WorksheetsSSUSH1-11 Vocab Review
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 1hrs 10mins
Which group of colonies had good soil for farming and focused on tobacco production as cash crops?
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
New England Colonies
Southern Colonies
Where did the Quakers live and there was a lot of diversity and religious tolerance?
New England Colonies
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Southern Colonies
Which group of colonies had rocky soil, built ships, and were influenced by Puritans?
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Southern Colonies
New England Colonies
Who were the English Protestants who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices?
Catholics
Quakers
Puritans
Anglicans
What is the economic policy designed to maximize exports and minimize imports for an economy?
Capitalism
Mercantilism
Communism
Socialism
What was the route used to ship raw materials from America to Europe, and slaves from Africa to America?
Trans-Atlantic Trade
Erie Canal
Panama Canal
Silk Road
What was the name of the law that closed down colonial expansion westward beyond Appalachia?
French and Indian War
Proclamation 1763
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Who wrote the pamphlet 'Common Sense' urging colonists to break free from British rule?
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Which war was fought between the US and Britain due to British impressment of sailors?
French and Indian War
War of 1812
Civil War
Revolutionary War
What was the movement that championed greater rights for the common man and was led by Andrew Jackson?
Jacksonian Democracy
Second Great Awakening
Temperance
Manifest Destiny
Which war was fought between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815?
Nationalism
Treaty
War of 1812
Neutrality
Which term refers to a strong feeling of pride and loyalty towards one's country?
Nationalism
Treaty
Foriegn policy
Neutrality
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?
Alien and Sedition Acts
Foriegn policy
Neutrality
Treaty
Which event involved the United States purchasing a large territory from France in 1803?
Treaty
Louisianna Purchase
Foriegn policy
Neutrality
Which term refers to the practice of forcing American sailors to serve in the British navy during the early 1800s?
Treaty
Foriegn policy
Impressment
Neutrality
A political system in which a national government and state governments share power.
Republic
Federalism
Check and Balances
Constitution
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.
Great Compromise
Three-fifths Compromise
Federalism
Articles of Confederarion
The Constitutional Convention's agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves as population for purposes of representation and taxation.
Great Compromise
Three-fifths Compromise
Federalism
Articles of Confederarion
The ______ _____ placed a direct tax on all paper and printed materials
Stamp Act
Intolerable Act
Townsend Act
Navigation Act
Name for the assembly created by Jamestown colonists to propose laws for themselves.
Town Meeting
House of Burgesses
Virginia Company of London
Mayflower Compact
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.
Revivals
Mercantilism
Great Awakening
Puritans
These were extended to include public education, transportation, and other public facilities. Also separate and inferior facilities for minority groups.
Hull House
Jim Crow Laws
NAACP
Recall
Journalists nicknamed by Teddy Roosevelt who investigated and uncovered many of the problems of society during the Industrial Age.
Initiatives
Recalls
Referendums
Muckrakers
Muckraker who investigated the Oil industry.
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
W.E.B. DuBois
Muckraker who investigated the food industry and wrote the book "The Jungle"
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
W.E.B. DuBois
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.
Muckrakers
NAACP
Hull House
Conservation Movement
Formed in 1909 by W.E.B DuBois to protect Constitutional Amendments for African Americans.
Conservation Movement
NAACP
Hull House
Jim Crow Laws
1896 Supreme Court decision that stated "separate but equal" doctrine was constitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Georgia v. Ferguson
Marbury v. Madison
Provided food, education, and assistance to former slaves and poor whites
14th Amendment
Sharecropping
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Freedmen's Bureau
Members sought the restoration of white supremacy through intimidation and violence aimed at the newly enfranchised black freedmen
Black codes
"Redemption"
13th Amendment
Ku Klux Klan
The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
Reconstruction
Amendments
Black Codes
Constitution
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are the
Black Codes
Bill of Rights
Amendments
Due Process
Issued by Abraham Lincoln, it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
Emancipation Proclamation
Bill of Rights
Confederate States of America
Amendments
What is an abolitionist?
a slave
a person who lives in The South
a soldier
a person who wants to end slavery
the belief that it is our God given right to claim all land in the west
a religious revival of Christianity in the colonies
the belief in temperance and social reform
a religious revival of Puritanism in California
Constitutional right to be taken before a judge. Lincoln suspended this for many confederate sympathizers during the war.
Habeas Corpus
Gettysburg Address
13th Amendment
Espionage Act
Union general. He captured Vicksburg and eventually defeated Robert E. Lee.
Roger Williams
Ulysses S. Grant
Stonewall Jackson
Union general. Captured & burned Atlanta then carried out the “March to the Sea.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
Robert E. Lee
George McClellan
The nation made up of the southern states that seceded from the Union:
The Union
The Soviet Union
Confederate States of America (Confederacy)
President of the Confederacy:
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Jefferson Davis
Confederate general. He lost at Gettysburg & eventually surrendered to Grant.
Robert E. Lee
William T. Sherman
Jefferson Davis
This battle was the bloodiest single day in US history. There was no clear winner.
Gettysburg
Kennesaw Mountain
Antietam
Bloodiest battle in American History. This Union victory was a major turning point. Robert E. Lee was defeated & had to retreat.
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Vicksburg
Kennesaw Mountain
Ulysses S. Grant captured this city & took control of the Mississippi River.
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Sherman captured this important southern city, then he marched to Savannah destroying everything in his path.
Richmond
Nashville
Atlanta
A violent conflict between pro and antislavery was referred to as
The Great Compromise
The Battle of the Radicals
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas and Nebraska Act
This group wanted equal rights for the freed slaves.
Democrats
Southern Republicans
Northern Democrats
Radical Republicans
Which was the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
Gettysburg
Antietam
Appomattox Courthouse
Vicksburg
Who created a monopoly of the oil industry with the company Standard Oil?
Rockefeller
Carneige
Roosevelt
Jefferson
When one business takes over an entire industry and competition is eliminated
mixed-market
espionage
monopoly
sedition
