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WorksheetsAmerican History Final 10th
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins
On the map above, what does the shaded area show?
free states
slave states
eastern states
northern states
Why did sectional differences develop in the United States?
Federal Government adopted a policy of neutrality
economic conditions and interests in each region varied
only northerners were represented at the Constitutional Convention
early Presidents favored urban areas over rural areas
The North: Which of the following factors led to the development of industry in the North?
monies earned from trade and shipbuilding for investment
a wealth of natural resources in the region
subsidies from the fed government
a surplus of food to feed factory workers
The North: Prior to 1850, what was the main reason the North developed an economy increasingly based on manufacturing while the South continued to rely on an economy based on agriculture?
Protective tariffs applied only to northern seaports
Geographic conditions supported different types of economic activity
Slavery in the North promoted rapid economic growth
Manufacturers failed to make a profit in the South
Which region of the U.S. became the center for banking and finance in the early 1800s?
The North
The South
The Northwest
The Southwest
The North: Which of the following factors helped to make New England America's first industrial region?
only a few rivers to interfere with transportation
the availability of investment capital from foreign bankers
a surplus of young women to work in the mills
a ready supply of cotton grown in the region
The North: Which of the following federal policies was most popular in the North?
westward expansion
the protective tariff
cheap land in the west
internal improvements
The North: How did the growing population in the North affect politics?
the North gained greater representation in the Senate
The North gained greater representation in the House of Representatives
Immigrants started their own political party
Northerners were elected President
Which region did the majority of immigrants travel to in the first half of the 1800s?
The North
The South
The far West
the Southwest
The South: What was the major effect of the cotton gin?
a decline in the southern slave population
a decline in the size of Southern farms
an increase in cotton production
an increase in the import of manufactured goods
The South: Which of the following was responsible for the spread of cotton growing into the old Southwest in the early 1800s?
a government policy making free land available to settlers
Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin
the assimilation of the Cherokee
cultivation of new crops in the Old South
Why did the climate and topography of the southeastern U.S. have a major impact on the history of the U.S. before 1860?
because it became the center of commerce and manufaturing
because it developed as the largest domestic source of steel production
because it provided agricultural products that were processed in the North and in Europe
because it was the area in which most immigrants chose to settle
The South: Which of the following federal policies was SUPPORTED in the South?
the protective tariff
the national bank
internal improvements
territorial expansion
The West: What was a major effect of the introduction of the cotton gin?
a decline in southern slave population
a decline in size of southern farms
an increase of westward expansion of slavery
an increase in the import of manufactured goods to the north
The West: Which of the following contributed to rising prices for farm goods in the early 1800s?
declining farm output in the West
increasing demand for farm products in the East
declining exports of wheat and corn to Europe
increasing availability of land in the West
The West: Which of the following federal policies was most popular in the West?
the national bank
the protective tariff
internal improvements
embargo on shipping
Political Controversies: in the 1820-1850 time period, which section of the US most opposed a protective tariff?
West
Northeast
South
Northwest
Political Controversies: Which region opposed the creation of the Bank of the US in the 1790s?
the West
the Northeast
the South
the Midwest
Which region supported the policies of cheap government land, internal improvements, and unregulated banks?
The North
The West
The East
The South
Why did the people of the West and the South oppose the national bank in the 1830s?
They thought it gave too much power to the Northeast
They objected to the low interest rates
They opposed land speculation allowed by banking policies
They wanted the Bank to be regulated by the government
Political Controversies: Why did the people of the Northeast support the protective tariff before the Civil War?
they shipped manufactured goods to foreign markets
the goods they manufactured would be less costly than imported goods
to reduce the tariff rates
the entire country was more strongly united politically
Which of the following was NOT a reason Texas fought against Santa Anna
He demanded that Texans pay taxes on U.S. goods.
He wanted more power than the Constitution gave him.
He was not elected fairly.
He sent troops into Texas.
What early battle gave Texans the courage to start a revolution?
The Battle of the Alamo
March on San Antonio
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Gonzales
Why did Santa Anna demand that Texans pay taxes on foods from the U.S.?
to encourage trade between the U.S. and Mexico
So that Texans would trade with Mexico only.
So that Texans would return all their goods to the United States.
So that Texans would make their own goods.
Why did Texans attack a Mexican fort at Goliad?
to take a Mexican canon with a flag on it.
to get back at Mexico for attacking Gonzales.
to protect settlers from Mexican soldiers.
to demand that the Mexican taxes stop at once.
When Abraham Lincoln was older, he became a _____.
Who was Lincoln's rival
Stephen Douglas
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
An open seat in the Senate for the state of Illinois led to a series of discussions on the issue of slavery.
Missouri Compromise
Presidential Election of 1860
Kansas Nebraska Act
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
An 1854 decision that allowed the new states of Nebraska and Kansas to decide the issue of slavery in their states through popular sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Nullification Crisis
Fighting that occurred over whether to enter the Union as a free state or as a slave state.
Secession
Bleeding Kansas
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Balanced power in the Senate and divided the Louisiana Territory into free and slave sections at the 36° 30′ line.
Louisiana Purchase
Sectionalism
Missouri Compromise
Abolitionists
A network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada.
Underground Railroad
Slave owners
Ku Klux Klan
Bleeding Kansas
Law that decreed that escaped slaves who had been caught had to be returned to their owners.
Popular Sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas
Secession
Fugitive Slave Act
Militant abolitionist leader who was executed for trying to start a slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry.
Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
People who fought against the continuation of slavery and other reform movements.
Slave runners
Abolitionists
Freedom riders
Secessionists
Putting the interests of the nation behind those of one’s own region.
Sectionalism
Secession
Nationalism
Patriotism
States gained power through this process which allows voters to decide on issues that will affect them.
Democracy
Referendums
Mandates
Popular Sovereignty
She exposed the cruel aspects of slavery to the world with her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Harriet Tubman
Sarah Grimke
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sectional crisis that dealt with South Carolina’s anger over federal tariff law.
Nullification Crisis
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
He unsuccessfully sued for his freedom because he had been taken to Free states.
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott
The formal withdrawal of states from the Union.
Abolitionists
Sectionalism
Secession
Bleeding Kansas
This event leads to the secession of Southern states starting in the winter of 1860.
Lincoln Douglas Debates.
Nullification Crisis.
Presidential Election of 1860.
Secession.
Winner of the 1860 presidential election who believed slavery should not be allowed to expand into the western territories.
Dred Scott
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
This put the Fugitive Slave Act into law and allowed territories to decide the issue of slavery based on the use of popular sovereignty.
Missouri Compromise
Bleeding Kansas
Compromise of 1850.
Lincoln Douglas Debates
The Supreme Court ruling in 1856 that stated slaves were not and never could be citizens.
Lincoln Douglas Debates
Dred Scott Decision.
Bleeding Kansas
Fugitive Slave Act
By 1700, the most populous colony in English America was
Massachusetts
Virginia
New York
Pennsylvania
Seventeenth-century colonial tobacco growers usually responded to depressed prices for their crop by
selling slaves to reduce productive labor.
selling land to reduce their volume of production
growing more tobacco to increase their volume of production.
releasing unneeded indentured servants early.
Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by
young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land and find women to marry.
the planter class of Virginia.
those protesting the increased importation of African slaves.
people from Jamestown only.
As a result of Bacon's Rebellion
the economic aspirations of discontented backcountry frontiersmen was eased considerably.
planters sought African slaves to replace discontented backcountry fontiersmen as laborers.
Governor Berkeley was dismissed from office.
Nathaniel Bacon was named to head the Virginia militia.
All of the following are reasons for increased reliance on slave labor, after 1680, in colonial America except
higher wages in England reduced the number of emigrating servants.
planters feared the growing number of landless freemen in the colonies.
Americans rushed to cash in on the slave trade.
the development of wheat as a staple crop in the British colonies.
It was atypical of colonial New England adults to
marry late and have no children.
be unable to read and write.
arrive in New England unmarried.
live solitary lives.
The social glue that formed the basis of tightly knit New England society was
small villages and farms.
black slavery.
the wealthy planter-merchant class.
the royal charter.
The Puritan system of Congregational Church government logically led to
an authoritarian political government.
the early establishment of religious toleration.
democracy in political government.
the end of town meetings.
The Half-Way Covenant
allowed full communion for all nonconverted members.
strengthened the distinction between the elect and all others.
resulted in a decrease in church members.
allowed the children of unconverted existing members to be baptized but not full members of the church.
The Salem witchtrials were
a result of Roger Williams's activities.
the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachussetts.
caused by ergot in the Puritans' bread.
accusations made by the daughters of business owners.
During the Salem witchcraft trials, most of those accused as witches were
property-owning women
from the ranks of poor families.
primarily un-Christian
women in their late teens.
The New England economy depended heavily on
slave labor
tobacco
fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce.
rice production.
The work and family schedules of the overwhelming majority of early American colonists were set by
the cycles of the season and the sun.
the demands of commerical merchant employers.
the distinctive laws of each American colony.
the mothers and wives of American colonial fathers and husbands.
As head of Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros was all of the following except
an able military man.
a Puritan.
concientious.
tactless.
The Dutch colony of New Netherland (later New York)
allowed only Dutch immigrants to settle there.
was established for its quick profit of fur trading.
tolerated Quakers from nearby Pennsylvania.
supported free speech and other democratic practices.
Colonists in both the North and the South established differences in all of the following areas except
patterns of settlement
economies
political systems
values
allegiance to England
John Calvin profoundly affected the thought of all of the following except
Spanish Armenians
New England Puritans
Scottish Presbyterians
the Dutch Reformed Church
In Calvinist thought, the "conversion" was
something experienced as a group
earned by a person's good works.
a Catholic heresy
a personal experience when God revealed an individual's heavenly destiny.
In Puritan doctrine, the "elect" were also referred to as
Separatists
patroons
visible saints
Pilgrims
English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called
headrights
burgesses
indentured servants
slaves
The legislative branch of England which is responsible for "making laws" & is similar to out Congress is entitled?
Parliament
First Estate
Bundestag
Federal Assembly
In which year did the colonist declare their independence?
1750
1776
1812
1836
Who was the monarch that the colonists were opposed to at the time of the American Revolution?
Henry VIII
George III
Elizabeth I
Isabella I
Who supported independence for the colonies?
Patriots
Loyalist
Who was the leader of the Revolutionary War?
Benjamin Franklin
Paul Revere
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
American allies during the Revolution:
England, France
France, Spain
France, Mexico
Germany, Mexico
Frenchman who not only helped soldiers buy providing clothing, but fought along side them throughout the war.
Von Steuben
Layfayette
Washington
King Louis XVI
Most famous traitor in U.S. History:
Burgoyne
St. Leger
Howe
Benedict Arnold
What river did George Washington cross on Christmas Eve for a sneak attack on Hessian soldiers in the Battle of Trenton?
Mississippi River
Hudson River
Delaware River
Massachusetts River
