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WorksheetsUSHC Unit 3 Review - Wilson HS
Total questions: 63
Worksheet time: 21mins
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." - Abraham Lincoln, 1858
According to this quotation, Abraham Lincoln believed that
Sectional differences threatened to destroy the Union.
Slavery was immoral and should be abolished immediately.
The Southern states should be allowed to secede.
To save the nation, the North should compromise with the South on slavery.
What is the most accurate title for this map?
Closing the Frontier
Results of Reconstruction
A Nation Divided
Compromise of 1850
Which of the following is a cause of the Civil War?
States' Rights
Sectionalism
Slavery
All of these factors led to the Civil War
Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the Union during the Civil War?
Population
Military leadership
Well-balanced economy
Factories and railroads
Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Money
They were fighting to preserve their way of life
They did not need to win the war, just needed to not lose the war
Cotton
Which of the following was not an aspect of the Union's military strategy the "Anaconda Plan"?
Control the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico
Control the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy in two
Forge a military alliance with Great Britain
Capture Richmond, Virginia
What was the Confederate military strategy during the Civil War?
Defensive War
Target industrial centers in the North
Cripple the Union Navy
Capture California to gain control of the Union's gold supply
Which of the following was NOT an impact of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Ended slavery in the United States
Provided a moral purpose to the Civil War
Influenced African Americans into assisting the Union
Inspired European countries to remain out of the Civil War
Which of the following best identifies African Americans in the Union military during the Civil War?
African American soldiers served in integrated units with white soldiers
African Americans were treated equally as white soldiers, many even serving as officers
African Americans were poorly equipped, poorly payed, and served in segregated units
African Americans were not permitted to enlist in the Union military
What was the first significant unit of African American soldiers in the Union during the Civil War?
54th Massachusetts
Harlem Hellfighters
Redtails
Buffalo Soldiers
Which battle of the Civil War demonstrated that African American soldiers were just as brave and trained as white soldiers, dispelling the untrue beliefs of African American soldiers?
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Vicksburg
Attack on Fort Wagner
Antietam
What is the military strategy in which not only does an army attack its enemy's troops, but also the economic and civilian resources that support them?
Mutually Assured Destruction
Total War
Détente
Blitzkrieg
What battle of the Civil War proved to be the first shots of the war, starting the Civil War?
Attack on Fort Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
Sherman's March to the Sea
What battle of the Civil War proved that the war would not be short nor be easy?
Attack on Fort Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
Sherman's March to the Sea
What battle of the Civil War gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, successfully cutting the Confederacy in half, key to the Anaconda Plan?
Attack on Fort Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
Sherman's March to the Sea
What battle of the Civil War proved to be the turning point of the war, never again would the Confederacy have the manpower to invade the North again?
Attack on Fort Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
Sherman's March to the Sea
What famous document reminded the American people why they were fighting the Civil War: preserve the union, uphold freedom and equality, and to promise the birth of a new nation?
Wilmot Proviso
Freeport Doctrine
Gettysburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation?
What action of the Civil War was designed to destroy Southern moral and their willingness to support the war?
Attack on Fort Sumter
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
Sherman's March to the Sea
What was the lasting impact of the Civil War?
Upheld the theory of nullification
Demonstrated the weakness of the national government
Reinforced the political strength of the states in the United States
Cemented federal authority in the United States
What was the purpose of the Reconstruction?
Rebuild the South following the Civil War
Politically restoring the Confederate states to the Union
Rebuild the North following the Civil War
Make internal improvements throughout the nation after the Civil War
What were the laws passed in the Southern States during Reconstruction to restrict the rights of African Americans?
Black Codes
Slave Codes
Jim Crow Laws
Blue Laws
What organization was founded in the South following the Civil War, designed to limit the power of the Republican Party and the rights of African Americans?
Free Masons
KKK
Anti-American League
Knights of Labor
What government agency was created to provided assistance to those displaced after the Civil War, this included food, health care, and education?
Freedman's Bureau
NAACP
Black Panthers
Daughters of Liberty
Which amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States?
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Which amendment to the Constitution guaranteed all citizens "equal protection" under the law?
12th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Which amendment to the Constitution guaranteed the right to vote for all men, regardless of race, color, or previous servitude?
12th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Whose Reconstruction plan hoped to restore the Union as quickly and peacefully as possible?
Confederate States of America
President Johnson
President Grant
Congress and the Radical Republicans
Whose Reconstruction plan punished the South for their role in the Civil War?
President Lincoln
President Johnson
President Grant
Congress and the Radical Republicans
What does it mean to charge a public official with a wrongdoing?
Impeach
Filibuster
Censure
Recall
Andrew Johnson was impeached for impeding Congressional Reconstruction and violating the Tenure in Office Act.
True
False
During Reconstruction, African Americans politically prospered with the power to vote and hold political offices.
True
False
What was the system of farming in which a farmer tends some portion of a landowner's land and receives a share of the crop at harvest time as payment?
Tenant Farming
Sharecropping
Putting Out System
Vertical Consolidation
What is the negative term used to describe a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War, thought to be taking advantage of the poor economic conditions of the South?
Scalawag
Robber Baron
Carpetbagger
Pirates of the Prairie
What is the negative term used to describe a white Southern Republican, believed to be traitor to the South and what it stands for?
Scalawag
Robber Baron
Carpetbagger
Stormtroopers
What brought about an end to the Reconstruction?
The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
The Credit Mobilier Scandal
Compromise of 1877
Passage of the 15th Amendment
African American rights continued to thrive in the years following the conclusion of the Reconstruction?
True
False
What is the forced separation of the races?
Segregation
Integration
Impeachment
Unionization
What were the intent of the Jim Crow laws that were instituted in the South following the Reconstruction?
Maintain government efforts to ensure the equal rights of African Americans
Establish separate public facilities for both whites and African Americans
Establish affirmative action policies to guarantee economic opportunities for minorities
Oversee voter registration and fraud in Southern governments
What Supreme Court ruling established the "separate but equal" clause, legalizing segregation throughout the South?
Scott v. Sanford
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Worcester v. Georgia
Which of the following was NOT used to prevent African Americans from voting in the South in the decades following Reconstruction?
Grandfather Clause
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Intimidation
What 19th century civil rights activist promoted the need for African Americans to pursue a vocational education, focusing instead on economic well-being rather than political and social equality?
Booker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
W.E.B. DuBois
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
What 19th century civil rights activist promoted that all African Americans should pursue whatever education they choose, as well as those college educated, the "Talented Tenth," should lead the fight in demanding full equality?
Booker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
W.E.B. DuBois
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Though different in their ideologies in regards to African American rights, what belief did both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois agree?
Direct confrontation to demand greater rights
The belief in nonviolent resistance
Change will only occur as a result of foreign pressure to protect rights
The need for an education
What 19th century civil rights activist promoted the need for government to implement anti-lynching legislation in the United States?
Booker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
W.E.B. DuBois
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
What organization was established in the early 20th century to abolish segregation, oppose racism, and promote civil rights for African Americans?
NAACP
Niagara Movement
Freedman's Bureau
Black Panther Party
What was name of the government program that provided 160 acres of land in return for the improvement of the land, the government hoped this program would escalate the settlement of the West?
Pacific Railway Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
"40 Acres and a Mule" Program
Homestead Act
What federal legislation provided government support/aid for the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century?
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
Headright Acts
Which of the following was used by the federal government to help finance the construction of the transcontinental railroad during the 19th century?
Government ownership of the railroads
Land Grants
Legislation making available the use of slave labor for construction of the railroad
Government use of military funds were used to finance the railroad
Which of the following was NOT a result of the construction of the transcontinental railroad?
Great economic opportunities for Native Americans
The creation of new towns and cities
The establishment of a national marketplace
Faster and more efficient means of transportation
Reorder the following...
Civil War
Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
Plessy v. Ferguson
NAACP
What group of African Americans migrated westward after the Civil War, often to locations like Kansas, to seek a new life away from the South?
Mormons
Okies
Exodusters
Boomers and Sooners
What is the only native American religion established in the United States, they would be persecuted and forced to migrate westward and settled in lands of the Great Salt Lake?
Baptists
Methodists
Mormons
Puritans
Which immigrant group was highly recruited to construct the transcontinental railroad in the West?
South Americans
Italians
Jews
Chinese
What was the "open range"?
Millions of acres of public lands utilized for cattle grazing
The lands set aside for the Native Americans
Term used to identify the largely uninhabited areas of the Rocky Mountains
Public land opened to citizens to acquire fossil fuels and other mineral resources
Why did many consider the "frontier" to be closed at the end of the 19th century?
The Native American threat had been finally resolved by the government
The railroad now provided access to all parts of the United States
There was no longer any large tracts of uninhabited land in the country
Agricultural lands were no longer needed as the country focused only on industry
What is the term for the lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government?
Commune
Internment Camp
Reservation
Open Range
Which of the following was NOT a way in which the United States exploited the Native Americans in the West?
Placed Native Americans in concentration camps
Forced Native Americans to live on government created reservations
Utilized the military to police and intimidate the Native Americans
Frequently broke treaties previously established with the Native Americans
The American destruction of what animal crippled the Native Americans in the late 19th century?
Bear
Bison
Deer
Moose
Who were the African American soldiers who served in the West to control Native Americans, capture cattle thieves, and to protect people migrating westward?
Black Panthers
Guardian Angels
Buffalo Soldiers
Redtails
What was the Native American battle in which the Sioux massacred the Colonel Custer's 5th Cavalry, increasing the tense relationship between the Native Americans and American military?
Battle of Wounded Knee
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Battle of Tippecanoe
Battle of Little Bighorn
What banned Native American ceremony, that resumed in the late 19th century, was viewed as a threat by Native Americans to the people of the West?
Vision Quest
Ghost Dance
Sun Dance
Hopi Snake Dance
What was the Native American battle in which the American military slaughtered dozens of innocent Native Americans, bringing about an end to the Indian Wars and demise of Native Americans?
Battle of Wounded Knee
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Battle of Tippecanoe
Battle of Little Bighorn
What legislation passed by the federal government forced the assimilation of the Native Americans through the breaking up of the reservations and the establishment of citizenship of the Native Americans?
Sherman Antitrust Act
Pacific Railway Act
Native American Exclusion Act
Dawes Act
