WorksheetsSDC American History: Unit 1 and 2 Review
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 20mins
Which amendment abolished slavery
13th amendment
14th amendment
15th amendment
Name the American General who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn
Custer
Lee
Grant
Who was the inventor of the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Christopher Sholes
Thomas Edison
Who was the inventor of the typewriter ?
Alexander Graham Bell
Christopher Sholes
Thomas Edison
Who was the inventor of the light bulb ?
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Christopher Sholes
What year was the Transcontinental railroad completed?
1869
1769
1871
1867
What is capitalism that allows companies to conduct business without government intervention?
laissez-faire
Sherman Antitrust Act
monopoly
What made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade?
Sherman Antitrust Act
laissez-faire
monopoly
What do you call a company with complete control over an industry’s production, wages, and prices?
monopoly
Sherman Antitrust Act
laissez-faire
What group was angered by the expansion of railroads?
Farmers
Miners
Railroad Workers
What are a group of businesses owned by competing companies that is controlled by a single group of trustees?
trust
Farmers
laissez-faire
What is the process in which a company buys out its suppliers?
vertical integration
Horizontal integration
collective bargaining
What is the process in which companies producing similar products merge ?
horizontal integration
vertical integration
collective bargaining
What were negotiations between labor and management to win higher wages and shorter work weeks?
collective bargaining
The Haymarket Affair
vertical integration
Which riot ended in a bomb exploding during a union demonstration?
The Haymarket Affair
collective bargaining
monopoly
Who was the First person to use steam engine to drill for oil ?
Edwin L. Drake
Lewis H. Latimer
Thomas Alva Edison
Who was the African American inventor of the carbon filament?
Lewis H. Latimer
Edwin L. Drake
Thomas Alva Edison
Which amendment granted citizenship to former salves and provided equal protection?
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
Which amendment made it illegal to deny the vote based on race.
15th amendment
14th amendment
13th amendment
Who was the banker who made his money by taking over and merging other businesses?
J.P. Morgan
Hiram Revels
John D. Rockefeller
Who was the head of the Standard Oil Company ?
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Who was the scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
What was the name of the plan to make Native Americans part of white culture?
Assimilation
Dawes Act
14th amendment
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Right of Women to vote
Right to vote not denied by race
Abolished Slavery
What did the 14th Amendment do?
Right of Women to vote
Right to vote not denied by race
Abolished Slavery
Granted citizenship to former slaves and provided "equal protection"
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Right of Women to vote
Right to vote not denied by race
Abolished Slavery
Granted citizenship to former slaves and provided "equal protection"
What was the name of the plan to make Native Americans part of white culture?
"Separate but equal"
Assimilation
Dawes Act
Integration
What was the reason that American's begin to break take Native American's land?
Coal
Gold
More Land
Why did Cattle Ranching become a big business?
Buffal could not travel over long distances
Native Americans had claim on Buffalo
Herds of Buffalo disappeared and Native Americans forced onto reservations
What tribe did General Custer lose to at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Cheyenne
Sioux
Cherokee
What were the laws created to keep Blacks and Whites separate?
enforcement acts
Jim Crow laws
segregation
Equal Act
What describes Racial separation?
Segregation
enforcement acts
poll tax
Court case that upheld the Jim Crow laws
Steven v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ferguson v. Josh
This term means the mixing of different cultures and races:
Melting Pot
Gathered Group
Melting People
This island housed the inspection station for immigrants in the east:
Ellis Island
Angel Island
The statue of Liberty
This island housed the inspection station for the west:
Ellis Island
Alcatraz
Angel Island
What was the idea of obvious favoritism toward native-born Americans?
melting pot
selectivism
nativism
exclusion
This term meant to use political influence for personal gain illegally:
Graft
political machine
patronage
What was a political machine?
illegal use of political influence for personal gain
a group that controlled a political party
government administration
