WorksheetsMCAP US History Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 17mins
Which article in the Constitution helps fulfill the Preamble's goal of establishing justice?
Article 1: The House of Representatives has the power to declare war.
Article 2: The President must be a natural-born citizen of the United States.
Article 3: The Supreme Court has the power to hear federal cases.
Article 4: The states have to recognize the laws of other states.
How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 affect the issue of slavery in the United States?
It freed enslaved African Americans in the South.
It prompted southern states to secede from the Union.
It granted popular sovereignty to new states.
It balanced the number of free and slave states.
What was the subject of the federal court case Ex parte Merryman (1861)?
The president's power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.
The judicial branch's ability to determine the constitutionality of laws.
The government's power to create a national bank.
The government's ability to regulate economic transactions.
_____________ in the American Revolution.
- Represented 15-20% of the colonial population.
- Were treatly harshly by colonists.
- Sometimes tarred and feathered.
- Many fled from the colonies after the war.
Which term best completes the title of this list?
British Soldiers
Loyalists
Patriots
American Indians
What are two effects of the factory system?
Enslaved African Americans earned freedom.
People move to cities in search of jobs.
Labor unions become less influential.
Many women enter the workforce.
Immigrants move to farming communities.
"The 15th Amendment to the Constitution states that the 'rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on the account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.' - US Constitution.
What action was intended to deny this right to African American males?
The use of the sharecropping system.
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
The adoption of literacy tests at polling places.
The create of the Freedmen's Bureau.
Which group is best known for promoting education for African Americans during Reconstruction?
Federalist Party Members
Sons and Daughters of Liberty Members
Freedman's Bureau Members
Temperance Movement Members
What was one effect of the Civil War on the Northern economy?
Agricultural production decreased.
Factory production increased.
Inflation decreased.
Unemployment increased.
"The movement is, indeed, important! If government shrinks [hesitates], or is unable to enforce its laws; fresh maneuvers will be displayed by the insurgents [rebels]." - Letter from General George Washington to Secretary of War Henry Knox in response to Shays' Rebellion.
Which weakness of the Articles of Confederation brought attention to the situation described in this exerpt?
A standing army to enforce laws did not exist.
The central government could not conduct foreign trade.
A national court system to interpret laws did not exist.
States were not proportionally representated in the legislature.
What were two effects of the Emancipation Proclamation?
It caused the South to recruit more soldiers.
It allowed many African Americans to join the Union army.
It prolonged the war by provoking the Confederacy.
It freed enslaved African Americans in rebelling states.
It led to riots over shortages of supplies.
What was one result of the Bargain of 1877?
The Radical Republicans impeached Andrew Johnson.
Ulyssess S. Grant was promoted to General in the Union Army.
Rutherford B. Hayes became President of the United States.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Dred Scott.
According to the Declaration of Independence, people are able to alter or abolish the government when the government:
No longer protects the natural rights of people.
Stops collecting taxes from people.
No longer allows the quartering of troops.
Stops trading with foreign countries.
Read the song lyrics to answer the question.
I'm a simple Irish girl, and I'm looking for a place,
I've felt the grip of poverty, but sure that's no disgrace,
T'will be long before I get one, tho' indeed its hard I try.
For I read in each advertisement, "No Irish Need Apply."
Alas for my poor country, which I never deny,
How they insult us when they write, "No Irish Need Apply."
These lyrics are a response to actions taken by which group in the United States in the 1800s?
Abolitionists
Temperance Reformers
Women Suffragists
Nativists
Which situation prompted the use of convict labor lease system?
(Criminals paying off their debt to society by working).
Northern states needed people to harvest cash crops.
Northern states needed people to work in factories.
Southern states needed money to establish sharecropping.
Southern states needed money to rebuild infrastructure.
Read the excerpt.
" . . . laws which . . . she has had no voice in establishing, and which rob her of some of her essential rights." - Sarah M. Grimke, 1838
Which action does Sarah Grimke support in this excerpt?
Allowing women to vote.
Allowing women to attend college.
Granting women equal pay.
Granting ctiizenship to women.
Trade contributed to the French and Indian War because the French wanted to . . .
Expand trade with the American colonists on the Atlantic Coast.
Expand trade with the Spanish Empire in Mexico.
Control trade with American Indians in the Ohio River Valley.
Control trade with American colonists in New England.
How did President Andrew Jackson's veot of the Second National Bank of the United States demonstrate the ideals of Jacksonian Democracy?
By giving more economic power to northern industrial states.
By increasing the political influence of wealthy citizens.
By strengthening southern and western agricultural states.
By increasing the profits and production levels of factories.
Which Supreme Court case establish that Congress had implied powers under the necessary and proper clause?
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
(1) The 15th Amendment grants African American males the right to vote.
(2) _________________________________
(3) African Americans are prevented from voting in the South.
Which event related to African American voting goes on line 2?
Freedman's Bureau helsp African Americans get an education.
John Brown leads an abolitionist movement.
Plessy v. Ferguson established separate but equal.
Southern states require literacy tests for voter registration.
What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?
To prevent freed African Americans from being drafted into the military.
To assist with the removal of Union soldiers from the South.
To prevent formers Confederate soldiers from being elected to political offices.
To provide freed African Americans with access to formerly denied services.
Read the information:
On March 3, 1863, Congressed the Enrollment Act. It called for all male citizens and immigrants between teh ages of 20 and 45 to register in a national military draft system. The act allowed for a person to be exempt from registering if he paid $300 or found a person to replace him.
What was one reaction to the Enrollment Act?
President Andrew Johnson was impeached.
Riots broke out in several Northern cities.
Fewer Union troops deserted.
States seceded from the Union.
In which two regions did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 address the issue of slavery and lead to violence in Kansas?
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2
3
4
5
What was the outcome of the impressment of sailors by the British?
The issuing of the Proclamation of 1763.
The start of the War of 1812.
The passage of the Missouri Compromise.
The start of the Nullification Crisis.
Read the list.
- The Quartering Act required colonists to provide living quarters for British soldiers in America.
- The Currency Act made it more difficult for colonists to pay debts and taxes.
- The Stamp Act required colonists to pay taxes on legal documents and paper goods.
Why did the British government pass the laws described in the list?
To pay for costs of impressing sailors.
To punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
To pay for the costs of the French and Indian War.
To punish colonists for meeting in the First Continental Congress.
Read the excerpt.
Which two statements reflect the key components of Manifest Destiny as described in the excerpt.
". . . the scenes of antiquity [the ancient past] . . ."
"The expansive future is our arena."
" . . . the first page of our national declaration . . ."
"The far-reaching, the boundless future will be the era of American greatness."
". . . the worship of the Most High. . ."
What foreign relations issue needed to be addressed by the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
The inability to send diplomats to foreign countries.
The inability to regulate trade with foreign countries.
The lack of treaties made with foreign countries.
The lack of money borrowed from foreign countries.
What was the goal of King Cotton Diplomacy?
To negotiate the terms of surrender for the Civil War.
To force Great Britain into an alliance with the Confederacy.
To allow souther states to nullify federal laws.
To prevent northern states from exporting manufactured goods.
What was one event that led to the defeat of the British during the War of 1812?
The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France.
The concept of Manifest Destiny was abandoned.
The American Navy won control of the Great Lakes.
The United States experienced draft riots across the country.
Read the quote.
"Liberty of the press and of opinion is calculated [designed] to destroy all confidence between man and man. - US Congressman
What was the result of the concern raised by this congressman?
Passage of the Sedition Acts of 1789.
Passage of the Intolerable of 1774.
Expansion of the Abolitionists movement.
Expansion of Prison reforms.
The initial task of the delegates to the 1787 Philadelphia Convention was to:
Address the problems of the government under the Articles of Confederation.
Negotiate trade agreemetns among the establish American colonies.
Create a document listing the grievances against Great Britain.
Determine how to address salvery when conducting the United States census.
