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US History Beginning of Year

Total questions: 48

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of these were staple crops for Native Americans before European contact?

a)

Tomato

b)

Rice

c)

Wheat

d)

Maize

2.

"The exchange of plants, animals, people, ideas and diseases between Afroeurasia and the Americas."

a)

The Columbian Exchange

b)

Atlantic Trade

c)

The Triangle Trade

d)

Commerce

3.

Which was the first country to explore the Americas?

a)

France

b)

England

c)

Spain

d)

China

4.

True or False: Native Americans were generally treated well by European explorers and colonists.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Who is this?

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Amerigo Vespucci

c)

George Washington

d)

Abraham Lincoln

6.

True or False: The institution of slavery existed before the Atlatic Slave Trade.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Before the United States became an independent country, the 13 colonies belonged to

a)

China

b)

England

c)

France

d)

Spain

8.

Which of these came BEFORE the Revolutionary War?

a)

The Spanish-American War

b)

The War of 1812

c)

The French and Indian War

d)

The Civil War

9.

The United States gained its independence in

a)

1754

b)

1776

c)

1788

d)

1865

10.

Who is this?

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

George Washington

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

Abraham Lincoln

11.

The document that sets up the US government; the supreme law of the United States

a)

The Declaration of Independence

b)

The Articles of Confederation

c)

The Constitution

d)

Declaration of Sentiments

12.

Which President authorized the Purchanse of the Lousiana Territory, which doubled the size of the young United States?

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

Abraham Lincoln

13.

Which president authorized the removal of Native Americans from the South in what is known as the Trail of Tears?

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

Abraham Lincoln

14.

Which of these was the most profitable crop grown in the United States in the early 1800s?

a)

Tobacco

b)

Cotton

c)

Wheat

d)

Corn

15.

Before the Civil War, who could vote in the United States?

a)

Land-owning men only

b)

All white men

c)

All men

d)

All men and women

16.

Which of these urged for the end of the instution of slavery?

a)

temperence

b)

abolitionism

c)

suffrage

d)

originalism

17.

Which of these called for granting the right to vote to women in the United States?

a)

abolitionism

b)

suffrage

c)

temperence

d)

originalism

18.

True or False: Before the Civil War, most white Southerners owned slaves.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Enslaved Black Americans resisted the dehumanizing conditions of slavery through

a)

slave revolts

b)

intentionally working slowly

c)

maintaining their dignity

d)

all of these

20.

"The idea that the United States had a God-given right to control all of North America." What's the best definition for this term?

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Westward Expansion

c)

Imperialism

d)

Colonialism

21.

How did the United States gain the land that is now Utah, Arizona, California, and Nevada?

a)

Purchase from France

b)

a victory in the Spanish American War

c)

A victory in the Mexican-American War

d)

purchase from Mexico

22.

Which of these attempted to resolve the debate over the expansion of slavery into new territories?

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

The Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas Nebraska Act

d)

all of these

23.

The election of which president led to the secession of Southern states and the start of the Civil War?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Woodrow Wilson

24.

Which side had the greatest military advantage in the Civil War?

a)

The Union (the North)

b)

The Confederacy (the South)

25.

True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the United States

a)

True

b)

False

26.

True or False: Immediately following the Civil War, African Americans were able to vote in Southern states.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

Who is this?

a)

Nat Turner

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Malcom X

28.

Which of these played an important role in the Westward Expansion of Americans in the 1800s?

a)

the railroad

b)

farming and ranching

c)

mining

d)

all of these

29.

Which of these time periods is known for the growth of factories and the quick advancement of new technologies (industrialization)?

a)

The Gilded Age

b)

The Age of Exploration

c)

The Progressive Era

d)

The Era of Good Feelings

30.

True or False: Generally speaking, labor conditions improved as the United States industrialized

a)

True

b)

False

31.

True or False: Immigration played a very important role in the labor force as the United States industrialized.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

Which of these terms best describes the ill-will and opposition to new immigration?

a)

Nativism

b)

Imperialism

c)

Progressivism

d)

Gospel of Wealth

33.

How did the United States expand their overseas territories at the end of the 1800s?

a)

treaty with Mexico

b)

treaty with England

c)

war with Spain

34.

True or False: The United States was one of the first countries to enter into World War I

a)

True

b)

False

35.

Why was the 1920s called "The Roaring '20s"?

a)

economic prosperity and cultural change

b)

many fires in factories and buildings without regulations

c)

circuses with exotic animals became popular

d)

no one knows for sure

36.

Which decade saw the economic dificulties of the Great Depression?

a)

1830s

b)

1910s

c)

1930s

d)

1950s

37.

Who is the only president to serve more than 2 terms?

a)

George Washington

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

John F Kennedy

38.

Which of these events sparked the Second World War?

a)

the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand

b)

the German invasion of Poland

c)

the discovery of conentration camps that killed Jews

d)

the bombing of Pearl Harbor

39.

Which of these events brought the United States into WWII?

a)

the German bombing of England

b)

the German invasion of Poland

c)

the discovery of concentration camps in Poland

d)

The bombing of Pearl Harbor

40.

Which of these effectively ended the fighting in WWII for the United States?

a)

The D-Day invasion

b)

the defeat of the Nazis and Hitler's suicide

c)

the bombing of Hirshima and Nagasaki

d)

the US invasion of Japan

41.

After World War II, the United State's biggest adversary was

a)

China

b)

Germany

c)

The Soviet Union

d)

England

42.

Which one of these ideologies was the United States trying to fight during the Cold War?

a)

racism

b)

communism

c)

democracy

d)

dictatoriship

43.

Who is this?

a)

John F Kennedy

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Malcom X

44.

Which one of these wars was fought to stop the spread of communism?

a)

The Vietnam War

b)

The Korean War

c)

both of these

45.

Who is this?

a)

Franklin D Roosevelt

b)

John F Kennedy

c)

Lyndon B Johnson

d)

Ronald Reagan

46.

True or False: Only African Americans fought for civil rights in the last half of the 1900s

a)

True

b)

False

47.

Who is this?

a)

George HW Bush

b)

John F Kennedy

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Ronald Reagan

48.

What does this picture depict?

a)

Pearl Harbor

b)

The end of the Cold War

c)

9/11/2001