WorksheetsCivics Course Review
Total questions: 83
Worksheet time: 42mins
The Earth now is exactly the same as when it began.
true
false
Humans have been on the Earth since the Earth was formed.
true
false
The continents were all one big land mass when the Earth first formed.
true
false
The first humans came from
Australia
Africa
Europe
The first humans in North America are now called
slaves
Native Americans
African Americans
The first European to come to the Americas was __ in 1492.
Ponce de Leon
Christopher Newport
Christopher Columbus
Over the next few hundred years, people came to the New World from
Africa, China and India
Spain, France, and England
Australia, Canada, Japan
Why did people come to the New World (choose all that are true)?
to hunt and trade with Native Americans
to claim land
to find riches
to spread Christianity
After several hundred years of being able to govern themselves, the colonies had started to think of themselves as...
citizens of England
Americans
Indians
A slave is bought and sold like property or a pet.
true
false
The first slaves in the New World from Africa were brought to Jamestown, VA.
true
false
Which area of the country relied on slavery to make most of their money?
North
South
Slaves were treated very well.
true
false
After several hundred years of the king of England ignoring the colonies, he started paying attention to them. How did they like that?
They were happy that he was noticing them.
They were angry because he was taxing them and telling them what to do.
They didn't really care one way or the other.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
A letter telling the King the colonies were breaking away and forming their own country.
A document that set up a new government.
The first 10 amendments that outline basic rights of American citizens.
Check all the values that were listed in the Declaration of Independence.
All men are created equal.
All humans have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
People are in charge can only be there because the citizens allow it by voting.
When government is abusive, citizens have the right leave it.
The Colonies won the Revolutionary War in
1682
1781
1856
A Constitution
lays out how a government will work
is the basis for laws
both
The Colonists set up the US Government by writing
the Declaration of Independence
The US Constitution
The Emancipation Proclamation
The US Government has __ branches of government.
1
2
3
The idea that God wanted the US to expand from coast to coast is referred to as
Expansion by God
God's Ordination
Manifest Destiny
Slavery was an issue with expansion because
half the states had slavery and half did not
some wanted news states to be free states and some did not
both
neither
During expansion, there were several different wars and laws that tried to balance the free and slave states.
true
false
When Abraham Lincoln was elected President, slave states were afraid he would ban slavery.
true
false
Who fought in the Civil War?
French and Indians
British and Colonists
Northern (free) states and Southern (slave) states
Why did they fight?
The slave states wanted the right to keep slavery
The free states wanted to tax the slave states
The slaves revolted
Who was the Union?
northern/free states
southern/slave states
western territories
Who was the Confederacy?
northern/free states
southern/slave states
western territories
Who won the Civil War?
The North/free states
The South/slave states
What happened to slavery after the Civil War?
slavery was banned / all slaves were free
slavery was expanded to the entire country
Reconstruction means
bringing the Southern states back into the US
helping freed slaves become part of the society
both
neither
As blacks gained more rights
whites welcomed them
some whites became violent, such as the Klu Klux Klan
Racism started to disappear
The period between the 1890s and the 1920s, when reformers worked to improve American society, is referred to as
The Progressive Era
The Civil War
The Cold War
At the beginning of the progressive era, laws made it easier for the rich to get richer and everyone else poorer.
true
false
At the beginning of the Progressive Era, working conditions in factories were
dangerous and difficult
safe and easy
Progressive reformers wanted to
regulate private industry
protect workers and consumers
both
neither
Progressives believed the government could and should improve society.
true
false
During the Progressive Era, "undesirables" were forced to get procedures so they couldn't have children.
true
false
World War I was fought on the continent of Europe.
true
false
World War I started because some countries were trying to take over other countries, and lots of countries got pulled into the fighting.
true
false
The United States tried to stay out of the fighting, but began fighting because Germany would not stop sinking their ships.
true
false
The Allies were countries friendly to the United States.
true
false
Which weapon was used for the first time during WWI?
machine guns
flame throwers
airplanes
"Economy" refers to
Parts of companies people can buy
Goods and services within a country
a balanced budget
When most people have jobs and enough money to live, the economy is
good
bad
During the 1920's (before the Great Depression), the economy was generally
good
bad
The Great Depression was a time when
the economy suddenly went from good to bad
the economy suddenly went from bad to good
the country went to war
Choose all that happened because of the Great Depression.
Children had to work
People became homeless
Food lines
"Hoovervilles" were
Cities of homeless people living in boxes
Nice new neighborhoods the government built
Cities in the East
"Hoovervilles" were called that because
President Hoover set up programs to put people back to work
President Hoover did nothing to help people (because he thought the economy would improve on its own)
President Hoover took money from the citizens and kept if for himself
Who was the president who designed the New Deal?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
The New Deal was
Programs designed to put people back to work
Cities of homeless people living in boxes
Newspapers
What ended the New Deal?
A new president got elected
the Supreme Court encouraged the programs
World War II
Adolph Hitler was the leader of __ before WWII.
Austria
Poland
Germany
Hitler believed that there was such a thing as a perfect race, and he called it the __ race.
Most Perfect
Aryan
American
Who was considered responsible for World War I?
Russia
England
Germany
Hitler and the Nazi party encouraged discrimination against
Jews
Christians
whites
Jews were forced to wear
hats
arm bands
uniforms
World War II was fought in
Australia and Canada
Africa and South America
Europe and the Pacific
Who surrendered first?
US
Germany
Japan
What was dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagaski?
poison
fire
atomic bombs
What does the term genocide mean?
Killing of all the pets in a country
The deliberate kills of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation
The murder of all the children in a country
The Holocaust refers to
the genocide of Jews during WWII
the genocide of blacks during the Civil War
the genocide of Asians during the attack on Pearl Harbor
__ __ is a place where people were imprisoned, often under barbaric (worse than terrible) conditions.
Nazi ghettos
Displacement facilities
Concentration Camps
What was the name of Hitler's army?
Nazis
Bolshiviks
the Black Hand
The time during the 1950s and 1960s when there were a lot of struggles for social justice is referred to as
Jim Crow laws
The Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Rides
Racism and discrimination against Black people ended with the Civil War.
true
false
Segregation means
Whites and blacks had to stay separate
People had to pass reading and writing tests to vote
people had to pay a tax in order to vote
Jim Crow Laws were passed, mostly in the South, to
keep blacks separate from whites
give black people more rights
give money to poor blacks
Many of the Jim Crow laws were declared unconstitutional during the Civil Rights Era.
true
false
The Civil Rights protests were peaceful and therefore very safe for all the protestors.
true
false
Life for women in 1900 was very different from life for women in 2021.
true
false
What helped women start getting jobs outside of the home/work in factories?
demonstrations and riots
female factory owners hired them
war
What helped women choose to work?
When they worked during the war and realized they could do it.
They made more money than men.
They hated men.
Currently, women make the same amount of money as men for the same job.
true
false
The Cold War refers to
a time when the world got so cold that people were fighting over food and supplies
A period of time when the US and Soviet Union had a tense rivalry
World Wars I and II
The Soviet Union wanted to spread communism all over the world.
true
false
The United States and the Soviet Union began an arms race. This means:
They raced each other walking on their hands
They held arm wrestling competitions
They built more and more nuclear weapons and threatened each other with them.
The United States and the Soviet Union raced to be the first to __ during the Cold War.
go to the moon
build warm shelters for homeless people
take over other countries
The US got into 2 wars defending other countries from Communism. Those wars were in
Afghanistan and Iraq
Europe and Japan
Korea and Vietnam
President Nixon calmed the tension between the US and Soviet Union by
talking to the leaders of Communist Countries rather than threatening them with weapons
Agreeing not to build more nuclear weapons
both
neither
Technology is
Using science to help us accomplish tasks
computers only
not important
The development of technology has gotten __ over time
slower
faster
