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SSUSH1-11 Vocab Review

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 1hrs 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which group of colonies had good soil for farming and focused on tobacco production as cash crops?

a)

Mid-Atlantic Colonies

b)

New England Colonies

c)

Southern Colonies

2.

Where did the Quakers live and there was a lot of diversity and religious tolerance?

a)

New England Colonies

b)

Mid-Atlantic Colonies

c)

Southern Colonies

3.

Which group of colonies had rocky soil, built ships, and were influenced by Puritans?

a)

Mid-Atlantic Colonies

b)

Southern Colonies

c)

New England Colonies

4.

Who were the English Protestants who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices?

a)

Catholics

b)

Quakers

c)

Puritans

d)

Anglicans

5.

What is the economic policy designed to maximize exports and minimize imports for an economy?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Mercantilism

c)

Communism

d)

Socialism

6.

What was the route used to ship raw materials from America to Europe, and slaves from Africa to America?

a)

Trans-Atlantic Trade

b)

Erie Canal

c)

Panama Canal

d)

Silk Road

7.

What was the name of the law that closed down colonial expansion westward beyond Appalachia?

a)

French and Indian War

b)

Proclamation 1763

c)

Boston Tea Party

d)

Intolerable Acts

8.

Who wrote the pamphlet 'Common Sense' urging colonists to break free from British rule?

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

John Adams

d)

Thomas Jefferson

9.

Which war was fought between the US and Britain due to British impressment of sailors?

a)

French and Indian War

b)

War of 1812

c)

Civil War

d)

Revolutionary War

10.

What was the movement that championed greater rights for the common man and was led by Andrew Jackson?

a)

Jacksonian Democracy

b)

Second Great Awakening

c)

Temperance

d)

Manifest Destiny

11.
Fears of an imbalance in Congress led to this agrreement that divided the Territories along the 36°30′ parallel.
a)
Louisiana Purchase
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Louisiana Compromise
d)
Compromise of 1850
12.
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave interests and the Northern Free Soil movement.
a)
The Black Codes
b)
White League
c)
Missouri Compromise
d)
Compromise of 1850
13.
This was the first battle of the American Civil War.
a)
Battle of Fort Henry
b)
Battle of Fort Wagner
c)
Battle of Bunker Hill
d)
Battle of Fort Sumter
14.
The were laws passed in the Southern states in the aftermath of the Civil War. They lowered the status of freedmen.
a)
Triangular Trade
b)
Republican Motherhood
c)
White League
d)
The Black Codes
15.

Which war was fought between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815?

a)

Nationalism

b)

Treaty

c)

War of 1812

d)

Neutrality

16.

Which term refers to a strong feeling of pride and loyalty towards one's country?

a)

Nationalism

b)

Treaty

c)

Foriegn policy

d)

Neutrality

17.

Which laws were passed by the United States government in 1798 to limit the activities of foreign immigrants and restrict freedom of speech and the press?

a)

Alien and Sedition Acts

b)

Foriegn policy

c)

Neutrality

d)

Treaty

18.

Which event involved the United States purchasing a large territory from France in 1803?

a)

Treaty

b)

Louisianna Purchase

c)

Foriegn policy

d)

Neutrality

19.

Which term refers to the practice of forcing American sailors to serve in the British navy during the early 1800s?

a)

Treaty

b)

Foriegn policy

c)

Impressment

d)

Neutrality

20.

A political system in which a national government and state governments share power.

a)

Republic

b)

Federalism

c)

Check and Balances

d)

Constitution

21.

The Consitutional Convention's agreement to establish a two-house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house.

a)

Great Compromise

b)

Three-fifths Compromise

c)

Federalism

d)

Articles of Confederarion

22.

The Constitutional Convention's agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves as population for purposes of representation and taxation.

a)

Great Compromise

b)

Three-fifths Compromise

c)

Federalism

d)

Articles of Confederarion

23.

The ______ _____ placed a direct tax on all paper and printed materials

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Intolerable Act

c)

Townsend Act

d)

Navigation Act

24.

Name for the assembly created by Jamestown colonists to propose laws for themselves.

a)

Town Meeting

b)

House of Burgesses

c)

Virginia Company of London

d)

Mayflower Compact

25.

Religious movement that swept through Europe and the colonies during the mid-1700s that led to the rapid growth of evangelical denominations and challenged established religious and governmental orders.

a)

Revivals

b)

Mercantilism

c)

Great Awakening

d)

Puritans

26.

These were extended to include public education, transportation, and other public facilities. Also separate and inferior facilities for minority groups.

a)

Hull House

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

NAACP

d)

Recall

27.

Journalists nicknamed by Teddy Roosevelt who investigated and uncovered many of the problems of society during the Industrial Age.

a)

Initiatives

b)

Recalls

c)

Referendums

d)

Muckrakers

28.

Muckraker who investigated the Oil industry.

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

29.

Muckraker who investigated the food industry and wrote the book "The Jungle"

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

30.

Founded by Jane Addams in Chicago Illinois. Provided a variety of services to the poor and the new immigrants, especially women and children; including education, healthcare, food and shelter, etc.

a)

Muckrakers

b)

NAACP

c)

Hull House

d)

Conservation Movement

31.

Formed in 1909 by W.E.B DuBois to protect Constitutional Amendments for African Americans.

a)

Conservation Movement

b)

NAACP

c)

Hull House

d)

Jim Crow Laws

32.

1896 Supreme Court decision that stated "separate but equal" doctrine was constitutional.

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Georgia v. Ferguson

d)

Marbury v. Madison

33.

Provided food, education, and assistance to former slaves and poor whites

a)

14th Amendment

b)

Sharecropping

c)

Reconstruction Act of 1867

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

34.

Members sought the restoration of white supremacy through intimidation and violence aimed at the newly enfranchised black freedmen

a)

Black codes

b)

"Redemption"

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Ku Klux Klan

35.
Set forth in 1854, said that Kansas and Nebraska should come into the Union under popular sovereignty. This new law repealed the Missouri Compromise. Senator Stephen A. Douglas introduced it, and it pushed the country even closer to the Civil War by muddling the slavery issue.
a)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
b)
Gadsden Purchase
c)
Treaty of Kanagawa
d)
Free-Soil Party
36.

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Amendments

c)

Black Codes

d)

Constitution

37.

The first ten amendments to the Constitution are the

a)

Black Codes

b)

Bill of Rights

c)

Amendments

d)

Due Process

38.

Issued by Abraham Lincoln, it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Bill of Rights

c)

Confederate States of America

d)

Amendments

39.

What is an abolitionist?

a)

a slave

b)

a person who lives in The South

c)

a soldier

d)

a person who wants to end slavery

40.
The amendment that prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on his or her race.
a)
12th Amendment
b)
13th Amendment
c)
14th Amendment
d)
15th Amendment
41.
What amendment abolished (ended) slavery?
a)
12th Amendment
b)
13th Amendment
c)
14th Amendment
d)
15th Amendment
42.
The first railroad to cross the United States was the....
a)
Union Pacific Railroad
b)
Central Pacific Railroad
c)
Missouri Railroad
d)
Transcontinental Railroad
43.
Which two men are famous for their expedition of the Louisiana Purchase?
a)
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
b)
Meriwether Lewis and James Madison
c)
William Clark and Thomas Jefferson
d)
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
44.
What is manifest destiny?
a)

the belief that it is our God given right to  claim all land in the west

b)

a religious revival of Christianity in the colonies

c)

the belief in temperance and social reform

d)

a religious revival of Puritanism in California

45.
Who led the Lakota at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
a)
Crazy Horse
b)
Sitting Bull
c)
Chief Joseph
d)
Geronimo
46.

Constitutional right to be taken before a judge. Lincoln suspended this for many confederate sympathizers during the war.

a)

Habeas Corpus

b)

Gettysburg Address

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Espionage Act

47.

Union general. He captured Vicksburg and eventually defeated Robert E. Lee.

a)

Roger Williams

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Stonewall Jackson

48.

Union general. Captured & burned Atlanta then carried out the “March to the Sea.”

a)

William Tecumseh Sherman

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

George McClellan

49.

The nation made up of the southern states that seceded from the Union:

a)

The Union

b)

The Soviet Union

c)

Confederate States of America (Confederacy)

50.

President of the Confederacy:

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Jefferson Davis

51.

Confederate general. He lost at Gettysburg & eventually surrendered to Grant.

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

William T. Sherman

c)

Jefferson Davis

52.

This battle was the bloodiest single day in US history. There was no clear winner.

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Kennesaw Mountain

c)

Antietam

53.

Bloodiest battle in American History. This Union victory was a major turning point. Robert E. Lee was defeated & had to retreat.

a)

Battle of Gettysburg

b)

Battle of Vicksburg

c)

Kennesaw Mountain

54.

Ulysses S. Grant captured this city & took control of the Mississippi River.

a)

Battle of Vicksburg

b)

Battle of Antietam

c)

Battle of Gettysburg

55.

Sherman captured this important southern city, then he marched to Savannah destroying everything in his path.

a)

Richmond

b)

Nashville

c)

Atlanta

56.

A violent conflict between pro and antislavery was referred to as

a)

The Great Compromise

b)

The Battle of the Radicals

c)

Bleeding Kansas

d)

Kansas and Nebraska Act

57.

This group wanted equal rights for the freed slaves.

a)

Democrats

b)

Southern Republicans

c)

Northern Democrats

d)

Radical Republicans

58.

Which was the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Antietam

c)

Appomattox Courthouse

d)

Vicksburg

59.

Who created a monopoly of the oil industry with the company Standard Oil?

a)

Rockefeller

b)

Carneige

c)

Roosevelt

d)

Jefferson

60.

When one business takes over an entire industry and competition is eliminated

a)

mixed-market

b)

espionage

c)

monopoly

d)

sedition