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SDC American History: Unit 1 and 2 Review

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which amendment abolished slavery

a)

13th amendment

b)

14th amendment

c)

15th amendment

2.

Name the American General who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn

a)

Custer

b)

Lee

c)

Grant

3.

Who was the inventor of the telephone?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Christopher Sholes

c)

Thomas Edison

4.

Who was the inventor of the typewriter ?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Christopher Sholes

c)

Thomas Edison

5.

Who was the inventor of the light bulb ?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Christopher Sholes

6.

What year was the Transcontinental railroad completed?

a)

1869

b)

1769

c)

1871

d)

1867

7.

What is capitalism that allows companies to conduct business without  government intervention?

a)

laissez-faire

b)

Sherman Antitrust Act

c)

monopoly

8.

What made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade?

a)

Sherman Antitrust Act

b)

laissez-faire

c)

monopoly

9.

What do you call a company with complete control over an industry’s production, wages, and prices?

a)

monopoly

b)

Sherman Antitrust Act

c)

laissez-faire

10.

What group was angered by the expansion of railroads?

a)

Farmers

b)

Miners

c)

Railroad Workers

11.

What are a group of businesses owned by competing companies that is controlled by a single group of trustees?

a)

trust

b)

Farmers

c)

laissez-faire

12.

What is the process in which a company buys out its suppliers?

a)

vertical integration

b)

Horizontal integration

c)

collective bargaining

13.

What is the process in which companies producing similar products  merge ?

a)

horizontal integration

b)

vertical integration

c)

collective bargaining

14.

What were negotiations between labor and management to win higher wages and shorter work weeks?

a)

collective bargaining

b)

The Haymarket Affair

c)

vertical integration

15.

Which riot ended in a bomb exploding during a union demonstration?

a)

The Haymarket Affair

b)

collective bargaining

c)

monopoly

16.

Who was the First person to use steam engine to drill for oil ?

a)

Edwin L. Drake

b)

Lewis H. Latimer

c)

Thomas Alva Edison

17.

Who was the African American inventor of the carbon filament?

a)

Lewis H. Latimer

b)

Edwin L. Drake

c)

Thomas Alva Edison

18.

Which amendment granted citizenship to former salves and provided equal protection?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

19.

Which amendment made it illegal to deny the vote based on race.

a)

15th amendment

b)

14th amendment

c)

13th amendment

20.

Who was the banker who made his money by taking over and merging other  businesses?

a)

J.P. Morgan

b)

Hiram Revels

c)

John D. Rockefeller

21.

Who was the head of the Standard Oil Company ?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

J.P. Morgan

22.

Who was the scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry?

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

J.P. Morgan

23.

What was the name of the plan to make Native Americans part of white culture?

a)

Assimilation

b)

Dawes Act

c)

14th amendment

24.

What did the 13th Amendment do?

a)

Right of Women to vote

b)

Right to vote not denied by race

c)

Abolished Slavery

25.

What did the 14th Amendment do?

a)

Right of Women to vote

b)

Right to vote not denied by race

c)

Abolished Slavery

d)

Granted citizenship to former slaves and provided "equal protection"

26.

What did the 15th Amendment do?

a)

Right of Women to vote

b)

Right to vote not denied by race

c)

Abolished Slavery

d)

Granted citizenship to former slaves and provided "equal protection"

27.

What was the name of the plan to make Native Americans part of white culture?

a)

"Separate but equal"

b)

Assimilation

c)

Dawes Act

d)

Integration

28.

What was the reason that American's begin to break take Native American's land?

a)

Coal

b)

Gold

c)

More Land

29.

Why did Cattle Ranching become a big business?

a)

Buffal could not travel over long distances

b)

Native Americans had claim on Buffalo

c)

Herds of Buffalo disappeared and Native Americans forced onto reservations

30.

What tribe did General Custer lose to at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

a)

Cheyenne

b)

Sioux

c)

Cherokee

31.

What were the laws created to keep Blacks and Whites separate?

a)

enforcement acts

b)

Jim Crow laws

c)

segregation

d)

Equal Act

32.

What describes Racial separation?

a)

Segregation

b)

enforcement acts

c)

poll tax

33.

Court case that upheld the Jim Crow laws

a)

Steven v. Ferguson

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Ferguson v. Josh

34.

This term means the mixing of different cultures and races:

a)

Melting Pot

b)

Gathered Group

c)

Melting People

35.

This island housed the inspection station for immigrants in the east:

a)

Ellis Island

b)

Angel Island

c)

The statue of Liberty

36.

This island housed the inspection station for the west:

a)

Ellis Island

b)

Alcatraz

c)

Angel Island

37.

What was the idea of obvious favoritism toward native-born Americans?

a)

melting pot

b)

selectivism

c)

nativism

d)

exclusion

38.

This term meant to use political influence for personal gain illegally: 

a)

Graft

b)

political machine

c)

patronage

39.

What was a political machine? 

a)

illegal use of political influence for personal gain

b)

a group that controlled a political party

c)

government administration