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WorksheetsFINAL EXAM: American History Semester 1
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 56mins
Which three Amendments were drafted to ensure equality for the slaves?
17th,18th,19th
13th,14th,15th
13th,14th,16th
8th,9th,10th
What was the primary economic activity of the Southern Colonies?
Fur trading
Shipbuilding
agriculture
commerce
What was the importance of Ellis Island?
Where prisoners were transported to when the spoke out negatively against the government
Site of one of the battles of the Civil War
Chief immigration center for European immigrants
Primary location of Radical Republicans during Reconstruction
Which Amendment granted African-American men the right to vote?
13th
14th
15th
16th
The Raid on Harpers Ferry in Virginia was carried out by which extreme abolitionist?
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
John Brown
Which of the following is considered the first shots of the Civil War?
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Atlanta
Fort Sumter
Valley Forge
California was admitted as a free state as part of what Compromise?
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Great Compromise
Compromise of 1877
The Middle Passage is the name given to the voyage that brought what to America?
Rum
Slaves
Guns
Manufactured Goods
What event led to the immediate secession of South Carolina?
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
The Dred Scott case
The Election of 1860
The Compromise of 1850
____________________________ created a monopoly in the oil industry using horizontal integration methods.
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
William T. Sherman
This was the single day bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Vicksburg
Which of the following Civil War Battles is being described?
-Turning Point of the war
-3 day battle
-Confederacy could no longer attack
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Bull Run
After the British won the French and Indian War, King George would not allow the colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains. This was called the:
Stamp Act
Proclamation of 1763
Intolerable Acts
Declaration of Independence
The Erie Canal would change everything by linking the _____ to the whole of middle America.
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi RIver
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
This city was the epicenter of protests prior to the start of the Revolutionary War.
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Those who still sided with the King and British were called:
Loyalists
Patriots
Traitors
Rebels
Following the Revolutionary War, what was the United States' #1 problem?
Loyalists causing disruptions
Native American attacks
Overwhelming national debt
Too many babies
What did Thomas Jefferson buy that doubled the size of the United States instantly?
Louisiana Purchase
Napoleon's State
Northwest Territory
The invention of the cotton gin increased southern dependence on:
slave labor
railroad transportation
northern cooperation
Cotton and Gin
Which of the following was not an advantage for the South at the start of the Civil War?
More industry
Will to fight
Defensive strategy
Better generals
Lincoln issued this statement during the Civil War which freed slaves in the South - making the war about freedom, and not just preserving the Union.
Emancipation Proclamation
Compromise of 1850
Gettysburg Address
Dred Scott Decision
This was when a Northern General marched from Atlanta, across Georgia, burning everything in his path to show the South how terrible the war was.
Sherman's March
Selma's March
March of Washington
This Amendment banned slavery forever.
13th Amendment
26th Amendment
8th Amendment
2nd Amendment
This group was created to help provide food, clothing and education to freed slaves following the Civil War.
Freedman's Bureau
Freedom's Union
Emancipator's Association
This group formed to terrorize, intimidate and strike fear into the hearts of anyone who supported equality for African Americans during Reconstruction.
Ku Klux Klan
Wu Tang Clan
Techno Union Clan
Vicroy Clan
When a corporation controls an entire market or industry, they have a _______.
Cartel
Conglomerate
Monopoly
Business
During the late 1800s, workers were upset with low wages and dangerous working conditions, so they formed these to collectively bargain with big corporations.
Labor Unions
American Federations
Guilds
Clans
Which of the following groups was often used to repair large industrial machines in factories?
Women
Robots
Children
Immigrants
Which resource primarily drew pioneers to California?
Wheat
Gold
Corn
Copper
I. Many Americans went westward believing in Manifest Destiny, the idea that-
All Americans had an equal chance making a fortune out west
The United States was destined by God to expand westward
That all who immigrated to the US should be treated equally
That Native Americans could be peacefully assimilated
Which Country sold the Louisiana Territory?
The United States of America
England
France
Spain
California Gold Rush
The influx of gold from foreign countries in order to create new currency within the United states
Attack on the Native American tribes who's land in California was rich in gold deposits. The fights between miners and Natives lead to stricter laws forcing the tribes onto reservations
Purchase of California from the Mexicans in an attempt to increase the overall territory of the United States. After the an influx of people it started to be called the gold state causing more people to head to California.
Mass migration to California after gold was discovered in 1848. The Gold Rush undoubtedly sped up California’s admission to the Union as the 31st state, as the population had increased from 800 to 100,000 in less than two years.
This opened up the American West to more rapid development. With the completion of this, the travel time for making the 3,000-mile journey across the United States was cut from a matter of months to under a week.
Steam engine
Telegraph
Transcontinental Railroad
Highway system
Famous American inventor who is credited with inventing the phonograph, microphone, incandescent light bulb, and many others.
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
John D. Rockefeller
What is the term for the government's "hands-off" approach to the economy during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age?
socialism
laissez-faire
tariff
philanthropy
What invention slowed down the cattle drives?
Airplanes
Barbed Wire
XBox
Gold
What invention allowed buildings to be built above 5 stories?
Elevator
Stairs
Steel
Superman
The purpose of the Stamp Act was to tax...
playing cards.
legal documents.
newspapers.
All of the above
The primary purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to...
create a new framework of government.
list colonial complaints against King George III.
declare colonial independence from Great Britain.
celebrate the Fourth of July.
Who were the Patriots?
Colonists who wanted to stay part of the British Empire
A dominating NFL football team that has racked up 6 super bowl championships since 2000.
Colonists who wanted to be independent from the British Empire
Colonists who wanted to move to Great Britain
Why did the British tax the colonies so heavily after the French and Indian War?
To get extra tea and sugar
To force the Patriots to surrender
To create anger in the colonies
To pay off war debt
Who was the monarch in charge of Great Britain during the Revolutionary War?
King George III
King Charles X
King Henry IV
King James I
What battle was the turning point of the Revolutionary War?
Yorktown
Gettysburg
Saratoga
Lexington/Concord
Who was the leader of the Continental Army?
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
General Cornwallis
Thomas Jefferson
This was the first armed conflict of the Revolutionary War; known as “shot heard round the world.”
Trenton
Lexington and Concord
Yorktown
Saratoga
Bunker Hill
Prussian officer who helped to train the Patriot troops at Valley Forge:
Lord Dunmore
Thomas Paine
Friedrich von Steuben
Marquis de Lafayette
Charles Cornwallis
What country agreed to help the Colonial Army after the battle of Saratoga during the American Revolution?
Britain
Canada
Spain
France
Who was the President during the Civil War?
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
John F. Kennedy
Andrew Johnson
The main cause of the Civil War was
the North did not want to be associated with poor southern states
Lincoln's assassination by a Southerner
taxation without representation
the disagreement over slavery
Who won the Civil War?
The North -- Union
The South -- Confederacy
The Redcoats
The Continental Congress
General Sherman's March to the Sea is best described as an example of...
Marching
Apriling
Total War
Mostly War
What is the name of the territory shown on the map?
Oregon
Original 13 Colonies
Louisiana
The area shown on the map was acquired from __________.
Spain
Britain
France
How long did it take to travel the Oregon Trail?
2 years
3 months
1-4 weeks
6-8 months
What were 2 advances in communication during the period of the second industrial revolution?
the television and the text
the intercom and internet
the telegraph and the telephone
the Pony Express and word of mouth
During Reconstruction, these workers were given food, clothing, and medicine on credit. They had to share a portion of their harvest with the landowner but were provided land, a home, and fertilizer by the landowner
slaves
carpetbaggers
scalawags
sharecroppers
Who became president after Lincoln's assassination?
U.S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Most Native Americans ended up being forced to live:
In Reservations
In Major Cities
In the Pacific Northwest
In Mississippi River Cities
What does "Gilded" mean when we talk about the Gilded Age that Mark Twain termed?
Nice on the outside, ugly on the inside
Ugly on the outside, nice on the inside
All talk, no action
What goes around, comes around
This enslaved person sued for his freedom after having lived in a free state. The courts ruled he was property.
Roger B. Taney
Dred Scott
Stephen Douglass
John Brown
Stephen Douglas
What is the purpose for Frederick Douglass's writing his slave narrative?
To share his experience as a slave in hopes to bring changes for the lives of the slaves.
To show off that he is a man.
He just wants to write for pleasure.
None of the above
What was the Underground Railroad?
A train that took people to freedom.
A magical train that took kids to the North Pole.
A group of people who helped slaves escape to freedom.
A home where Harriet Tubman grew up.
This is where the Continental Army barely survived a harsh winter. It was here that they became a strong fighting force as they were trained properly and turned into a true Army.
Valley Forge
Saratoga
Yorktown
Bunker Hill
Which battle ended the Revolutionary war. The American and French surrounded them and Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington?
Yorktown
Saratoga
Trenton
Bunker Hill
The Olive Branch Petition was written by the Colonists to Great Britain for what?
Make a Declaration of Total War with England
Ask for more time to pay debt to England
A last attempt at peace with the mother country England before going declaring independence.
Proposed attempt for peace with Native Americans and the French prior to the French and Indian War.
More factories, more railroads, more soldiers, and a better navy were all ______________ during the Civil War.
Confederate advantages
Union advantages
reasons for a Confederate victory
causes of the Battle of Gettysburg
Northerners who migrated to the mostly destroyed post-war south to make large profits and/or help freedmen after the Civil War were known as
Scalawags
Ku Klux Klan
Carpetbaggers
Sharecroppers
Small poorly trained army
British army
Continental army
No navy
British army
Continental army
Long delays in getting supplies
British army
Continental army
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
The commanding general of the Union army was
Ulysses Grant
Robert E. Lee
William Sherman
John Wilkes Booth
