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WorksheetsAmerican History Final Review 2022
Total questions: 72
Worksheet time: 57mins
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine made a case for American independence on which grounds?
British leaders had little regard for the best interests of the colonists.
British institutions were failing to provide sufficient aid to the colonists.
British leaders were overlooking the important contributions of colonists.
British institutions placed too many political responsibilities on the colonists.
Which of the following BEST describes Thomas Paine's argument in Common Sense?
Diplomacy with the British Parliament is the best way to settle differences.
The colonists have far more to lose by continuing to be a part of the British Empire.
Parliament is simply slow to respond so the colonists must be patient in seeking their goals.
Breaking free of English control will hurt the colonists' chances of gaining economic freedom.
____________________ wrote a pamphlet in 1776 called ______________ urging neutral colonists to support independence from Britain
Thomas Paine; Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine; Common Sense
Benjamin Franklin; Common Sense
Benjamin Franklin; Declaration of Independence
According to Locke, people have the right to rebel against or abolish a government when it
Is a monarchy
Relies only on reason
Does not protect people’s “natural” rights
Does not have separation of powers.
The main reason Thomas Paine published Common Sense was to
persuade Britain that it could not govern the colonies well.
let foreign countries know that the colonies were ready to fight Britain.
persuade colonists that the colonies should become independent.
force Southern colonies to support Northern ones in the coming war.
____________________ wrote a pamphlet in 1776 called ______________ urging neutral colonists to support independence from Britain
Thomas Paine; Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine; Common Sense
Benjamin Franklin; Common Sense
Benjamin Franklin; Declaration of Independence
The excerpt above is taken from the -
One of the main principles stated in the Declaration of Independence is that government should
equality among citizens
have unlimited power to rule the people
be based upon the consent (permission) of the governed
be led by educated citizens
We purchased the Louisiana Territory-what was the original purchase supposed to be?
New Orleans
New Hope
New Albany
New Hamilton
The first Women’s Rights Convention was held in:
Niagara Falls, NY
Seneca Falls, NY
Sonoma Falls, NY
Seleca Falls, NY
Where was the first Women's Rights Convention held in 1848?
Dallas, Texas
Seneca Falls, New York
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nashville, Tennessee
What document was the Declaration of Sentiments modeled after?
The Bill of Rights
The Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
Emancipation Proclamation
This pair of photographs suggests that the major purpose of the Carlisle Indian School was to
train future leaders in tribal traditions
prepare children for life on the reservation
teach skills needed for working in factories
promote cultural assimilation
Assimilation means...
to become a part of a different culture
to forget your name
to leave your home
to ignore another culture
During the late nineteenth century Social Darwinism justified which situation?
he spoils system in politics
passage of antitrust legislation
the uneven distribution of wealth
passage of social welfare reform
Powerful industrials like Carnegie and Rockefeller were called both “Captains of Industry” and “Robber Barons” because
they worked closely with their competitors and charged consumers incredibly high prices.
they provided good paying jobs, but produced unsafe products.
they provided new goods and services while underpaying their laborers.
hey supported workplace reform but drove their competitors out of business.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Journalism that focuses on racism.
Journalism that tries to keep details on war secret
Journalism that reveals corruption in business
Journalism that exaggerates and lies to sell magazines
Who were the main journalists involved in developing Yellow Journalism?
William Randolph Hearst
Jacob Riis
Joseph Pulitzer
Theodore Roosevelt
What became a major reason for the US to get involved in the war?
The US felt Spain should keep control of Cuba
The sinking of the Lusitania
The sinking of the USS Maine
They were mad
Why did imperialism suddenly become more popular in the United States by the end of the 19th century?
Americans sought new markets due to their increased industrialization
Americans felt it was against the principles of democracy to rule over others.
Americans wanted to rule others because America had once been a British colony
Americans feared imperialism would bring the United States into conflict with other powers
Why is the Spanish American War of 1898 often considered a major turning point in U.S. history?
It marked the first American victory over a European power
It demonstrated the need for better communications in wartime
It revealed that the United States had become a world power
It showed American support for European economic interests in East Asia.
This program allowed the United States to support Great Britain's War effort against Germany without entering WWII
Neutrality Acts
The Lend-Lease Program
League of Nations
The New Deal
Japanese Americans were sent to camps as a result of what major event?
Germany invading Poland
The Appeasement Policy
the death of Franklin Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Japanese Americans were sent to camps as a result of what major event?
Germany Invading Poland
The Appeasement Policy
Pearl Harbor
Yellow Peril
What was the government act that sent Japanese Americans to the internment camps?
Executive Order 255
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 99
Defcon 4
According to Order 9066, which people on the west coast were to be relocated?
People of Japanese ancestry
People of Hawaiian ancestry
People of Native American ancestry
People of French ancestry
What did the United States do for the camp survivors in 1988?
Apologized
Paid each of the survivors $20,000
The president sent each of them a letter
All of the above
What were the effects of the Marshall Plan?
stop spread of communism
Money for Western Europe to rebuild
Supplies for Western Europe
all of the above
The primary purpose of the Marshall Plan was to help bring about the
formation of miliotary alliances
economic recovery of Europe
unification of Germany
invasion of Eastern Europe
Ended legal public school segregation.
Brown vs. the Board of Education
13th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Jim Crow Laws
This act ended voter suppression tactics like literacy tests and grandfather clauses
13th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for African-Americans living in the south to exercise their right to vote
Base your answer to question 19 on the photographs above and on your knowledge of social studies
Apache children at the Carlisle Indian School (Pennsylvania), in1886 and Carlisle Indian School four months later, 1887
This pair of photographs suggests that the major purpose of the Carlisle Indian School was to
train future leaders in tribal traditions
prepare children for life on the reservation
teach skills needed for working in factories
promote cultural assimilation
Which said we would support countries who are resisting communism?
Truman Doctrine
Marshall
Plan
Berlin Airlift
CIA
What said if one country falls to communism, many countries will fall to communism?
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Domino Theory
Red SCare
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas, refused to allow them to enter the school. They were allowed to attend school after which of the following government interventions.
public outcry caused the governor to change his mind
congress passed a law requiring the students to be accepted
the supreme court issued the Brown v Board of Education ruling
President Eisenhower sent the U.S. Army to enforce integration
This ruling explicitly outlawed racial segregation of public education facilities (legal establishment of separate government-run schools for blacks and whites), ruling so on the grounds that the doctrine of "separate but equal" public education could never truly provide black Americans with facilities of the same standards available to white Americans
Brown vs Board of Ed
Escobedo vs ILL
Dred Scott vs Sanford
Gregg vs Georgia
This ruling held held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police.
Regents of California v. Bakke, 1978
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
New Jersey v. TLO, 1985
Miranda v. Arizona, 1966
Suspects cannot be questioned (interrogated) until they are informed of their rights (right to remain silent, right to an attorney, etc.)
Brown v Board of Education
Miranda v Arizona
Tinker v Des Moines
Bush v Gore
Both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 settled conflicts between the North and the South over
slavery and admission of states to the Union
Supreme Court decisions
slavery and presidential election results
voting rights
What would be a motivating reason why abolitionists opposed annexation (expansion/adding) of new western territory during the early 1800s?
feared the admission of new slave states
wanted to limit the power of the national government
were concerned with the legal rights of Native American Indians
supported an isolationist foreign policy
The Missouri Compromise defined a boundary for slavery in which of the following Western Territories?
Louisiana Purchase
Supreme Court decisions
presidential election results
voting rights
During the first half of the 19th century, territorial expansion led to
increased tensions over slavery
improved relations with bordering nations
fewer conflicts with Native American Indians
decreased domestic demand for manufactured goods
Base your answers to question 10 on the map and on your knowledge of social studies.
Information on the map supports the conclusion that congressional leaders in 1820 and 1821 wanted to
maintain an equal number of free and slave states
ban slavery west of the Mississippi River
bring slavery to the Oregon Country
open territories in the North to slavery
Base your answers to question 11 on the map and on your knowledge of social studies.
The map illustrates the impact on the United States of the
Great Compromise
Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott decision
Emancipation Proclamation
Prior to 1850, what was a 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.
Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) was criticized by Northern newspapers because it
limited settlement in those territories
repealed the 36°30' line of the Missouri Compromise
upheld the Supreme Court decision in Gibbons v. Ogden
admitted Maine to the Union as a free state
Base your answer to question on the statement below and on your knowledge of social studies.
... The whole military force of the State is at the service of a Mr. Suttle, a slaveholder from Virginia, to enable him to catch a man whom he calls his property; but not a soldier is offered to save a citizen of Massachusetts from being kidnapped! Is this what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past [since the beginning of the American Revolution]? Have they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry back fugitive slaves to their masters?...
–Henry David Thoreau, Independence Day speech at Framingham, Massachusetts
The author of this statement is expressing
dissatisfaction with a provision included in the
Treaty of Ghent (1815)
Oregon Treaty of 1846
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
"Missouri Compromise Allows Two New States
Into the Union"
"Congress Agrees to Compromise of 1850"
"Popular Sovereignty Adopted Under
Kansas-Nebraska Act"
Which issue is reflected in these headlines?
status of slavery in the territories and states
growth of agriculture on the Great Plains
clash of federal and state powers
conflicts with foreign nations over the West
The strengthening of Fugitive Slave Laws prior to the Civil War was part of what Congressional agreement.
Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
The Dredd Scott decision
Reconstruction
When "popular sovereignty" is used to decide whether a new state is a slave or free state what does this mean?
The United States Congress decides
The State decides
The Slaves decide
The Freedmen's Bureau decides
Which Congressional action would violate other previous compromises on the subject of slavery, and fracture the political parties of the United States?
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Dredd Scott decision
What was supposed to end the issue of slavery in the territories but instead basically declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott decision
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court...
avoided controversy by ruling that Dred Scott had no right to sue in federal court.
ruled that slaves could sue in federal court only if their masters allowed them to do so.
ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories because slaves were private property.
ruled that a slave that had been transported to a free state or territory was a free citizen of the Untied States.
This was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850
Underground Railroad
Fugitive Slave Act
Wilmot Proviso
Which issue is reflected in this headlines?
status of slavery in the territories and new states
growth of agriculture on the Great Plains
clash of federal and state powers
conflicts with foreign nations over the West
Which problem did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and then Kansas-Nebraska Act attempt to solve?
extension of slavery into the western territories
equitable distribution of frontier lands to the owners of small farms
placement of protective tariffs on foreign imports
need for international improvements in transportation
This 1863 poster is recruiting African Americans to help
defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War
assist in the efforts of the Underground Railroad
settle land in the South and border states
enforce the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act
The institution of slavery was formally abolished in the United States by the
Compromise of 1850
Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
creation of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865
ratification of 13th amendment of 1865
What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?
Secessionist
Lincolnist
Abolitionist
Whig
Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
12th Amendment
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do, and why did Lincoln issue it?
The Emancipation Proclamation drafted African Americans into the army of the North?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the areas of the Confederacy not already occupied by the Union
The Emancipation Proclamation reduced the North's dependence on cotton.
Which amendment granted African American men the right to vote?
19th Amendment of 1920
13th Amendment of 1865
15th Amendment of 1870
14th Amendment of 1868
What key difference between the North and the South ultimately led to the Civil War?
The Southern climate was warm, while the Northern climate was cooler.
The Southern economy depended on slavery, while the Northern economy did not.
The South was less densely populated than the North.
The South was agricultural, while the North was more industrialized.
