WorksheetsModule 1 Review (Reconstruction to the Present)
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 36mins
Who did Cortes conquer in South America?
Inca
Aztec
Mayans
Olmec
What was Cortes looking for when he was exploring/conquering South America?
Sugarcane
Tobacco
Gold
Slaves
What became the main labor force in the southern colonies?
Native Americans
English Colonists
Indentured Servants
Natural-born Canadians
How did the British government attempt to eliminate conflict between Native Americans and colonists?
By recruiting French colonists to trade with Native Americans
By stationing British troops along the coastline
By raising taxes on the goods traded with Native Americans
By forbidding settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
Why were committees of correspondence established?
(What were they for?)
To plan military revolts against British soldiers
To communicate with other colonies about threats to liberty
To organize a boycott of British goods
To draft a colonial declaration of rights
Which of the following correctly describes the justification that Thomas Jefferson provided in the Declaration of Independence for revolt by the colonists?
A revolt would allow the colonies to create a society with equal economic opportunities
A revolt would allow the colonies to create a system that would remove the cruelty of the slave trade
A revolt would allow the colonies to trade freely with other nations
A revolt would allow the colonies to form a government that would uphold the unalienable rights of the people.
Which of the following correctly describe the Loyalists?
They wanted to avoid being punished as rebels
They had the support of the Quakers
They made up a majority of the population
They thought the king would protect their rights
They were composed mainly of African Americans
What was the Bill of Rights?
The Legislative Branch of the Constitution
The first 3 Amendments to the Constitution
The Articles of Confederation
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
How was the Monroe Doctrine an expression of nationalism?
The United States saw a need to expand its economic interests in establishing new trading partners.
The United States made a reasonable claim to acquire new territories from other countries.
The United States depended on other countries for trade and needed to develop those relationships.
The United States asserted its own interests in defying the interests of other countries.
Which branch of the government is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The Executive
The Legislative
The Judicial
Liberatarian
Which branch of the government is the President?
The Executive
The Legislative
The Judicial
Communism
Which branch of the government is The Supreme Court?
Judicial
Legislative
Executive
Republican
How did the cotton gin cause an increase in the demand for slaves?
Cotton planting moved east as the land became worn out
More land was cultivated as cotton planting became more profitable.
Transportation costs of cotton were lowered with improvements in riverboats.
Textile manufacturing became more profitable with higher cotton costs.
Which of the following were the main objectives of labor unions? Choose the two correct answers.
eliminating child labor
increasing the amount of vacation time
limiting the jobs available to unskilled workers
raising wages
shortening the workday
Which of the following was a belief of the participants in the Second Great Awakening?
The individual was responsible for salvation.
People could do little to improve themselves.
People had no right to try to improve society.
A person’s fate was predetermined.
Why did many northerners oppose the annexation of Texas? Choose the two correct answers.
There would be more senators from slave states than from free states.
War with Spain would result.
War with Mexico would result.
There would be more congressmen from slave states than from free states
Debt would increase dramatically
What did the United States gain from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? Choose the two correct answers.
the Louisiana Territory
a sum of $15 million for expenses during the war
the territories of New Mexico and California
recognition of the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas
a piece of territory south of the Gila River
What were women expected to do in the work force during the early 19th century?
Run for political office
Pick up a job for extra income
Give up their work once they are married
Only work in mining camps
Who was in charge of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Nat Turner
Fredrick Douglass
Who requested that Lee and his army be given favorable terms at Appomattox Court House?
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
What ultimately caused the town of Vicksburg to surrender to General Grant?
The fear of slave uprisings
The risk of total war
The Mississippi River flooding
Lack of food
Why did the Radicals want to impeach Andrew Johnson?
They felt he was not carrying out his obligation to enforce the Reconstruction Act
They believed he was too strict toward wealthy southern landowners
They disagreed with his loose interpretation of the Constitution
They believed that he provided former slaves with too much protection under the law
Which of these leaders became the next President after Andrew Johnson?
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Fredrick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
Which Amendments came from the Civil War?
The first 10 Amendments
The 19th
The 13th, 14th, and 15th
The 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st
How long was the Battle of Gettysburg?
3 Hours
3 Days
1 Hour
1 Day
What did the Emancipation Proclamation state?
All slaves in areas currently under rebellion were freed immediately
All African-Americans are to be enlisted in the Union army immediately
Tennessee was no longer a member of the Union
Ulysses S. Grant is now the leader of the Union Army
What is conscription?
A process for bringing in new states
A draft that forced men to serve in the army
A plan for exporting immigrants to their own countries
A process that helped slaves become citizens
Which of the following was a part of the system of sharecropping? Choose the two correct answers.
Each worker was allowed to keep the entire harvest to sell for a profit
Each worker was required to give a share of the crops to the landowner at harvest
Each worker was paid a wage by the landowner
Each worker rented the land from the landowner in exchange for cash
Each worker was given a small plot of land by the landowner
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