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WorksheetsUSHIST FINAL REVIEW
Total questions: 85
Worksheet time: 43mins
After the 13th Amendment, many freedmen agreed to provide labor on plantations, in exchange for sharing part of the harvested crop. This agreement was called ________.
labor sharing
shared harvest
land sharing
sharecropping
Free people who had previously been enslaved were known as __________.
freedmen
unslaved
new citizens
righteous and harmonious fists
What did Radical Republicans want to accomplish?
punishment for Union military officers and returning to pre-Civil War policies
punishment for Confederate leaders and protection of the rights of freedmen
to secede from the Union
to reinstate the practice of slavery
What problems did formerly enslaved people face during Reconstruction?
Black Codes
lack of education
sharecropping
All of the above
Which of the following tried to limit the rights of African Americans in order to help the planter elite hold onto slavery-like conditions?
The Freedmen's Bureau
Abraham Lincoln
Black Codes
Radical Republicans
What group was known for its use of violence and intimidation against its enemies during Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans
freedmen
sharecroppers
the Ku Klux Klan
How did sharecropping affect freedmen?
Sharecropping hurt freedmen because it kept them in a cycle of debt to white landowners.
Sharecropping helped freedmen because white landowners had to pay them for labor and they were able to save their money.
Sharecropping helped freedmen because they finally owned their own land.
Sharecropping did not affect freedmen because only white landowners were sharecroppers.
What agency was created to help former slaves and control abandoned plantation lands?
The Ku Klux Klan
The Freedmen's Bureau
The Red Shirts
The Sharecroppers' Bureau
In what ways did the Freedmen's Bureau help freedmen?
The Bureau helped the Ku Klux Klan by guiding freedmen to their "proper place."
The Bureau helped white plantation owners find freedmen to exploit.
The Bureau helped create sharecropping and the freedmen's cycle of debt to white landowners.
The Bureau helped people find jobs and medical care, and supported education.
When African-American men gained the right to vote, how did this affect political parties?
Most African American men voted for white Democrats.
Radical Democrats became powerful before reconstruction began.
This increased the power of the Republican Party during Reconstruction.
This did not change politics very much, because many African American men secretly voted before the Civil War anyway.
_________ is the mass movement of people from the rural (country) to the cities.
Industrial Revolution
Enlightenment
Renaissance
Urbanization
A system of business where goods are mass produced, usually by machines?
Cottage Industry
factory system
Urbanizaiton
Industrial Revolution
The era were household were replaced with factories and powered machinery.
Urbanization
England
factory system
Industrial Revolution
Unsafe and unsanitary homes, especially in overcrowded cities
Urbanization
tenement housing
city life
rural areas
System in which goods and services were based in individual homes.
factory system
rural life
cottage industry
Urbanization
_________ is to move from one place to another.
migration
industrialize
movement
refugee
Factors of an area that make people want to leave.
pull
rural
push
urban
Factors of an area that make people want to come to that place are called?
push
rural
urban
pull
Before the Industrial Revolution what percentage of the people were farmers?
10
50
90
75
A new mode of transportation at this time thanks to steam power was the ___________.
Sailboat
Airplane
Submarine
Train
From this image, who is in control of the US lawmakers.
Large monopolies
small private business
political machines
labor unions
What does this image say about the control of political bosses?
political bosses wanted to squish the opportunities in New York
political bosses control all of New York City
Political bosses were showing their approval with a "thumbs up" image
New Jersey did not have political bosses
What legislation is this cartoon referring to?
30 day waiting period for immigration
Deportation after completion of Transcontinental Railroad
Immigration Reduction Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Why does this image depict Rockefeller so large?
He was a political boss who tried to win governmental favors
He was a government inspector looking for corruption
He was a robber baron who used his money and power to influence government
He was looking to correct all of pollution cause by industrialization
What does this image say about the need for labor unions?
labor unions were desirable because the workers were being crushed by difficult living conditions and poor pay.
Labor unions decreased nativism
Labor unions helped big business keep control of the workers
Labor unions helped reduce the length of the work day
What does this image say about why workers looked up to political bosses?
political bosses
political bosses
political bosses threw large parties so the immigrants felt welcome in the US
political bosses helped immigrants find jobs and handed out other favors
Why do you think this man was trying to cover up or paint the Tammeny Hall Tiger?
to make the political machine of New York seem better than it was
To cover up the corruption of political bosses in New York
to cover up secret information about the government in New York
To cover up the mistreatment of immigrants by political machines
What does this image say is the controlling factor of decisions by political machines?
resources
influence
power
money
Progressives focused on three areas of reform:
easing the suffering of the urban ponies, improving unfair and dangerous dragon conditions, and reforming government at the national, snake, and local levels.
easing the suffering of the rural poor, improving unfair and dangerous living conditions, and reforming government at the national, state, and international levels.
easing the suffering of the urban poor, improving unfair and dangerous working conditions, and reforming government at the national, state, and local levels.
Journalists called muckrakers and urban photographers exposed people
to the plight of the unfortunate in hopes of sparking reform.
the difficulties entrepreneurs faced in hopes of sparking reform.
to the plight of the unfortunate in hopes of sparking a social purge of the weak.
the difficulties millionaires faced in hopes of sparking reform.
"Be it enacted by... Congress... That no producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, any article or... product of any mine or quarry situated in the United States, in which... children under the age of sixteen years have been employed or permitted to work..."
This quote reflects the public's support for the -
control of the mining industry
abolition of child labor
regulation of product transportation
limitation of foreign trade
In 1916, Congress established a new federal agency "which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the
enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."
Which agency does this excerpt refer?
National Park Service
Civilian Conservation Corps
Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Homeland Security
Which statement describes a referendum?
petition that indicates the public's support for a vote on a bill
opportunity for the public to accept or reject a proposed bill
removal of a public official from office at the hands of the electorate
casting of votes in a confidential manner
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
Why did Secretary of State William Seward buy the territory of Alaska?
He saw England in North America as a strategic threat.
He saw France in North America as a strategic threat.
He saw Russia in North America as a strategic threat.
He saw Germany in North America as a strategic threat.
Why did the U.S. want to open trade with Japan in the 1850's?
The U.S. wanted access to Japanese markets before European nations.
The U.S. wanted to create naval bases in Asia.
The U.S. wanted to create an alliance with Japan's govt.
The U.S. wanted new raw materials.
These types of exaggerated news stories helped push the U.S. into war with Spain.
Red Journalism
Orange Journalism
Yellow Journalism
Green Journalism
What purpose did propaganda posters serve during World War I?
convince people to join the army
raise money for the war
demonize Germany
support for women workers
Which of the following were effects of The Great Migration?
racial tensions
harsh segregationist laws
few economic opportunities
widespread nativism
How does President Wilson attempt to "sell the war" to the American public?
mass propaganda campaign
bribing American citizens
threatening the American public
stimulus checks
Those against the war for moral and religious reasons.
conscientious objectors
Committee on Public Information
nativists
socialists
The movement of black Americans from the south to the north is known as The
Great Migration
North Migration
South Migration
Migration
Define Hyperinflation
This Image is used to describe:
What problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) developed to address?
Excessive stock market speculation
High unemploment
Increased use of credit
Overproduction of goods
Which describes the Lend-Lease Act?
Allowed the US to give military supplies to countries they felt had to be defended to protect US interests.
Let Allied powers purchase military ships if they paid in cash and carried them back home themselves.
Forced men of certain ages to register for military service.
Allowed the U.S. to bring back migrant farmers from Mexico to work in US farms.
Why did Americans grow Victory Gardens during World War II?
To exchange for extra ration coupons at grocery stores
To sell the food for profit to the government
To make sure they had enough food as the nation rationed
If they grew a certain amount of food they could skip military service
What was the goal of posters such as Rosie the Riveter?
To make sure Victory Gardens were grown
To motivate proper use of the Ration Books
To motivate women to find work in factories as men were drafted
To encourage women to take on combat roles overseas
What event in World War 2 caused Americans to support Executive Order 9066 and increased hatred of the Japanese?
Bataan Death Marches
The Invasion of Poland
The Pearl Harbor attack
The Battle of Britain
A system in which the government totally controls all aspects of a society:
Militarism
Governmentalism
Totalitarianism
Nationalism
A strong feeling of pride in and loyalty to one's nation:
Nationalism
Militarism
Totalitarianism
Nazism
Which country practiced isolationism (staying away from the rest of the world) at the start of WWII?
Germany
Japan
U.S.S.R
United States
What was the goal of the Neutrality Acts of 1936-37?
For the United States to enter WWII immediately
For the United States to stay out of European conflicts
To encourage the Axis powers to take over Europe
Laws that made it legal to discriminate against Jews
Who was the leader of the U.S.S.R?
Adolf Hitler
Josef Stalin
Hideki Tojo
Benito Mussolini
What is appeasement?
Giving in to the demands of an enemy to keep peace
One of FDR's New Deal programs
Building up the British military
Lightning warfare
The American atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of
Hiroshima and Tokyo
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Osaka and Nagasaki
Okinowa and Hiroshima
US minority group who were forced into internment camps during WWII
Japanese-Americans
Italian-Americans
Russian-Americans
Jewish Americans
What was the Manhattan Project?
The plan to crash Japanese suicide planes into Allied ships
The plan to develop the atomic bomb
The historic meeting of the “Big Three”
The training of the Navajo code talkers
What was one reason the Navajo code talkers' code was hard to figure out?
It was written in invisible ink
Most people did not know the Navajo language
It used numbers instead of letters
They were really quiet
How did the code talkers help the United States?
Their code helped win a battle in World War II
They sent presents
The fought in World War II
They went swimming
What did Churchill mean when he said "an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe..."
The USSR was expanding into southeast Asia
The Soviet Union was improving the standard of living of Europeans
The Soviet Union has expanded it's influence throughout Eastern Europe
Democracy was expanding across the globe.
What motivated the U.S. to get involved in the war in Vietnam?
The U.S. supports governments fighting against Communism (Containment)
The U.S. was only after natural resources in the area
The U.S. wanted to colonize Korea and Vietnam
The U.S. was helping the Japanese empire expand into Vietnam
How did the political climate of the Cold War impact the world's 2 superpowers?
The US and USSR competed against each other economically and politically
They worked together towards the goal of stopping Communism
They both colonized Africa and Asia
They worked together to protect human rights around the world.
The countries in RED represent which Cold War era organization?
League of Nations
Justice League
USA
Warsaw Pact
During the Cold War, why were the US and Soviet Union hesitant to become involved directly in military conflict?
Increased tension in the Middle East
To support the UN
The potential for global destruction
Pressure from Canada
Which country supported Fidel Castro, the communist leader of Cuba?
USA
USSR
Great Britain
Wakanda
What are Proxy Wars?
Indirect conflicts between the 2 superpowers
Wars between Communist China and Russia
Wars between the US and Canada
Wars that US citizens greatly supported the involvement of US troops
