Transcript Final Review09 - Middletown High School

Final Exam Review
differences between north and
south
Which of the following was
an advantage the North had
over the South?
a. more experienced generals
b. military support from Britain
c. more money to spend on war
d. full support of all its citizens
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• what was fugitive slave act and its
impact
• why did states secede
Event that starts the war…
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A) South fires on Fort Sumter
B) Lincoln Assassinated
C) Gold discovered in California
D) Supreme Court hands down Dred Scott
decision
The Emancipation Proclamation
freed
• a. all enslaved people living in the
United States.
• b. enslaved people living in areas
controlled by the Confederacy.
• c. enslaved people living in the Union
states.
• d. enslaved people living in the
territories.
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Turning Points of the Civil War!
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A) Shiloh and Antietam
B) Lincoln’s Assassination
C) Gettysburg and Vicksburg
D) March to the Sea
The Freedmen’s Bureau
succeeded in
• a. redistributing formerly white-owned land
to black southerners.
• b. keeping ex-Confederate supporters out
of office.
• c. providing clothing, medical care, food,
and education to many freed people.
• d. electing African Americans to southern
state governments.
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Officially Ended Slavery
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A) 12th amendment
B) 13th amendment
C) 14th amendment
D) 15th amendment
• what was 14th amendment
Southern state governments
restricted the rights of former
slaves by
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a. passing black codes.
b. holding constitutional conventions.
c. refusing to pay war debts.
d. refusing to pass the Thirteenth
Amendment.
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• Describe three conditions during and
after reconstruction that denied
“freedpeoples” their equal rights.
Which was a major success of
Reconstruction in the South?
• a. an end to racist government policies
• b. the transformation into an
industrialized, urban region
• c. the creation of a public school system
• d. an end to tensions between the South
and the North
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The Reconstruction Act of 1867
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a.
b.
c.
d.
closed the South to Democrats.
closed the South to scalawags.
put the South under military rule.
gave voting rights to all Southerners.
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The Supreme Court case of Plessy
vs Ferguson is important because
a)
b)
c)
d)
It outlawed lynching.
It ended Reconstruction
It declared that poll taxes were illegal.
It ruled that segregation was
constitutional.
Reconstruction came to end when
• a. the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.
• b. federal troops were removed from the
South.
• c. President Johnson was impeached.
• d. the Freedmen’s Bureau was
dismantled.
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In 1870, thanks to the Fifteenth
Amendment, southern black men
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a.
b.
c.
d.
voted for the first time.
took charge of the Senate.
received free government land.
produced their own Reconstruction plan.
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Critics of powerful industrialists
referred to them as
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a.
b.
c.
d.
captains of industry.
philanthropists.
robber barons.
anarchists.
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• what was the impact of the explosion in
new inventions on American business
• What was the effect of industrialization
on the lives of children?
The goal of the Sherman Antitrust
Act was to
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a. encourage industries to form cartels.
b. promote fair industrial competition.
c. place higher taxes on business profits.
d. encourage the growth of business
monopolies.
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Which one of the following is a
lingering myth about the West?
• a. It was settled by a variety of races.
• b. Settlers were nearly all white males.
• c. Settlers nearly destroyed Native
American peoples.
• d. Western settlement damaged the
environment.
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The challenges and hardships of
settling the Great Plains led settlers
to
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a.
b.
c.
d.
desire isolation from their neighbors.
rely on the government for aid.
depend on help from each other.
abandon the West.
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A Native American Victory in a
series of defeats…
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A) Battle of Wounded Knee
B) Battle of Little Big Horn
C) Battle of Sand Creek
D) Battle of Red River
• what did it mean to “assimilate” native
americans
Opportunities for profit in the cattle
industry developed after the Civil
War largely because
A. meat-packing companies moved to
the West.
B. the Native Americans depended
mainly on buffalo.
C. growing cities of the North provided
markets for meat.
D. mining did not compete with
ranching.
What was one key requirement that
applicants had to meet to receive
land under the Homestead Act?
• a. They had to live on the land all year long.
• b. They had to farm the land for five years
in a row.
• c. They had to file a claim with a bank.
• d. They had to wheel portable cabins from
plot to plot.
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Legislation that led to the breakup
of Indian Reservations
a)
b)
c)
d)
The Dawes Act
The Great Sioux Treaty
The Battle of Little Big Horn
The Emancipation Proclamation
What drew many new immigrants
to the West?
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a.
b.
c.
d.
the opportunity to learn new languages
the climate on the plains
“land-grant” colleges
cheap land and new jobs
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• What pulled or pushed people west
ethnic diversity in the United States
because of immigration often leads
to
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B.
C.
D.
increased social tension.
a decrease in urban populations.
increased religious tolerance.
an extended economic decline.
By the 1890s, immigration patterns
had shifted dramatically, with most
immigrants now coming from
• a. northern European countries.
• b. southern and eastern European
countries.
• c. Mexico and Central America.
• d. China and Japan.
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A Young Man who immigrated
temporarily to return home later
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A) Joe Plumber
B) Coalmine Canary
C) Bird of Passage
D) Work Horse
Where did European immigrants
often settle in the United States?
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b.
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d.
in western railroad towns
in their ports of entry
in the South
near lakes
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• Describe reasons people are “pushed”
to move somewhere else and reasons
that “pull” people to move somewhere
else.
• What did the statue of liberty mean to
immigrants
Growth of the Cities
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A) Ruralization
B) Urbanization
C) Pluralization
D) Homoginization
• what problems were present in
American life during the late 1800s and
early what reforms were created to
address these issues
• how and why did the United States
acquired territory.
• positive results of American
Imperialism and negative results of
American Imperialism.
• why did the United States entered
World War I.
• how did American women help the war
effort?
• Compared to life at the turn of the
century, women’s lives changed
dramatically in the twenties. Describe
several of the new “freedoms” women
enjoyed in the 1920s.
• Explain why the American government
felt it necessary to establish limits on
the number of immigrants entering the
United States in the 1920s.
ANSWERS!
Which of the following was
an advantage the North had
over the South?
c.
more money to spend on war
1
The Emancipation Proclamation
freed
• b. enslaved people living in areas
controlled by the Confederacy.
2
During the early part of the war,
Lincoln’s main goal was to
• b. preserve the Union.
3
The Freedmen’s Bureau
succeeded in
• c. providing clothing, medical care, food,
and education to many freed people.
4
Southern state governments
restricted the rights of former
slaves by
• a. passing black codes.
5
Which was a major success of
Reconstruction in the South?
• c. the creation of a public school system
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The Reconstruction Act of 1867
• c. put the South under military rule.
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Reconstruction came to end when
• b. federal troops were removed from the
South.
8
In 1870, thanks to the Fifteenth
Amendment, southern black men
• a. voted for the first time.
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Critics of powerful industrialists
referred to them as
• c. robber barons.
10
The goal of the Sherman Antitrust
Act was to
• b. promote fair industrial competition.
11
According to the theory of Social
Darwinism, the government should
• a. stay out of the affairs of business.
12
Economists call periods of boom
and bust
• d. the business cycle.
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How did industrial growth affect the
distribution of wealth in the United
States?
• c. Wealth was concentrated in the hands of
a few industrialists.
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Without the Bessemer process,
Americans might not have been
able to create
• d. the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Many agreements between Native
Americans and the federal
government fell apart because
• a. Native Americans and settlers had
differing concepts of land ownership.
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Which one of the following is a
lingering myth about the West?
• b. Settlers were nearly all white males.
17
The challenges and hardships of
settling the Great Plains led settlers
to
• c. depend on help from each other.
18
Most African American Exodusters
migrated west to
• b. escape racial violence in the South.
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What was one key requirement that
applicants had to meet to receive
land under the Homestead Act?
• b. They had to farm the land for five years
in a row.
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What drew many new immigrants
to the West?
• d. cheap land and new jobs
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As American settlers moved west in
search of land, many Native
American nations
• d. were weakened or destroyed.
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By the 1890s, immigration patterns
had shifted dramatically, with most
immigrants now coming from
• b. southern and eastern European
countries.
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One of the reasons that political
machines gained power in the late
1800s was that they
• c. provided jobs and other help for
immigrants.
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Where did European immigrants
often settle in the United States?
• b. in their ports of entry
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Which of the following best
characterizes urban areas by the
early 1900s?
• a. slums and tenements
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Which of the following resulted
from rapid urbanization?
• d. a widening gap between rich and poor
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Prohibition groups saw a link
between drinking and
• b. lower public morals.
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In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson,
the Supreme Court
• b. established the “separate-but-equal”
doctrine, upholding segregation.
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During the late 1800s and early
1900s, what segment of American
society was most likely to attend
college?
• a. wealthy white men
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How did southern states keep
African Americans from gaining
political power?
• c. voting restrictions
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Which event led to the SpanishAmerican War?
• a. Cubans rebelled against Spanish rule.
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Why was the Open Door Policy
important to the United States?
• b. It gave the United States access to
millions of consumers in China.
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The United States followed a policy
of expansionism in the late 1800s
because
• d. the nation sought more markets for its
goods.
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As a result of the SpanishAmerican War,
• a. Puerto Rico became an unincorporated
territory of the United States.
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Under imperialism, the stronger
nation attempts to
• a. dominate a weaker country.
• b. sell its products to a weaker country.
• c. create an empire.
• d.all of the above.
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Americans sided with the Cuban
rebels against Spain as a result of
• d. yellow journalism.
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President Roosevelt’s Progressive
record included all the following
except
• d. establishment of the Federal Reserve
System.
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Progressivism was halted by
• b. World War I.
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Which belief was held by most
Progressives?
• a. The government should be more
accountable to its citizens.
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Journalists known as muckrakers
worked at
• b. exposing political and business
corruption.
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One way reformers hoped to end
corruption in government was to
• b. give voters more direct say in lawmaking.
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The progressive movement
focused mainly on the problems of
• b. urban residents.
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Many Americans became more
supportive of suffrage as a result of
• a. women’s activities in World War I.
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Which event sparked World War I?
• d. the assassination of the heir to the
Austro-Hungarian throne
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Which was true of African
Americans during World War I?
• d. African American troops were segregated
and rarely allowed to fight.
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Which best describes the Great
Migration?
• b. the movement of African Americans to
northern cities
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Under the terms of the Sussex
pledge, the German government
promised that
• c. German U-boats would warn ships before
attacking.
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The Selective Service Act was a
means of
• c. drafting young men for the military
forces.
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After Vladimir Lenin seized control
of Russia in 1917,
• d. Russia withdrew from the war.
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The death toll from World War I
was
• c. extraordinarily high.
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The Sedition Act made it illegal to
• c. discuss anything negative about the
government, the Constitution, the army, or
the navy.
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Under the terms of the peace
treaty, Germany had to
• b. pay reparations to the Allies.
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One result of Prohibition during the
1920s was
• c. the rise of organized crime.
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How did life change for American
women in the 1920s?
• a. Many women felt freer to experiment with
bolder styles and manners.
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African Americans migrated north
in the early 1900s mainly because
of
• c. an industrial boom.
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Clubs in the Harlem district of New
York City were among the hottest
places to listen to
• c. jazz.
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What legal right was at issue in the
Scopes trial?
• d. the right to teach evolution in schools
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One group that suffered
economically during the 1920s was
the
• b. farmers.
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Key features of Republican
administrations of the 1920s
included
• b. isolationism and laissez-faire business
policy.
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The Red Scare was a response to
• c. the Russian Revolution.
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The economy grew in the 1920s as
consumers
• d. began to buy goods on credit.
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Many Americans believed that
Sacco and Vanzetti were executed
because they were
• d. immigrants with radical beliefs during
the Red Scare.
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Generally, the 1920s were marked
by
• b. rising stock prices.
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Despite the prosperity of the 1920s,
life remained hard for many
• a. farmers and factory workers.
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Throughout most of the 1920s,
Americans were generally
• b. confident that business would bring
continued prosperity.
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Not long after Black Tuesday, the
stock market crash was affecting
• c. millions of Americans, many of whom
had never owned stocks.
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The Crash led to
• d. unemployment for millions of workers.
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