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WorksheetsAPUSH Review (Periods 3-7)
Total questions: 173
Worksheet time: 2hrs 10mins
Which persident bought the Lousiana Territory
George Washington
James Madison
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
How much did the USA pay for the Louisiana Territory
100 million
55 million
25 million
15 million
Which country sold Louisiana Territory to the USA
Canada
Britain
France
Spain
Which historic figure sold Louisina to the USA
Napoleon Bonaparte
King George III
Pope Alexander
King Louis 16
The Louisina territory was sold in order to
Help the USA grow
Get fast money for an army and a war
Get rid of natural resources
In which year was Louisiana sold to the USA
1776
1781
1803
1812
Lewis and Clark were famous because
They bought Louisiana for the USA
The explored the Louisiana Territory
They fought for Napoleon's army
The saved Washington from the British army
The New Democracy was based on the idea that the right to vote should be extended to
all adults
women and blacks
only those who owned property
all white men
In McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia and Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice John Marshall's rulings limited the extent of
states' rights
judicial review
federalism
constitutionalism
The Seneca Falls Convention launched the modern women's rights movement with its call for
equal pay for equal work
an equal rights amendment to the Constitution
equal rights, including the right to vote
equality of property rights in marriage laws
The powers of the US Government, and those that are denied to it, are described in the Constitution.
separation of powers
limited government
equality before the law
majority rule
The government is divided into three branches, each with its own, specified powers.
right to change
checks and balances
separation of powers
majority rule
Each branch of the US government has the power to limit the actions of the other branches.
checks and balances
rule of law
representative democracy
consent of the governed
Which of the following statements most accurately describes judicial review?
the power to nominate and appoint new judges
the power to reverse the decisions of lower courts
the power to review presidential actions
the power to declare laws unconstitutional
Which Supreme Court case established judicial review?
McCullough v. Maryland
Marbury v. Madison
US v. Nixon
Baker v. Carr
The Supreme Court ruled that “the power to tax is the power to destroy” in what case?
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
What case expanded the power of the government by applying the Commerce Clause broadly?
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
What case dealt with steamboats on the Hudson River?
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
What was Manifest Destiny?
It was destiny for Indigenous people to live on the North American continent.
The US had a duty to take over the Canadian territory.
The US had the right and duty to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The US had the duty to take control of the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
What is the term for someone who moves into a country?
Immigrant
Emigrant
Native American
Pioneer
Which amendment officially ended slavery in the United States?
12th
13th
14th
95th
The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to
provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.
gain the vote for millions of former slaves.
provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.
get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.
Black Codes were created to
provide farmland for former slaves
guarantee equal civil rights for African Americans
Support the Freedman's Bureau
Restrict the rights of newly freed Black people
5 bills passed by US Congress - Defused a 4 year political confrontation between slave and free states on territories acquired during Mexican American War
Compromise of 1850
Wilmot Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
Experiment 626
All of these contributed to the end of Reconstruction except
Rise of the KKK
Black codes
Election of 1868
Election of 1876
Which battle is considered the turning point and doomed the Southern Cause?
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Antietam
Battle Shiloh
Invasion of Jakku
This gave all men regardless of race the right to vote.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he:
disliked visiting Gotham City.
promised during his 1860 campaign that he would support slavery's expansion.
feared losing the support of the slaveholding border states within the Union.
did not want to support the policies of the Radical Republicans.
_______________ Admitted Maine to the U.S. as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to keep the slave/free state balance in Congress
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
_________________ was a law that allowed people in these states to decided whether to permit slavery or not within their territorial borders
Popular Sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Brown's Decision
Sovereignty Popular
No
____________ was a person who believed in the Union or "wholeness" of the U.S., opposing any break away notions
Abolitionist
Unionist
John Brown
Unity
A _____________ was a person who supported the movement to ban slavery
Free Soiler
Southern Democrat
Republican
Abolitionist
___________________ ruled that slaves were property and all blacks, whether free or slave, were not citizens
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular Sovereignty
Dred Scott v. Sanford decision
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
______ required that all escaped slaves be returned to their "owners"
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Popular Sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
_________ was a gradual process of migrating into and settling in western territories in North America
Westward Expansion
Eastward Expansion
Weast
Popular Sovereignty
______ was an idea that power is vested in the people - people can decide whether or not slavery should be allowed without federal intervention
Popular Sovereignty
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Abolitionism
Popular Expansion
Who was the main creator of the 1850 Compromise?
Henry Clay
James Polk
John C Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Reconstruction succeeded in its goals of restoring the Union and helping to
regulate the railroads
eliminate the Ku Klux Klan
destroy the Freedmen’s Bureau
repair the war-torn South
The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction was to
prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.
gain control of state legislatures.
restore the Confederacy.
improve conditions for poor whites.
The Fourteenth Amendment was part of a series of laws that
ensured the civil rights of African Americans.
shifted the balance of power in favor of the Supreme Court.
changed the way a President could hire government officials.
restored the balance of power between the President and Congress.
As white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to
refuse to pay war debts.
join the Republican Party.
reverse Reconstruction era reforms.
compensate former slaves.
Reconstruction came to end when
President Johnson was impeached.
federal troops were removed from the South.
the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.
the Freedmen’s Bureau was dismantled.
The Freedmen’s Bureau succeeded in
electing African Americans to southern state governments.
keeping ex-Confederate supporters out of office.
redistributing formerly white-owned land to black southerners.
providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people.
A major failure of Reconstruction was that
racist attitudes continued in the North and South.
the South’s cotton production never recovered.
war debts remained unpaid.
no African Americans were voted into Congress.
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
gave voting rights to all Southerners.
closed the South to scalawags.
closed the South to Democrats.
put the South under military rule.
The Radical Republicans passed a series of laws designed to
protect the civil rights of African Americans.
reestablish slavery in a different form.
unfairly tax the South.
prohibit free speech in the South.
The Radical Republicans objected to President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction because they thought it was
too expensive.
a threat to congressional authority.
unfair to former slave owners.
too harsh on the South.
What word is used to describe separating facilities for the white and black communities in America?
Separation
Division
Segregation
Partition
All of the following groups of non-English colonists migrated into the British North American colonies in large numbers throughout the eighteenth century EXCEPT
Germans
Irish
Scots
Russians
Five of the thirteen states voted for ratification of the Constitution only after
slavery was allowed to continue without federal interference
they were assured that a Bill of Rights would be added shortly after ratification
they were assured that the Supreme Court would have the power of judicial review
the other states threatened to organize the government without them
What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the Revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.”
John Adams, former president of the United States, letter to Thomas Jefferson, former president of the United States, 1815
Which of the following is the most likely reason why Adams dates the beginning of the American Revolution to the 1760s?
Renewed efforts by Great Britain to consolidate imperial control over the colonies
The forging of American Indian political alliances with European powers
Increased involvement of colonial merchants in the Atlantic economy
The expansion of the colonial population into the interior of the continent
Which of the following contributed most to the American Victory in the Revolution?
French military and financial assistance
The failure of Loyalists to participate in military action
The British failure to capture Philadelphia
A major American military victory at Valley Forge
The government of the Articles of Confederation was successful in resolving the problem of how to
enable American citizens to trade through the port of New Orleans
open British Caribbean ports to American trade
provide for statehood for western territories
secure sufficient funds for payment of the national debt
Britain attempted to pay for the debt resulting from the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) by
charging immigrants a fee to relocate to North America
selling ships from its navy to colonial merchants
increasing taxes on goods bought and sold in the colonies
sponsoring expeditions to locate valuable resources
By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in republican government, sovereignty was located in
factions
state governments
a centralized government
the people
Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) in North America?
Intensified competition between the French and Indians
Intensified competition between France and Spain over colonies
Intensified competition between Spain and Britain over colonies
Intensified competition between France and Britain over colonies
Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense attacked which of the following?
France for its failure to support the colonial war effort
Politicians who believed a small island could not effectively rule a distant continent
The authors of the Declaration of Independence
The king of England and the principle of monarchy
Which statement is true of the United States Constitution?
The Constitution’s checks and balances helped establish a stable government.
The Constitution established a unicameral legislature.
Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Constitution.
The Constitution cannot be amended.
The role of women expressed in the cult of domesticity had its roots in
Progressive Era urban reform
republican motherhood
the early twentieth-century suffrage movement
the reaction against feminism after the Second World War
During the War for Independence, the principal reason the American government sought diplomatic recognition from foreign powers was to
facilitate the purchase of arms and borrowing of money from other nations
make it easier to levy taxes on the citizens of the several states
convince the British of the justice of the American cause
rally all the states behind a common cause
The Federalist papers were written in order to
mobilize popular support for keeping the Articles of Confederation
attain ratification of the Constitution
persuade the Continental Congress to declare independence
frustrate Spanish efforts to sway the political loyalty of the Southwest
After the French and Indian War, British political leaders were determined to
require the North American colonies to pay a greater share of the empire’s administrative expenses
end slavery in the North American colonies
encourage colonial expansion into the Ohio Valley by moving all American Indian peoples further west
strengthen the French colonial holdings in Canada and the northwest to discourage Spanish expansion
A major consequence of the French and Indian War of 1754–1763 was the
legal settlement of the trans-Appalachian frontier by British colonists
imposition of new taxes on the British North American colonies
shrinking of Spanish territorial claims in North America
removal of British troops from the thirteen colonies
France decided to aid the North American colonies in their war for independence primarily because France
was working to establish democratic rule in European countries
saw the war as an opportunity to end the international slave trade
wanted to weaken the British empire
was allied with Spain, which had already joined the colonists’ cause
The government under the Articles of Confederation consisted of
only a unicameral legislature
only a bicameral legislature
only a tricameral legislature
none of these
The Great Compromise of 1787 resulted in
a final settlement of the question of slavery
a renewal of the Articles of Confederation
a system of political representation for the states in the federal government
a border agreement between the United States and Canada
In the United States, the Haitian rebellion of the 1790’s prompted
the acquisition of Puerto Rico for colonization by emancipated slaves
a movement of free African American’s to Haiti
an increased fear of slave revolts in the South
a military expedition of southern slaveholders to restore French rule in Haiti
Thomas Paine's rhetoric would have most likely been interpreted at the time as promoting the
The independence of the American colonies
The sale of British colonies to France
The elimination of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the colonies
The election of representatives from the colonies to Parliament
What two countries were involved in the French and Indian war?
France
Britain
Spain
Italy
The French and the British competed over the Ohio River Valley for these reasons.
Rich Resources
Land Claims
Alliances with natives
Fur Trade
The Proclamation of 1763
stopped colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
stopped Native Americans from reclaiming land settled by the colonists
kept colonists settlements near the coast
brought 10,000 British troops to enforce it
What were the three main European Powers that fought for control in North America?
England, France, and Spain
England, France, and Iceland
England, France, and China
England, Germany, and Spain
What ended the French and Indian War?
Signing the French Compact
Signing the George Washington Promise
Signing the Mayflower Compact
Signing the Treaty of Paris, 1763
Select the term that best describes the Gilded Age
The time when everything was covered in gold
Businesses were struggling financially
businesses grew at a rapid rate and many problems lied below perceived prosperity
Businesses achieved unprecedented success with an increase in pay for all workers
Wealthy people used Social Darwinism to justify their position in life.
True
False
Select the statement that best describes the difference between the AFL and the Knights of Labor
The Knights of Labor allowed only skilled workers to join their union
The AFL allowed skilled and unskilled laborers to join their union
The Knights of Labor allowed skilled and unskilled workers to join their union
Both labor unions worked to improve lives for the owners of major companies
Select all the statements that are true about The People's Party
Called for political reform
Also known as the Populist Party
Created to limit the growth of corporate power
Worked to gain rights for the people
What was the significance of Plessy v Ferguson
It ended segregation of schools
It ended segregation everywhere
It established that Whites and Blacks would remain separate but equal
It declared that Dred Scott was property
Select the statement that best describes the Social Gospel
A movement that aimed to alleviate social problems
A movement that encouraged people to be more social
A movement that encouraged social distancing in a global pandemic
A movement that aimed to help out people who were not social
Select the statement that best describes the Dawes Act
It allowed whites and blacks to remain separate but equal
It sought to assimilate Native Americans to American culture
It gave more power to women in the workforce
The act was created with the purpose of welcoming immigrants to America
Select the statement that does NOT describe the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad
Promoted migration and settlement in the West
Increased conflict between settlers and Natives
Increased use of Chinese immigrants as laborers
Peace among settlers and Natives in the west
Select the statement that best describes the impact of the Social Gospel.
White men were given increased power
Women and African Americans challenged their place politically, socially, and economically.
White men sought to gain more political rights
All people in America became equal
In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the book, How the Other Half Lives?
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Ida Wells
Jacob Riis
This is the term for immigrants that is the process for adjusting to the culture and government of the United States.
Assimilation
Nativism
Americanism
MexiCAN
Which event most influenced President Wilson's decision to enter World War I?
a revolution in Russia
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
the renewal of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany
the raids by Mexican guerrilla forces on the Southwestern United States
In 1919, isolationists in the Senate opposed U.S. membership in the League of Nations because they--
feared creation of the Security Council
resisted colonialism in Africa and Asia
opposed membership in the League of Nations by Germany
did not want involvement in future foreign wars
What was the U.S. response when war broke out in Europe?
the U.S. will quickly enter the war on the side of the Allies
the U.S. will declare a policy of neutrality
the U.S. will enter the war on the side of the Central Powers
the U.S. declares war on Germany
What is the belief that it was the United States' role to "civilize" locations filled with "inferior" races? (Select all that apply)
Social Welfare
Social Gospel
Gospel of Wealth
White Man's Burden
What country declared their independence from Spain, which eventually started the Spanish-American War?
Cuba
The Philippines
Guam
Puerto Rico
The Roosevelt Corollary expanded the United States “police” presence in ______.
Europe
Asia
Latin America
Africa
American fruit corporations contributed to the annexation of _____ by deposing the native monarchy there.
Hawaii
Cuba
Panama
Texas
The American ____ urged all foreigners in China to obey Chinese law and observe fair competition, thus combating the European domination of China under the Spheres of Influence system.
Roosevelt Corallary
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Open Door Policy
Mandate System
This Amendment led to Prohibition in the United States during the 1920s
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
21st Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance refers to...
a celebration of African American culture in literature & art
a program to promote African American owned businesses
a population increase in Harlem
a struggle for civil rights led by the NAACP
Post-war fear of communism, socialism, and anarchy was fueled by a distrust of...
immigrants
women
bootleggers
government
The Red Scare refers to...
fear of communists in the US
largest mafia murder in the 20's
fearful loss of blood
changing fashion trends
What issue was central to the Scopes Monkey Trial?
reciting prayer in school
teaching evolution in public schools
allowing dissecting animals in public schools
teaching the Pledge of Allegiance
What was a major result of Prohibition in the United States?
restriction of immigration
growth of communism
destruction of family values
increase in organized crime
Which of the following best describes a flapper?
women who thought men should stay home
rebellious women who wanted to drink, smoke, have a good time
women who campaigned for Prohibition
conservative women who followed the rules
This gave women full voting rights
18th Amendment
19th Amendement
NAACP
Scopes Monkey Trial
How did FDR plan to change the role of the federal government?
He wanted to increase the role of the executive branch and its power over Congress and the Supreme Court
He wanted to put Congress in charge of the Supreme Court
He wanted to follow the direction of Congress to solve the Great Depression
He wanted to reduce the overall power of the federal government over the states
Which event marked the end of the Roaring 20's and the started of the Great Depression in the 1930s?
The election of Herbert Hoover
The Stock Market Crash
The Dust Bowl
The Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt
What was the event that caused America to enter World War 2?
Battle of Britain
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Doolittle Raid
Chinese Civil War
What was one thing that people back in the United States did NOT do to support the war effort?
enlist child soldiers into the ranks of the Army.
War Bonds
Rationing
propaganda posters, videos, radio, ect.
What was the code name for the development of the atomic bomb?
The General Atomic Plan
The Nuclear Deal
The Manhattan Project
Fallout
