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Early 1800s NC and US

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Napoleon Bonaparte sold WHAT TERRITORY to the United States in 1803?

a)

Canada

b)

Louisiana

c)

California

d)

Quebec

2.

In 1804, who led the famous expedition to explore and map the newly-added western United States?

a)

Orville and Wilbur Wright

b)

Amundsen and Livingston

c)

DeSoto and Verrazano

d)

Lewis and Clark

3.

Shawnee chief and warrior who led resistance efforts against U.S. westward expansion

a)

Sequoyah

b)

Tippecanoe

c)

Tecumseh

d)

Geronimo

4.

War in which British troops invaded the United States and burned the Capitol

a)

War for Independence

b)

War of 1812

c)

Civil War

d)

Spanish American War

5.

Who wrote "the Star Spangled Banner"?

a)

Francis Scott Key

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

William Hartmann

d)

Abraham McHenry

6.

Characterized by the growth of factories and new technologies

a)

American Revolution

b)

French Revolution

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Haitian Revolution

7.

Built the Prometheus, the first steamboat in North Carolina

a)

David Walker

b)

George Moses Horton

c)

Abraham Galloway

d)

Otway Burns

8.

The site of the first documented gold find in the United States

a)

North Carolina

b)

California

c)

Nevada

d)

Colorado

9.

Born in North Carolina, moved to Boston, known for his "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Abraham Galloway

c)

Thomas Paine

d)

David Walker

10.

1. Admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state, Maine as a free state

2. Banned slavery above a certain line of latitude

3. States in the future would be admitted in pairs, one slave and one free

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Great Compromise

d)

Maine Compromise

11.

Policy of a U.S. president that said the Americas were off limits to future European colonization

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Monroe Doctrine

d)

The New Deal

12.

Name given to the forced removal of Native Americans to western lands

a)

Trail of Tears

b)

Oregon Trail

c)

Lewis and Clark Expedition

d)

Appalachian Trail

13.

The belief that the United States' expansion across the continent was approved by God

a)

Expansionism

b)

Checks and Balances

c)

Popular Sovereignty

d)

Manifest Destiny

14.

This southern state declared independence from Mexico and formed its own country for several years

a)

New Mexico

b)

Texas

c)

Arizona

d)

Utah

15.

Woman who escaped slavery, worked for abolition and women's rights, and was known for her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech

a)

Harriet Jacobs

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Eleanor Roosevelt

d)

Sojourner Truth

16.

War in which the United States gained territory, ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

a)

War of Mexican Independence

b)

Spanish American War

c)

Mexican American War

d)

War of 1812

17.

Nickname given to North Carolina in the early 1800s: The __________ state

a)

Education

b)

Rip Van Winkle

c)

Industrial

d)

Christmas Tree

18.

African American enslaved man who sold his poems in Chapel Hill in order to purchase his freedom

a)

David Walker

b)

Abraham Galloway

c)

George Moses Horton

d)

Nat Turner

19.

Network of people, houses, and routes that helped enslaved people travel to freedom

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Race to Freedom

c)

Freedom Trail

d)

Oregon Trail

20.

Enslaved Muslim man who lived in North Carolina and wrote his autobiography in Arabic (the only known Arabic autobiography of a slave in America)

a)

Omar ibn Said

b)

Muhammed Rahimi

c)

Ari Nasser

d)

Ahmed Bahara

21.

Developed a written Cherokee alphabet

a)

Standing Rock

b)

Sitting Bull

c)

Tecumseh

d)

Sequoyah

22.

Enslaved woman from North Carolina who wrote "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"

a)

Harriet Knox

b)

Harriet Turner

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Harriet Jacobs

23.

North Carolina changed its state constutution in 1835 so that ______________ could no longer vote

a)

women

b)

free blacks

c)

enslaved blacks

d)

poor people