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USH Midterm Review

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 5hrs 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following was one of the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

Kansas and Nebraska were united into one territory

b)

Residents could vote on the issue of slavery

c)

Banned slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska

d)

Allowed slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska

2.

_______________ resulted in deaths of 5 percent of English settlers in New England even as it decimated Native American rebels and ended their autonomy.

a)
The Stono Uprising
b)
The French and Indian War
c)
Bacon’s Rebellion
d)
King Philip’s War
3.

Why does this image depict Rockefeller as so large?

a)

He was a political boss who tried to win governmental favors

b)

He was a government inspector looking for corruption

c)

He was a robber baron who used his money and power to influence government

d)

He was looking to correct all of pollution cause by industrialization

4.

What does this image say about the need for labor unions?

a)

labor unions were desirable because the workers were being crushed by difficult living conditions and poor pay.

b)

Labor unions decreased nativism

c)

Labor unions helped big business keep control of the workers

d)

Labor unions helped reduce the length of the work day

5.
What might have caused the Salem Witchcraft hysteria?
a)
class rivalries
b)

fears raised by recent Native American attacks

c)

convulsions from food poisoning

d)
all of the above
6.
How did railroads impact the prices of goods & services?
a)
Made goods and services more expensive & harder to ship
b)
Made goods and services cheaper & easier to ship
c)
Gave people safer transportation
d)
Opened new land for exploring and settlements
7.
Which laws allowed Union Soldiers to supervise the south during Reconstruction?
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
the Voting Rights Act
c)
the Amnesty Act
d)
the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Military Reconstruction Act
8.

How did the Intolerable Acts punish Massachusetts? (multi-select)

a)

forbade trade with other colonies

b)

forced people to feed and house troops in their home

c)

replaced elected officials with appointed officials

d)

closed the port of Boston until the colonist paid for the tea

9.
Which of the following correctly describes the Three-Fifths Compromise?
a)
Slaves count as 3/5th of a person for population and representation in congress. 
b)
The Virginia Plan and New Jersey plan would combined to form a bicameral legislature.
c)
The Bill of Rights appeased the Anti-Federalists.
d)
The preamble states "we the people" evidence of popular sovereignty.
10.

Why did Parliament pass the Sugar and Stamp Acts on the colonists?

a)

to pay for gifts to Native Americans to keep them west of the Appalachians

b)

to control the kinds of businesses and contracts colonists entered into

c)

to reverse the effects of the boycott of British goods

d)

to pay part of the cost of defending the frontier (French and Indian War) and colonial governments

11.
The 14th Amendment granted...
a)
freedom of speech
b)
citizenship and equal protection
c)
the right to vote
d)
the right to a speedy and fair trial
12.

Why did the Anti-Federalists demand a bill of rights?

a)
They wanted to keep the government small
b)
They wanted to keep the government big and strong
c)
They wanted a provision for Taco Tuesday
d)
They wanted to make sure individual and state rights were protected
13.
Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
18th Amendment
14.

Whose Enlightenment philosophy did the Jefferson use in the Declaration of Independence?

a)

John Adams

b)

Ben Franklin

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

John Locke

15.
Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?
a)
limit African Americans rights
b)
expand Confederate rights
c)
give women voting rights
d)
jail Carpetbaggers
16.
Abraham Lincoln believed...
a)
African Americans needed Constitutional Amendments to guarantee voting rights
b)
in the southern cause
c)
southern states should have to prove their loyalty after the war
d)
preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south
17.

Which English settlers were separatists?

a)

Pilgrims

b)

Puritans

c)

Virginia Company

18.

What did the Headright System offer to Planters (the wealthy class)?

a)

acres of land for paying to bring over more workers from Europe

b)

acres of land for quartering soldiers

c)

political influence for supporting the Virginia governor

d)

money for freeing a certain number of indentured servants.

19.
The 13th Amendment ...
a)
banned slavery
b)
grants voting rights
c)
grants citizenship and equal protection
d)
restores Confederate rights
20.
Organizations like these worked for which of these goals? 
a)
To encourage southerners to fight against the Union 
b)
to legalize discrimination against African 
Americans
c)
To encourage African American education
d)
to promote Confederate rights
21.

Reconstruction came to an end when

a)
the Black Codes were adopted.
b)
a compromise took place over the 1876 election.
c)
Lincoln was elected President.
d)
Congress proposed the 13th Amendment.

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