wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

US History Semester Test Review Chapters 5-10

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux, did not sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Best known for his fight & victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

a)

Crazy Horse

b)

Chief Joseph

c)

Geronimo

d)

Chief Sitting Bull

2.

American Inventor & businessman, famous for the following:

Incandescent light bulb & movie camera

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Christopher Sholes

c)

Nikola Tesla

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

3.

Immigration station in New York City harbor from 1892-1954.

a)

Angel Island

b)

Ellis Island

c)

Long Island

d)

Honolulu Island

4.

African American educator, Believed that racism would end once African Americans gained useful labor skills to prove their economic worth to society Founded the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Ida B Wells

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

George Washington Carver

5.

Movement that aimed to return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life from 1900-1920

a)

Assimilation Movement

b)

Progressive Movement

c)

Segregation Movement

d)

Nativism Movement

6.

News that is sensationalized, made up, or made to sound worse than it actually was

a)

Social Gospel journalism

b)

Conservation journalism

c)

Muckraker journalism

d)

Yellow journalism

7.

A plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life, to become a part of white culture.

a)

nativism

b)

imperialism

c)

assimilation

d)

conservationism

8.

Serbian American inventor, engineer, creative genius. Known for inventing Alternating current

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Christopher Sholes

d)

Nikola Tesla

9.

Immigration station in San Francisco, CA. Immigrants entered here and were detained until given permission to enter the US

a)

Angel Island

b)

Ellis Island

c)

Long Island

d)

Pearl Harbor

10.

First African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard in 1895.

a)

Booker T Washington

b)

Ida B Wells

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

George Washington Carver

11.

Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life.

a)

Yellow journalists

b)

Muckraker journalists

c)

Social Gossip journalists

d)

Suffragist journalists

12.

American battleship that was destroyed in the harbor of Havana, Cuba. This prompted the US to declare war on Spain

a)

U.S.S. Arizona

b)

U.S.S Missouri

c)

U.S.S. Alabama

d)

U.S.S. Maine

13.

Lakota Native American who fought against the US military, responsible for the attack at Lodge Trail Ridge (Bozeman Trail)

a)

Sitting Bull

b)

Crazy Horse

c)

Geronimo

d)

Chief Joseph

14.

A train route across the United States, finished in 1869.

a)

Union Pacific RR

b)

Central RR

c)

Transcontinental RR

d)

Central Pacific RR

15.

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

a)

immigrant

b)

emigrant

c)

muckraker

d)

suffragette

16.

The action or state of setting someone or something apart from the other people or things, or being set apart.

a)

Assimilation

b)

Suffragette

c)

Conservation

d)

Segregation

17.

The right to vote in political elections

a)

Segregation

b)

Suffrage

c)

Assimilation

d)

Exoduster

18.

The policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories

a)

Progressivism

b)

Nationalism

c)

Imperialism

d)

Nativism

19.

Colonel of the 7th Calvary for the US, killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn

a)

George A. Custer

b)

Alfred Mahan

c)

William McKinley

d)

Chester A Arthur

20.

A person who has become rich through ruthless or unscrupulous business practices

a)

Yellow Journalist

b)

Muckraker

c)

Robber Baron

d)

Politician

21.

1882, Congress banned this group immigrants for 10 years except: teachers, students, merchants, tourists, and government officials.

a)

Japanese Exclusion Act

b)

Chinese Exclusion Act

c)

Mexican Exclusion Act

d)

Irish Exclusion Act

22.

What was a poll tax?

a)

A tax in order to become a citizen

b)

An annual tax that women had to pay before being able to vote

c)

A tax people had to pay in order to survey citizens

d)

An annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote

23.

Book written by Upton Sinclair, showed the United States the horrible conditions of the meat packing industry and how the poor, mostly immigrants, were being taken advantage of.

a)

The Jungle

b)

The Jungle Book

c)

The Shinning

d)

The Great Gatsby

24.

What was the date the U.S.S. Maine exploded?

a)

February 14, 1898

b)

February 15, 1898

c)

February 4, 1898

d)

February 5, 1898

25.

African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas. They moved to escape sharecropping in the racially segregated South.

a)

Exodusters

b)

Muckrakers

c)

Robber Barons

d)

Immigrants

26.

Who were the main worker groups on the Transcontinental Railroad? Select all that apply

a)

Chinese

b)

Native Americans

c)

Irish

d)

Mexicans

e)

African Americans

27.

A mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs.

a)

Immigration

b)

Assimilation

c)

Melting pot

d)

Conservation

28.

Clause in many Southern state’s constitutions that stated that even if a man failed the literacy test or could not afford the poll tax, he could still vote if his father or grandfather had voted before 1867.

a)

The Santa Clause

b)

The Grandmother Clause

c)

The Segregation Clause

d)

The Grandfather Clause

29.

Constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. Passed in 1920

a)

20th Amendment

b)

19th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

17th Amendment

30.

What were the 3 factors behind the idea of imperialism?

a)

We wanted to be BFFs with everyone

b)

Desire for military strength

c)

Thirst for new markets

d)

Transcontinental Railroads

e)

Belief in cultural superiority