wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

US History (1877-1920)

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who were the sharecroppers in American history?

a)

Native Americans who cultivated crops on reservations

b)

European immigrants who worked on plantations in exchange for food and shelter

c)

African American farmers who rented land and paid with a share of their crops

d)

Mexican laborers who worked on farms in the Southwest

2.

Which laws enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States?

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Jim Crow Laws

3.

Which Supreme Court case established the 'separate but equal' doctrine?

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

Miranda v. Arizona

c)

Roe v. Wade

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

4.

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Frederick Douglas

d)

Booker T. Washington

5.

Which organization was founded to fight for the civil rights of African Americans?

a)

Women's Suffrage Movement

b)

NAACP

c)

League of Nations

d)

United Negro Improvement Association

6.

Who started the "Back to Africa" movement to free Africans from their colonial oppressors?

a)
Langston Hughes
b)

Madam C.J. Walker

c)
Marcus Garvey
d)

W.E.B. DuBois

7.

Who was the Quaker woman who gave lectures calling for temperance, peace, workers' rights, and abolition?

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Mary Lyon

c)

Lucy Stone

d)

Susan B. Anthony

8.

The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920 and extended voting rights to about half of the adult population of the United States. Who gained the right to vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment?

a)

Native Americans

b)

African Americans

c)

Women

d)

All citizens ages 18 and older

9.

Which US President was most influential in starting the Panama Canal?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

William McKinley

c)
Teddy Roosevelt
d)

William Howard Taft

10.

What does the term imperialism refer to?

a)

A policy of giving away a country’s power to another nation as a gift

b)

A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force

c)

A policy of trading goods between two states or nations

d)

A policy in which the government debates over paying someone to purchase another country

11.

Which policy involved a country staying out of another country's business (including war)?

a)

Isolationism

b)

Naitonalism

c)

Communism

d)

Democracy

12.
What was the goal of Woodrow Wilson's 14 points?
a)
to achieve world peace
b)
to punish germany
c)
to start WW2
d)
to reward Russia
13.
What was President Wilson's proposed points called that he brought to Versailles?
a)
Fourteen Points
b)
Seven points
c)
Ten Points
d)
Two Points
14.

Which U.S. President is associated with "Big Stick Diplomacy"?

a)

Grover Cleveland

b)

William McKinley

c)

Teddy Roosevelt

d)

Woodrow Wilson

15.

The ________________ was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine and enabled the United States to intervene in Latin American countries struggling with unstable conditions.

a)

Yellow Journalism

b)

Great White Fleet

c)

Rough Riders

d)

Roosevelt Corollary

16.

The _______________ was a foreign policy statement issued in 1823 stating that the U.S. would oppose any intervention by European nations to control nations in the Western Hemisphere.

a)

Monroe Doctrine

b)

Articles of Confederation

c)

Mayflower Compact

d)

Treaty of Paris