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EOC Mid Year Review

Total questions: 79

Worksheet time: 1hrs 8mins

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? (Anaconda Plan)

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.

Which statements is MOST true about many African Americans during World War I?

a)

they protested discrimination in the US Army

b)

they let the rural South for jobs in the North

c)

they purchased large numbers of farms in the Midwest

d)

they left the United States for Liberia

5.

Why was the surrender at Vicksburg crucial to the success of the Union campaign in the West?

a)

It allowed the Union to control the Mississippi River

b)

It allowed the Union to surround the Capital city

c)

It allowed the Union to Blockade important railroads

d)

It allowed the Union to occupy new territories

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? Confederate army had to retreat and will never travel up north again.

a)

Battle of Antietam

b)

Siege of Vickburg

c)

Appomattox Courthouse

d)

Battle of Gettysburg

8.

At which fort did the first hostilities of the Civil War take place? The first shots fired in the Civil War

a)

Fort Wagner

b)

Fort Sumter

c)

Fort Hood

d)

For Warren

9.

This group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting in the South following Reconstruction

a)

Black Codes

b)

Ku Klux Klan

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Carpetbaggers

10.

The following group provided aid (help) with education and health to former slaves during Reconstruction.

a)

Black Codes

b)

Carpetbaggers

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

11.

What did the 15th amendment accomplish?

a)

Grants citizenship & equal protection

b)

Right to bear arms

c)

Bans slavery

d)

Guarantees voting rights

12.

Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War.

a)

Black Codes

b)

Secede

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Home Front

13.

Why did Southern states pass Black Codes immediately following the Civil War?

a)

to limit the rights of newly freed African Americans

b)

to expand the power of ex-Confederate leaders

c)

to give Southern women voting rights

d)

to jail carpetbaggers

14.

How did sharecropping impact formerly enslaved peoples?

a)

These new agriculture jobs made them rich.

b)

These new agriculture jobs left them in a cycle of debt.

c)

These challenge of securing these coveted jobs led to economic competition.

d)

These new agriculture jobs didn't interest them and freedmen moved North.

15.

During the Reconstruction Era many Radical Republicans passed legislative reforms that were designed to --

a)

support the passage of the black codes in the former Confederate states

b)

actively resist the Wade-Davis Bill that granted equal rights to African Americans

c)

give economic opportunities and political rights to the newly freed slaves

d)

create lenient measures to make it easy for the southern states to rejoin the Union

16.

Members of the Republican party who believed the Confederacy should be punished for their actions and believed African Americans were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites.

a)

Carpetbagger

b)

Scalawag

c)

Radical Republican

d)

Freedmen

17.
Which amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote in 1869?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
18.

The Plessy v. Ferguson case had what impact on the U.S.?

a)

It legalized Jim Crow (Segregation) Laws throughout the U.S.

b)

It made Jim Crow (Segregation) Laws illegal throughout the U.S.

c)

It created more equality

19.

The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson said that whites and blacks could be segregated if accommodations were

a)

Hot and Cold

b)

Even and uneven

c)

Separate but equal

d)

Fair and equal

20.

Land or business owner forces a worker to pay off a debt with work. Workers are often unable to re-pay the debt, and find themselves in a continuous work-without-pay cycle.

a)

Carpetbagger

b)

Ku Klux klan

c)

Radical Republican

d)

Debt Peonage

21.

In 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was finished. It made traveling out west much quicker than ever before.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

The Homestead Act was when the United States gave away ___________ to settlers.

a)

lumber to build houses

b)

plots of land

c)

seeds to grow crops

d)

wagons to travel out west

23.

Which of the following connected the Eastern US to the Western US?

a)

Erie Canal

b)

Mississippi River

c)

Transcontinental Railroad

d)

Gulf of Mexico

24.

This law was aimed at assimilating Native Americans by offering reservation land on the condition of renouncing their tribes...

a)

The American Indian Citizenship Act

b)

The Homestead Act

c)

The Dawes Act

d)

The Meat Inspection Act

25.

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

26.

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

a)

Assimilation

b)

Nativism

c)

Push Factors

d)

Pull Factors

27.

Promised settlers cheap land (160 acres) if they settled or improved the land. Increased westward expansion

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Reservation System

c)

Populist Party

d)

Dawes Act

28.

The Progressive Era tried to find change to America's biggest problems through which democratic voting initiative

a)

Voting for President

b)

A Referendum

c)

Impeachment

29.

Represented the farmer and working man. Government ownership of railroads, bimetallism, and direct election of senators.

a)

Populist Party

b)

Reservation System

c)

Dawes Act

d)

Homestead Act

30.

Agricultural overproduction, scarcity of money, high shipping costs, debt, and rural isolation.

a)

Monopoly

b)

Farmers Problems

c)

Pull Factors of Westward Expansion

d)

Cross of Gold Speech

31.

Forced Native American tribes to land with designated boundaries in the west, beginning in the 1850s and ending with the Dawes Act of 1887.

a)

Reservation System

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Dawes Act

d)

Cross of Gold Speech

32.
Which of these was a major goal of Jane Addams's Settlement House movement in Chicago?
a)
The founding of women's colleges
b)
The introduction of prison reform
c)
The assimilation of immigrants
d)
The establishment of public libraries
33.

What was one way workers tried to get better working conditions?

a)

By homesteading on the Great Plains

b)

By joining labor unions

c)

By working for Political bosses

d)

Through better education

34.
This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.
a)
World War I
b)
Progressive Era
c)
Gilded age
d)
Roaring Twenties
35.

What law was created to prohibit businesses from destroying competition but was used to limit power of labor unions?

a)

Sixteenth Amendment

b)

Pendleton Act

c)

Sherman Antitrust Act

d)

Referendum

36.
A "muckraker" is
a)
A journalist who exposed living conditions in the tenements and factories
b)
Someone who took bribes 
c)
someone who fought for women's rights
d)
a gardener
37.

Leader in Steel industry

a)

Morgan

b)

Rockefeller

c)

Carnegie

d)

Vanderbilt

38.

How did this event contribute to the United Sates’ entry into the Spanish-American War? 

a)

It led to led to anti-war demonstrations in the United States.

b)

It enraged Cuban Americans in Florida who had lost their relatives.

c)

It became difficult for President McKinley to resist demands to intervene in Cuba.

d)

It revealed that the United States needed to have colonies in the Caribbean.

39.

The map shows shipping routes before and after construction of the Panama Canal. The “Old Route” (dotted line) was before and the “New Route” was afterwards. Based on the map, why did many Americans want to build the Panama Canal?

a)

to increase American trade in Europe

b)

to create a shortcut for commercial and military shipping

c)

to protect U.S. investments in Latin America

d)

to gain control over Colombia and Panama

40.
What is imperialism?
a)
When one country takes over another country
b)
When one country is allies with another country
c)
When one country is at war with another country
d)
all of these options
41.
What was the biggest reason why the U.S. was involved in foregin affairs during this time?
a)
responsibility
b)
slavery
c)
to help people
d)
money/economic
42.

What was the US "official" stance at the start of the WWI?

a)

Neutrality

b)

Support the Central Powers

c)

Support the Allied Powers

43.

RED SCARE: Limiting the number of immigrants who may enter the US each year.

a)

Quota plan

b)

Quota system

c)

Dawes Sytem

44.

RED SCARE: A fear of communism in the US after the Russian Bolshevik revolution of 1917. This resulted in a nationwide crusade against eastern europeans, and anarchists.

a)

speculation

b)

Palmer Raids

c)

Red scare

45.

Which president said “speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” The U.S. Navy is the “big stick” he is referring to.

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

William H. Taft

c)

Teddy Roosevelt

46.

This gave every country equal access to trade with China.

a)

Boxer Rebellion

b)

Open Door Policy

c)

Modernization

d)

Sphere of Influence

47.

That the U.S. would step in if any Western hemisphere nation and their system is imposed.

a)

Roosevelt Corollary

b)

Spanish American War

c)

Monroe Doctrine

d)

Open Door Policy

48.

What event led to the start of the Spanish-American War?

a)

sinking of the USS Maine

b)

sinking of the USS Lusitania

c)

attack on southern Florida by Cuba

d)

the coronation of Liliuokalani

49.

All the following were reasons for US imperialism except:

a)

to develop closer relations with European nations

b)

need for more natural resources

c)

need for new markets to sell goods

d)

fear of running out of land to settle

50.
______________ is a name for false or exaggerated reporting.
a)
Red-top
b)
Government
c)
Newspaper lying
d)
Yellow Journalism
51.

As a result of the Spanish- American War, the US became a political power in

a)

The Hawaiian Islands

b)

Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

c)

Samoa

d)

Panama

52.

What is Imperialism?

a)

the authority of a state to govern itself or another state

b)

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

c)

practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically

d)

None of these.

53.

Alfred Thayer Mahan supported moving the US into a position of power by 

a)

increasing funding for the US Air Force 

b)

improving relations with US allies 

c)

strengthening US naval capacity 

d)

bolstering US industrial output 

54.

What was the Zimmerman Telegram

a)

A German communication promising not to use U-boats

b)

A German communication encouraging Mexico to side against the U.S.

c)

A German communication promising to recognize American neutrality

d)

A British communication urging the U.S. to enter the war

55.

How did U-boat warfare lead to the U.S. entering WWI?

a)

The U.S. Navy wanted to protect territory in the Pacific

b)

Unrestricted warfare resulted in the sinking of American ships

c)

The U.S. wanted to prevent other countries from getting technologically superior navies

d)

The U.S. wanted German territory for itself

56.

How did the U.S. raise an army for WW1?

a)

The U.S. already had a large standing army.

b)

Asking for volunteers and hiring foreign fighters

c)

Primarily through a draft or conscription

d)

Primarily through asking for volunteers

57.

How did warfare change during WW1?

a)

Armies waged fast, lightning warfare with groundbreaking technology

b)

Armies waged slow, defensive trench warfare due to industrial weapons

c)

Armies met in old-fashioned battles in open fields

d)

Armies used airplanes to bomb the enemy into submission

58.

What treaty ended WW1?

a)

Treaty of Ghent

b)

Treaty of Berlin

c)

Treaty of Versailles

d)

Great Treaty of 1919

59.
What are reparations?
a)
Payments Germany was forced to pay
b)
Repairs and improvements made to Germany
c)
Money that France would donate to Germany to help rebuild
d)
Payments that Russia would give to the Ottoman Empire
60.
Each of the following countries accepted the Treaty of Versailles EXCEPT:
a)
Germany
b)
France
c)
Britain
d)
United States
61.

FOREIGN POLICY: Laws passed by Congress to ban the sale of arms or loans to nations at war like it did during WWI. This would ensure that we would stay our of future wars.

a)

Kellogg- Briand Pact

b)

Neutrality Acts

c)

Dawes Plan

62.

FOREIGN POLICY: A plan to help the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans to the U.S. This circular flow of money was a success to stimulate global economy.

a)

Dawes Plan

b)

Kellogg- Briand Pact

c)

Quota system

63.

FOREIGN POLICY: International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join and lack of consequences.

a)

League of Nations

b)

Washington Naval Conference

c)

United Nations

64.

FOREIGN POLICY: An efforts to avoid future wars. Delegates were worried about naval arms race and the threat of an expansionist Japan. The Five- Power Treaty, Nine-Power Treaty and the Four-Power Treaty all resulted from this.

a)

Washington Naval Conference

b)

Kellog Brian Pact

c)

Disarmament Conference

65.

RED SCARE: Arrest and deportation of radical leftists, especially anarchists. The arrests mostly only happened to immigrants. This happened during the Red Scare.

a)

Demobilization

b)

Sacco and Vanzetti

c)

Palmer Raids

66.

RED SCARE: Limiting the number of immigrants who may enter the US each year specifically from USSR and Italy.

a)

Quota plan

b)

Quota system

c)

Dawes Sytem

67.

RED SCARE: Were Italian immigrants charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory. Convicted with little evidence. The men were electrocuted in 1927.

a)

Sacco and Vanzetti

b)

Nicoletti and Gucci

c)

The Palmieri brothers

68.

U.S. ECONOMY: After conflict/war ends soldiers return home and production shifts from war products to consumer products.

a)

Mobilization

b)

speculation

c)

Demobilization

69.

U.S. ECONOMY: paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest

a)

buying on margin

b)

buying on credit

c)

Installment Buying

70.

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff was a tax on imports or goods coming into the USA, Foreign countries then placed a tax on American goods coming into their countries….what was the effect of this?

a)

•Europeans didn’t sell things in the USA, We didn’t sell abroad

b)

•US Imports increased

c)

•The USA began spending more on advertising in Asia

d)

•Most people bought luxury goods from Europe because they were so cheap

71.

FDR's plan to get the country out of the Depression was called the...

a)

Great Deal

b)

New Deal

c)

Best Deal

d)

Amazing Deal

72.

These organizations tried to improve working conditions for workers-

a)

Political Bosses

b)

Labor Unions

c)

Political Machines

d)

Farmers

73.

A refusal to work (most successful method)

a)

strikes

b)

lockouts

c)

collective bargaining

d)

black lists

74.

This is a VIOLENT strike between workers and owners at Carnegie's mill. (20% wage cut).

a)

Pullman Strike

b)

Homestead Strike

c)

Haymarket Square

75.

What does "Social Darwinism" mean?

a)

"Survival of the fittest"

b)

"Every man for themself"

c)

"An eye for an eye"

d)

"Fight for your rights"

76.

Based on the excerpt, with which sttement would Steffens agree?

a)

Political machines have corrupted many of America's cities.

b)

City officials are doing a good job at exposing sources of corruption.

c)

Progressive reforms have successfully eliminated most sources of urban corruption.

d)

Americans are no longer willing to tolerate the corrupt practices of political machines.

77.
What was created to protect bank deposits up to $5,000?
a)
WPA
b)
CCC
c)
TVA
d)
FDIC
78.

This New Deal Program set standards for business practices and let companies that followed their rules use the Blue Eagle on their products.

a)

Wagner Act

b)

NRA

c)

REA

d)

HOLC

79.
What are the 3 R's of the New Deal?
a)
Relief, Rebuild, and Reform
b)
Recover, Rebuild, and Reform
c)
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
d)
Recover, Revive, and Reform