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Statehood, The West and Civil War Exam Review

Total questions: 75

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Thomas Jefferson was a states righter.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

The Louisiana Territory was one million square miles.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Mountain men built beautiful homes.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Lewis and Clark went as far as the Pacific Ocean.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

It took Lewis and Clark over two years to explore the Louisiana Territory.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Lewis and Clark used an Indian girl called Sacajawea for a guide.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Federalists wanted the states to have all the power.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

No one won the War of 1812.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The Oregon Territory was claimed by Russia.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Texas first belonged to Mexico.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

At the Alamo, Mexicans killed 150 Texans.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Gold was discovered in 1848 at Sutter's Mill, California.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Thousands of people found great gold nuggets in the gold fields of California.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Elisha Duncan built a road out of Golden, Colorado.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Slavery was outlawed in the Northwest Territory.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

No other amendments have ever been added to the Constitution.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Thomas Jefferson saw to it that the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

California became a state without ever being a territory.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

The cotton gin could sort cotton from seeds 50 times faster than a man.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Northern factory workers thought of themselves as slaves.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

John Deere made a new lightweight plow.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

Robert Fulton invented the steamboat.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

By 1816, the South like the tariffs on European goods.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

The Fugitive Slave Law required that all runaway slaves be returned to their owners.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

Southerners saw Abraham Lincoln as their friend.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Lincoln was shot after the Civil War was over.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

After the Revolution, America owed 39,000,000 dollars.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

Robert E. Lee led the Union Forces.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

Millions of black Africans were shipped to America to slave in the tobacco fields.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

The Constitution cut federal power into three parts: the President, the Congress, and the Supreme Court.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

First 10 amendments to the Constitution.

a)

States Righters

b)

Federalists

c)

Bill of Rights

32.

Woman who helps with child birth.

a)

States Righters

b)

Granny Woman

c)

Kentucky Explorer

33.

Tax on goods brought into the country.

a)

Tariff

b)

Tax

c)

Long Rifle

34.

America's third President.

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Sam Huston

35.

River Valley in the Northwest territory.

a)

New Orleans

b)

State

c)

Ohio

36.

Key Port on the Mississippi.

a)

New Orleans

b)

California

c)

Ohio

37.

Invented the Cotton Gin.

a)

John Deere

b)

Robert Fulton

c)

Eli Whitney

38.

Sixteenth President of the US

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Abraham Lincoln

39.

Helped the Underground Railroad.

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Robert E. Lee

40.

Confederate President.

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Robert E. Lee

41.

I live in the state of ____.

a)

California

b)

Ohio

c)

New York

42.

Samuel Morse invented the __________.

a)

reaper machine

b)

steam engine

c)

telegraph

43.

A person who did not believe in slavery was an ____________.

a)

assassin

b)

abolitionist

c)

slave holder

44.

A new idea is an _____________.

a)

invention

b)

turnpikes

c)

toll road

45.

All of these were inventions after the Civil War except _______.

a)

Telephone

b)

Typewriter

c)

Computer

46.

Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Abraham Lincoln

47.

___________ was the turning point battle of the Civil War.

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Fort Sumter

c)

Appomattox

48.

The first state to secede was _____________.

a)

Alabama

b)

South Carolina

c)

Virginia

49.

_________ claimed the most land in the Northwest Territory.

a)

Alabama

b)

South Carolina

c)

Virginia

50.

The first explorer in Kentucky was ______________.

a)

Daniel Boone

b)

Alexander Hamilton

c)

Abraham Lincoln

51.

Great sums of money

a)

capital

b)

corportation

c)

horseless carriage

52.

A business with many owners

a)

capital

b)

corporation

c)

horseless carriage

53.

Automobile

a)

capital

b)

corporation

c)

horseless carriage

54.

Organized Working Women's Society

a)

haberdashery

b)

Leonora Reilly

c)

John D. Rockefeller

55.

A store with ready made clothes.

a)

haberdashery

b)

Leonora Reilly

c)

John D. Rockefeller

56.

John D Rockefeller

a)

Banking

b)

Steel

c)

Oil

57.

J.P. Morgan

a)

Banking

b)

Steel

c)

Oil

58.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

a)

Steel

b)

Railroads

c)

Oil

59.

Andrew Carnegie

a)

Steel

b)

Railroads

c)

Oil

60.

Who called these times the guilded age?

a)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Mark Twain

61.

Workers

a)

Bullwhackers

b)

Gilded

c)

Labor Force

62.

Laws added to the Constitution

a)

Bullwhackers

b)

Amendments

c)

Corporation

63.

Wagon drivers

a)

Bullwhackers

b)

Amendments

c)

Labor Force

64.

Something covered with gold.

a)

Bullwhackers

b)

Gilded

c)

Amendments

65.

The two railroads met in _____.

a)

Texas

b)

Missouri

c)

Utah

66.

The Central Pacific used ___________ workers.

a)

Irish

b)

Chinese

c)

Mexican

67.

The Union Pacific Railroad used _______ to lay track.

a)

Irish

b)

Chinese

c)

Mexican

68.

Name for Texas Cattle.

a)

Brand

b)

Longhorns

c)

Barbed Wire

69.

A type of fence used to cut off trials.

a)

Brand

b)

Longhorns

c)

Barbed Wire

70.

A trail from the Gulf of Mexico.

a)

Chisholm Trail

b)

Brand

c)

Longhorns

71.

Indian name for whiskey

a)

Longhorns

b)

Barbed Wire

c)

Fire Water

72.

Proof you owned a certain cow.

a)

Chisholm Trail

b)

Brand

c)

Longhorns

73.

Cows were shipped by train to __________.

a)

Abilene

b)

Chicago

c)

Cleveland

74.

The leader of the Modoc Indians was

a)

Buffalo Bill

b)

Captain Jack

75.

A famous buffalo hunter was ___________.

a)

Buffalo Bill

b)

Captain Jack