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US History EOC Review

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 4hrs 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What areas were geographically connected by "Triangular Trade"?

a)

Europe, Asia, Africa

b)

North America, Europe, Africa

c)

North America, South America, Asia

d)

North America, Europe, Asia

2.

What was the Great Awakening?

a)

A justification for slavery

b)

Opening of American eyes to the horrors of slavery

c)

Revival that swept across the colonies during 18th Century

d)

Movement pushing women's education

3.

What was another name for the French and Indian war (Fought 1756-1763)?

a)

Great War

b)

War of the Roses

c)

7 Years War

d)

King Philip's War

4.

1765 British Tax on all documents that angered colonists?

a)

Tea Act

b)

Paper Act

c)

Stamp Act

d)

Townshend Acts

5.

Who did the Declaration of Independence blame for "repeated injuries and usurpations"?

a)

Parliament

b)

King George III

c)

British Merchants

d)

George Washington

6.

What did the Treaty of Paris of 1783 do?

a)

Ended the French and Indian War

b)

Grant the United States freedom from Great Britain

c)

Freed Canada from the British

d)

Ended the slave trade

7.

The Articles of Confederation showed American distrust of ______________

a)

Strong Central Government

b)

States Rights

c)

The Military

d)

American citizens

8.

What name was given to people who supported adopting the Constitution?

a)

Federalists

b)

Whigs

c)

Tories

d)

Republicans

9.

What was the importance of the Whiskey Rebellion?

a)

States nullified federal law to quell the rebellion

b)

Federal Government used force to enforce laws

c)

It was the first rebellion over taxes

d)

It forced the nation to pass a prohibition law

10.

Resulted in a national purpose and unified Americans leading into the "Era of Good Feelings"

a)

Spanish-American War

b)

American Revolution

c)

War of 1812

d)

Civil War

11.

Which President would have most likely spoken on Indian Removal during his Inaugural Address?

a)

James Monroe

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

John Quincy Adams

d)

Andrew Jackson

12.

Major inspiration of social reforms during the 1840s and 1850s

a)

Second Great Awakening

b)

The Jungle

c)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

d)

The Enlightenment

13.

What did the Missouri Compromise deal with?

a)

Admission of Maine and California into the nation

b)

Expansion of slavery into the former Louisiana Territory

c)

Ending the slave trade in Washington DC

d)

Rights of states to negotiate treaties with other nations

14.

What groups were at odds with each other in "Bleeding Kansas"

a)

Free-Soilers and slavery supporters

b)

Federalists and Anti-Federalists

c)

Slaves and Masters

d)

Catholics and Protestants

15.

What Civil War battle stopped Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North?

a)

Atlanta

b)

Shiloh

c)

Gettysburg

d)

Vicksburg

16.

What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?

a)

Provide work, education, relief for former slaves

b)

Give 40 acres and a mule to each slave

c)

Get Radical Republicans into office in the south

d)

Get former slaves the vote

17.

What amendment abolished slavery?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amedment

c)

16th Amendment

d)

18th Amendment

18.

What company is John D. Rockefeller MOST associated with?

a)

Standard Oil

b)

US Steel

c)

General Motors

d)

General Electric

19.

What group built the Transcontinental Railroad from California going east?

a)

Irish

b)

Native Americans

c)

Chinese

d)

African Americans

20.

What invention had the greatest impact on destroying the way of life of Native Americans?

a)

Cars

b)

Railroad

c)

Telephone

d)

Steamboat

21.

Ida Tarbell was a muckraker that exposed the abuses in the ____________ industry

a)

Meatpacking

b)

Steel

c)

Tenement Buildings

d)

Oil

22.

Direct election of senators(17th amendment), women's suffrage(19th amendment), government regulations were important to ______

a)

Republicans

b)

Democrats

c)

Know-Nothings

d)

Progressives

23.

The United States gained control of _________ following the Spanish-American War

a)

Puerto Rico

b)

Portugal

c)

The Panama Canal

d)

Hawaii

24.

What was the official American policy at the beginning of World War I and World War II?

a)

Neutrality

b)

Fight for the Allies

c)

Provide war materials to the Axis

d)

Fight for the Axis

25.

What were the "14 Points"?

a)

Declaration of Neutrality

b)

Secretly aid the British in World War I

c)

14 reasons why Americans should not travel to Europe

d)

Wilson's plan for lasting peace following WWI

26.

What was the most popular form of mass entertainment after World War I?

a)

TV

b)

Radio

c)

Broadways

d)

College Football

27.

Hoovervilles can best be described as ________

a)

Projects that were set up in cities

b)

Shantytowns of homeless people during the Great Depression

c)

First planned suburbs outside of large cities

d)

Name given to the Housing and Urban Development Department

28.

Overproduction, Underconsumption, and the Stock Market Crash all led to ____________.

a)

World War II

b)

Smoot Hawley Tariff

c)

The Dust Bowl

d)

The Great Depression

29.

What did the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) provide to people in the Southeast?

a)

Food

b)

Laborers

c)

Electricity

d)

Money

30.

Why is December 7, 1941 "a date that will live in infamy"?

a)

The Allies invaded Normandy

b)

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

c)

France fell to Germany

d)

Japan invaded Manchuria(china)

31.

What led to the United States getting directly involved in World War II?

a)

Germany bombed England

b)

Zimmerman Note

c)

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

d)

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

32.

What was the Manhattan Project?

a)

US plans to invade Japan

b)

American development of Jet Engines

c)

American project to build the Atomic Bomb

d)

American plan to assassinate Hitler

33.

During WWII Japanese-Americans were ___________

a)

Denied liberty and property and placed in internment camps

b)

Treaty as badly as Jew in Germany

c)

Used as advisors against the Japanese

d)

Treated differently depending on when their family arrived

34.

What was the primary purpose of the Marshall Plan?

a)

Aid economic recovery of war torn Asia

b)

Stop the spread of communism around the world

c)

Establish peace between the United States and the Soviets

d)

Aid economic recovery of war torn Europe

35.

What issue was addressed in Brown v. Board of Education?

a)

Voting Rights

b)

Segregation

c)

Worker's rights

d)

Slavery

36.

What two nations almost went to nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

a)

The United States and the Soviet Union

b)

The United States and Cuba

c)

The Soviet Union and Cuba

d)

Auburn and Alabama

37.

What set of southern laws was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 designed to end?

a)

Habeas Corpus

b)

Black Codes

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Affirmative Action

38.

Civil Rights organization made up of African and American churches and first led by MLK

a)

NAACP

b)

SCLC

c)

SNCC

d)

ABCD

39.

In 1968 this Democratic presidential front runner was assassinated on June 5, 1968.

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Robert F. Kennedy

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

40.

What did the "Camp David Accords", negotiated by President Carter, hope to accomplish?

a)

Peace between Egypt and Israel

b)

A trade agreement between the United States and Soviet Union

c)

Peace between the United States and the Soviet Union

d)

Officially recognize communist China as a country.

41.

What was the outcome of the Watergate Scandal?

a)

Nixon was elected President

b)

Nixon was impeached but not found guilty

c)

Nixon resigns as president

d)

Nixon was impeached and removed from office

42.

What was the "spark" that set off the "War on Terror"?

a)

Pearl Harbor

b)

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

c)

September 11th, 2001

d)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

43.

Who won the Election of 2008?

a)

George W. Bush

b)

Barack Obama

c)

Hillary Clinton

d)

John McCain

44.

What did the Intolerable Acts seek to do?

a)

Tax colonist in order to pay off British debt

b)

Punish Massachusetts/Boston for the Boston Tea Party

c)

Require colonists to pay for British Military Supplies

d)

Stop all settlement to the west of the Appalachian Mountains

45.

Which core issue was the National Organization for Women (NOW) founded upon?

a)

provision for free day care

b)

entrance into the military

c)

equal pay in the workforce

d)

access to higher education

46.

Which action did President Carter take in response to the Iran Hostage Crisis?

a)

He ordered a military rescue that failed.

b)

He negotiated an exchange of prisoners.

c)

He asked the courts around the world to arbitrate.

d)

He ordered a blockade of the important ports in the area.

47.

All of these were part of what vision for America?

a)

The Truman Doctrine

b)

Roosevelt's New Deal

c)

Johnson's Great Society

d)

The Harlem Renaissance

48.

Which statement BEST describes the MAIN challenge to President Roosevelt's economic relief policies?

a)

Unions went on strike to stop the programs

b)

States voted against supporting the new programs

c)

The Supreme Court ruled the programs uncostitutional

d)

Opposition groups boycotted businesses that supported the programs.

49.

Which description correctly completes the diagram?

a)

Sunken American battleships.

b)

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

c)

Destroyed American skyscrapers

d)

Exploded nuclear Weapons

50.

Which technology aided in the settlement of the WEST during the period following the Civil War?

a)

Telegraph

b)

Light Bulb

c)

Railroad

d)

Automobile.