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US History
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The economic system in which private individuals
and corporations control the means of production.
a. Entrepreneur
b. Market revolution
c. Specialization
d. Capitalism
To incorporate a territory in an existing
political unit, such as a state or nation.
a. Specialization
b. Land grants
c. Market Revolution
d. Annex
Occurred in the early 19th Century and changed
the way people acquired the goods they needed.
a. Gold Rush
b. Alamo
c. Specialization
d. Market Revolution
A mission and fort in Texas where Mexican
forces killed rebellious Texans in 1836.
a. Fort Laramie
b. Forty-niners
c. Gold Rush
d. Alamo
People who migrated to California in search
of Gold
a. Capitalism
b. Entrepreneur
c. Forty-niners
d. Gold Rush
A gift of public land to an individual or
organization.
a. Capitalism
b. Market Revolution
c. Specialization
d. Land Grants
The raising of one or two crops for sale rather
than a variety of foods for personal use.
a. Capitalism
b. Specialization
c. Land Grants
d. Market Revolution
The movement of many people to a region in
which gold has been discovered.
a. Forty-niners
b. Entrepreneur
c. Gold Rush
d. Market Revolution
A person who organizes, operates, and
assumes the risk for a business venture.
a. Capitalism
b. Entrepreneur
c. Forty-niners
d. Specialization
Which mid-1800 invention helped to increase the
amount of product that could be harvested?
a. The railroad
b. The steel plow
c. The tractor
d. The mechanical reaper
Which was NOT a major product of the
South?
a. Cotton
b. Wheat
c. Tobacco
d. Rice
What did Samuel F. B. Morse create?
a. Steel plow
b. Steam boat
c. Telegraph
d. Vulcanized Rubber
Why was the invention of the Foot-treadle
sewing machine important?
a.
Because women could now sew at home.
b.
Because men could now be taught how to sew.
c.
Because the foot treadle could be used by
children.
d.
Because sewing work could now be done in
factories.
Which group played a major role in settling
the American West?
a. Abolitionists
b. The Kiowa
c. The Mormons
d. Free African Americans
Which was NOT a reason that people First
began moving West?
a. They were attracted by cheap or free land.
b. Business owners hoped to establish trade
with Asian Nations
c. News of Gold in California
d. Financial chaos from the Panic of 1837.
The Santa Fe Trail extended from
Independence, Missouri, to Portland, Oregon.
a. True
b. False
-The Oregon Trail
What type of people traveled the Santa Fe
Trail?
Answer:
Men who were interested in trading
goods and returning home, rather than
settling.
Under Mexican rule, the main appeal Texas
held for American Settlers was:
a. Cheap land
b. Legalized slavery
c. Religious freedom
d. Government protection from Native
Americans
Why did Mexico begin to dislike American
settlers?
a.
They thought the American settlers smelled bad.
b.
They didn’t like the way the American settlers
treated the Indians.
c.
They didn’t like that the American settlers kept
slaves.
d.
They were upset that the American settlers
wouldn’t learn Spanish.
Who attacked first at the Alamo and what was
the result?
 Answer:
– The Texan militia attacked first resulting in the
Spanish troops returning and killing all the
Texan troops inside the Alamo.
Within the United States, conflicts over what
delayed the annexation of Texas?
a. Its price
b. The mission system
c. Its boundaries
d. The balance of free and slave states
The Wilmot Proviso proposed that slavery
should be banned from:
a. California only
b. The entire Nation
c. The District of Columbia
d. All of the territories won from Mexico.
How did President Polk provoke the War with
Mexico?
a.
He insulted the intelligence of the Mexican
Ambassador.
b.
He marched troops to Mexico City and attacked
the Mexican President.
c.
He stationed troops at the Rio Grande River to
block it.
d.
He asked to buy the Mexican Territory for less
than it was worth.
During the Mexican war which Mexican territory
was gained without a single shot fired?
Answer:
Santa Fe, New Mexico
What territory did the United States NOT gain
through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
a. California
b. New Mexico
c. Utah
d. Kansas
Which city became a huge Boom town
because of the Gold Rush?
a. Las Vegas
b. Los Angeles
c. San Francisco
d. Sacremento
The right of residents of a territory to vote for
or against slavery
a. Personal liberty laws
b. Nativism
c. Popular Sovereignty
d. Fugitive Slave Act
A law enacted as part of the Compromise of
1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves
would be returned into bondage.
a. Underground railroad
b. Kansas-Nebraska Act
c. Personal Liberty Laws
d. Fugitive Slave Act
Statutes passed in the North that forbade the
imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed
that they would have jury trials.
a. Personal Liberty Laws
b. Fugitive Slave Act
c. Underground Railroad
d. Kansas-Nebraska Act
A system of routes along which runaway slaves
were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas
in the free states.
a. Nativism
b. Popular Sovereignty
c. Underground Railroad
d. Personal liberty Laws
A law enacted in 1854 that gave the residents of
the territories the right to decide whether to allow
slavery.
a. Fugitive Slave Act
b. Personal Liberty Laws
c. Kansas-Nebraska Act
d. Nativism
The favoring of native-born Americans over
immigrants.
a. Personal Liberty Laws
b. Secession
c. Popular Sovereignty
d. Nativism
An alliance formed in 1861 by the Southern
states after their secession from the Union.
a. Popular Sovereignty
b. Kansas-Nebraska Act
c. Confederacy
d. Personal Liberty Laws
The formal withdrawal of a state from the
union.
a. Secession
b. Nativism
c. Confederacy
d. Underground Railroad
According to the idea of popular sovereignty,
which of the following would decide whether
slavery would be allowed in a territory?
a. The Senate
b. The President
c. The people of the territory
d. The House of Representatives
Which of the following helped to save the
Compromise of 1850?
a.
President Taylor’s death
b.
John Calhoun’s arguments
c.
It being taken apart and presented as separate
resolutions
d.
It being bundled together as one set of
resolutions.
Which of the following best explains the
dependence of the Southern Economy on
slavery?
a.
Immigrants who opposed slavery did not settle
in the South.
b.
The Southern Economy was rural and consisted
mostly of plantations.
c.
The South needed slave labor to support its
manufacturing economy.
d.
Enslaved Africans were well suited to working
in the hot Southern climate.
Who was an escaped slave who helped over
300 slaves safely flee the South?
 Answer
– Harriet Tubman
What is the Title of the book that intensified
Northerners’ anger about the issue of slavery?
 Answer:
– Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Which of the following is NOT an example of
Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act?
a.
Development of the Underground Railroad
b.
Passage of personal liberty laws
c.
Lengthy legal battles on behalf of runaway
slaves
d.
Raids to free slaves in bordering slave states
Which words Best describe John Brown?
a. Articulate and compromising
b. Proslavery and Passionate
c. Antislavery and violent
d. Self-educated and dry-witted
What was NOT a result of the passage of the
Kansas Nebraska Act?
a.
Popular sovereignty for Kansas and Nebraska.
b.
Several years of peace on the issue of slavery.
c.
Antislavery and Proslavery settlers hurrying to
settle in Kansas
d.
Thousands of Missouri border ruffians voting
illegally in Kansas by force.
The American Party, which was also a secret
organization, came to be known as the
a. Free-Soil Party
b. Know-Nothing Party
c. Liberty Party
d. Republican Party
The Republican Party was formed by people
who, despite their differences, were united in
their
a. Fear of “Papal Power”
b. Fear of federal power
c. Opposition to slavery
d. Support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Major Aim of the Free-Soil Party was to
a. Expand the right to vote.
b. Abolish slavery nationwide.
c. Prevent slavery in the territories.
d. Discourage the secession of Southern
States.
In the Supreme Court Case of Dred Scott v.
Sanford, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
expressed all of the following ideas EXCEPT
a. Slaves are property
b. Masters can take slaves anywhere
c. The Fugitive Slave law is Unconstitutional
d. The Missouri Compromise is
Unconstitutional
What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates
about?
 Answer
– Popular Sovereignty and the end of slavery.
What was one effect of John Brown’s actions
at Harpers Ferry?
a. An increase in tensions between the North
and the South.
b. A brief period of national unity
c. The end of the abolitionist movement
d. An embarrassing defeat for Robert E. Lee
The event causing the first southern states to
secede from the Union was:
a. The Dred Scott supreme court decision
b. John Brown’s raid
c. Lincoln’s election as president
d. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Confederacy included all of the following
states Except
a. Maryland
b. Texas
c. Alabama
d. South Carolina
A tax on earnings is
a. Conscription
b. Excise Tax
c. Sales Tax
d. Income Tax
A court order requiring the authorities to bring a
prisoner before the court so that the court can
determine whether the prisoner is being held legally.
a. Conscription
b. Habeas Corpus
c. Impeach
d. Home Rule
A Northern Democrat who advocated making peace
with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
a. Radical Republican
b. Nativist
c. Copperhead
d. Carpet Bagger
The drafting of citizens for military service.
a. Impeach
b. Redemption
c. Conscription
d. Home Rule
When the Civil War began what was Abraham
Lincoln’s main goal?
a. To abolish slavery
b. To punish the South
c. To restore the Union
d. To extend slavery
What is the main reason that Lincoln did not
respond with force to the Confederate threat
to attack Fort Sumter?
a.
He wanted the Union to fire the first shots in the
war.
b.
He wished to treat the Confederacy as a
legitimate nation.
c.
He did not want to anger Republicans and slave
states still in the Union.
d.
He had decided to abandon For Sumter.
In which area did the South have an advantage
over the North in the Civil War?
a. Food production
b. Civilian leadership
c. Industrial capacity
d. Military leadership
Which of the following was NOT an
important advantage of ironclad ships?
a. They could resist burning
b. They could withstand cannon fire
c. They could splinter wooden ships.
d. They could travel much faster than other
ships.
Which was NOT a part of the Union’s threepart plan to conquer the South?
a.
Blockading Southern ports on the Mississippi
b.
Drafting freed slaves to fight for the Union
c.
Capturing the Confederate capital
d.
Splitting the Confederacy in two
Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a
turning point in the Civil War?
a.
It made the South give up the idea of invading
the North.
b.
It divided the Confederacy.
c.
It convinced the Confederacy to surrender.
d.
It marked the first Union victory on the
battlefield.
How was Stonewall Jackson fatally injured?
a. An escaped slave shot him.
b. Union troops shot him.
c. He was attacked by Indians.
d. Confederate troops shot him.
What was the result of the Gettysburg
Address?
a. All slaves were freed.
b. The south surrendered.
c. People began to see the US as a united
Country.
d. People began to lose hope in the war.
What did Grant and Sherman’s strategy of total
war target, other than the Confederate Army?
 Answer
– The civilian population of the south: their
homes, food, livestock, and fields.
While serving in the Union army, African
Americans faced all of the following Except
a. Excessively high income taxes
b. Lower pay than whites
c. Higher mortality rates than whites
d. Discrimination
During the war what did Not contribute to the
food shortage in the South?
a. The drain of manpower into the army
b. Bad weather causing poor crops
c. Union occupation of food-growing areas
d. The loss of slaves to work in the fields
What did soldiers experience during the War?
 Excellent Pay
 Brutality from their superiors
 Unsanitary camps
 Great food
What was not part of the economic boom in
the North during the War?
a. Rise in Industrial production
b. Rising standard of living
c. Women obtaining government jobs
d. Business owners making huge profits
What was the stated aim of the Emancipation
Proclamation?
 To free all slaves in the United States
 To free slaves behind Confederate Lines
 To free slaves in Union slave states
 To enlist slaves in the Union Army
What was a problem with the drafting of
soldiers?
a. All men had to participate, no matter
what.
b. Only young men had to participate
c. Only old men had to participate
d. Rich men could avoid participating.
Lincoln suspended this in order to deal with
dissent in the Union States.
a. Voting right for free African Americans.
b. Harsh sentences for draft rioters.
c. Conscription of men over 35 years of age.
d. The writ of habeas corpus.
What helped Lincoln win reelection in 1864?
a. Union victories in the South.
b. Confederate victories in the North.
c. A lack of Political Opponents.
d. The Copperheads.
What was NOT a political or economic effect
of the War?
a. Increased Federal Power
b. Thriving Industry in the North
c. Increased State Power
d. Ended the threat of states seceding
What was the human cost of the War?
a. Few people died
b. The North lost more lives than the south.
c. More deaths occurred than in all previous
wars combined.
d. The North lost few lives.
What is the name of the heroic nurse of the war who
used her experience to join the international Red
Cross and founded the American Red Cross?
 Answer
– Clara Barton
The Thirteenth Amendment gave African
Americans the right to vote.
 True
 False
- Ended slavery in all the states
The period of rebuilding that followed the
Civil War.
a. Freedmen’s Bureau
b. Black Codes
c. Reconstruction
d. Redemption
A type of congressmen who, after the civil
war, wanted to destroy the political power of
former slaveholders.
a. Freedmen’s Bureau
b. Black Codes
c. Carpetbaggers
d. Radical Republicans
A federal agency set up to help former slaves
after the Civil War.
a. Black Codes
b. Freedman’s Bureau
c. Redemption
d. Home Rule
The Discriminatory laws passed throughout
the post-Civil-War South which severely
restricted African American lives.
a. Black Codes
b. Radical Republicans
c. Habeas Corpus
d. Conscription
To formally charge an official with
Misconduct in office.
a. Conscription
b. Habeas Corpus
c. Impeach
d. Redemption
The Southern Democrats’ term for their return
to power in the South in the 1870s.
a. Reconstruction
b. Redemption
c. Impeach
d. Home rule
A state’s powers of governing its citizens
without federal government involvement.
a. Reconstruction
b. Confederacy
c. Impeach
d. Home Rule
Whose plan for Reconstruction did Andrew
Johnson support?
a. The Radical Republicans’ Plan
b. Abraham Lincoln’s Plan
c. The South’s Plan
d. The Freed Slaves’ plan
Why did Congress impeach Andrew Johnson?
a.
He had violated Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan.
b.
It wanted to test the Fifteenth Amendment.
c.
He had violated their plan’s for Reconstruction.
d.
It wanted to confirm the separation of powers.
Which of the following was NOT an
accomplishment of the Freedman’s Bureau?
a.
African American schools were set up
b.
Hospitals were set up.
c.
Land and farm supplies were provided to slaves.
d.
Food and clothing were provided to former
slaves.
What was regulated by the black codes?
a. Plans for Reconstruction
b. The daily lives of black Southerners
c. The conduct of government officials
d. The distribution of plantation land
The Fourteenth Amendment was passed in
order to take the place of
a. The black codes
b. The First Reconstruction Act
c. The Civil Rights Act of 1866
d. Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction
The Radical Reconstructionists were able to
implement their plan because they
a. Had influence with Johnson
b. Held a majority in the Congress
c. Had widespread support in the South
d. Removed Johnson from office
Which Southern state was NOT punished by
Radical Reconstruction?
a. Florida
b. Tennessee
c. Louisiana
d. South Carolina
During Reconstruction, the system of
Sharecropping was LEAST beneficial to
a. Bankers
b. Merchants
c. Landowners
d. Sharecroppers
During Reconstruction, all of the following
increased in the South EXCEPT
a. Taxes
b. Per person income
c. Public works programs
d. Populations of towns and cities
When Reconstruction began, which of the
following groups of Americans living in the
South tended to support the Democratic Party?
a. Scalawags
b. Carpetbaggers
c. African Americans
d. Wealthy Landowners
After the Civil War, why did new Republican
governments in the South have difficulty?
a.
African Americans resented interference from
Northern carpetbaggers.
b.
Slavery remained in force in several Southern
States.
c.
Many white Southerners refused to accept equal
rights for blacks
d.
African Americans did not hold office at the
state or local levels.
Who were scalawags and carpetbaggers?
a. Black tenant farmers and sharecroppers
b. Radical Republican congressmen
c. Southern proslavery whites
d. Those who tried to help with or profit
from Radical Reconstruction in the South.
Why did the Federal Government eventually
send troops into the South?
a.
To keep Confederate veterans from forming a
new Southern Army
b.
To limit violence and voter intimidation against
African Americans
c.
To protect the land farmed by African American
sharecroppers
d.
To put down riots caused by bank failures during
the Panic of 1873.
Which of the following is an example of
“redemption” as it was defined near the end of
Reconstruction?
a.
A state government had been under Republican leadership for
12 years, but then Democrats returned to power, or
“redeemed” the state.
b.
A president’s administration was plagued with scandal, but
the president “redeemed” himself by firing many corrupt
officials.
c.
After a long struggle to gain civil rights, African Americans
finally secured, or “redeemed,” their right to vote.
d.
A presidential candidate lost the popular vote, but was
“redeemed” when the electoral college voted.
Who was the first African-American US
senator?
a. Hiram Revels
b. Samuel J. Tilden
c. Garrison Frazier
d. Henry M. Turner
What two main problems did Grant’s
Administration face?
a. Corruption and Depression
b. Corruption and a Tax Revolt
c. Inflation and Reconstruction
d. A Depression and a Tax Revolt
What was the purpose of the Enforcement
Acts?
a.
To protect blacks from racist secret societies.
b.
To protect the rights of poor white Southerners
during Reconstruction.
c.
To provide for the administration of loyalty
oaths for ex-Confederates.
d.
To aid in the reestablishment of state
governments in Southern states.
All of the following are reasons that
Reconstruction and the Radical Republicans had
failed to secure equality for African Americans
EXCEPT
a.
They assumed that extending certain civil rights to freed
persons would enable them to protect themselves.
b.
They balked at distributing land to former slaves,
thereby preventing them from becoming economically
independent.
c.
They did nothing to try to prevent the acts of violence
against freed persons
d.
They did not fully realize the extent to which deepseated racism would weaken the changes Congress had
tried to make.