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US History 2021-2022 Benchmark Review

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What movement advocated for the 18th amendment that banned the sale, consumption, making, and drinking of alcohol

a)

Suffrage

b)

Temperance/Prohibition

c)

Civil Rights

2.

What state is located west of the shaded state on the map?

a)

Texas

b)

New Mexico

c)

Arizona

3.

One impact of westward expansion on American Indians was that many were forced to adopt and blend into another culture. This is called-

a)

Segregation

b)

Discrimination

c)

Assimilation

4.

Chicago: Meatpacking as ___________________: Steel

a)

Atlanta

b)

Pittsburgh

c)

St. Louis

5.

Advancements in transportation helped establish-

a)

National Markets

b)

Assembly Lines

c)

Tenements

6.

What groups gained power in cities by promising to assist immigrants and poor people to find jobs, find housing, and offering services?

a)

Captains of Industry

b)

Social Activists

c)

Political Machines

7.

Which cities are in the Pacific Region?

a)

Seattle, Washington

b)

Detroit, Michigan

c)

San Francisco, California

d)

Los Angeles, California

8.

Cornelius Vanderbilt: _____________________ as Andrew Carnegie: Steel

a)

Oil

b)

Automobile

c)

Shipping Railroads

9.

How many years did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 ban Chinese immigrant labor to the United States?

a)

20

b)

15

c)

10

10.

What Supreme Court case in 1896 stated that "separate, but equal" facilities were legal. It upheld Jim Crow Laws.

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Tinker v. De Moines

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

11.

The states of New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Maine are located in what political region?

a)

Midwest

b)

Northeast

c)

Non-Contiguous

12.

What was the last major offensive of the Plain Indians against the U.S. Government in 1890?

a)

Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

b)

Sand Creek Massacre

c)

Battle of Little Big Horn

13.

Complete the analogy. Sitting Bull: Lakota Sioux as Chief Joseph: ________________________

a)

Nez Perce

b)

Blackfoot

c)

Cheyenne

14.

Select negative effects of industrialization after 1875.

a)

Access to raw materials and energy sources

b)

Child Labor

c)

Low pay

d)

Triangular Shirtwaist Factory Fire

e)

Advancements in transportation

15.

Tenements, ghettos, and crowded neighborhoods emerged due to-

a)

Rapid Industrial growth and massive immigration

b)

Advancements in transportation

c)

Migration of African Americans to the North

16.

Jim Crow laws-

a)

banned Chinese immigrant labor for 10 years

b)

forced American Indians to assimilate or live on a reservation

c)

create separate facilities for blacks and whites

17.

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?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Jason Harris

18.

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?

a)

Rocky Mountains

b)

Great Plains

c)

Piedmont Region

19.

What invention had the most influence on westward settlement after 1865?

a)

Steel Plow

b)

Barbed Wire

c)

Windmills

20.

What Nez Perce leader was forced to move his tribe to a reservation in Oklahoma?

a)

Geronimo

b)

Chief Joseph

c)

Sitting Bull

21.

During Reconstruction, Congress passed the 14th Amendment which granted citizenship, due process, and equal protection to former slaves in response to-

a)

Reconstruction Acts

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

Black Codes

22.

When federal troops were removed from the remaining states in the South what resulted?

a)

Radical Republicans took control over Reconstruction in the South.

b)

African Americans were elected to political office.

c)

Reconstruction ended and the rights that blacks had gained were lost through "Jim Crow Laws"

23.

What individual was the captain of the steel industry based out of Pittsburgh?

a)

Carnegie

b)

Rockefeller

c)

Pullman

24.

What city in the Midwest specialized in cars?

a)

Detroit

b)

Chicago

c)

St. Louis

25.

Who invented the telephone?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Thomas Edison

26.

"I was called the Wizard of Menlo Park."

"I was partially deaf."

"I made the incandescent lightbulb."

"I made practical lighting."

Who am I?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Nikola Tesla

c)

Garrett A. Morgan

27.

The 13th Amendment-

a)

granted citizenship and equal protection under the law

b)

guaranteed voting rights to all men regardless of race/color

c)

banned slavery in the United States

28.

Robert E Lee-

a)

became a symbol of the "Lost Cause" and a hero to white Southerners

b)

encouraged Abraham Lincoln to enlist black soldiers in the Union Army

c)

urged Southerners to reconcile with the North when some wanted to continue to fight.

d)

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

29.

What Reconstruction amendment does this picture involve?

a)

15th

b)

14th

c)

13th

30.

Select the reasons for increased immigration after the Civil War.

a)

Escape from an oppressive government

b)

Desire for religious freedom

c)

Seek a better climate

d)

To pay more taxes

e)

Hope for better opportunities

31.

The use of machines to increase industrial and agricultural production is called-

a)

Industrialization

b)

Urbanization

c)

Mechanization

32.

"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?"

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Frederick Douglass

33.

Who set up the first settlement house called the Hull House in Chicago to provide aid and assistance to immigrants and poor Americans?

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Jane Addams

34.

True or False. Henry Ford used the assembly line to mass produce cheap and affordable cars.

a)

True

b)

False

35.

True or False. Cities in the Midwest region was a major manufacturing area for the textile industry after 1875.

a)

True

b)

False

36.

What group became recognized as American citizens in 1924?

a)

African Americans

b)

Chinese Americans

c)

Native Americans