led the government expedition to take the Black Hills from the Sioux?
Colonel George Armstrong Custer
General Robert E. Lee
Gereral John F. Reynolds
Colonel Robert Rushbrooke
Who won the American Revolution?
The British
The American Colonists
Bacon's Rebellion revealed that there was _____ in which the poor and the rich in the colonies were at odds with each other.
Class Conflict
Racism
Slavery
Who was the first victim of the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks
George Washington
Paul Revere
Nathan Hale
Abigail Adams, as portrayed in the HBO miniseries 'Adams' was...
a shrewd (intelligent) advisor
uninformed and disinterested in politics
unable to read or write
harsh and unsupportive
In the film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the Sioux are pushed to do all of the following except:
Convert to Christianity
Become farmers
hunt buffalo into extinction
Dress and behave like whites
What group used violence and threats to enforce these boycotts against British taxes?
Imperial Policy
Sons of Liberty
Massachusetts Militia
Second Continental Congress
How do natural rights, as described in the Declaration of Independence, differ from other rights?
People are born with natural rights.
People can vote to choose natural rights
Natural rights are given only to citizens.
Natural rights come from the government.
The Declaration of Independence was a list of the colonists' ______________.
Preamble
Natural Rights
Grievances
Resolution of Independence
What was the compromise in the constitution that permitted slavery?
The 3/5 Compromise
The Virginia Plan
The New Jersey Plan
The Connecticut Compromise
Separation of two or more races based on skin color
segregation
racism
oppression
facism
What happened as a result of this boycott?
Back Americans got equal rights.
Segregation on public transport was ruled to be unconstitutional.
Nothing happened, buses remained segregated.
Black Americans were never allowed on buses again.
What kept black southerns from voting in 1965?
Poll taxes
Literacy tests
The risk of being fired or physically harmed
All of the above
What law gave long denied political power to African Americans thanks to: Emilia Boynton, John Lewis, James Meredith, Bloody Sunday, the Selma March, and Freedom Summer?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Was originally a theater character, but became a term to describe segregation laws.
Jim Sparrow
Jack Sparrow
Jack Crow
Jim Crow
First African American Supreme Court judge. He was the attorney for Linda Brown with Brown vs. the Board of Education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
What decision did Emmett's mother make that impacted the Civil Rights movement?
Spoke out on the news
Testified in court
Had an open casket funeral
Marched in Mississippi
Killed on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony outside his hotel room at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee after trying to help black sanitation workers receive better working conditions
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert Kennedy
Medgar Evers
What item did Black churches across the country donate to the Montgomery's bus boycotters?
Jackets
Pants
Hats
Shoes
