WorksheetsUS History MidTerm Review
Total questions: 63
Worksheet time: 32mins
Which was NOT a colonial region?
Middle
Southern
New England
Northern
This required attendance and practice of Anglican Church ways by mid to late 16th century
Stamp Act
Act of Uniformity
Act of Supremacy
Intolerable Acts
This term is used to refer to those going against the Church of England
Anti-Federalists
Bad Ones
Nameless Ones
English Dissenters
This colony was founded in 1628 by John Winthrop
Delaware
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Virginia
This colony was founded in 1861 as a safe haven for Dissenters and mainly Quakers?
New York
Pennsylvania
Georgia
South Carolina
What document did the Constitution replace?
The Bill of Rights
The Articles of Confederation
The Amendments
The Magna Carta
This is the idea that the national government shares power with the state governments
Socialism
Unitarianism
Federalism
Ratification
What does the 8th amendment protect
right to bear arms
no quartering of soldiers
no unlawful search or seizures
no excessive fines or cruel or unusual punishment
In what state was gold found and James Monroe set in motion the removal of Native Americans
California
Georgia
Indiana
Maine
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as...
The Bestest
The Bill of Rights
The Preamble
The Wham-Bam Thank-Ya Mams
This court case upheld the constitutionality of Jim Crow laws
Brown v Board of Education
Little Rock 9 Case
Plessy v Ferguson
Miranda v Arizona
Which president signed the Homestead and Pacific Railway Act into law
Teddy Roosevelt
Rutherford B Hayes
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
The Pacific Railway company workers were mostly immigrants from what country
Scotland
China
Mexico
Spain
This mountain range was a big obstacle for the building of the railroad
Appalachian Mountains
Rocky Mountains
Himalayan Mountains
Sierra Nevada Mountains
This political figure in America created a "Share the Wealth" program during The Great Depression...
Joseph McCarthy
Teddy Roosevelt
Huey Long
A Mitchell Palmer
Which of the following was not a topic of the progressive era to be addressed
labor reform
women's suffrage
poverty
nuclear missiles
This man was known as the king of steel,,,
JD Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
JP Morgan
Boss Tweed
This man was known as the king of oil
JD Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Boss Tweed
This was a major disaster that opened a lot of people's eyes to terrible working conditions
Breaker Boy Collapse of 1890
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911
Chicago Fair of 1901
American Federation of Labor Strike
Which two railroad companies were given government land to help pay for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad
Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Atlanta Pacific and Pacific Atlantic
Eastern Pacific and Western Pacific
Other than the transcontinental railroad and technological advancements, this was a major factor in the industrialization of America
Taxes
Immigration
Monopolies
Smartphones
This man was president from 1897-1901 and was eventually assassinated
Donald Trump
Teddy Roosevelt
William McKinley
William Taft
This president enacted the "Square Deal"
Teddy Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
William McKinley
William Taft
This significantly reduced the sail time from New York to San Francisco
Airplanes
Suez Canal
Panama Canal
Transcontinental Railroad
The Open Door Policy was issued when discussing trade relations with what country
France
India
Africa
China
An agreement nations make to support and defend each other is known as a(n)
army
alliance
imperialism
nationalism
Who was the president when WW1 started
Abe Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
John F Kennedy
Lyndon B Johnson
This country fought on the side of the Allies
Bulgaria
Germany
France
Austria-Hungary
Which of the following countries fought on the side of the Central Powers
Germany
Great Britain
United States
All were Central Powers
The US government passed the _____ to allow a draft to recruit soldiers for the war
Conscription Act
Selective Service Act
Indentured Servitude Act
War Industries Board
The Treaty to end World War 1 was named
Austrian Treaty
Treaty of Alliances
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
This was the primary reason for the United States to enter WW1
Zimmerman Telegram
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Tariffs on imported goods
Annexation of Poland
Which of the following is considered the final battle of WW1
Battle of Somme
Battle of Verdun
Battle of the Mons
Battle of Ypres
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 caused
France to leave the war
Russia to leave the war
Britain to leave the war
The Ottoman Empire to collaps
The War Industries Board
aimed to eliminate the waste of materials that could be used to make supplies for the war
told American factories what to make based on war needs
Coordinated the purchase of war supplies for the Army and Navy
All the above
Which of the following was NOT a technological advancement used in WW1
machine guns
biological warfare
nuclear warfare
tanks
Germany believed that if they captured this city, they would win the war
Rome
Paris
New York
Nottingham
Flappers were:
females who supported the effort in WW1
females who broke against traditional behavior
woman who pushed for the right to vote
woman who flew across the Atlantic
"The Red Scare" was a movement that showed how much our nation feared the establishing of
Anarchism
Idealism
Communism
Darwinism
What was a "speakeasy"
the slang used by young people
secret bars serving alcohol
a new method to learn English
Al Capone's automatic weapon
What was "Prohibition"
no one in the US could buy, sell or transport alcohol
women were not allowed to wear skimpy bathing suits
women were not allowed to vote in political elections
men were forbidden to travel to Communist countries
Sacco and Vanzetti were two men whose execution demonstrated that
the United States was fearful of foreigners
the Supreme Court was fair and thorough
the United States welcomed honest immigrants
the Justice System is always appropriate to the situation
During the 1920's, the government's role in the US economy was that the government should
control the means of production
interfere as little as possible
promote the welfare state
play a major role through regulatory action
Attorney Gen. Palmer deported immigrants who were viewed as
liberals
conservatives
communists
nativists
This movement wanted to prohibit the use and sale of alcohol
temperance
communist
anarchist
The No Alcohol
What did NOT fuel an economic boom during the 1920s?
overproduction of farm goods
mass production
mass advertising
installment buying
Which person was NOT a part of the Harlem Renaissance
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Martin Luther King Jr.
Langston Hughes
What nickname marked the date of the stock market crash of 1929?
Dark Monday
Black Tuesday
Cloudy Thursday
Deadly Friday
What was President Roosevelt's plan for getting the United States out of the Great Depression
The New Deal
The Relief, Recovery, and Reform Act
The Alphabet Agencies
The Square Deal
What caused the Dust Bowl?
The people did not farm the land enough
Not enough people lived in that area
A drought along with too much farming
Too much rain caused flooding
Which president was blamed for causing the Great Depression
President Roosevelt
President Hoover
President Bush
President Coolidge
The purpose of Social Security was to
provide monthly income for the elderly and disabled
Set the lowest amount of money that workers could paid for
built dams on the Tennessee River
Give jobs to young men
In what ways did the New Deal help Americans?
it improved education for all citizens
it helped people pay taxes
it provided jobs, food, and shelter for those in need
it protected people from discrimination
How did life change for women in the 1920s
Women gained the right to vote
women gained more equality
women began to work outside the home
all the above
The Lusitania was a:
US Cargo ship
German U-boat
French passenger ship
British passenger ship
The Treaty of Versailles helped to create the League of Nations to do what?
punish Germany
help fight the Central Powers
help nations solve problems peacefully
the League of Nations was not created
This disease outbreak led to over 500,000 American deaths in 1918?
Covid 19
Swine Flu
Spanish Flu
Green Plague
This was the country that sent nationalists to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Germany
Italy
France
Serbia
This amendment passed in 1920 gave women the right to vote...
12th
15th
19th
21st
This baseball player for the Yankees became a national hero for many Americans
Jack Dempsey
Babe Ruth
Hank Aaron
Jackie Robinson
This city was the center for flourishing black culture in the 1920s
Chicago
Harlem
Tuscaloosa
Pittsburgh
What was the unemployment rate in America during 1933?
15%
10%
25%
50%
This president passed the Hoot-Smalley tariff during the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
FDR
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
