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WorksheetsFinal Exam Review Part 1 -2021
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 25mins
Which colonial region was the most diverse ethnically, racially, religiously and agriculturally?
Southern Colonies
New England Colonies
Western Colonies
Middle Colonies
Which crop helped save Jamestown?
Tobacco
Cotton
Rice
Indigo
The Boston Tea Party was a response to the:
Quartering Act
Boston Port Bill
Tea Act
Sugar Act
The Intolerable Acts were a reaction to the:
Boston Port Bill
Boston Tea Party
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Salem Witch Trials
The Great Compromise:
Gave states two members in the house and the senate would be based on population
allowed for slaves to be counted towards the total population of a state to give more representation in Congress
gave the assurance to the anti-federalists of the creation of a Bill of Rights after the Constitution was ratified
Gave states two members in the senate and the House of Representatives would be based on population
The three fifths compromise:
Each state would have two senators and the membership of the House of Representatives would be based on the size of the population
Slaves would be counted towards a state's population for the House of Representatives
Slaves would be counted towards a state's population for the Senate
Gave the authority to the Federal government to remove three of every five slaves from plantations that did not pay their taxes
Which early political party was the party of the "common man" and the people of the rural areas?
Democratic-Republican
Federalists
Anti-Masonic Party
Whigs
What party is thought to have represented the "elite"?
Jacksonian Democrats
Democratic Republicans
Republicans
Federalists
What does the map here represent?
Missouri Compromise
Louisiana Purchase
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
Which of the following lead to a depression, the end of the popularity of President Jefferson and the push for Americans to industrialize so they could produce for themselves?
Whiskey Tax
Embargo Act of 1807
Macon's Bill no. 2
The War of 1812
Which of the following controversial elections was decided by the House of Representatives because the candidates tied in the electoral college?
Election of 1800
Election of 1876
Election of 2000
Election of 2016
Which Presidential election featured the first time universal white male suffrage (all white men eligible to vote) and also helped elect Andrew Jackson?
Election of 1800
Election of 1824
Election of 1828
Election of 1832
Which of the following WERE NOT abolitionists in America in the Antebellum (pre Civil War) period?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
David Wilmot
Harriet Tubman
The 36 30' Line was the dividing line between:
Northern States and Southern States
Free States and Slave States
Louisiana Purchase and the Spanish Territory
The Confederacy and the Union
The 36 30' line was the prominent feature of
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Articles of Confederation
Which of the following court cases challenged the Indian Removal Act of 1831?
Marbury v Madison
Worcester v Georgia
McCulloch v Maryland
Cherokee Nation v Georgia
The verdict of Worcester v Georgia, lead:
President Jefferson to declare the Indian of Georgia a sovereign, independent nation
President Monroe to establish the Monroe Doctrine which created the reservation system to protect Indians
President Jackson to ignore the ruling stating "John Marshall has made his ruling, now let's see him enforce it". Indians were then forcibly removed and sent to Indian Territory
President Washington to give a complete pardon to all Indians who were charge in deaths during the Indian Wars in the colonial period
The Mexican Cession in the picture was acquired by the United States after the Mexican War and the signing of:
Declaration of Independence
Embargo Act of 1807
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Versailles
Which of the following is a way that the United States asserted its right to be isolated from the European Nations in the Western Hemisphere?
Monroe Doctrine
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Big Stick Policy
The Industrial North always favored ______________ because they benefited manufacturers and merchants
low tariffs
high tariffs
no tariffs
embargoes
Which of the following pushed America closer towards a secession crisis in the late 1820s because the South felt it would suffer and the North benefited from it
Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations)
The rechartering of the Second Bank of the US
Ratification of the Constitution
the adoption of the Bill of Rights
Which of the following were examples of arguments for states' rights (multiple answers)
The War of 1812
Secession Crisis of 1860 and 1861
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
The South had many disadvantages during the Civil War. Which of the following was an example of an ADVANTAGE during the Civil War (multiple answers)
Better military leadership
more manufacturing
more railroads
fighting a defensive war on their own land
Which document or speech reshaped the Civil War from a war about secession to a war to end slavery?
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's Second Inaugural
Th Fifteenth Amendment
Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was to be:
swift and as easy as possible for the Rebels
hard a punishing for the rebels
it would be simple but it would involve executions for the top Confederate officers and politicians
Lincoln did not have a plan for Reconstruction
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 was implemented to
help punish the Confederates
protect the Freedmen after the passage and ratification of the 14th and 15th amendments
protect the former Confederates after the completion of their requirements to be readmitted to the Union
help reshape the boundaries of the former Confederate states
Vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Knights of the White Camelia:
Used violence to intimidate freedmen from voting
Gave charity to the local freedmen and poor whites after the destruction of the Civil War
Were a tool used by the Republican Party to increase voting after the Civil War
Used violence to intimidate poor ex-confederates from voting
progressive politicians pushed to:
end regulation on businesses so they could become more profitable and thereby hire more people
limit the amount of people who could work for big businesses
an increase of pay for the Union bosses
regulate big business in the interest of protecting the workers and consumer
Which of the following WAS NOT a progressive politican
Theodor Roosevelt
Warren Harding
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
The nineteenth amendment established:
Women's Suffrage
Universal Men's Suffrage
Federal Income Tax
Two Term Limit for Presidents
Which of the following campaigned for women's right to vote (multiple answers)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Carrie Chapman Catt
Susan B Anthony
Dorothea Dix
The Dawes Act:
ended the Indian Reservation System and pushed Indians to live on their own individual property outside of their tribal system
gave Indians the ability to create territorial legislatures and send representatives to Congress
repealed the Treaty of new Echota
provided millions for tribal infrastructure (building roads, telegraph lines, railroads)
What group of people brought public attention to awful conditions in the factories and tenement housing in the cities?
Yellow Journalists
Bull Moose Party
Conservative Republicans
Muckrakers
Which of the following was a famous muckraking photographer?
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
Sam McClure
The Roosevelt Corollary was intended to:
Allow for better relations between the US and European nations over the colonization of Central and South America
Reassert America's sole power in the Western Hemisphere and to not allow European colonization in Central and South America
Bring an end to the Russo-Japanese War
Create the Panama Canal
How did the industrial revolution HURT farmers?
The produced TOO MANY crops through mechanical tractors
They could not keep up with demand because of the new freedmen
They could not afford the tractors and created a recession because of the lack of demand
People moved off the farms and into the cities because of more jobs and the farm economy crashed
The fear of being tied to an alliance that could bring America into another war was a leading factor for
the senate refusing to give money under the Marshall Plan
the senate overriding Woodrow Wilson's veto of the Fordney McCumber Tariff
the senate refusing to ratify the Treaty of Versailles
the senate providing money under the Marshall Plan
Which of the following WAS NOT a reason for the United States entry into the war
The Zimmerman Telegram
Germany's Unrestricted Submarine warfare
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Election of Woodrow Wilson
A desire to find raw materials and new markets lead America to:
isolationism
expansionism and imperialism
declare war on Germany
the progressive movement
which of the following foreign diplomacy programs is INCORRECTLY matched up?
Theodore Roosevelt- Dollar Diplomacy
Woodrow Wilson- Moral Diplomacy
Theodore Roosevelt-Big Stick Diplomacy
William Howard Taft- Dollar Diplomacy
Secretary of State John Hay's plan to get American access to trade in China without controlling territory was told through his:
Manifest Destiny
Roosevelt Corollary
Emancipation Proclamation
Open Door Note
Installment plans were a new way in the 1920s for Americans to:
Purchase a good without paying for it completely upfront
Purchase a good at a discount price
have new appliances installed in their house
buy stocks
President Franklin Roosevelt aimed to end any form of opposition to his New Deal plans through
Court Packing Scheme
Executive Order 8802
Executive Order 9066
Agricultural Adjustment Act
buying on margin is the process of
Someone who sells stocks for less than what it is worth, then borrows the difference in the hopes of making money
Someone who buys stocks for less than what it is worth, then sells it off losing money
Someone who buys stocks for less than what it is worth, then borrows the difference in the hopes of making money
Someone who buys stocks for more than what it is worth, then borrows the difference in the hopes of making money
What was the reaction to the attack on the Bonus Army?
Many saw it as a reason not to re-elect Herbert Hoover
Many saw it as a reason to re-elect Herbert Hoover
Many saw it as a reason to re-elect Franklin D Roosevelt
Many saw it as a reason not to re-elect Franklin D Roosevelt
The Public Works Administration was intended to provide:
employment
loans to farmers
aid to senior citizens
support for banks
forcing Japanese Americans into internment camps through the Executive order 9066 was supported by the Supreme Court in
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Korematsu v United States
Dennis v United States
Executive Order 8802
Which of the following contributed to suburbanization (people moving out of the cities and into the suburbs)?
Eisenhower Interstate System
The Cold War
Korean War
The Great Depression
The Lend-Lease Act:
Shifted Americans from interventionists to isolationists between World War I and World War II
Shifted Americans from isolation to becoming involved in foreign affairs between World War I and World War II
Provided money to the Axis Powers during World War II
Gave Franklin Roosevelt the power invade Germany
The United States relationships with Cuba and the Soviet Union due to the: (multiple answers)
Cuban Revolution
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Hungarian Revolution
Domino theory is the belief that:
if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect
if one land in a region came under the influence of capitalism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect
if one land in a region came under the influence of anarchism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect
if one land in a region came under the influence of democracy, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect
McCarthyism is:
providing aid to European non-communist countries after World War II
providing proper evidence for a Senate hearing
making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
having a trial and convicting members of the Communist Party
Which of the following frightened Americans and pushed Congress to increase spending on science and mathematics to keep up with the Soviets in the Space Race?
Soviets exploding the Hydrogen Bomb
Soviets invading Berlin
Soviets launching Sputnik into space
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Sit-Ins, Freedom Rides and marches were all examples of:
protests during the Civil Rights Era to bring attention to racial inequality in the American South
forms of protest to bring attention to the inequalities Indians suffered from in the West on reservations
forms of protest to bring attention to the inequalities Mexican Americans suffered from in the southwest in cities like Los Angeles
forms of protest to bring attention to the inequalities poor whites suffered from in the mountain region in the American South
Brown v Board of Education established:
Separate But Equal was no longer legal except for in public schools
Separate But Equal was no longer legal including in public schools
Teachers could legally teach evolution
Principals had the ability to admit Black students after they interviewed them
The fear of the spread of international communism after World War II lead to which of the following (multiple answers)
Containment
McCarthyism
House on UnAmerican Activities hearings (HUAC)
Arab Oil Embargo of 1973
President Lyndon Johnson vowed that poverty and racial injustice would be eliminated, and economic opportunity would be available for all through his program of:
New Deal
Fair Deal
New Frontier
Great Society
Which group was identified with increased opposition to the war in Vietnam, major reforms in Civil Rights and American college campuses and a conservative backlash against protesters and "radicals"
New Left
New Right
NAACP
Moral Majority
Which lowered restrictions and allowed for better trade between United States, Mexico and Canada?
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
NATO (North Atlantic Trade Organization)
Warsaw Pact
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Citizens' security can outweigh citizens' rights happened as a result of (multiple answers)
Red Scare
World War II
September 11th Attacks
Persian Gulf War
The Oregon Territory was split between the United States and Britain under which expansionist president?
Martin Van Buren
James Polk
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Why did the election of 1824 go to the House?
No candidate got a majority of electoral votes
No candidate got a plurality of electoral votes
The President and VP got the same number of votes
Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton
Which amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law for all people born in the United States?
13th
14th
15th
16th
Where did the majority of the Okies attempt to move to?
California
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
President Hoover believed that the government providing direct relief to individuals was:
the only way to save the American people.
unconstitutional
the first step in a long recovery
the last step in a long recovery
The first thing that FDR did as president (two days after his inauguration) was
pushed through the Works Progress Administration
began Fireside Chats
Fired his Secretary of State
pushed through the Emergency Banking Bill
Interventionists were:
In favor of joining the war to help stop German expansion
Not in favor of joining the war in any capacity
In favor of giving aid to Great Britain but not sending the American military
In favor of joining the war, but only to stop Japanese expansion
The plan to exterminate the Jews from Germany-controlled regions was called:
Kristallnacht
Mein Kampf
Final Solution
The Wave
Which event in the 1940s reflected a major milestone in
achieving the second victory described in this excerpt?
"The symbol of black participation [during World War II] was ‘the Double V.’ In other words, ‘Double V’ meant two victories: victory against the enemy abroad, and victory against the
enemy at home. The enemy at home of course being racism,discrimination, prejudice and Jim Crow."
Bill DeShields, founder of the Black Military History Institute of America
passage of the GI Bill to provide veteran’s benefits
the executive order desegregating the military
establishment of the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe
the formation of an international peacekeeping organization
The United States government's Termination Policy:
Encouraged Indians to assimilate to white American society
Pushed for the final extinction of the Indians
Helped to address the unjust treatment of Asian Americans during World War II
Terminated the Black Panther Party
Which event lasted for 380 days and forced desegregation?
Montgomery County Bus Boycott
Sit Ins at Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counters
The Freedom Rides
The federalization of the Arkansas National Guard
Which law was passed by Congress soon after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fair Housing Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Brown v. Board
How did President Johnson escalate the war in Vietnam?
He ordered a massive bombing campaign of North Vietnam and Cambodia known as Rolling Thunder
He sent hundreds of advisers to inspect the ongoing Vietnamese civil unrest
He ordered the CIA to kill South Vietnamese president Ngo Dien Diem
He gave hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid to South Vietnam but none to North Vietnam
Nixon believed __________________ gave him the right to refuse to cooperate with investigators and refuse to turn over the White House tapes of conversations.
fake news
Warren Commission
Kerner Commission
Executive Privilege
The USSR's invasion of Afghanistan was too expensive and lead Mikhail Gorbachev to propose
gulags
To double down (increase) the invasion of Afghanistan
a treaty with Afghanistan
perestroika and glastnost
