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Capital U.S. History Semester 2
Capital U.S. History Semester 2
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Capital High School U.S. History Semester 2 Review
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1
What Spanish mission in San Antonio had no survivors after an attack by Santa Anna?
Nueces
Goliad
San Jacinto
The Alamo
2
Which businessman was associated with Standard Oil?
James B. Duke
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
3
Where did the Mormons settle?
New York
Oregon
California
Utah
4
Why was the Election of 1876 controversial?
The popular vote winner did not win
Southerners could not vote
Slavers were not allowed to vote
The Supreme Court decided the winner
5
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Edwin Stanton
John Surratt
John Wilkes Booth
George Atzerodt
6
What party resorted to cannibalism to survive on their journey west?
The Fraternity Party
The Donner Party
The Fetterman Party
The Mormons
7
What Mexican dictator fought against Texans in the Texas War for Independence?
Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mario Lopez
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Miguel Hidalgo
8
What compromise proposed adding California as a free state and a stricter fugitive slave law?
Three-Fifths Compromise
Compromise of 1876
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
9
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in which state?
Kansas
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
10
Who debated Stephen Douglas on popular sovereignty while running for Senator of Illinois?
Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun
Ulysses S. Grant
11
What animal was almost hunted to extinction on the Plains?
Elk
Buffalo
Prairie Dogs
Moose
12
What political party was made up of antislavery Democrats, Free Soilers, and northern Whigs?
Progressives
Know Nothings
Republicans
Democrats
13
President James K. Polk did all of the following EXCEPT
Set up an independent treasury
Acquire California
Settle the Oregon dispute
Freed the slaves
14
What Supreme Court decision stated that slaves were not people and could not sue?
Dred Scott Decision
Brown v. BOE
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
15
All of the following were part of the Anaconda Plan EXCEPT
Burning Atlanta
Controlling the Mississippi River
Capturing Richmond
Naval blockade
16
What organization helped reunite families of former slaves after the Civil War?
The Freedmen's Bureau
The Ku Klux Klan
The Knights of the Confederacy
The NAACP
17
What was one of the first northern African American regiments of the Civil War?
54th Massachusetts
24th Maryland
12th Potomac
45th Pennsylvania
18
Which industry helped create time zones in the United States?
Railroads
Timber
Coal
Oil
19
What was the anti-immigration and anti-Catholic political party of the mid 1800s?
Republicans
Democrats
Know Nothings
Free Soilers
20
Who was known as the Moses of her people?
Michelle Obama
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Sojourner Truth
21
What battle fought July 1-3, 1863, is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
Antietam
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Chancellorsville
22
What was the immigration checkpoint in New York City?
Angel Island
Long Island
Ellis Island
Liberty Island
23
What Maryland battle is associated with the bloodiest day in American history?
Bull Run
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Antietam
24
The destruction of
The Maine
in Havana led to
The Spanish American War
The Mexican American War
The American Civil War
The Spanish Civil War
25
Which president was impeached in 1868?
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Rutherford B. Hayes
26
Who was commander of Confederate forces during the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
Jubal Early
Stonewall Jackson
J.E.B. Stuart
27
Who led antislavery raids on Pottawatomie Creek and Harpers Ferry?
Robert E. Lee
John C. Calhoun
Stonewall Jackson
John Brown
28
What was the 13th Amendment?
Ended slavery
Gave African American males the right to vote
Implemented income tax
Prohibition
29
Who started the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?
Brigham Young
Mitt Romney
Pat Robertson
Joseph Smith
30
Which book was representative of the Populist Movement?
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Blake
The Wizard of Oz
31
What general destroyed Atlanta using total war?
Ulysses S. Grant
George B. McClellan
Robert E. Lee
William Tecumseh Sherman
32
Which of the following was a major industry AFTER the Civil War?
Coal
Iron
Steel
Textiles
33
The era immediately following the Civil War is called
Progressive Era
Reconstruction
Era of Good Feelings
Antebellum
34
The Wilmot Proviso after the Mexican American War primarily dealt with
Votes for women
Slavery in the territories
Railroads
Freeing the slaves
35
What was the name for Southerners who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War?
Scalawags
Mugwumps
Carpetbaggers
Rapscallions
36
New immigrants in the 20th Century were from all of the following countries EXCEPT
Ireland
Germany
Indonesia
China
37
What was the name for prospectors who participated in the California gold rush?
Gold Bugs
Forty Niners
Seventy Sixers
Silverites
38
Which of the following is NOT one of the six flags that once flew over Texas?
France
Great Britain
Mexico
Texas
39
What immigrant group greatly contributed to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Germans
Chinese
Irish
African Americans
40
What treaty ended the Mexican American War?
Treaty of Ghent
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
41
What was the first state to secede from the U.S.?
Georgia
Virginia
South Carolina
Mississippi
42
What president was known for giving Americans a Square Deal?
Ulysses S. Grant
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Andrew Johnson
43
What was the name for the belief that the U.S. was meant to expand from coast to coast?
Manifest Destiny
Globalization
Imperialism
The American Dream
44
Who wrote
Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Clara Barton
Emily Dickinson
Harriet Tubman
45
What document freed a portion of the slaves on January 1, 1863?
The Crittenden Compromise
The Morrill Act
The 15th Amendment
The Emancipation Proclamation