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WorksheetsUS History 2021-2022 Benchmark Review
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 19mins
What movement advocated for the 18th amendment that banned the sale, consumption, making, and drinking of alcohol
Suffrage
Temperance/Prohibition
Civil Rights
What state is located west of the shaded state on the map?
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
One impact of westward expansion on American Indians was that many were forced to adopt and blend into another culture. This is called-
Segregation
Discrimination
Assimilation
Chicago: Meatpacking as ___________________: Steel
Atlanta
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Advancements in transportation helped establish-
National Markets
Assembly Lines
Tenements
What groups gained power in cities by promising to assist immigrants and poor people to find jobs, find housing, and offering services?
Captains of Industry
Social Activists
Political Machines
Which cities are in the Pacific Region?
Seattle, Washington
Detroit, Michigan
San Francisco, California
Los Angeles, California
Cornelius Vanderbilt: _____________________ as Andrew Carnegie: Steel
Oil
Automobile
Shipping Railroads
How many years did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 ban Chinese immigrant labor to the United States?
20
15
10
What Supreme Court case in 1896 stated that "separate, but equal" facilities were legal. It upheld Jim Crow Laws.
Brown v. Board of Education
Tinker v. De Moines
Plessy v. Ferguson
The states of New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Maine are located in what political region?
Midwest
Northeast
Non-Contiguous
What was the last major offensive of the Plain Indians against the U.S. Government in 1890?
Wounded Knee Creek Massacre
Sand Creek Massacre
Battle of Little Big Horn
Complete the analogy. Sitting Bull: Lakota Sioux as Chief Joseph: ________________________
Nez Perce
Blackfoot
Cheyenne
Select negative effects of industrialization after 1875.
Access to raw materials and energy sources
Child Labor
Low pay
Triangular Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Advancements in transportation
Tenements, ghettos, and crowded neighborhoods emerged due to-
Rapid Industrial growth and massive immigration
Advancements in transportation
Migration of African Americans to the North
Jim Crow laws-
banned Chinese immigrant labor for 10 years
forced American Indians to assimilate or live on a reservation
create separate facilities for blacks and whites
Which African American leader responded to racial segregation by advocating for vocational education, encouraging blacks to accept social separation, but worked quietly to end segregation?
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Jason Harris
Flatlands that rise gradually from east to west, Low Rainfall, Frequent Dust Storms, and Land Erosion by Wind and Water describes the physical features and climate of what region of the United States?
Rocky Mountains
Great Plains
Piedmont Region
What invention had the most influence on westward settlement after 1865?
Steel Plow
Barbed Wire
Windmills
What Nez Perce leader was forced to move his tribe to a reservation in Oklahoma?
Geronimo
Chief Joseph
Sitting Bull
During Reconstruction, Congress passed the 14th Amendment which granted citizenship, due process, and equal protection to former slaves in response to-
Reconstruction Acts
Freedmen's Bureau
Black Codes
When federal troops were removed from the remaining states in the South what resulted?
Radical Republicans took control over Reconstruction in the South.
African Americans were elected to political office.
Reconstruction ended and the rights that blacks had gained were lost through "Jim Crow Laws"
What individual was the captain of the steel industry based out of Pittsburgh?
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Pullman
What city in the Midwest specialized in cars?
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
Who invented the telephone?
Henry Ford
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
"I was called the Wizard of Menlo Park."
"I was partially deaf."
"I made the incandescent lightbulb."
"I made practical lighting."
Who am I?
Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
Garrett A. Morgan
The 13th Amendment-
granted citizenship and equal protection under the law
guaranteed voting rights to all men regardless of race/color
banned slavery in the United States
Robert E Lee-
became a symbol of the "Lost Cause" and a hero to white Southerners
encouraged Abraham Lincoln to enlist black soldiers in the Union Army
urged Southerners to reconcile with the North when some wanted to continue to fight.
had a Reconstruction plan to where only 10% of voters in the South had to pledge loyalty in order for the state to be readmitted
What Reconstruction amendment does this picture involve?
15th
14th
13th
Select the reasons for increased immigration after the Civil War.
Escape from an oppressive government
Desire for religious freedom
Seek a better climate
To pay more taxes
Hope for better opportunities
The use of machines to increase industrial and agricultural production is called-
Industrialization
Urbanization
Mechanization
"I was born a slave on a plantation in Maryland."
"I was an abolitionist, author, and orator."
"I encouraged Abraham Lincoln to enlist black soldiers in the Union Army."
"I advocated for constitutional amendments to grant voting rights."
"I supported civil liberties for all."
"Who am I?"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Frederick Douglass
Who set up the first settlement house called the Hull House in Chicago to provide aid and assistance to immigrants and poor Americans?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Jane Addams
True or False. Henry Ford used the assembly line to mass produce cheap and affordable cars.
True
False
True or False. Cities in the Midwest region was a major manufacturing area for the textile industry after 1875.
True
False
What group became recognized as American citizens in 1924?
African Americans
Chinese Americans
Native Americans
