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WorksheetsUS History Mid Term Exam Review I
Total questions: 136
Worksheet time: 1hrs 8mins
Who had superior military leadership during the Civil War?
Union
Confederacy
President of the Confederate States of America.
Abraham Lincoln
US Grant
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
The Republican Presidential candidate in 1868 election
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jones
Ulysses S. Grant
John A. Jones
President Abraham Lincoln’s successor.
Andrew Johnson
John Wilkes Booth
Jefferson Davis
Andrew Jackson
The most common form of farming work for freed individuals was?
Pig farming
being field hands
sharecropping
Cotton growing
The central Plains were home to the______ Indians?
Crow
Arapaho
Apache
Cheyenne
The major route north to Abilene, Kansas.
Oregon Trail
Kansas Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Chisholm Trail
The man that came up with the idea that the government should own all property was?
Karl Marx
Thomas Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Adam Smith
He was co-founder of the Central Pacific Railroad.
JD Bell
Leland Stanford
Nelson Rockefeller
John Gompers
By 1879, _________ Oil controlled 90% of oil refining in the United States.
Standard
Mobile
Texaco
Central
People moving from the rural areas to cities is called?
Ruralization
Urbanization
Colonization
None of these
What is one of the primary factors that draws people from rural areas to urban areas?
less pollution
more open space
more jobs
heat islands
What is W.E.B. DuBois greatest accomplishment?
creation of SNCC
creation of vocational education
creation of NAACP
creation of Tuskegee Institute
What woman was responsible for creating many settlement houses, most notably the Hull House?
Carrie Nation
Susan B. Anthony
Jane Addams
Ida Tarbell
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
helped regulate the railroad commission
broke up 90 monopolies
helped people find jobs
provided for selection of some government employees by exams
A country that is technically independent but is actually under the control of another country.
Territory
Protectorate
Moral Diplomacy
Expansion
The United States became an imperial power as a result of?
the Spanish American War
the Open-Door policy.
the Pan-American Conference
the Boxer Rebellion.
Which of the following is NOT a reason for the US to join World War I?
sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Note
Militarism
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
One of the key ideas in Wilson's 14 Points after WWI was an organization of nations that would prevent another world war called?
The league of extraordinary Gentlemen
The League of Nations
The Justice League
The United Nations
The international agreement which aimed to outlaw all future wars was the?
Heuer-Bieber Pact.
The London Naval Treaty.
Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Washington Naval Conference
The Scopes Trial was about whether _______ should be taught in schools.
Reading
religion
evolution
biology
During WWI what does the AEF stand for?
American Expeditionary Force
American Empire Force
Army Enlisted Force
American Enlisted Force
During the Spanish – American conflict what war ship did the U.S. accuse Spain of destroying?
U.S.S. Maine
U.S.S. Monitor
U.S.S. Maryland
U.S.S. Merriweather
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Susan B. Anthony
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jane Pitman
None of these
Kentucky was a _______state?
Slave
Free
Border
Confederate general that was a casualty at Chancellorsville.
George McClellan
Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Lee
William Pickett
Congress passed this to prohibit the president from removing government officials without the Senate’s approval.
Impeachment Act
Override Act
Black Codes
Tenure of Office Act
This amendment states that no state could take away a citizen’s life, liberty, and property “without due process of law.”
13
14
15
16
These were actually created by railroad companies.
Zip Codes
Time Zones
States
Indian Reservations
The network of farmers’ self – help organizations eventually came to be called the?
National Grange
Southern Alliance
Populists’ Grange
Colorado Alliance
Rangeland where cattle roam freely regardless of land ownership.
Great Plains
Oklahoma
Open – range
Open Plains
The main immigration point on the west coast, Located in San Francisco Bay.
Ellis Island
Grand Island
Angel Island
Rhode Island
He became the richest man in the world in the oil business.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Ford
Horace Mann
John D. Rockefeller
Many immigrants were forced to live in __________, or run-down, dirty, and cramped apartment-like buildings.
Tenements
Ghettos
Townhouses
Plantations
The process in which the population of urban settlements grows.
Immigration
Economic Development
Urbanization
Industrial Revolution
Why did anti-immigration feelings develop during the Gilded Age?
most immigrants were richer & better educated than native-born citizens.
immigrants were running for political office.
immigrants competed with native-born citizens for jobs
the government's social programs were too expensive.
Which amendment deals with the prohibition of Alcohol?
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900-1917) was to?
stimulate the economy
support government control of factory production
encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe
correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society
The actions used by one nation to exercise control over a smaller or weaker nation.
Imperialism
Nationalism
Jingoism
Totalitarianism
The United States built up a strong navy so it would not be shut out of overseas markets.
True
False
What was one reason that national Prohibition failed?
Stores did not sell alcohol.
Many Americans did not support the law and drank anyway
The federal government refused to enforce Prohibition laws.
The United States Supreme Court declared Prohibition unconstitutional.
What year did the fighting of World War I stop?
1914
1939
1917
1918
What year did the United States join World War I?
1915
1917
1912
1918
The United States required Cubans to add the Platt Amendment to their constitution, effectively making Cuba an American protectorate.
True
False
Blue Journalism is a type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers.
True
False
Places in cities like Chicago that provided social services to immigrants, poor and women were called?
settlement houses
assimilation schools
tenements
urban living homes
Who outlined the Progressive reforms of the American public and gave his presidential campaign the name "Square Deal?"
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
A modern-day muckraker would be a?
reporter/journalist
farmer
politician
police man/woman
Which type of area would New Orleans, Louisiana, be considered?
Country
rural
urban
suburban
The belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers is called?
Patriotism
Nativism
Americanization
Assimilation
During the late 1800’s Immigrants arrived from Europe and ________.
Asia
South America
Germany
France
He used ruthless tactics to buy up railroad lines like the NY Central, became massively rich.
Bill Gates
Karl Marks
Cornelius Vanderbilt
None of these
Another term for business people is?
Socialists
Entrepreneurs
Capitalists
Economists
Wovoka, a prophet, claimed this would restore the Sioux to their greatness.
Rituals
Ghost Dance
Dawes
Rain Dance
The leader of the Lakota Sioux?
Standing Wolf
Black Kettle
Sitting Bull
Running Bear
This Southern state did NOT require schools to be integrated.
Louisiana
Mississippi
Florida
South Carolina
This changed the political balance in the South by restoring full rights to people who supported the Democrats.
Amnesty Act
Freedmen’s Bureau
15th Amendment
All of these
He was a New South Advocate.
Plessy Ferguson
Henry Grady
John Smith
Thaddeus Stevens
Who captured New Orleans during the Civil War?
David Farragut
Winfield Scott
US Grant
None of these
The 16th President of the United States.
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
The Capital city of the Confederacy.
Mobile, Al.
New Orleans, La.
Richmond, Va.
Baltimore, Md.
Southern senators made it clear that before Nebraska could be organized, Congress would have to repeal part of the?
Kansas – Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Missouri Compromise
This battle on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest day of the entire Civil War.
Shiloh
Richmond
Antietam
New Orleans
This court case upheld Jim Crow Laws (separate but equal).
Roe v Slade
Miranda v US
Plessy v Ferguson
Crow v US
To all white Southerners, except Confederate leaders, Lincoln offered?
Reconstruction
Amnesty
Freedom
the 10% Plan
This State joined the Union in 1876.
Colorado
Oklahoma
Montana
Kansas
The Indian Peace Commission recommended that Native Americans be?
Eliminated
Honored
Moved to reservations
Captured or killed
Native American Chief who led the Dakota Sioux uprising in Minnesota.
Sitting Bull
Black Kettle
Little Crow
Crazy Horse
The economist that came up with Laissez Faire Capitalism.
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
Howard Carols
Eli Jones
Who invented the seed drill in 1701 as a way to plant more efficiently.
Jethro Tull
John Deere
Alex McCormick
John Smith
What are crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption called?
Progressives
Muckrakers
Reformers
Suffragists
Where did most immigrants enter America during the Gilded Age?
Angel Island
Chicago
Ellis Island
Washington DC
Who won the 1896 presidential election?
William Jennings Bryan
William Bryan Jennings
Chester Arthur
William McKinley
How did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle contribute to a change in the relationship between government and business?
break up of railroad monopolies
increased food regulations
federal troops ended Coal Strike
government worked to end child labor
What name was given to the group of investigative reporters who wrote books, news articles or magazine articles to persuade public opinion about corrupt businesses or government?
Unionists
Suffragists
Muckrakers
Socialists
The quality of or state of being self-governing.
Guerrilla
Protectorate
Autonomy
Imperialism
In the late 1800s, many European nations were looking overseas for places to sell their goods because?
Tariffs had reduced trade among industrialized nations.
Asia and Africa were producing goods that Europeans wanted
They could sell their goods at higher prices in Asia and Africa.
They were producing more than other industrialized nations could buy.
Select all the countries that made up the Central Powers.
Spain, Portugal, Mexico
Great Britain, United States, Italy
Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire
Cuba, Egypt, China
What event did the United States see as an act of aggression and a violation of neutrality?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Zimmerman Note
The British Blockade
Russia's communist revolution.
As the war was ending Woodrow Wilson issued his 14 Points, this was his plan for?
Destroying Germany's Economy
Continuing the War
Establishing World Peace
Helping France rebuild.
Who were the KKK against?
People of Jewish faith
African Americans
Catholics
All of these
Select all the countries that made up the Allied Powers.
Austria-Hungary, Germany
Great Britain, Russia, United States
Spain, Portugal, Mexico
Cuba, Egypt, China
What was the United States initial response to the outbreak of World War I?
They joined the Allied powers
They refused to sell goods to nations at war.
They joined the Central powers
They declared neutrality
Until 1886, about one-third of the population of Cuba was?
from the United States
enslaved.
from England.
part of the Spanish military.
The act or process of increasing or enlarging the extent, number, or scope.
Expansion
Protectorate
Imperialism
Autonomy
The idea that Christians had a duty to help poor people was called?
Social Gospel
Gospel of Wealth
Gospel of Jesus
morality
Which of the following is NOT a part of Theodore Roosevelt's progressive reform deal?
Control Corporations
Consumer protection
Clayton's Anti-Trust Act
Conservation of natural resources
What is the significance of initiative, recall, and referendum?
increase power to the citizens
expand voting rights to the Chinese
expand suffrage to women
low interest rate loans to farmers
During urbanization poor sanitation led to what?
a boom in the recycling industry
Large numbers leaving the city
Disease such as outbreaks of cholera & typhoid
Increase in sanitation related technologies
Why did people come to America?
They wanted more freedom.
They were looking for jobs.
They suffered famine and war in their own country
All of these are reasons they came to America.
A historical site in New York that opened in 1892 as an immigration station.
Angel Island
Coney Island
Ellis Island
Grand Island
An 1890 law that banned the formations of trusts and monopolies in the United States.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Dawes Antitrust Act
Homestead Act
Bill Watts Act
Capital is?
The raw materials needed to produce something
the biggest city in each state
money used to invest in labor, people or factories
A person that owns a business.
This Nez Perce leader surrendered in northern Montana.
Crazy Horse
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
Sitting Bull
The Comstock boomtown?
Las Vegas
Sacramento
Colorado City
Virginia City
When President Andrew Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act, the House of Representatives voted to?
impeach him
Reelected him
support him
override him
Along with education most freed people wanted?
Food
Houses
Land
new jobs
Thaddeus Stevens was known as a?
Radical Republican
Reformist
Moderate Democrat
Segregationist
He was a violent abolitionist.
George Scott
John Brown
William Douglas
John Bell
Missouri was a ______ state during the Civil War. A. B. *C.
Slave
Free
Border
None of these
He was the commanding general when Lee surrendered at Battle of Appomattox Court House.
Robert E. Lee
George A. Custer
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
John Brown attempted to seize a federal arsenal at?
St. Augustine
Washington, D.C.
Harper’s Ferry Va.
Gettysburg, Pa.
The site of Robert E. Lee’s surrender during Civil War.
Richmond
Washington D.C.
Gettysburg
Appomattox Court House, VA.
A literacy test was?
Amnesty test
pre-voting test
for white southerners
none of these
This agency helped freed African Americans by establishing schools.
Reconstruction Bureau
Ku Klux Klan
White Camelia’s
Freedmen’s Bureau
The Central Pacific Railroad relied on these workers.
Chinese
Germans
African Americans
Irish
Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse defeated this Civil War veteran and his forces.
Hunt Jackson
William McKinley
George A. Custer
J.M. Chivington
Boomtown near the Comstock Lode.
Nevada City
Carson City
Virginia City
Prior to industrialization people lived?
on farms
in suburbs
in tenements
in cities
The Virginia blacksmith that invented the mechanical reaper in 1831.
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick
J.D. Smith
Joseph Gompers
The Suffragist were responsible for?
African American’s right to vote
Passing child labor law
Women’s right to vote
Passing domestic violence laws.
What philosophy held that some people fail in life because of circumstances beyond their control?
individualism
naturalism
realism
Social Darwinism
Moving to a different country.
migration
segregation
mutation
immigration
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are best known for?
women's suffrage
settlement houses in Chicago
fighting lynching
popular singing duo
Who wrote The History of Standard Oil, a book which describes how John D. Rockefeller used ruthless business practices in the oil industry?
Ida Tarbell
Jane Addams
Jacob Riis
Lincoln Steffens
Extreme nationalism marked by aggressive foreign policy.
Imperialism
Nationalism
Jingoism
Autonomy
Critics of the plan to annex the Philippines argued that the cost would outweigh the economic benefits, that imperialism violated American principles, and that?
competition from Filipino labor would drive down American wages.
opening new markets would actually harm American businesses.
Filipinos would not be capable of living under American democracy.
Filipinos were likely to rebel against American control.
Theodore Roosevelt was second in command of an all-volunteer U.S. cavalry unit, known as the_________, that fought in the Spanish-American War.
Easy Riders
Rough Riders
Conquistador Riders
Harley Riders
What event did the United States see as an act of aggression and a violation of neutrality?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The British Blockade
The Zimmerman Note
Russia's communist revolution.
Which of these descriptions fits life in the Roaring Twenties?
a time of prosperity, social change, artistic rebirth and organized crime
a time of technological breakthroughs and online gaming
a time of conflict and economic hardships
the rise of imperialism and international conquest
Jazz is?
A style of art created by activists
A fashion style that came and went quickly
A musical style created by white musicians
A musical style created in the South
Alvin York was a soldier during World War I who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the war. His actions are interesting because he was -
A German defector
A prisoner of War
a Conscientious objector
Stationed away from battle
What event started World War I?
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Note
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Germany's invasion of Poland.
Today, the Philippines is an?
American commonwealth.
independent country.
American protectorate
unincorporated territory
Section of a country where a foreign nation enjoys special rights and powers.
Yellow Journalism
Sphere of Influence
Jingoism
Dollar Diplomacy
Author of "The Jungle" - Exposes conditions of meatpacking industry.
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Jane Adams
Upton Sinclair
What does Laissez-faire mean?
government regulation of business
government owns businesses
government does not interfere with business
government only controls food industry
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute.
WEB DuBois
Malcolm X
Thomas Eakins
Booker T Washington
This person was responsible for creating the first settlement house that assisted immigrants in Chicago.
Ida B. Wells
Susan B. Anthony
Jane Addams
Martha Washington
Who invented the first practical car, the Model T?
Whitey Ford
Lance Chevrolet
John Henry
Henry Ford
The American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb.
George M. Pullman
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Ben Franklin
The life expectancy for the average person before industrialization was longer than today's life expectancy.
True
False
This nomadic northern Plains nation followed the buffalo.
Crow
Apache
Sioux
Cheyenne
He was the leader of the Cheyenne warriors.
Black Kettle
Geronimo
Sitting Bull
Wounded Knee
This violated the tradition that presidents controlled their cabinets.
Wade – Davis Bill
13th Amendment
Tenure of Office Act
Jim Crow Laws
This terrifying secret society often killed African Americans in the South.
Freedmen’s Bureau
Ku Klux Klan
White Men’s Society
Southerners’ Society
