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Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the name of the Father of the American Factory System?

a)

Samuel Slater

b)

Samuel Morse

c)

Robert Fulton

d)

John Deere

2.

What was the 1,300-mile-long route from Illinois to Utah that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled for 3 months?

a)

Oregon Trail

b)

California Trail

c)

Santa Fe Trail

d)

Mormon Trail

3.

Which State tried to nullify the Tariff of 1828?

a)

Missouri

b)

Georgia

c)

Oklahoma

d)

South Carolina


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4.

Which State tried to nullify the Tariff of 1828?

a)

Missouri

b)

Georgia

c)

Oklahoma

d)

South Carolina

5.

What was the name of the 2nd leg of the Triangular Trade, in which the slaves traveled over 2000 miles to North America?

a)

Trail of Tears

b)

Interstate Commerce

c)

Middle Passage

d)

Indian Spice Trade

6.

What law will cause the events of Bleeding Kansas?

a)

Indian Removal Act of 1830

b)

Kansas Nebraska Act

c)

Chinese Exclusion Act

d)

Fugitive Slave Act

7.

What is agreement called when the U.S. paid Mexico $10 million for southern parts of NM and AZ?

a)

Treaty of New Echota

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Gadsden Purchase

d)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

8.

Which of the following had the GREATEST impact on the growth of cities in the late 1800s?

a)

The onset of the Spanish-American War

b)

The success of the Harlem Renaissance

c)

The introduction of the automobile

d)

The expansion of industry

9.

What was the name of the journey when Africans were shipped as slaves to N. America?

a)

Columbian Exchange

b)

Trail of Tears

c)

Oregon Trail

d)

Middle Passage

10.

What event occurred in 1838-1839 when the US government forced the Cherokee off of their land in GA?

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Comstock Lode

c)

Trail of Tears

d)

Oregon Trail

11.

Why did the urbanization of the NorthEastern area of the US happen?

a)

Gold Rush

b)

Cattle Industry was flourishing

c)

Giving away land to farmers

d)

Growth of Factories

12.

Which one of the following were NOT a reason for the Industrial Revolution starting in Great Britian/ England?

a)

The abundance of Natural Resources

b)

Time Zone Changes

c)

Navigable Waterways

d)

The abundance of Labor/Workers

13.

What the purchase of present-day CA, NV, and UT from Mexico was paid $15 Million called in 1848?

a)

Mexican Cession

b)

Compromise of 1820

c)

Louisiana Purchase

d)

Gadsden Purchase

14.

What were the "safe houses" called along the Underground Railroad?

a)

Conductor

b)

Station

c)

Speakeasies

d)

Caboose

15.

What a town called that has undergone rapid growth due to sudden prosperity?

a)

Boomtown

b)

Ruralization

c)

Ghost town

d)

Big Apple

16.

What was the phrase that President Polk used to campaign for the highest possible northmost border of Oregeon Territory but he compromised with the British and settled with the 49th Parallel?

a)

Oregon or Bust!

b)

Remember the Alamo!

c)

Know Nothing!

d)

Fifty-four forty or fight!

17.

What term is defined as an increase in population that causes towns to transform into cities?

a)

Annexation

b)

Urbanization

c)

Nullification

d)

Ratification

18.

What was the name of the journey from Europe to Africa, Africa to N. America, N. A to Europe called?

a)

Columbian Exhange

b)

Triangular Trade

c)

Trail of Tears

d)

Underground Railroad

19.

What was the name of the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which exposed the cruelties and inhumanity of the slave system?

a)

Fugitive Slave Law

b)

Uncle Tom's cabin

c)

Grapes of Wrath

d)

Of Mice and Men

20.

What was the name of the journey pioneered in 1821 that allowed Americans to trade with Mexicans?

a)

Oregon Trail

b)

California Trail

c)

Santa Fe Trail

d)

Trail of Tears

21.

What was the name of the event that started in 1838, because of the passage of the Indian Removal Act?

a)

Mexican American War

b)

Trail of Tears

c)

Middle Passage

d)

Indian Spice Trade

22.

What was the name of the 2,000 mile trip that pioneers took from Independence, Missouri to Portland?

a)

Triangular Trade

b)

Oregon Trail

c)

Trail of Tears

d)

Santa Fe Trail

23.

Which one of the following were NOT one of the 5 Civilized Native American tribes living in the SouthEastern part of the US?

a)

Creek

b)

Cherokee

c)

Seminole

d)

Sioux

24.

What is the current southernmost border of Texas that President Polk was willing to fight the Mexican American War over in 1845?

a)

Nueces River

b)

Gila River

c)

Rio Colorado

d)

Rio Grande

25.

What term is defined as a concept in which states could void any federal law they deemed unconstitutional.

a)

Ratification

b)

Nullification

c)

Annexation

d)

Popular Sovereignty

26.

What was the agreement that allowed California to become a state?

a)

Mexican Cession

b)

Gadsden Purchase

c)

Compromise of 1820

d)

Compromise of 1850

27.

What law was passed which allowed slaves to be returned back to slavery if they have been found in Free Sates?

a)

Tariff of 1828

b)

Fugitive Slave Act

c)

Compromise of 1820

d)

Compromise of 1850

28.

What was the name of the law that limited the number of immigrants from China coming into the US in 1882?

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Chinese Quota Act

c)

Americans Only Act

d)

Opium Avoidance Act

29.

what was the battle fought in the war for texan Independence on April 21, 1836, making Texas its' own country/Republic?

a)

Battle of San Jacinto

b)

First Battle of Tabasco

c)

Battle of Veracruz

d)

Battle of the Sacramento River

30.

What's the name of the law that forced Native Americans out of the SouthEast & move to Indian Territory (OK) in 1830?

a)

Tariff of 1828

b)

Indian Removal Act

c)

Treaty of New Echota

d)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

31.

What was the Supreme Court case called in which they ruled that Native American tribes were sovereign states and could make decisions for themselves, this included the Cherokee?

a)

Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857

b)

Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824

c)

Mcculloch v. Maryland, 1819

d)

Worcester V. Georgia, 1831

32.

What country did Texas win their independence from in 1836?

a)

Spain

b)

mexico

c)

france

d)

canada

33.

What was the name of the event when miners came from all over and different nationalities in 1849?

a)

Gold Rush

b)

California Trail

c)

Underground Railroad

d)

Trail of Tears

34.

What was the name of the war (1846-1848) that was fought because the US wanted the Rio Grande to be the southernmost boarder of the newly annexed state in 1845?

a)

War for Texan Independence

b)

American Revolutionary War

c)

War of 1812

d)

Mexican American War

35.

What was the battle cry of the War for Texan Independence?

a)

Oregon or Bust!

b)

Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!

c)

Remember the Alamo!

d)

Indians will survive

36.

When Maine was admitted as a free state through the Compromise of 1820, what was the 11th slave state admitted to the Union to help keep the balance between free and slave states?

a)

Missouri

b)

Maine

c)

Massachusetts

d)

Mississippi

37.

After which war was Mexico forced to agree to the Mexican Cession?

a)

Spanish-American War

b)

Mexican American War

c)

War for Texan Independence (Tex-Mex War)

d)

The Annexation of Texas

38.

What was the name of the religious group that followed Joseph Smith (after Bringham Young died), from Illinois to Utah to escape religious persecution?

a)

Christians

b)

Hebrews

c)

Muslims

d)

Mormans

39.

What was the name of the painting that depicted Manifest Destiny and the recent advancements in communication and transportation?

a)

American West

b)

American Progress

c)

Trail of Tears

d)

Cowboys and Indians

40.

In the Compromise of 1820, the state of Maine was accepted as ______ state?

a)

Industrial

b)

Free

c)

Slave

d)

Minning

41.

What event occurred in 1849, which urbanized California so quickly that it became a state the next year in 1850?

a)

Mexican- American War

b)

Comstock Lode

c)

Gadsden Purchase

d)

CA Gold Rush

42.

Who invented the telegram and created a code that was used to decipher the messages sent over the telegram?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

John Deere

c)

Samuel Morse

d)

Eli Whitney

43.

What was the name of the network/journey that runaway slaves used to escape to Canada?

a)

Trail of Tears

b)

Comstock lode

c)

Underground Railroad

d)

Nat Turner Rebellion

44.

What was the latitudinal degree of the Mason Dixon line that divided the Free States from the Slave States in the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

a)

b)

36°30′

c)

32°28′

d)

45.

What was the name of the most famous conductor whom others have referred to as Moses?

a)

Fredrick Douglass

b)

William Still

c)

Lucreitta Mott

d)

Harriet Tubman