WorksheetsUSH Semster 1 Final Review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
What is the name of the Italian explorer that opened up European colonization to the Americas?
Ferdinand Magellan
Marco Polo
Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus
What was the name of the British colony in North America that mysteriously disappeared?
Jamestown
St. Augustine
Roanoke
Plymouth
What was the name of the event where colonists threw rocks, stones, and snowballs at British soldiers which led to the deaths of five men?
Boston Massacre
Jamestown Massacre
Plymouth Massacre
New York Massacre
Who was the first President of the United States?
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
What was the name of the treaty that officially ended the War of 1812 and solidified British and US relations?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Ghent
President Andrew Jackson would force Native Americans to relocate from land in the southern United States to present-day Oklahoma in an event called the ___ .
Boston Massacre
Manifest Destiny
The Great Migration
Trail of Tears
What was the name of the movement where Americans believed that it was their “God-given right” to expand westward?
Great Migration
Homestead Act
Manifest Destiny
Monroe Doctrine
Which American document is referred to as the “Supreme Law of the Land?”
The Declaration of Independence
The Federalist Papers
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
What was the name of the immigration station on the West Coast of the United States?
Angel Island
Ellis Island
Staten Island
Roanoke Island
While some advocated for the ratification of the Constitution, others were in support of which document?
The Declaration of Independence
The Federalist Papers
The Magna Carta
The Articles of Confederation
What was the location of the first battles of the American Revolution?
Lexington and Concord
Boston and Raleigh
New York and Plymouth
St. Augustine and Jamestown
Which European nation was NOT involved in the colonization of the Americas?
The British
The French
The Spanish
The Italians
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson would pass the Indian Removal Act causing which event?
Trail of Tears
Oregon Trail
Sand Creek Massacre
Great Migration
What is the name of the path that Americans used to travel west in covered wagons?
The Washington Trail
The California Trail
The Idaho Trail
The Oregon Trail
The re-birth of African-American culture and pride was referred to as the ___ .
Jazz Movement
Harlem Renaissance
Brooklyn Renaissance
Civil Rights Movement
Following World War II and still continuing today, what region in the U.S. experiences a constant influx of migration?
The Rust Belt
The Sun Belt
The Corn Belt
The Snow Belt
The discovery of gold in California in 1848 would cause mass migration from which country?
Japan
China
Germany
France
Which of the following is a push factor in immigration?
War
Cheap Transportation
Religious Freedom
Economic Opportunity
To further remove Native Americans, the U.S. government would wage “total war” which resulted in the mass killing of which animal?
Deer
Elk
Buffalo
Moose
Which piece of legislation would give Americans 160 acres of public land out West, as long as they agreed to live on the land and improve it?
Civil Rights Act
Homestead Act
Intolerable Acts
Coercive Acts
The first wave of immigration (1600-1775) would primarily be from which two countries in North America?
Great Britain and France
Germany and Russia
Italy and Poland
Spain and Portugal
The second wave of immigration (1820-1870) would primarily be made up of which ethnicities?
Italian and Polish
French and Romanian
Austrian and Hungarian
Irish and German
Which area of the world did most immigrate to the United States from during the third wave of immigration (1890-1914)?
Southwestern Asia
North Africa
South and East Europe
Western Europe
Which of the following is a pull factor in immigration?
Political Rights
Poverty
Natural Disaster
Discrimination
What was the name of the migration movement where African-Americans migrated from the South to the Northern and Western United States?
Trail of Tears
Oregon Trail
Great Migration
California Gold Rush
Reconstruction can best be described ___ .
The effort to reintegrate the Southern states and their populations back into the Union
The ability of states to be able to vote for slavery themselves
The abolition of slavery
The violent raids that took place in Kansas during the late 1850s
Which Spanish colony did the Spanish-American War break out over?
Cuba
Panama
Guam
The Philippines
Which of the following was a reason for the U.S. to become militarily involved in Vietnam?
The Geneva Conference
The Tet Offensive
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Vietnamization
Which of the following was not a cause of World War I?
Nationalism
Alliances
Militarism
League of Nations
What policy kept the US from becoming directly involved at the beginning of both World War I and World War II?
Isolationism
Alliances
Diplomacy
Militarism
The Treaty of Versailles did all of the following except:
Created the League of Nations
Gave Germany more land
Germany had to pay back all war debts
Officially ended World War I
When did Japan officially surrender tp end World War II?
After the invasion of Poland
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor
After atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
After islands were taken over by the US through island hopping
The Civil War was most caused by which of the following?
Westward expansion
Spanish Aggressions
Popular sovereignty
States’ rights to practice slavery
What event pulled the United States into World War II in 1941?
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Verdun
Sinking of the Lusitania
D-Day
Which of the following started the policy of containment and domino theoryduring the Cold War?
Kennan Telegram
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
None of the above
After American troops left Vietnam in 1973, South Vietnam ___ .
Fell to the North Vietnamese a few years later
Held unifying elections and gained control of North Vietnam a few years later
Successfully invaded North Vietnam, creating a unified democratic nation
Stayed independent
After World War II, Korea was split into north and south between which two countries?
US and Soviet Union
Japan and China
Japan and Soviet Union
Soviet Union and Germany
What extremist terrorist group was responsible for the attacks on 9/11?
ISIS
Boko Haram
Al-Qaeda
Taliban
Which war conference determined what surrender would look like for the Japanese and partitioned Vietnam?
Yalta
Munich
Potsdam
Tehran
Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
–Declaration of Independence
What is the meaning of “unalienable rights”?
Rights that change over time
Rights that cannot be defined and protected
Rights that only governments can provide
Rights that cannot be taken away or denied
Which of the following best states the principle described below?
"The far-reaching, the boundless future will be the era of American greatness. In its magnificent domain of space and time, the nation of many nations is destined to manifest to mankind the excellence of divine principles; to establish on earth the noblest temple ever dedicated to the worship of the Most High—the Sacred and the True. Its floor shall be a hemisphere—its roof the firmament of the star-studded heavens, and its congregation a Union of many Republics, comprising hundreds of happy millions, calling, owning no man master, but governed by God's natural and moral law of equality, the law of brotherhood—of 'peace and good will amongst men.'"
John L. O'Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity," 1839
Colonists were destined to leave the British Empire because of the distance between the New World and England.
Women are biologically predestined to lives of child rearing and domestic labor.
America's expansion to the West Coast was inevitable and divinely sanctioned.
The abolition of slavery in the United States was certain to come about because slavery was immoral.
The cover below from a nineteenth-century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from ___ .
A mostly rural society to a mostly urban one
A direct democracy to a representative one
A foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism
A slave-owning society to a one without slavery
Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows:
When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked New York as the most densely populated city in the United States…Disease, sanitation, garbage and hygiene issues were constant concerns in crowded impoverished… districts, where vital statistics were alarming. Jacob Riis wrote frequently to urge measures to protect public health and to alert wealthy residents of the city to slum conditions that put everyone at risk.
-”Jacob Riis: Revealing ‘How the Other Half Lives’ Writer,” Library of Congress, www.loc.gov
(accessed October 17, 2017)
Which issue was discussed in the writings of Jacob Riis?
Discrimination against African Americans in the U.S. cities
Increasing efforts to reduce Chinese immigration to the U.S. cities
Growing conflict between rural regions and the U.S. cities
Harsh conditions of tenement housing in U.S. cities
Which sentence correctly completes the diagram?
The Bracero program was introduced
Irish families immigrated to the United States
Russian radicals joined labor unions in the United States
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed
Which of the following does this menu best reflect?
Successful agricultural trade agreements with other countries
Lowered nutritional standards for public schools
Diverse ethnic contributions to U.S. culture
Strict U.S. regulations on food preparation
Which Soviet action led to the threat illustrated on this map?
The signing of an arms limitations treaty
Blockading foreign supply ships from entering the Caribbean
Closing the border between East and West Berlin
The placement of nuclear weapons installations in Cuba
Which era is associated with the type of event shown in this photograph?
The Roaring Twenties
The Industrial Revolution
The Great Depression
The Cold War
Which action best explains the differences shown in these photographs?
The United States gave economic assistance through the Marshall Plan
The Soviet Union established the “Iron Curtain” after World War II
The Unites States and the Soviet Union created an alliance after World War II
U.S. leaders created the United Nations
Which additional reason BEST completes this list?
Increase trade with Asian nations
Prevent facism from spreading throughout Europe
Retaliated against Germany for imposing high tariffs
Assist the Allied powers against German aggression
What event prompted this speech by George H. W. Bush?
Bombing of the U.S.S. Cole
Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
Mail bombing campaign of the Unabomber
Bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building
