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WorksheetsThe BIG US History Review
Total questions: 135
Worksheet time: 34hrs 45mins
What group of Algonquians lived in Virginia?
Abenaki
Cherokee
Powhatan
Lenni Lenape
How did the French and Indian War cause the American Revolution?
The colonies seperated during the French and Indian War.
This was the first time the colonies united together to fight a common enemy.
The French and Indian war provided Great Britian with a lot of wealth.
The French and Indian war caused Great Britain to go into debt and levied taxes on the colony.
Why were the Intolerable acts created?
To destroy the coloniests
To punish the colonist for throwing tea in the boston harbor
to stop the Boston Massacre
This writing was published during the American Revolution and paved the way for the Declaration of Independence.
Rights of man
The American Crisis
Common Sense
Why was the Battle of Saratoga important?
First battle of the war
Bloodiest battle of the war
Turning point of the war
Last battle of the war
What was the last major battle of the American Revolution?
Trenton
Saratoga
Bunker Hill
Yorktown
After the Battle at Saratoga, who pledged foreign aid to the Americans?
Spain
France
Canada
Germany
What are the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution called?
Bill of Rights
Declaration of Rights & Privileges
Rights & Privileges of Man
Statute for Religious Freedom
What new political party did Jackson create?
Democrats
Republicans
Whigs
Know-Nothing Party
_______________ became the basis of the Southern economy and was a huge cash crop.
Corn
Wheat
Cotton
Tomato
Which factor encouraged more immigrants to settle in the northern states rather than the southern states?
They were more accepted in the northern states.
Citizenship requirements were lower in the south.
The northern states had more factories and more jobs.
Governments in the northern states had less corruption.
What does it mean to secede?
to leave the union
to leave America
to join the union
The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to
end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians
encourage manufacturing in the west
increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections
settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories
What law compelled the North to return runaway slaves back to the South?
Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Act
Abolition Act of 1850
Enslaved Persons Act
Who did the Confederate States elect as their president?
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglas
John Breckinridge
Jefferson Davis
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do for slaves?
It freed all slaves in southern states at war against the U.S.
It made slavery legal everywhere.
It forced runaway slaves to return to the South.
It gave former slaves voting rights.
Why did Lincoln exclude the Border States from the Emancipation Proclamation?
Slavery was already illegal in the Border States
Lincoln didn't have any power the in the Border States
The Border States worked out a compromise to keep slavery
He didn't want to give them a reason to side with the South
This act allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state, and Maine as a free state. It drew a boundary line to separate northern free states and southern slave states.
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Missouri Compromise 1820
What did the 13th Amendment do?
made slavery illegal
made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
gave black men the right to vote
gave former slaves land to begin farms
What did the 14th Amendment do?
made slavery illegal
made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
gave black men the right to vote
gave former slaves land to begin farms
What did the 15th Amendment do?
made slavery illegal
made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
gave black men the right to vote
gave former slaves land to begin farms
What was segregation?
equal treatment for all people
the forced separation of races
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
the period of time after the Civil War
What were Jim Crow Laws?
equal treatment for all people
laws that made segregation legal
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
the period of time after the Civil War
System of farming where farmers gave part of their crop to pay for the land they rented
Family-Farming
Sharecropping
Groupcropping
Split-Farming
People that wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in newspapers and magazines were called
Inside Reporters
Suffragists
Muckrakers
Yellow Journalists
Formation of national labor unions in the late 1800's was mainly because of
passage of laws that supported workers
laws restricting immigration
poor working conditions and low wages
economic depression that led to high unemployment
How does the government break up and prevent monopolies?
Increased Taxes
Antitrust legislation and regulation
Deregulation
Laissez-faire
This foreign policy idea promotes staying out of world affairs.
Imperialism
Isolationism
Globalism
Communism
This type of foreign policy encourages stronger nations to extend their influence over weaker ones.
Imperialism
Isolationism
Globalism
Communism
These types of exaggerated news stories helped push the U.S. into war with Spain.
Red Journalism
Orange Journalism
Yellow Journalism
Green Journalism
What Supreme Court case set the precedent for "Separate but Equal", which would last until the Civil Rights Movement of the mid 1900s?
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board of Education
Marbury v Madison
Roe v Wade
Which two forms of entertainment allowed people to communicate information quicker than ever?
CDs and MP3 players.
radios and movies.
newspapers and the internet.
VCRs and DVR.
Prohibition, established by the Eighteenth Amendment, stated that –
Only imported alcoholic beverages could be sold
The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was banned
Americans must be 18-years old to purchase alcoholic beverages
Alcoholic beverages could be sold only in government-run stores
When did the stock market crash?
1937
1929
who?
1925
What was an effect of the stock market crash?
The Enormous Melancholy
The Great Depression
The Big Sadness
The Large Recession
Which cities did America drop atomic bombs on?
Berlin and Moscow
London and Paris
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima and Tokyo
The genocide of millions of people during World War II
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Anti-Semitism
Holocaust
What does the term "Final Solution" mean?
Germany's plan to send all the Jews to Israel
Hitler's plan to commit suicide
Hitler's plan to kill all the Jews in Germany
Hitler's plan to move all Jews to the U.S.
What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?
Spain and Portugal
England and France
Germany and Italy
United States and Soviet Union
Organization that was formed at the end of WWII to try to keep peace.
UN
NATO
Warsaw Pact
no answers are correct
What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs invasion?
overthrow Cuba's communist governments
Remove Soviet missiles that had been positioned in Cuba
Enforce a trade embargo on imports of Cuban sugar
Rescue Cubans who wanted to escape to the US
Which statement best describes how the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved?
President Kennedy ended the Cuban trade embargo
Fidel Castro negotiated a peaceful settlement
The Communist government in Cuba was overthrown
The Soviets agreed to remove their missiles from Cuba
Why did the Korean War start?
South Korea attacked North Korea
Russia engaged North Korean troops
North Korea attacked South Korea
Chinese troops came across the DMZ
The court case Brown v. Board of Education made segregation in schools unconstitutional. This forced schools to:
integrate
repopulate
relocate
segregate
Who was a main leader in the fight for African Americans' equal rights in the 1960s?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Thurgood Marshall
Oveta Culp Hobby
Lyndon B. Johnson
Court case declared that separate black and white public schools to be unconstitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Tinker v. Des Moines
Brown v. Board of Education
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.
Mary Washington
Jackie Kennedy
Cesar Chavez
Rosa Parks
A main reason why the standard of living improved in the United States was the
demobilization of the military.
postwar devastation overseas.
increased production of goods.
development of atomic energy.
Who was the first super star of Rock'n Roll?
Elvis Presley
Richie Valens
Little Richard
Billy Holiday
The first large scale suburb of affordable housing was built in New York. It was called
Hollywood
Anaheim
Levittown
Morristown
The birth of the largest generation of Americans born between 1946 & 1955 was called the
Hippie Generation
Gen X
Millenials
Baby Boom
The culture of the young people who rejected mainstream American society in the 1960's seeking to create an alternative society based on peace, love and individual freedom.
Counterculture
Feminism
Woodstock
United Hippie Movement
What was President Kennedy's ultimate goal in the space race?
Have man orbit the Earth
Put a man into Space
Construct a Space Station
Land a man on the moon
Which of the following were parts of LBJ's Great Society?
War on Poverty
Education Issues
Healthcare Issues
All of the above
The following was government assistance for the poor in healthcare.
Medicaid
War on Poverty
Medicare
Peace Corps
1968, massive attack by the Viet Cong on major cities in South Vietnam; caused American public support of war to plummet
Operation Rolling Thunder
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
Kent State University
Operation Rolling Thunder
A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the Vietcong in South Vietnam
Bombing campaign over North Vietnam that was supposed to weaken their ability and will to fight
US military raids on South Vietnamese villages intended to root out villagers with ties to the Vietcong but often resulting in the destruction of the village and the displacement of its inhabitants
President Nixon's policy of replacing American military forces with those of South Vietnam
