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Worksheets1st Semester American History Final
Total questions: 84
Worksheet time: 45mins
What was Bleeding Kansas?
A policy started by Abraham Lincoln to try to avoid the Civil War
The fight for Kansas to remain a US territory and not a state
A violent clash between pro-slave and anti-slavery advocates that wanted to turn Kansas their way
The first battle of the Civil War
What led to Bleeding Kansas?
The Dred Scott Decision of 1857
The passing of the Kansas/ Nebraska Act of 1854
Abraham Lincoln was elected president
The Civil War ended
Which Supreme Court case led to the US government saying slaves were considered property and had no right to sue for their own freedom?
Plessy v Ferguson
Dred Scott v John Sanford
Marbury v Madison
Brown v Board of Education
Choose the three on this list that were abolitionist leaders leading up to the Civil War? (Abolitionist = Someone who wanted to end slavery)
Ulysses S Grant
Sojourner Truth
John C. Calhoun
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Which of these led to temporarily keeping the balance between free states and slave states in the US?
The Compromise of 1790
The Massachusetts Compromise of 1788
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Compromise of 1877
How did Abraham Lincoln feel about slavery?
Morally opposed it but did not want to outright abolish it
Morally opposed it and actively tried to abolish it
He was a slave owner
He didn't own slaves but supported the institution
Who was the commander of the Union troops and the Confederate troops during the Civil War?
Union: Robert E. Lee; Confederate: William Sherman
Union: Ulysses S. Grant; Confederate: Andrew Johnson
Union: Abraham Lincoln; Confederate: Robert E. Lee
Union: Ulysses S. Grant; Confederate: Robert E. Lee
What effect did the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 have?
Ended the Civil War
Made slavery last longer
Encouraged African Americans to join the Union Army during the Civil War
Started the Civil War
What years did the Civil War last?
1850 - 1855
1855-1860
1860-1865
1865-1870
What was the bloodiest battle during the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Antietam
What was Reconstruction?
Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again
The program created to build back the South after the Civil War
The program created to hopefully prevent the Civil War
The aftermath of Lincoln being assassinated
Choose TWO options that the US government did to try to assimilate (Americanize) Native Americans:
The gov. would set up schools for Native American children
Students would be able to speak any language they chose to in school
Students would be encouraged to wear their traditional clothing
Native Americans would learn to live like white Americans
Which of these is a view Native Americans had about land?
Property lines are very strict
No one can truly own land
Cutting down trees is the best way to further businesses
The land is for people to use however they please
Who was the woman who focused on increasing public awareness about problems that Native Americans faced?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Helen Hunt Jackson
What did the demand for beef in growing cities do?
Increased the success of the cattle industry
Decreased the success of the cattle industry
Stopped the cattle industry
Started the cattle industry
What state is highlighted on the map?
Missouri
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
What state is highlighted on the map?
Washington
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
What state is highlighted on the map?
California
Texas
Washington
Arizona
What state was highlighted on the map?
Nevada
Utah
Idaho
New Mexico
What state is highlighted on the map?
Idaho
Nevada
California
Arizona
What state is highlighted on the map?
Kansas
Oklahoma
Iowa
Nebraska
What state is highlighted on the map?
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Colorado
Wyoming
What river is highlighted on the map?
Ohio River
Mississippi River
Missouri River
Colorado River
What river is highlighted on the map?
Mississippi River
Missouri River
Colorado River
Ohio River
What mountain range is highlighted on the map?
Rocky Mountains
Appalachians
Sierra Nevadas
Cascade Mountains
An increase in the development of new uses for natural resources led to what?
A period of no industrial growth
A period of industrial growth
New processes in technology helped make it possible to make larger quantities of goods in a shorter amount of time.
True
False
Which of the following was true of railroad workers in the late 1800s?
Most railroad workers were paid high wages
Most were limited to an 8 hour work day
Railroad workers endured harsh conditions and frequent accidents
Immigrant railroad workers earned as much money as the other workers
Choose the three statements that are true about steel
Steel is more flexible than iron
Steel is created by removing carbon from iron
Steel does not rust
Steel is more dense than iron
Steel weighs more than iron
Choose the FOUR items that steel was used to build in the late 1800s:
Bridges
Televisions
Railroads
New farming equipment
Buildings
Growth of the (a) affected the economy by leading to product specialization.
What is the term for when private businesses operate independently without government control?
Free trade
Free enterprise
Communism
Free speech
What did the Supreme Court case Munn v Illinois do?
Legalized segregation
Stated slaves were property
Illegalized segregation
Said federal government can regulate private industry
Choose the two reasons why Grangers (farmers) were upset at railroad companies?
The railroads engaged in formal agreements to fix prices.
The railroads allowed the government to regulate their business.
The railroad companies set maximum passenger rates.
The railroads companies misused government land grants.
Choose the two descriptions that would've fit the descriptions of most workers in the US in the late 1800s.
Long hours
8 hour minimum work day
Low pay
Received breaks often
Healthcare benefits
Because African Americans wanted to escape discrimination in the South in the late 1800s, many of them...
Fought back
Moved to Canada
Went to Mexico
Moved to Northern cities
If a business supported a political machine, then...
The political machine would hire police to protect the business
The political machines build building to house the business
The political machine allowed the business to pay fewer tariffs on imports
The political machines gave the business leaders positions in gov
Fires rarely happened in big cities in the late 1800s
True
False
Cities didn't have a government ran garbage collecting system in the late 1800s.
True
False
Tenement housing were crowded housing that were not always well taken care of in cities in the late 1800's.
True
False
Piped water was common in New York in the 1860s.
True
False
Mass transit discouraged people from moving away from cities.
True
False
Chicago's city planners regretted not leaving more green space along the lake.
True
False
The builder of the Brooklyn Bridge built it where no pedestrians could walk alongside it.
True
False
Frederick Law Olmsted was a famous architect of city parks like Central Park in NYC.
True
False
What did the invention of elevators allow?
People to fly
Skyscrapers to be built
People to be extremely lazy
Stairs to go away forever
Which of these presidents was unable to get Congress to support his ideas for political reform?
Abraham Lincoln
James A Garfield
Rutherford B Hayes
Chester A Arthur
Which president angered the Stalwarts (group of corrupt politicians/businessmen) by not giving them jobs through patronage?
Andrew Johnson
Chester A Arthur
Ulysses S Grant
James Garfield
Which president was successful in getting Congress to pass the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
Chester Arthur
Andrew Johnson
James Garfield
Abraham Lincoln
Why did the web press technology of the late 1800s lower the cost of printing?
It used cheaper paper
It could print on both sides of the paper
It could print things at rapid speed
It didn't require workers
Because early bicycles were too dangerous...
No one could ride them the first few years they were invented
Mostly only men rode them
They had to be outlawed because of all the accidents
Everyone rode them all the time
What is the name given to the journalist who helped to increase the public's awareness of troubling issues in society?
Investors
Collectors
Foreign journalists
Muckrakers
This person believed African Americans should seek a liberal arts education:
Booker T Washington
WEB DuBois
This person wanted African Americans to prove their economic value to society
Booker T Washington
WEB DuBois
This person founded the Niagara Movement`
Booker T Washington
WEB DuBois
This person insisted that African Americans acquire labor skills
Booker T Washington
WEB DuBois
This person though that the African American community needed to have well-educated leaders
Booker T Washington
WEB DuBois
Choose the TWO options that are NOT ways that high schools changed in the late 1800s:
The expanded the curriculum to include science courses
They began providing immigrants a place to use their native languages
They offered courses to prepare females for office work.
They begave offering more vocational courses.
They automatically accepted African American students.
What Supreme Court case led to the legalization of segregation in 1896?
Brown v Board of Education
Munn v Illinois
Marbury v Madison
Plessy v Ferguson
Which of these two statements are true about women in the workforce in the late 1800s?
Most women were unable to keep their wages
Women who worked on farms had a different role than in the past
Women had an increasing number of jobs available to them
Most women earned the same as men
What's the name of the informal customs that governed how people interacted in the South?
Southern manners
Racial manners
Racial etiquette
Southern etiquette
How did many college-educated women use their college degrees in the late 1800's?
By being stay-at-home moms
By working in factories
By using their skills for social reforms
By becoming nomads
Which of these are the THREE strategies women had for trying to achieve suffrage (the right to vote)
Try to create a federal law to allow women to run for office
To pursue court cases to test the 14th Amendment
To push the Supreme Court to grant US citizenship to women
To convince state legislatures to grant the right to vote to women
To push for a constitutional amendment to grant
Which president aggressively used the Sherman Antitrust Act to attack businesses that hurt the public interest?
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
What law was passed during the Roosevelt administration that halted the sale of contaminated foods?
Elkins Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Interstate Commerce Act
What law under the Roosevelt administration funded large-scale irrigation projects in the West?
Meat Inspection Act
National Reclamation Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Elkins Act
Choose the two options that fit why William Howard Taft's presidency wasn't as successful as Roosevelt's:
He didn't bust as many trusts
He failed to arouse public opinion behind his causes
He was much more bold than Roosevelt
He just stated how much he hated being president
He wasn't able to unify the Republican party
Which event happened first?
The US claims Hawaii as a US territory
American missionaries form Christian schools and churches in Hawaii
Hawaii is allowed to export sugar to the US duty-free
Hawaii is pressured to allow the US to use Pearl Harbor as a naval base
Which event happened second?
The US claims Hawaii as a US territory
Hawaii is pressured to allow the US to use Pearl Harbor as a naval base
American missionaries form Christian schools and churches in Hawaii
Hawaii is allowed to export sugar to the US duty-free
What event happened third?
Hawaii is allowed to export sugar to the US duty-free
American missionaries form Christian schools and churches in Hawaii
Hawaii is pressured to allow the US to use Pearl Harbor as a naval base
The US claims Hawaii as a US territory
What event happened fourth?
Hawaii is allowed to export sugar to the US duty-free
Hawaii is pressured to allow the US to use Pearl Harbor as a naval base
The US claims Hawaii as a US territory
American missionaries form Christian schools and churches in Hawaii
What happened after the Cuban's outlawed slavery?
Hawaii became a US territory
The US declared war on Spain
The US began heavily investing in the sugar industry in Cuba
Cuba declared war on Spain
What Supreme Court cases said that people in acquired territories didn't have automatic protection under the Constitution?
Plessy v Ferguson
The Insular Cases
The Subordinate Cases
Roe v Wade
The Boxer Rebellion occurred out of resentment of foreign domination in China's cities.
True
False
The first set of Open Door notes proposed that European nations share trade in China with the US.
True
False
Russia was the only country that did not set up trading networks in China.
True
False
The Boxer Protocol required China to pay restrictions for the Boxer Rebellion.
True
False
Which of these guys were against imperialism because they worried that US imperialism could lead to endless wars with European rivals?
Andrew Carnegie
Moorfield Storey
Samuel Gompers
Which of these guys felt that people should have a right to govern themselves and therefore imperialism was wrong?
Samuel Gompers
Andrew Carnegie
Moorfield Storey
Which of these guys was concerned about the impact of imperialism on US workers?
Samuel Gompers
Andrew Carnegie
Moorfield Storey
Theodore Roosevelt became president when President William McKinley was assassinated.
True
False
Theodore Roosevelt was known for his quiet and subdued personality.
True
False
Theodore Roosevelt was completely against the building of the Panama Canal.
True
False
Theodore Roosevelt promised to protect the US' interest in Latin America.
True
False
