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WorksheetsSTAAR REVIEW MOCK2023 u.s. history
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 44mins
Era of rebuilding after the Civil War; Readmitting the Confederate states into the Union
Impeachment
Homestead
Republicans
Reconstruction
Controlled Congress during Reconstruction; Wanted to use Reconstruction as a way to punish the South
Freedmen's Bureau
Impeachment
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Radical Republicans
1st African American elected to the U.S. Senate
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
Hiram Rhodes Revels
What are unalienable rights?
rights given by the president
rights the government can't take away from you
rights given by congress
What are the big 3 unalienable rights?
life, property, and liberty
time, money, and power
life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
Which of the following best describes what the Continental Congresses were?
a series of meetings planned to respond to England
a provisional government designed to negotiate peace
a local Pennsylvania legislature debating England's taxes
John Locke believed that all people had:
Natural Rights
Individual rights
Some rights
What role did the government have, according to John Locke?
Protect the people's natural rights
Take away people's natural rights
Help determine the people's natural rights
According to John Locke, if the government didn't protect the people's natural rights, what could the people do?
Overthrow the government
Petition the government for their rights
Nothing, the people don't have rights
The size of the United States was doubled with
the adoption of New Orleans
the expedition of Lewis and Clark
the Louisiana Purchase
Zebolon Pike's Expedition
Which principle of the government creates 3 different branches?
Limited Government
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
Federalism
The principle that allows the National government and state governments to share powers is?
Federalism
Limited Power
Popular Sovereignty
Individual Rights
DECISION: The Federal government has the power over the states to regulate interstate commerce. Federal ferry license prevails over a State Ferry License (no NY monopoly)
Gideon v Wainwright
McCulloch v Maryland
Marbury v Madison
Gibbons v Ogden
What case established the federal government’s control over interstate trade?
Marbury v. Madison
Brown v. Board
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
The battle of Gettysburg was considered a (a) point in the war.
DUE PROCESS MEANS THAT ALL CITIZENS ARE GUARANTEED __________________ EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES.
FOOD
A CAR
RIGHTS
LOVE
THE 5TH AMENDMENT GIVES THE RIGHT NOT TO TESTIFY AGAINST_____________
YOUR PARENTS
YOURSELF
YOUR TEACHER
YOUR FRIEND
Under due process, you have the right to a fair______________
trial
judgement
lawyer
criticism
Under due process, your ______________ should be appropriate for the crime.
fine
promise
punishment
problem
Members of the Republican party who believed the Confederacy should be punished for their actions and believed African Americans were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites.
Carpetbagger
Scalawag
Radical Republican
Freedmen
What connected the Mississippi River and the Hudson River making transportation of goods easier?
The Hudson Bridge
The Erie Canal
The National Road
Railroads
What was George Washington’s advice in the Farewell Address (1796)?
Stay neutral in foreign affairs
Always choose a side in foreign affairs
What was George Washington's advice on Foreign Policy?
The Nation should remain neutral and avoid getting into European Wars
The Nation should end slavery
The Nation should expand from East to West to fulfill Manifest Destiny
The Nation should pass the embargo act
Your parents insist you attend a weekly religious service.
Violation of your First Amendment Right
NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right
Which Amendment protects against quartering of soldiers?
First Amendment
Tenth Amendment
Fifth Amendment
Third Amendment
The Mayflower Compact is the first example in America of _____.
divine oversight of government
popular sovereignty
democratic self-government
constitutional monarchy
What is the Middle Passage?
Water Route Through North America
European slave trade with India
European slave trade with the Americas
Why did the Transatlantic Slave Trade develop?
Slaves were needed to grow cash crops
Slaves were needed to build a rail road
Slaves were needed for textile manufacturing
Slaves were used in shipyards
What did Dorothea Dix do to contribute to the prison reform movement in the early 1800s?
founded an organization of women that worked together to educate people to become teachers
spoke of the horrid conditions of prisons and inspired the building of separate facilities for the mentally ill
brought America's attention to the need for education reform for women
fought Congressmen for equal rights for Native Americans
Immigration to Mexico
Agricultural economies
Urbanization
Which amendment to the US Constitution prohibited the state and federal governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race?"
12th
13th
14th
15th
Before the war, Mexico claimed that the border between the U.S. and Mexico was the...
Rio Grande River
Nueces River
Mississippi River
Before the war, the U.S. claimed that the border between Mexico and the U.S. was the...
Rio Grande River
Nueces River
Missouri River
Which of the following was one of the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Kansas and Nebraska were united into one territory
Residents could vote on the issue of slavery
Banned slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska
Allowed slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska
