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U.S. History Study Guide

Total questions: 85

Worksheet time: 43mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Antietam: ________ single day of war; led to Emancipation Proclamation.

a)

Bloodiest

b)

Longest

c)

Quietest

d)

Earliest

2.

Who was the doctor who treated Lincoln after his assassination?

a)

Clara Barton

b)

Charles Leale

c)

Robert E. Lee

d)

Jefferson Davis

3.

Clara Barton was a Civil War nurse who founded the ________.

a)

American Red Cross

b)

Salvation Army

c)

Girl Scouts of the USA

d)

Peace Corps

4.

Copperheads were Northern Democrats opposing the war.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in ________-held areas.

a)

Confederate

b)

Union

c)

British

d)

French

6.

The First Battle of Bull Run was the first major Civil War battle and resulted in a ________ victory.

a)

Confederate

b)

Union

c)

British

d)

French

7.

Gettysburg was a turning point battle and a ________ victory.

a)

Union

b)

Confederate

c)

British

d)

French

8.

The impact of the Emancipation Proclamation shifted war goals to abolition and discouraged foreign aid to the South.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Who was the President of the Confederate States?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Robert E. Lee

d)

Henry Clay

10.

Lincoln’s Assassination: ________ killing of President Lincoln.

a)

1865

b)

1861

c)

1870

d)

1881

11.

Lyman Beecher was a preacher and father of ________.

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

Louisa May Alcott

d)

Susan B. Anthony

12.

Who was the Confederate general who surrendered in 1865?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Sherman

d)

Charles Leale

13.

Sherman’s March to the Sea was a Union campaign destroying ________ resources.

a)

Southern

b)

Northern

c)

Western

d)

Eastern

14.

The Thirteenth Amendment abolished ________ in the U.S.

a)

slavery

b)

taxation

c)

immigration

d)

prohibition

15.

Vicksburg was a Union victory securing the ________ River.

a)

Mississippi

b)

Ohio

c)

Missouri

d)

Hudson

16.

The Adams-Onis Treaty was a(n) ________ treaty where Spain ceded Florida to the U.S.

a)

1819

b)

1825

c)

1803

d)

1848

17.

The American System was Henry Clay’s plan for tariffs, a national bank, and ________.

a)

infrastructure

b)

slavery

c)

free trade

d)

isolationism

18.

The Corrupt Bargain was an alleged deal between Adams and Clay to win the ________ presidency.

a)

1824

b)

1800

c)

1860

d)

1840

19.

The Dorr War was a Rhode Island rebellion for expanded ________ rights.

a)

voting

b)

property

c)

religious

d)

education

20.

The Era of Good Feelings was a period of national unity under President Monroe after the War of ________.

a)

1812

b)

1776

c)

1861

d)

1898

21.

The MO Compromise was a(n) ________ law balancing slave/free states and banning slavery north of 36°30’.

a)

1820

b)

1850

c)

1865

d)

1776

22.

19th-century shows with white performers in blackface mocking African Americans. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Minstrels

b)

Vaudeville

c)

Burlesque

d)

Cabaret

23.

1823 policy opposing European interference in the Americas. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Monroe Doctrine

b)

Treaty of Versailles

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

Manifest Destiny

24.

First major U.S. economic crisis caused by bank failures and land speculation. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Panic of 1819

b)

Great Depression

c)

Panic of 1837

d)

Savings and Loan Crisis

25.

Money in the form of gold or silver coins. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Specie

b)

Fiat

c)

Cheque

d)

Bond

26.

Practice of giving government jobs to political supporters. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Spoils System

b)

Merit System

c)

Civil Service

d)

Pendleton Act

27.

Confederate prison with horrific conditions. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Andersonville

b)

Fort Sumter

c)

Libby Prison

d)

Elmira

28.

Mexican general who fought Texas independence. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Antonio López de Santa Anna

b)

Miguel Hidalgo

c)

Porfirio Díaz

d)

Emiliano Zapata

29.

Final battle of Texas Revolution; Texans won. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Battle of San Jacinto

b)

Battle of the Alamo

c)

Battle of Goliad

d)

Battle of Gonzales

30.

Laws admitting California and strengthening Fugitive Slave Act. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

31.

1850 law requiring return of slaves; increased resistance. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Fugitive Slave Law and Irony

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Compromise of 1850

32.

Writer who opposed war and slavery; wrote Civil Disobedience. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Henry David Thoreau

b)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

d)

Walt Whitman

33.

1859 failed attack to spark slave revolt. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

John Brown’s Raid

b)

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

c)

Harper’s Ferry Compromise

d)

Bleeding Kansas

34.

1854 law allowing popular sovereignty on slavery. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Fugitive Slave Act

35.

Belief in U.S. expansion across the continent. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Isolationism

c)

Federalism

d)

Sectionalism

36.

1846–48 conflict over U.S. expansion. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Mexican War

b)

Civil War

c)

War of 1812

d)

Spanish-American War

37.

Early battles, turning points, and final campaigns. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Phases of the Civil War

b)

Causes of World War II

c)

Branches of Government

d)

Types of Economic Systems

38.

Escaped enslaved people seeking freedom. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Runaway Slaves

b)

Slave Owners

c)

Abolitionists

d)

Indentured Servants

39.

Leader of Texan forces and first Texas president. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Sam Houston

b)

Stephen F. Austin

c)

James Bowie

d)

Davy Crockett

40.

Lincoln’s demand to know where blood was shed. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Spot Resolution

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Wilmot Proviso

d)

Compromise of 1850

41.

Led American settlers into Mexican Texas. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Stephen Austin

b)

Sam Houston

c)

James Bowie

d)

Davy Crockett

42.

Mexicans living in Texas who supported independence. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Tejanos

b)

Rancheros

c)

Vaqueros

d)

Comanches

43.

1836 battle where Texans were defeated by Mexico. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

The Alamo

b)

Battle of San Jacinto

c)

Battle of Goliad

d)

Battle of Gonzales

44.

Ended Mexican War; U.S. gained territory. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

b)

Treaty of Paris

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Adams-Onís Treaty

45.

Party opposing Jackson; supported modernization. Fill in the blank: __________

a)

Whig Party

b)

Democratic Party

c)

Federalist Party

d)

Know-Nothing Party

46.

Wilmot Proviso: Proposed ban on slavery in _________

a)

Mexican Cession

b)

Louisiana Purchase

c)

Gadsden Purchase

d)

Oregon Territory

47.

Popular sovereignty means: Letting territories ________ on slavery.

a)

vote

b)

fight

c)

ignore

d)

leave

48.

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) was a case denying ________ sovereignty.

a)

Cherokee

b)

Mexican

c)

British

d)

French

49.

Name the Five Civilized Tribes: ________, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes.

a)

Cherokee

b)

Iroquois

c)

Sioux

d)

Navajo

50.

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Native tribes west of the ________.

a)

Mississippi

b)

Rockies

c)

Appalachians

d)

Ohio

51.

The Trail of Tears was a forced Cherokee march to ________; thousands died.

a)

Oklahoma

b)

California

c)

Texas

d)

Florida

52.

Worcester v. Georgia (1832) was a case affirming Cherokee rights; ignored by ________.

a)

Jackson

b)

Lincoln

c)

Jefferson

d)

Madison

53.

The 1863 NYC Draft Riots were violent protests against Union ________.

a)

conscription

b)

taxation

c)

immigration

d)

segregation

54.

The Anaconda Plan was a Union strategy to ________ and divide the South.

a)

blockade

b)

invade

c)

ally with

d)

surrender to

55.

Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Redeemer are labels for Northern migrants, Southern Unionists, and post-Reconstruction ________.

a)

Democrats

b)

Republicans

c)

Confederates

d)

Abolitionists

56.

The Crittenden Compromise was a failed proposal to protect ________ and avoid war.

a)

slavery

b)

states' rights

c)

the economy

d)

immigration

57.

The Fifteenth Amendment gave ________ men the right to vote.

a)

Black

b)

White

c)

Native American

d)

Asian

58.

Fire Eaters were radical Southern ________.

a)

secessionists

b)

abolitionists

c)

industrialists

d)

unionists

59.

The Fourteenth Amendment granted ________ and equal protection.

a)

citizenship

b)

voting rights

c)

property ownership

d)

freedom of speech

60.

The Ft. Pillow Massacre involved Confederate killing of surrendering ________ Union troops.

a)

Black

b)

Irish

c)

German

d)

Mexican

61.

Joseph Smith was the founder of the ________ faith.

a)

Mormon

b)

Buddhist

c)

Hindu

d)

Jewish

62.

The Mason-Dixon Line was a historic boundary between ________ and slave states.

a)

free

b)

northern

c)

eastern

d)

border

63.

Mormons were a religious group that migrated to ________.

a)

Utah

b)

California

c)

Texas

d)

Oregon

64.

The Oneida Community was a utopian group practicing communal ________.

a)

marriage

b)

farming

c)

education

d)

worship

65.

Secession (1st and 2nd) refers to Southern states leaving the ________ in two waves.

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

c)

Parliament

d)

Empire

66.

Shakers were a religious group known for ________ and communal living.

a)

celibacy

b)

polygamy

c)

materialism

d)

militarism

67.

The American Colonization Society was a group promoting relocation of freed slaves to ________.

a)

Africa

b)

Europe

c)

South America

d)

Asia

68.

1848 women’s rights document demanding equality. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Declaration of Sentiments

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Bill of Rights

d)

Magna Carta

69.

Reformer for humane treatment of the mentally ill. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Dorothea Dix

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

70.

Education reformer who promoted public schooling. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Horace Mann

b)

John Dewey

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Frederick Douglass

71.

Garrison’s anti-slavery newspaper. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

The Liberator

b)

The North Star

c)

The Emancipator

d)

The National Era

72.

Abolitionist and editor of The Liberator. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

John Brown

73.

Jackson’s campaign to dismantle the Second Bank in 1832. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Bank War of 1832

b)

Nullification Crisis

c)

Trail of Tears

d)

Missouri Compromise

74.

U.S. annexation of Texas and border disputes led to this war. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Causes of Mexican War

b)

Causes of Civil War

c)

Causes of World War I

d)

Causes of Spanish-American War

75.

1857 ruling denying citizenship to African Americans. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Dred Scott decision

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Marbury v. Madison

76.

System where slaves worked in groups under supervision. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Gang Labor

b)

Task System

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Indentured Servitude

77.

Escaped slave who led others to freedom via Underground Railroad. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Sojourner Truth

d)

Booker T. Washington

78.

1831 slave uprising in Virginia. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

b)

Stono Rebellion

c)

Gabriel’s Rebellion

d)

Denmark Vesey’s Plot

79.

Theory that states can invalidate federal laws. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Nullification

b)

Federalism

c)

Judicial Review

d)

Supremacy

80.

Slaveholders’ belief they cared for enslaved people like family. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Paternalism

b)

Abolitionism

c)

Federalism

d)

Sectionalism

81.

Justifications for slavery based on religion and economics. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Pro-Slavery Argument

b)

Abolitionist Movement

c)

Civil Rights Act

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

82.

Slaves resisted through slowdowns and escape. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Sabotage/Day to Day Resistance

b)

Legal Petitions

c)

Religious Conversion

d)

Economic Investment

83.

Religious songs expressing hope and resistance. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Slave Spirituals

b)

Gregorian Chants

c)

Baroque Arias

d)

Gregorian Hymns

84.

Data showing slave ownership concentrated among wealthy. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Slaveholding Statistics

b)

Abolitionist Movements

c)

Sharecropping Records

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

85.

Slaves completed assigned tasks and had free time afterward. Fill in the blank: ____________

a)

Task Labor

b)

Gang Labor

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Indentured Servitude