WorksheetsUS History Unit 1-6 Review
Total questions: 84
Worksheet time: 42mins
Why did Radical Republicans (abolitionist Republicans) disagree with Andrew Johnson’s proclamation, granting full pardons to former Confederates?
Radical Republicans wanted a quick reunification of the Unite States.
Radical Republicans opposed Reconstruction Amendments.
Radical Republicans felt that former confederates should be punished.
Radical Republicans supported Popular Sovereignty.
Why did U.S. congress not ratify the Treaty of Versailles?
Article X (10) forced them to join the League of Nations and would undermine their power to declare war.
The treaty did not have a stipulation, creating the Dawes Act (Loans to Germany to repay war reparations)
The ratification was stopped due to political infighting.
A negative name for industrialists. Stole patents, abused workers, corrupted government.
Robber Barons
Carpet Baggers
Populists
Captains of Industry
Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
Being a terrible president
Vetoing Civil Rights legislation
Violation of the Tenure of Office Act
Pardoning Jefferson Davis
Explain the Dawes Act.
Universal education was given to all native Americans.
Native Americans would become citizens and be given land in tribal reservations.
American settlers were sold very cheap land in the central plains and the west.
American government accepted total sovereignty of Native American tribes.
Which one describes sharecropping?
Freedmen bought land from ex-plantation owners
Freedmen rented land and tools in exchange for a portion of crops
Farmers would "share" in regional profits
Freedmen rented land and tools in exchange for cash
Why was the 13th Amendment necessary after the Emancipation Proclamation
Failed to include newborns
Failed to to be valid after civil war
The Emancipation Proclamation failed to free slaves in border states
Failed to offer reparations
Where were most Civil War battles fought?
South
North
West
Atlantic Ocean
Who supported the Populist Party?
Farmers
Athletes
Bankers
Railroads Monopolies
How did the transcontinental railroad (contiguous railroad track, stretching from Atlantic to Pacific) impact the west in mid-1800s?
boomtowns disappeared
settlement growth and food security increased
settlement growth decreased
food security decreased
What did the American Federation of Labor (labor union) fight for?
Minimum Wage Laws
Racial Equality
Bimetallism
Laissez Faire Economics
The Bessemer Process resulted in which?
Adding silver to the gold standard (bimetallism).
Federal law prohibiting Chinese laborer’s from entering the U.S.
Boarding schools being built to assimilate Native Americans.
Steel became cheaper to produce, increasing industrialization.
Describe the 1st Industrial Revolution.
Trains, Cottage Industry, Steam Engines, Coal
Horses, Exploration, Feudalism, Human/Animal Power
Automobiles, Mass Production, Oil, Electricity
Rockets, Mass Production, Keynesian Economics, Nuclear Energy
The 15th Amendment (Reconstruction Amendments: 13, 14, 15)
gave African American men the right to vote
outlawed slavery in the United States
Made the sale, manufacture, and distribution of alcohol illegal.
Granted citizens' rights to all people born in the U.S.
What did Henry Flagler (Father of Florida) do?
Built the East Coast railway, importing tourists and exporting Florida crops.
His company Flagger Fisheries created the fishing industry in Florida.
Built the Gulf Coast Railway, importing tourists and exporting crops.
Successfully integrated manufacturing throughout Florida.
Which type of monopoly controls every step of the manufacture and sale of a good or service?
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are known as the...
Noble Amendments
Reconstruction Amendments
Southern Amendments
Oppressive Amendments
Groups that supported bimetallism believed…
it would lower the cost of land.
it would increase tariffs and reduce exports.
adding silver to the gold standard would cause deflation and decrease profits.
adding silver to the gold standard would increase inflation and maximize profits.
What caused the Nadir of race relation in the United States from the late 1800s to the early 1900s?
The Great Migration of African Americans was encouraged by southern states.
Desegregation of public institutions in the south
The federal government failed to enforce civil rights legislation during this time period (outlaw Jim Crow)
The terms of the reconstruction, that kept federal troops in the south longer than was needed.
What happend as a result of the Haymarket Riot? ( KoL rally where anarchists deonated a bomb, killing several)
The Knights of Labor Union lost members (negative)
The American Federation of Labor lost members
The Knights of Labor Union gained members (positive)
The Knights of the Old Republic (Absolute)
How did African American abolitionist leader Fredrick Douglass feel about individual rights?
Only white people should have rights.
All men should have equal rights.
All people should be free and have equal rights.
State and local statues that legalized racial segregation in the south from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement are known as what?
Racial Purity Laws
Jefferson Davis Laws
Antebellum Statutes
Jim Crow Laws
Explain laissez-faire economics.
Hands off. The government does not interfere with business Hands off. The government does not interfere with business or economy.
Hands on. The government is part of all business and economic decisions.
This act issued grants to colleges that taught farming and engineering.
Land-Grant University Act
Private College Initiative
Morrill Act of 1862
Farming and Engineering Act
This northern initiative stopped sale of Confederate cotton and blockaided southern ports.
Dawes Act
Olstend Manifesto
Freeport Doctrine
Anaconda Plan
Scandal that took place during the Gilded Age, involving Union Pacific Railroad company and government officials accused of taking bribes.
Watergate
Credit Mobilier Affair
Teapot Dome
Iran-Contra
Williams Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold speech supported which idea?
The Gold Standard
Bimetalism
Crypto Currency
Lasszie Faire
Why were Native American boarding schools built i the U.S.?
Assimilate Native Americans into American Culture
To prevent discrimination
To teach traditional Native American skills
Pre-Civil War idea stating that people may vote to decide whether their state will be free or allow slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
Abolitionism
Republicanism
Federalism
Battle that saw a Union victory give control of the Mississippi River to the Union.
Fort Sumter
Vicksburg
Battle of Midway
A German plan to pass through Belgium and the Netherlands to rapidly conquer France during WW1.
Afterward that German troops could then turn east and march on Russia.
Schlieffen Plan
Sussex Pledge
Zimmermann Telegram (Note)
Credit Mobilier Affair
Federal law which prohibited private railroad companies from overcharging and forced regulation.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Navigation Act
Stamp Act
Wave of European immigrants that arrived in the U.S. between 1890s-1910 from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Old Immigrants
Eastern Immigrants
Western Immigrants
New Immigrants
Worked on blueprints for Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patent. He also worked in the field of electric lighting with Thomas Edison.
Lewis Howard Latimer
Elijah McCoy
James Watt
Eli Whitney
This law banned all immigration form China to U.S.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Asian Immigration Act
Interstate Commerce Act
This law banned all immigration form China to U.S.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Asian Immigration Act
Interstate Commerce Act
European immigrants experienced a much easier process when entering the United States verses Asian Immigrants, during the Gilded Age.
False
True
Crushing Southern defeat that was considered the “Turning Point” of the Civil War.
Battle of Hoth
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Promise from the German government to stop indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships, during WW1.
Sussex Pledge
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Zimmermann
Telegram (Note)
Sedition Act
Laws that restricted African Americans’ rights and opportunities in southern states.
Black Codes
Southern Laws of the Land
Gentlemen’s Agreement
What did George Westinghouse, Elijah McCoy, and Granville Woods all have in common?
They were monopoly owners.
Their inventions improved railroad safety.
They were avowed anarchists and participated in terrorism.
1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to an American settler, willing to live on and cultivate (farm) it for five years.
Homestead Act
Dawes Act
Jim Crow Laws
Belief that Americans were intended to settle all the land between the Atlantic coast and Pacific coast.
Continental Destiny
Manifest Destiny
White Man's Burden
Settlers Without Borders
Belief that wealthy individuals, who represented the fittest of humans, were destined to survive and succeed.
Social Nature
Vanity Complex
Social Darwinism
Wealthy Doctrine
Based on the political cartoon, which statement is the most accurate? (Hint: this is Boss Tweed's Thumb)
Political machines restricted economic growth in New York.
Political machines controlled economic activity in New York.
The New Jersey press portrayed New York politicians unfairly.
Politicians in New Jersey controlled the New York economy.
Describe the 2nd Industrial Revolution.
Rockets, Mass Production, Keynesian Economics, Nuclear Energy
Automobiles, Mass Production, Oil, Electricity
Trains, Cottage Industry, Steam Engines, Coal
Horses, Exploration, Feudalism, Human/Animal Power
Which factor best completes this table?
government regime change
economic opportunity
overpopulation
famine
Which government action allowed racial segregation to continue for decades in the United States?
the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act
the creation of Dollar Diplomacy by President Taft
the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
Leading muckraker of Progressive Era who exposed the atrocities of Standard Oil monopoly.
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
William Randolph Hearst
Alfred T. Mahan
Theodore Roosevelts foreign policy. Strong military displays, to achieve American goals.
Open Door Policy
Teddy Bear Policy
Dollar Diplomacy
“Big Stick” Policy
Women's rights activists, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the 19th Amendment (women's right to vote).
Ida Tarbell, Jane Austen, and Marie Curie
Hillary Clinton, Grace Hopper, Condoleezza Rice
Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells, and Susan B. Anthony
This Florida city served as the primary staging ground for the U.S. military during the Spanish-American War.
Miami
Tampa
Jacksonville
Yellow Fever, mudslides and dangerous working conditions were all obstacles faced during which event.
Construction of the Panama Canal
The annexation of the Philippines
Boxer Rebellion
The Treaty of Portsmouth
What did the Suffrage Movement lead to?
The 17th Amendment
The Spanish-American War
Abolition of Alcohol
The 19th Amendment
Muckraker Upton Sinclair's book the Jungle...
supported laissez-faire policies
Revealed unsanitary conditions in food-processing. Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act.
Recommended immigration laws.
Social Reformers addressed issues of the Gilded Age by… (Hint: Hull House)
Increasing taxes on the poor.
Creating organizations for workers and the poor. Settlement Houses.
Supporting extended protections for religious minorities.
Increasing military spending.
This event increased public support for the Spanish-American War.
Abolition of slavery in Cuba
Publication of the de Lome letter
The assassination of President McKinley
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution
Explain the Roosevelt Corollary
Annex Latin-American countries
Trade openly with China
The U.S. may assert itself in domestic affairs of Latin-American countries.
Latin-American countries could not increase size of military.
Open Door Policy and Boxer Rebellion indicated...
The U.S. wanted access to Chinese Markets.
U.S. wanted to stop Russian colonization.
Was returning to isolationism
Favored Dollar Diplomacy
Alfred Thayer Mahan's book "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History"
Argued a strong Navy was necessary for the U.S. to have a strong Empire
Led to public support for the Spanish-American War
Help expose unsanitary conditions in the food-processing industry
Argued that isolationism was the key to a string Empire
The Treaty of Portsmouth...
Stopped the Boxer Rebellion
Annexed the Philippines
Officially ended the Russo-Japanese War (Russian and Japan)
How did Yellow Journalism influence U.S. foreign policy in the late 1800s?
promoted isolationist views
Encouraged changes to immigration policy
Built support for the Spanish-American war. (U.S. intervention in Cuba)
Supported territorial conquest
Describe Jose Marti’s (Cuban freedom fighter) actions
Fight the Cubans and help Spanish regain control of their colony.
Give Money to poor Cubans.
Destroy American property in Cuba to provoke the U.S. in to joining the war against Spain.
How did the action of the U.S. Imperialism in the late 1800s impact Hawaii?
U.S. intervention led to the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy.
U.S. intervention led to a trade dispute with Germany
U.S. intervention led to peace agreement between Hawaii and U.S.
U.S. intervention led to a war with Samoa over territorial control.
This document gave U.S. an over-sight role in Cuban affairs and the leasing of an American naval base in Guantanamo Bay.
Roosevelt Corollary
Treaty of Portsmouth
Platt Amendment
Dawes Plan
How did chemical weapons like mustard gas and chlorine affect non-combat areas during World War I?
Chemical fumes in the atmosphere caused acid rain
Chemical clouds were blown by wind into towns.
Chemicals tainted the water supply.
A bond bought to fund a war effort, redeemable for interest after a certain period of time.
Gulf Coast Recovery Bonds
Retirement Bonds
James Bonds
War/ Liberty Bonds
This agreement during WW1, led to a ceasefire ending hostilities between the Allies and Germany.
Zimmerann Telegram
Espionage Act
Treaty of Versailles
Armistice
Why did U.S. congress NOT RATIFY (agree and join in) the Treaty of Versailles, the peace treaty with Germany ending WW1?
Article X (10) forced them to join the League of Nations and would undermine their power to declare war.
The treaty did not have a stipulation, creating the Dawes Act (Loans to Germany to repay war reparations)
The ratification was stopped due to political infighting.
Formal action of claiming sovereignty (taking power) over another territory.
Sussex Pledge
Annexation
Imperialism
A policy or practice of exerting control over weaker countries or territories.
Isolationism
Democracy
Imperialism
Filipino nationalist leader who fought against Spain and later U.S. for an independent (sovereign) Philippians.
Emilio Aguinaldo
Jose Marti
Pol Pot
Ho Chi Minh
British passenger ship sunk by German U-boat (unrestricted submarine warfare) during WWI, outraging neutral Americans (128 dead) bringing them closer to joining the war.
Lusitania
Titanic
Queen Mary
Black Pearl
Information, usually biased or misleading, that promotes a particular political cause.
Armistice
Convoy
Propaganda
People who refuse to fight in a war for religious reasons—while others simply failed to register for the draft.
Conscientious
Objectors
Doughboys
Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders
Neutrality is the refusal to support either side in the war. The U.S. remained neutral for the first years of both WWI and WW2.
True
False
The domestic, economic, social and political issues within the United States and not related the fighting abroad (outside of the US).
Warfront
Homefront
Abolitionist (antislavery) book that was written pre-Civil War, exposing northers to harsh realities of slavery and southern way of life.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Aunt Phillis's Cabin
The Catcher in the Rye
Location in South Carolina where the first shots were fired, starting the Civil War.
Fort Necessity
Fort Bragg
Fort Sumter
Abolitionists John Brown and family attempted to start a slave rebellion by taking a federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry Virginia.
Anaconda Plan
Raid on Harper's Ferry
Jim Crow
Formal action of claiming sovereignty (taking power) over another territory.
Sussex Pledge
Annexation
Imperialism
Formal action of claiming sovereignty (taking power) over another territory.
Sussex Pledge
Annexation
Imperialism
The acquisition, merger, or expansion of a business that increases the market share in its existing industry. When one larger business buys smaller businesses and controls an entire industry or market sector.
Horizontally integrated Monopoly
Vertically integrated Monopoly
Definite Monopoly
True Monopoly
Woodrow Wilison's justification for the United States joining World War 1 WWI. (Hint: Moral Diplomacy)
Make the world safe for Democracy
Help the Russians annex Germany
Punish the Japanese for their attack on Pearl Harbor
