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STAAR REVIEW MOCK2023 u.s. history

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 44mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Era of rebuilding after the Civil War; Readmitting the Confederate states into the Union

a)

Impeachment

b)

Homestead

c)

Republicans

d)

Reconstruction

2.

Controlled Congress during Reconstruction; Wanted to use Reconstruction as a way to punish the South

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Impeachment

c)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

d)

Radical Republicans

3.

1st African American elected to the U.S. Senate

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

4.
Gave citizenship and equal protection to anyone born in the U.S. 
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
5.
Abolished Slavery in all of the United States
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
6.
First African-American to be elected into the U.S. Senate, represented Mississippi. 
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Hiram Rhodes Revels
c)
Ulysses S. Grant
7.

What are unalienable rights?

a)

rights given by the president

b)

rights the government can't take away from you

c)

rights given by congress

8.

What are the big 3 unalienable rights?

a)

life, property, and liberty

b)

time, money, and power

c)

life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

9.

Which of the following best describes what the Continental Congresses were?

a)

a series of meetings planned to respond to England

b)

a provisional government designed to negotiate peace

c)

a local Pennsylvania legislature debating England's taxes

10.

John Locke believed that all people had:

a)

Natural Rights

b)

Individual rights

c)

Some rights

11.

What role did the government have, according to John Locke?

a)

Protect the people's natural rights

b)

Take away people's natural rights

c)

Help determine the people's natural rights

12.

According to John Locke, if the government didn't protect the people's natural rights, what could the people do?

a)

Overthrow the government

b)

Petition the government for their rights

c)

Nothing, the people don't have rights

13.
In what year did the Louisiana Purchase take place?
a)
1776
b)
1787
c)
1803
d)
1812
14.
What is represented by "A" on this map?
a)
Missouri River
b)
Mississippi River
c)
Ohio River
d)
Columbia River
15.

The size of the United States was doubled with

a)

the adoption of New Orleans

b)

the expedition of Lewis and Clark

c)

the Louisiana Purchase

d)

Zebolon Pike's Expedition

16.
What are the three branches of the U.S. government?
a)
legislative, gubernatorial, judicial
b)
Congress, President, Senate
c)
legislative, judicial, executive
d)
none of the above
17.
"No one is above the law" is the principle of 
a)
individual rights
b)
limited government
18.

Which principle of the government creates 3 different branches?

a)

Limited Government

b)

Separation of Powers

c)

Checks and Balances

d)

Federalism

19.

The principle that allows the National government and state governments to share powers is?

a)

Federalism

b)

Limited Power

c)

Popular Sovereignty

d)

Individual Rights

20.
A government in which the people rule, the authority of the government comes from the people
a)
Popular Sovereignty
b)
Checks and Balances
c)
Federalism
21.

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)

a)

Gideon v Wainwright

b)

McCulloch v Maryland

c)

Marbury v Madison

d)

Gibbons v Ogden

22.

What case established the federal government’s control over interstate trade?

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

Brown v. Board

c)

McCulloch v. Maryland

d)

Gibbons v. Ogden

23.

The battle of Gettysburg was considered a (a)   point in the war.

24.
In which state did the Battle of Gettysburg take place?
a)
Maryland
b)
Pennsylvania
c)
New York
d)
Virginia
25.

DUE PROCESS MEANS THAT ALL CITIZENS ARE GUARANTEED __________________ EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES.

a)

FOOD

b)

A CAR

c)

RIGHTS

d)

LOVE

26.

THE 5TH AMENDMENT GIVES THE RIGHT NOT TO TESTIFY AGAINST_____________

a)

YOUR PARENTS

b)

YOURSELF

c)

YOUR TEACHER

d)

YOUR FRIEND

27.

Under due process, you have the right to a fair______________

a)

trial

b)

judgement

c)

lawyer

d)

criticism

28.

Under due process, your ______________ should be appropriate for the crime.

a)

fine

b)

promise

c)

punishment

d)

problem

29.
What does "NULLIFY" mean?
a)
To declare a law invalid
b)
To ignore a law
c)
To obey a law
d)
To argue against a law
30.

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.

a)

Carpetbagger

b)

Scalawag

c)

Radical Republican

d)

Freedmen

31.

What connected the Mississippi River and the Hudson River making transportation of goods easier?

a)

The Hudson Bridge

b)

The Erie Canal

c)

The National Road

d)

Railroads

32.
What was Christopher Columbus' purpose for exploration before discovering the New World?
a)
To find a faster and safer trading route to Asia
b)
To circumnavigate the world in the name of Italy
c)
To launch a surprise attack the enemies of Spain by sea
d)
To find the city of gold in southern Africa
33.

What was George Washington’s advice in the Farewell Address (1796)?

a)

Stay neutral in foreign affairs

b)

Always choose a side in foreign affairs

34.

What was George Washington's advice on Foreign Policy?

a)

The Nation should remain neutral and avoid getting into European Wars

b)

The Nation should end slavery

c)

The Nation should expand from East to West to fulfill Manifest Destiny

d)

The Nation should pass the embargo act

35.

Your parents insist you attend a weekly religious service.

a)

Violation of your First Amendment Right

b)

NOT a Violation of your First Amendment Right

36.

Which Amendment protects against quartering of soldiers?

a)

First Amendment

b)

Tenth Amendment

c)

Fifth Amendment

d)

Third Amendment

37.

The Mayflower Compact is the first example in America of _____.

a)

divine oversight of government

b)

popular sovereignty

c)

democratic self-government

d)

constitutional monarchy

38.

What is the Middle Passage?

a)

Water Route Through North America

b)

European slave trade with India

c)

European slave trade with the Americas

39.

Why did the Transatlantic Slave Trade develop?

a)

Slaves were needed to grow cash crops

b)

Slaves were needed to build a rail road

c)

Slaves were needed for textile manufacturing

d)

Slaves were used in shipyards

40.

What did Dorothea Dix do to contribute to the prison reform movement in the early 1800s?

a)

founded an organization of women that worked together to educate people to become teachers

b)

spoke of the horrid conditions of prisons and inspired the building of separate facilities for the mentally ill

c)

brought America's attention to the need for education reform for women

d)

fought Congressmen for equal rights for Native Americans

41.
What was the result of the industrial growth during the late 1800's?
a)

Immigration to Mexico

b)

Agricultural economies

c)

Urbanization

42.
Which thinker introduced the idea of separation of powers for effective government?
a)
John Locke
b)
Baron de Montesquieu
c)
Thomas Paine
d)
Thomas Jefferson
43.

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?"

a)

12th

b)

13th

c)

14th

d)

15th

44.

Before the war, Mexico claimed that the border between the U.S. and Mexico was the...

a)

Rio Grande River

b)

Nueces River

c)

Mississippi River

45.

Before the war, the U.S. claimed that the border between Mexico and the U.S. was the...

a)

Rio Grande River

b)

Nueces River

c)

Missouri River

46.
This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 
a)
Fugitive Slave Act 
b)
Bleeding Kansas
c)
Missouri Compromise 
d)
Kansas-Nebraska Act 
47.

Which of the following was one of the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

Kansas and Nebraska were united into one territory

b)

Residents could vote on the issue of slavery

c)

Banned slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska

d)

Allowed slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska