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US1 Final Assessment

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 2hrs 58mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word is a land-related geographic feature?

a)

gulf

b)

tributary

c)

peninsula

d)

bay

2.

Inland port cities grew in the Midwest along the—

a)

Great Lakes

b)

Great Dismal Swamp

c)

Appalachian Mountains

d)

along the shores of Lake Placid

3.

The lowest point in North America, in the Basin and Range region, is—

a)

Death Valley

b)

the Cascades

c)

the Great Plains

d)

Low Point Ridge

4.

The Eastern Woodlands is home to the—

a)

Kwakiutl

b)

Lakota

c)

Pueblo

d)

Iroquois

5.

Which Native American tribe lived in the area shaded?

a)

Lakota

b)

Kwakiutl

c)

Inuit

d)

Pueblo

6.

The Inuit homeland is located in present-day—

a)

Arizona and New Mexico

b)

Virginia and North Carolina

c)

California and Washington

d)

Alaska and northern Canada

7.

Which two states were part of the Union forces at the end of the Civil War?

a)

Virginia

b)

Kansas

c)

Alabama

d)

Ohio

8.

Which of the following states did NOT secede from the Union?

a)

Mississippi

b)

Alabama

c)

Georgia

d)

Oregon

9.

If a soldier was at the first major battle of the Civil War, where was he?

a)

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

b)

Vicksburg, Mississippi

c)

Manassas, Virginia

d)

Richmond, Virginia

10.

What did scientists find at Cactus Hill?

a)

Dinosaur bones from 20,000 years ago

b)

Proof that Columbus was the first European explorer in North America

c)

Ancient sea creatures which proved the land was once under water

d)

Artifacts that proved humans lived there 18,000 years ago

11.

Which of the following was NOT an obstacle to European exploration?

a)

Disease and starvation

b)

Fear of the unknown

c)

claimed new territory

d)

Poor maps and navigational tools

12.

Which European country conquered and enslaved American Indians in North and South America?

a)

England

b)

Spain

c)

France

d)

Portugal

13.

What European explorer established the settlement of Québec?

a)

Coronado

b)

Champlain

c)

LaSalle

d)

Cabot

14.

Two or more people depending on each other for goods and services is called—

a)

interdependence

b)

specialization

c)

resources

d)

economics

15.

The colony of Pennsylvania was originally settled by what group of people?

a)

Puritans

b)

Debtors

c)

Quakers

d)

Pilgrims

16.

Market towns were the civic life of the colonies of the—

a)

Mid-Atlantic

b)

South

c)

New England

d)

Southwest

17.

The Proclamation of 1763 restricted –

a)

colonists from moving back to Great Britain

b)

the western movement of settlers

c)

the control of colonial legislatures

d)

the amount of tea imported from Europe

18.

Why did Great Britain impose taxes such as the Stamp Act?

a)

To stop colonial representation in Parliament

b)

To raise money to pay for the French and Indian War

c)

To stop British citizens from moving to colonial America

d)

To raise money to buy more land from the American Indians

19.

What are the “certain unalienable rights” stated in the Declaration of Independence?

a)

Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness

b)

Voting, representation, elections

c)

Bear arms, free speech, trial by jury

d)

Education, slavery, taxation

20.

What battle marked the turning point of the Revolutionary War towards America’s victory?

a)

Battle of Bunker Hill

b)

Boston Massacre

c)

Battle of Quebec

d)

Battle of Saratoga

21.

What part of the Constitution provides a written guarantee of individual rights?

a)

The Bill of Rights

b)

The Preamble

c)

Articles I-III

d)

Declaration of Independence

22.

How many states had to vote in favor of the Constitution in order for it to become law?

a)

All thirteen

b)

One of the thirteen

c)

Nine of the thirteen

d)

Seven of the thirteen

23.

The first five presidents of the United States were all Virginians EXCEPT—

a)

Adams

b)

Monroe

c)

Washington

d)

Jefferson

24.

Manifest Destiny is the belief in the idea that—

a)

expansion was for the good of the country and the right of the country

b)

a person’s destiny is determined by how much land can be farmed

c)

keeping America small and contained would lead to success

d)

African Americans were destined to remain slaves

25.

What did the supporters of the suffrage movement believe?

a)

Men should not allow women to vote.

b)

Women were deprived of basic rights.

c)

New western territories should be slave states.

d)

European immigrants deserved equal rights.

26.

Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon territory from the—

a)

Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

b)

Atlantic Ocean to the James River

c)

Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean

d)

Ohio River to the Great Lakes

27.

What invention increased the need for slave labor to keep up with harvest demands?

a)

Cotton Gin

b)

Reaper

c)

Tractor

d)

Steamboat

28.

The forced march of the Cherokee nation and other tribes from lands east of the Mississippi River to what is present-day Oklahoma is known as the—

a)

Long March

b)

Trail of Sorrow

c)

March of Madness

d)

Trail of Tears

29.

Which abolitionist leader led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom along the Underground Railroad?

a)

Jo Anderson

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Susan B. Anthony

30.

Why did Southerners oppose tariffs?

a)

Tariffs would increase manufacturing in the South.

b)

Farmers and plantation owners could not afford to pay them

c)

Great Britain might stop buying cotton from the South if prices increased

d)

Tariffs would cause the price of southern goods to drop too low.

31.

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act state?

a)

The people living in each new state would decide the slavery issue for themselves

b)

There would always be a balance in the number of free and slave states.

c)

All new states to be added to the United States were to be free states.

d)

All new states to be added to the United States were to be slave states.

32.

Most Southerners believed that states had freely created and joined the Union so—

a)

they could freely leave the Union if they chose

b)

the Union could not be separated or divided

c)

new states should not be formed

d)

there should only be one country on the North American continent

33.

Immediately following Lincoln's election, many southern states—

a)

seceded from the Union

b)

joined the Union

c)

abolished slavery

d)

enacted stricter fugitive slave laws

34.

Jefferson Davis was—

a)

a great Southern general

b)

president of the Confederate States

c)

Union naval captain

d)

president of the United States

35.

In the past, how did American Indians gather their food?

a)

They fished, hunted, and harvested crops.

b)

They traded goods with European settlers for food.

c)

They used money to purchase food

d)

They traded animal skins and bows for crops and meat.

36.

Ghana, Mali, and Songhai become powerful by—

a)

selling Africans to Portuguese slave traders

b)

controlling trade in West Africa

c)

claiming large chunks of land in North America

d)

selling improved navigational tools

37.

Interdependence existed among the colonies because of—

a)

harbors

b)

occupations

c)

politics

d)

specialization

38.

Colonists opposed taxes from Great Britain because the—

a)

colonies had no representation in Parliament

b)

taxes were not high enough

c)

British people had no representation in Parliament

d)

colonists wanted American Indians and the French to pay all the taxes

39.

What did the Great Compromise decide?

a)

How many years legislative representatives could serve in government

b)

How many votes each state had in the Senate and House of Representatives

c)

Who would be the first president of the United States

d)

The rights that would be established in the Bill of Rights

40.

Which of the following was NOT an economic factor of the move west?

a)

California Gold Rush

b)

Lack of western farm land

c)

Logging and farming

d)

Freedom for runaway slaves