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US History DPMA I

Total questions: 49

Worksheet time: 2hrs 48mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What advantages did the Union have over the Confederacy?

a)

Better Generals

b)

Stronger allies

c)

Natives were on their side

d)

More people, more factories and food, more railroads

2.

How did Lincoln abolish slavery in ALL states?

a)

He ordered them free

b)

Congress passed the 13th Amendment

c)

He used the Declaration of Independence. "All Men are Created Equal"

d)

He did nothing

3.

How did the Union hope to damage Confederate trade and transportation during the Civil War?

a)

By patrolling rivers and the Gulf of Mexico

b)

By attacking railroads

c)

By blockading ports and controlling the Mississippi River

d)

By taking over Southern farms and factories

4.

What was ONE reason why there were food shortages in the South?

a)

Farming machinery was taken by the Union army

b)

Farmland was used as Prisoner camps

c)

Farm products became too expensive to buy

d)

Most of the farm workers fought in the military

5.

The Republican party was established on the belief of

a)

Destroying the South

b)

Helping slavery spread

c)

Opposing slavery

d)

Going to war

6.

This 1857 ruling declared slaves are property and not citizens therefore they had no rights.

a)
Dred Scott v Sandford
b)
McCulloch v Maryland
c)
Emancipation Proclamation
d)
Worcester v Georgia
7.

Which battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?

a)

Battle of Antietam

b)

Siege of Vickburg

c)

Appomattox Courthouse

d)

Battle of Gettysburg

8.

What Amendment was created to guarantee Freed Slaves citizenship?

a)

15

b)

13

c)

14

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

9.

The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to

a)

provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.

b)

gain the vote for millions of former slaves.

c)

provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.

d)

get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.

10.
What was Reconstruction?
a)
equal treatment for all people
b)
the forced separation of races
c)
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
d)
the period of time after the Civil War
11.

Radical Republicans

a)

Group of representatives that were very extreme with their views and believed the government should be tougher on the South for leaving the Union.

b)

People that describe themselves as NOT excessive or extreme in their political beliefs.

c)

A northerner who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era to take advantage of the unsettled conditions (to make money).

d)

Southerners that wanted the northerners to leave the South and allow the southern states to rule themselves.

12.
What name was given to a terrorist group that used violence to keep African-Americans from having equal rights in the South?
a)
Freedman's Bureau
b)
Black Codes
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
Ku Klux Klan
13.
System of work for freedmen that traded 50% of grown crops for the use of a house & land
a)
sharecropping
b)
40 acres & a mule
c)
tenant farming
d)
pastoralism
14.

What was the Congressional (radical republican) Plan for Reconstruction?

a)

Put southern states under military governments until the 14th and 15th Amendments were ratified.

b)

Southern states could re-enter into the Union immediately

c)

All males had to take a loyalty oath

d)

No southern states could re-enter the Union.

15.
Why did sharecroppers remain poor?
a)
The South flooded during Reconstrucion
b)
They owed money to the landowners, never getting out of debt
c)
The sun never shone on crops
d)
Animals ate all the crops
16.

Match the following vocabulary terms with the appropriate image

a)
1.

Assimilation

b)
2.

Nativism

c)
3.

Westward Expansion

d)
4.

Homestead Act

e)
5.

Dawes Act

17.

Which of the following was intended to assimilate Native Americans?

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Chinese Exclusion Act

d)

Interstate Commerce Act

18.

Which of the following offered free land in the West to encourage settlement?

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Chinese Exclusion Act

d)

Interstate Commerce Act

19.

Which of the following was passed due to nativism and concerns over job competition?

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Chinese Exclusion Act

d)

Interstate Commerce Act

20.

Which of the following is responsible for the end of the cattle drives?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Buffalo

c)

Barbed Wire

d)

Immigration

21.

Immigrants from Asian countries like China were processed here:

a)

Ellis Island

b)

Coney Island

c)

Angel Island

d)

Staten Island

22.

Immigrants from European countries like Ireland and Italy were processed here:

a)

Ellis Island

b)

Coney Island

c)

Angel Island

d)

Staten Island

23.

Lack of jobs, poverty, famine, war, and persecution are all examples of:

a)

Assimilation

b)

Nativism

c)

Push Factor

d)

Pull Factor

24.

Economic opportunities (jobs), religious freedom, improved living conditions are all:

a)

Assimilation

b)

Nativism

c)

Push Factors

d)

Pull Factors

25.

Pressuring Native Americans to cut their hair, change their dress, and learn English are examples of:

a)

Assimilation

b)

Nativism

c)

Push Factors

d)

Pull Factors

26.

Anti Catholic sentiment and the Chinese Exclusion Act are examples of

a)

Assimilation

b)

Nativism

c)

Push Factors

d)

Pull Factors

27.

​ (a)   : organizations of people who sympathized with farmers

Choose from the below words
Farmers' Alliance
Grange
Populism
Bimetallism
28.

To address their concerns, farmers did which of the following:

a)

formed organizations

b)

urged the government to increase the money supply

c)

fought the railroad

d)

created their own currency

e)

developed better ways of shipping their goods cheaper

29.

​ (a)   : movement to gain more political and economic power for common people

Choose from the below words
Populism
gold standard
bimetallism
30.

​ (a)   : monetary system in which the government would give people either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency

​ (b)   : backing dollars solely with gold

​ (c)   : favored gold to keep prices from rising

​ (d)   : favored bimetallism because it would make more dollars available and could see a rise in prices and wages

Choose from the below words
bimetallism
gold standard
"Gold Bugs"
"Silverites"
31.

What were the legacies of the Populist movement?

a)

Poor and less powerful people could organize for political impact

b)

many reforms they wanted would be enacted in the 20th century

c)

the gold standard

d)

bringing back slavery

e)

repealing the Bill of Rights

32.

What were some goals of the Populist movement?

a)

Push for reforms to help farmers

b)

Bimetallism

c)

make the government more democratic

d)

supporting the gold standard

e)

push for reforms to help railroad companies

33.

In the 1896 election, Republican ​ (a)   defeated Democrat ​ (b)  

Choose from the below words
William McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
34.

How did Progressives feel about the government?

a)

they supported the government 100%

b)

they believed the government was not capable of fixing society's problems

c)

they thought the government could fix the problems, but just wouldn't

35.

What did the Progressives believe could help fix society's problems?

a)

sending immigrants back home

b)

the government

c)

science and technology

d)

the strength of the US economy

36.

What did muckrakers use to get their message to the public?

a)

books

b)

photographs

c)

newspaper articles

d)

television shows

e)

political cartoons

37.

What are the characteristics of the Progressive Era?

a)

Expand the Democratic Process

b)

Social Justice

c)

Correct issues with Industrialization and Urbanization

d)

All the above

38.

Reforms in big business are characteristic of what era?

a)

Gilded Age

b)

Progressive Era

c)

New Deal

d)

Roaring 20s

39.

What are Jim Crow Laws?

a)

A legal basis for discrimination against African Americans

b)

Laws put in place to manage immigration

c)

Legislation to support farmers in the West

d)

A set of trusts that controlled most of the railroads

40.

What was the Sherman Antitrust Act ineffective?

a)

The Grander Movement was taking place at the same time

b)

Labor Unions controlled everything

c)

Judicial rulings that the federal government had no role in business

d)

President Jackson did not enforce the law

41.

How did the Transportation Act of 1920 Impact the Interstate Commerce Commission?

a)

Allowed the ICC to create a regulatory system for railroad freight rates

b)

Allowed the ICC to use telephones instead of telegraphs

c)

The ICC began to collect taxes

d)

State governments began to control the railroads

42.

Lobbying includes which of the following?

a)

signing a petition

b)

speaking to lawmakers

c)

writing to senators

d)

all of the above

43.

What were journalists called that investigated and wrote about the issues in society during the progressive era?

a)

Reporters

b)

Muckrakers

c)

Yellow Journalists

d)

Paparazzi

44.

Which social reformer opened the Hull House (Settlement Homes)?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Ida B Wells

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Helen Jackson

45.

Which figure was a major civil rights activist?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

W.E.B. DuBois'

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

JEB Stewart

46.

The Bull-Moose Candidate was most associated with?

a)

Progressive

b)

Populist

c)

Greenback

d)

Anti-Masonic

47.

What is the 19th Amendment?

a)

Women's right to vote

b)

Prohibition in the South

c)

Legalizing of Child Labor

d)

Federal Income Tax

48.

Which third party received electoral votes?

a)

Anti-Masonic

b)

Tory

c)

Progressive

d)

Populist

49.

Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle encouraged what to take place?

a)

More people joining the work force

b)

Legislation to make meat packing safer and cleaner

c)

Immigration into large cities

d)

New sewage lines to be built in cities