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USH Semster 1 Final Review

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the Italian explorer that opened up European colonization to the Americas?

a)

Ferdinand Magellan

b)

Marco Polo

c)

Amerigo Vespucci

d)

Christopher Columbus

2.

What was the name of the British colony in North America that mysteriously disappeared?

a)

Jamestown

b)

St. Augustine

c)

Roanoke

d)

Plymouth

3.

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?

a)

Boston Massacre

b)

Jamestown Massacre

c)

Plymouth Massacre

d)

New York Massacre

4.

Who was the first President of the United States?

a)

James Madison

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

George Washington

5.

What was the name of the treaty that officially ended the War of 1812 and solidified British and US relations?

a)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

b)

Treaty of Versailles

c)

Treaty of Paris

d)

Treaty of Ghent

6.

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 ___ .

a)

Boston Massacre

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

The Great Migration

d)

Trail of Tears

7.

What was the name of the movement where Americans believed that it was their “God-given right” to expand westward?

a)

Great Migration

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

Monroe Doctrine

8.

Which American document is referred to as the “Supreme Law of the Land?”

a)

The Declaration of Independence

b)

The Federalist Papers

c)

The Articles of Confederation

d)

The Constitution

9.

What was the name of the immigration station on the West Coast of the United States?

a)

Angel Island

b)

Ellis Island

c)

Staten Island

d)

Roanoke Island

10.

While some advocated for the ratification of the Constitution, others were in support of which document?

a)

The Declaration of Independence

b)

The Federalist Papers

c)

The Magna Carta

d)

The Articles of Confederation

11.

What was the location of the first battles of the American Revolution?

a)

Lexington and Concord

b)

Boston and Raleigh

c)

New York and Plymouth

d)

St. Augustine and Jamestown

12.

Which European nation was NOT involved in the colonization of the Americas?

a)

The British

b)

The French

c)

The Spanish

d)

The Italians

13.

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson would pass the Indian Removal Act causing which event?

a)

Trail of Tears

b)

Oregon Trail

c)

Sand Creek Massacre

d)

Great Migration

14.

What is the name of the path that Americans used to travel west in covered wagons?

a)

The Washington Trail

b)

The California Trail

c)

The Idaho Trail

d)

The Oregon Trail

15.

The re-birth of African-American culture and pride was referred to as the ___ .

a)

Jazz Movement

b)

Harlem Renaissance

c)

Brooklyn Renaissance

d)

Civil Rights Movement

16.

Following World War II and still continuing today, what region in the U.S. experiences a constant influx of migration?

a)

The Rust Belt

b)

The Sun Belt

c)

The Corn Belt

d)

The Snow Belt

17.

The discovery of gold in California in 1848 would cause mass migration from which country?

a)

Japan

b)

China

c)

Germany

d)

France

18.

Which of the following is a push factor in immigration?

a)

War

b)

Cheap Transportation

c)

Religious Freedom

d)

Economic Opportunity

19.

To further remove Native Americans, the U.S. government would wage “total war” which resulted in the mass killing of which animal?

a)

Deer

b)

Elk

c)

Buffalo

d)

Moose

20.

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?

a)

Civil Rights Act

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Intolerable Acts

d)

Coercive Acts

21.

The first wave of immigration (1600-1775) would primarily be from which two countries in North America?

a)

Great Britain and France

b)

Germany and Russia

c)

Italy and Poland

d)

Spain and Portugal

22.

The second wave of immigration (1820-1870) would primarily be made up of which ethnicities?

a)

Italian and Polish

b)

French and Romanian

c)

Austrian and Hungarian

d)

Irish and German

23.

Which area of the world did most immigrate to the United States from during the third wave of immigration (1890-1914)?

a)

Southwestern Asia

b)

North Africa

c)

South and East Europe

d)

Western Europe

24.

Which of the following is a pull factor in immigration?

a)

Political Rights

b)

Poverty

c)

Natural Disaster

d)

Discrimination

25.

What was the name of the migration movement where African-Americans migrated from the South to the Northern and Western United States?

a)

Trail of Tears

b)

Oregon Trail

c)

Great Migration

d)

California Gold Rush

26.

Reconstruction can best be described ___ .

a)

The effort to reintegrate the Southern states and their populations back into the Union

b)

The ability of states to be able to vote for slavery themselves

c)

The abolition of slavery 

d)

The violent raids that took place in Kansas during the late 1850s

27.

Which Spanish colony did the Spanish-American War break out over?

a)

Cuba

b)

Panama

c)

Guam

d)

The Philippines

28.

Which of the following was a reason for the U.S. to become militarily involved in Vietnam?

a)

The Geneva Conference

b)

The Tet Offensive 

c)

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

d)

Vietnamization

29.

Which of the following was not a cause of World War I?

a)

Nationalism

b)

Alliances

c)

Militarism

d)

League of Nations

30.

What policy kept the US from becoming directly involved at the beginning of both World War I and World War II?

a)

Isolationism

b)

Alliances

c)

Diplomacy

d)

Militarism

31.

The Treaty of Versailles did all of the following except: 

a)

Created the League of Nations

b)

Gave Germany more land

c)

Germany had to pay back all war debts

d)

Officially ended World War I

32.

When did Japan officially surrender tp end World War II?

a)

After the invasion of Poland

b)

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor

c)

After atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

d)

After islands were taken over by the US through island hopping

33.

The Civil War was most caused by which of the following?

a)

Westward expansion

b)

Spanish Aggressions

c)

Popular sovereignty

d)

States’ rights to practice slavery

34.

What event pulled the United States into World War II in 1941?

a)

Pearl Harbor

b)

Battle of Verdun

c)

Sinking of the Lusitania

d)

D-Day

35.

Which of the following started the policy of containment and domino theoryduring the Cold War?

a)

Kennan Telegram

b)

Marshall Plan

c)

Truman Doctrine

d)

None of the above

36.

After American troops left Vietnam in 1973, South Vietnam ___ .

a)

Fell to the North Vietnamese a few years later

b)

Held unifying elections and gained control of North Vietnam a few years later

c)

Successfully invaded North Vietnam, creating a unified democratic nation 

d)

Stayed independent

37.

After World War II, Korea was split into north and south between which two countries?

a)

US and Soviet Union

b)

Japan and China

c)

Japan and Soviet Union

d)

Soviet Union and Germany

38.

What extremist terrorist group was responsible for the attacks on 9/11?

a)

ISIS

b)

Boko Haram

c)

Al-Qaeda

d)

Taliban

39.

Which war conference determined what surrender would look like for the Japanese and partitioned Vietnam?

a)

Yalta

b)

Munich

c)

Potsdam

d)

Tehran

40.

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”? 

a)

Rights that change over time

b)

Rights that cannot be defined and protected

c)

Rights that only governments can provide

d)

Rights that cannot be taken away or denied

41.

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

a)

Colonists were destined to leave the British Empire because of the distance between the New World and England.

b)

Women are biologically predestined to lives of child rearing and domestic labor.

c)

America's expansion to the West Coast was inevitable and divinely sanctioned.

d)

The abolition of slavery in the United States was certain to come about because slavery was immoral.

42.

The cover below from a nineteenth-century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from ___ .

a)

A mostly rural society to a mostly urban one

b)

A direct democracy to a representative one

c)

A foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism

d)

A slave-owning society to a one without slavery

43.

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?

a)

Discrimination against African Americans in the U.S. cities

b)

Increasing efforts to reduce Chinese immigration to the U.S. cities

c)

Growing conflict between rural regions and the U.S. cities

d)

Harsh conditions of tenement housing in U.S. cities

44.

Which sentence correctly completes the diagram?

a)

The Bracero program was introduced

b)

Irish families immigrated to the United States

c)

Russian radicals joined labor unions in the United States

d)

The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed

45.

Which of the following does this menu best reflect?

a)

Successful agricultural trade agreements with other countries

b)

Lowered nutritional standards for public schools

c)

Diverse ethnic contributions to U.S. culture

d)

Strict U.S. regulations on food preparation

46.

Which Soviet action led to the threat illustrated on this map?

a)

The signing of an arms limitations treaty

b)

Blockading foreign supply ships from entering the Caribbean

c)

Closing the border between East and West Berlin

d)

The placement of nuclear weapons installations in Cuba

47.

Which era is associated with the type of event shown in this photograph?

a)

The Roaring Twenties

b)

The Industrial Revolution

c)

The Great Depression

d)

The Cold War

48.

Which action best explains the differences shown in these photographs?

a)

The United States gave economic assistance through the Marshall Plan

b)

The Soviet Union established the “Iron Curtain” after World War II

c)

The Unites States and the Soviet Union created an alliance after World War II

d)

U.S. leaders created the United Nations

49.

Which additional reason BEST completes this list?

a)

Increase trade with Asian nations

b)

Prevent facism from spreading throughout Europe 

c)

Retaliated against Germany for imposing high tariffs

d)

Assist the Allied powers against German aggression

50.

What event prompted this speech by George H. W. Bush?

a)

Bombing of the U.S.S. Cole

b)

Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon

c)

Mail bombing campaign of the Unabomber

d)

Bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building