U.S. History Review Questions Answer Key

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 1

  1. redistribution of the worlds population
  2. Europe and Africa
  3. western settlement, slavery, and commercial expansion
  4. slavery, destruction of Native Americans, representative government and religious toleration
  5. Puritans or Pilgrims
  6. religious freedom
  7. community based on religious beliefs and the Mayflower Compact
  8. religion and Mayflower Compact
  9. agreement signed by all the male passengers to follow the rules set by them
  10. False

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 2

  1. direct democracy
  2. Germans, English, and Dutch
  3. religious freedom and economic opportunity
  4. economic opportunity
  5. English nobility who received large land grants in Eastern Virginia
  6. King of England
  7. Shenandoah Valley
  8. farmers and artisans
  9. indentured servants

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 3

  1. work for a period of time to pay for passage to the New World
  2. 1607
  3. Virginia Company of London
  4. business venture
  5. first permanent English settlement in the New World
  6. House of Burgesses
  7. 1640s
  8. Virginia General Assembly
  9. First Americans or Native American

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 4

  1. Caribbean, Florida, Central and South America
  2. lost their traditional territory and fell victim to disease
  3. Canada
  4. tolerant and cooperative
  5. no conflicts
  6. large land holdings
  7. plantations
  8. slavery
  9. 1619

VUS.3 ~ REVIEW # 5

  1. geography
  2. cheap labor on a large scale
  3. shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, small scale subsistence farming and manufacturing
  4. hard work and thrift
  5. growing enough food to feed one’s family
  6. New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland
  7. New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia
  8. shipbuilding, small scale farming, and trading
  9. cash crops
  10. eastern coastal lowlands, of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia

VUS.3 ~ REVIEW # 6

  1. tobacco, rice, and indigo
  2. export to Europe
  3. farming, hunting, and trading
  4. private ownership of property, free enterprise
  5. religious standing
  6. religion and government
  7. Rhode Island
  8. False
  9. religious toleration, Quakers and Catholics
  10. Quakers

VUS.3 ~ REVIEW # 7

  1. Roman Catholics
  2. True
  3. business owners
  4. artisans, entrepreneurs, and small farmers
  5. False
  6. land ownership and family status
  7. large land owners in the East
  8. Church of England (Anglican Church)
  9. South
  10. hunters, traders, and farmers
  11. Scotch-Irish and English

VUS.3 ~ REVIEW # 8

  1. religious movement that swept Europe and the colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries
  2. emotional spirituality and new religious groups
  3. Baptists and Methodists
  4. hot, humid
  5. cheap labor source
  6. Europe and Africa
  7. work for a period of time to pay for passage to the New World
  8. slaves
  9. True
  10. trip from Africa to the West Indies on which Africans were carried
  11. Civil War

VUS.4 ~ REVIEW # 9

  1. John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government
  2. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
  3. a period during the 17th, and 18th centuries that saw the development of new ideas about the rights of people and their relationship to their rulers
  4. Enlightenment philosopher who influenced America’s belief in self-government
  5. True
  6. False
  7. True

VUS.4 ~ REVIEW # 10

  1. True
  2. True
  3. False
  4. True
  5. monarchies
  6. Thomas Paine
  7. Common Sense
  8. contributed to a growing sentiment for independence from England

VUS.4 ~ REVIEW # 11

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. John Locke
  3. truth
  4. equal
  5. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
  6. the creator
  7. people
  8. alter or abolish it
  9. detailed grievances against the King
  10. rivalry between France and England in the New World
  11. England won, took over Canada

VUS.4 ~ REVIEW # 12

  1. new laws to pay for debts from the French and Indian War
  2. Proclamation of 1763
  3. to protect British subjects because England could not afford to man it
  4. Stamp Act, Sugar Act
  5. to pay for the French and Indian War, and pay for troops
  6. colonists dressed as Indians and dumped tea into BostonHarbor
  7. First Continental Congress
  8. all colonies except Georgia
  9. Second Continental Congress
  10. Boston Massacre

VUS.4 ~ REVIEW # 13

  1. members of New England’s militia who were ready at a minute’s notice
  2. Lexington & Concord
  3. complete independence from England
  4. Patrick Henry
  5. John Locke and Thomas Paine
  6. George Washington
  7. patriots
  8. Virginia
  9. Tories
  10. because of cultural and economic ties

VUS.4 ~ REVIEW # 14

  1. pay for troops to protect them from Indians
  2. neutrals
  3. British government grew tired of fight
  4. France
  5. Benjamin Franklin
  6. avoided any situation that threatened to destroy his army
  7. kept the army together when defeat seemed inevitable
  8. Yorktown
  9. America, France, Britain

VUS.5 ~ REVIEW # 15

  1. feared a strong central government
  2. Articles of Confederation
  3. weak
  4. no power to tax or regulate commerce among states
  5. True
  6. 1
  7. 1
  8. 1
  9. Constitution
  10. established a government that shared power between the national government and state government, protected the rights of states and provided a system for orderly change through amendments

VUS.5 ~ REVIEW # 16

  1. amendments
  2. state, local and federal
  3. Constitution, federal law
  4. True
  5. 2
  6. population
  7. Senate, House of Representatives
  8. to balance power between large and small states
  9. 3 out of 5
  10. to avoid a too powerful central government

VUS.5~ REVIEW # 17

  1. executive, legislative, and judicial
  2. E – enforce the laws, L – makes the laws, J – interprets the laws
  3. George Washington
  4. lent his prestige to the proceedings
  5. James Madison
  6. Virginia
  7. led the debate and kept great notes
  8. federal government of 3 separate branches
  9. James Madison
  10. Constitution and Bill of Rights

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 18

  1. Federalists
  2. strong national government
  3. prevent one branch from becoming too powerful
  4. to facilitate interstate commerce, to manage foreign trade, national defense and foreign relations
  5. False
  6. because political factions would check each other
  7. True
  8. bill of rights
  9. Anti-Federalists
  10. take too much power from the states

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 19

  1. to protect the people’s rights
  2. a bill of rights
  3. basic human rights should not be violated
  4. George Mason
  5. Thomas Jefferson
  6. an established church
  7. government cannot favor one particular church
  8. Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
  9. a list of rights guaranteed by the Constitution

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 20

  1. economic and strategic interests
  2. Manifest Destiny
  3. late 1790s
  4. after the end of Washington’s presidency
  5. Federalists and Democratic Republicans
  6. John Adams and Alexander Hamilton
  7. strong national government supported by an industrial economy
  8. bankers and business interests
  9. Northeast
  10. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
  11. weak national government with an agricultural economy

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 21

  1. farmers, artisans, and frontier settlers
  2. South and west
  3. first election in which power was transferred peacefully from one party to another
  4. Thomas Jefferson
  5. John Marshall
  6. judicial review
  7. power of the federal courts to declare laws unconstitutional
  8. Marbury v. Madison
  9. McCulloch v. Maryland
  10. Thomas Jefferson
  11. Louisiana Purchase

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 22

  1. France
  2. doubled the size
  3. Lewis and Clark
  4. new territories west of the Mississippi River
  5. Sacajawea
  6. America
  7. Florida and Oregon
  8. Spain
  9. Midwest, southwest, and Texas
  10. economic opportunity in the form of land to own and farm

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 23

  1. 1823
  2. True
  3. True
  4. True
  5. False
  6. railroads and canals
  7. Eli Whitney
  8. spread of the slavery-based cotton kingdom
  9. armed revolt against Mexico
  10. a band of Texans fought to the last man against a superior Mexican force

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 24

  1. their eventual victory over Mexican forces
  2. acquisition of Mexican Cession
  3. California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and parts of New Mexico and Colorado
  4. American’s God given right to spread democracy from coast to coast
  5. defeated in violent conflicts, remove from their homelands
  6. forced removal of Native Americans from the Atlantic Cost to Oklahoma
  7. land set apart by the federal govern for Native Americans
  8. ushered in a new democratic spirit in American politics
  9. first time the masses voted
  10. all white males can vote regardless of property and religious requirements
  11. new states in the west

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 25

  1. states were lowering property requirements or providing for universal manhood suffrage
  2. made the veto part of the legislative process
  3. a government in which power is give to those believed best qualified
  4. a member of the aristocracy (ruling class)
  5. power granted to the president to prevent passage of legislation
  6. practice of using public offices to benefit members of the victorious political party
  7. economic situation that resulted from reckless land speculation which led to bank failures
  8. rule by the aristocracy
  9. Americans began to see themselves as equals
  10. nominating conventions

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 26

  1. rewarded supporters with government jobs
  2. bank funded by the federal government and private investors in 1791 and 1816
  3. undemocratic tool of the eastern elite
  4. rechartering of the Bank of the U.S. in 1832
  5. speaker of the House of Representatives, Kentucky-born, Great Compromiser
  6. the BUS
  7. Jackson withdrew government money from the BUS and put it into state banks
  8. admission of new states
  9. balance of power in Congress
  10. state that did not allow slavery
  11. state that did allow slavery

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 27

  1. slavery versus non-slavery states
  2. industrial
  3. manufacturing
  4. protective tariffs which protected northern manufacturers from foreign competition
  5. agricultural
  6. farming
  7. subsistence farmers
  8. made imported good too expensive
  9. William Lloyd Garrison
  10. an anti-slavery newspaper

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 28

  1. North
  2. person who believes slavery should be abolished
  3. saw slavery as a violation of Christian principles
  4. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  5. inflamed northern abolitionist sentiment, South frightened by growing strength of Northern abolitionism
  6. Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser
  7. led to harsh laws against fugitive slaves
  8. intimidated into silence
  9. balance of power in Congress
  10. 1820
  11. Maine is free, Missouri is slave, no slavery north of the 36o 30’ line

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 29

  1. California is free, popular sovereignty for Southwest territories, slave trade was abolished in D.C., and stricter fugitive slave laws
  2. repealed the Missouri Compromise
  3. popular sovereignty for Kansas and Nebraska
  4. popular sovereignty
  5. bloody fighting in Kansas
  6. 1854
  7. to oppose the spread of slavery
  8. nullify laws passed by Congress
  9. joined freely, could leave freely
  10. make void

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 30

  1. to leave
  2. Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
  3. Douglas – Democrat, Lincoln – Republican
  4. Douglas – popular sovereignty, Lincoln – opposed slavery
  5. Dred Scott v. Sanford
  6. slaves who escaped to the North were to be forcibly returned
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. slavery
  9. a document listing women’s rights created in New York in 1848
  10. women’s suffrage

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 31

  1. secession of southern states
  2. northern victory, restoration of the Union, emancipation of slaves
  3. states rights and preservation of the Union
  4. 1860
  5. secession of several southern states
  6. Lincoln would try to abolish slavery
  7. Fort Sumter, South Carolina
  8. a document freeing slaves in the rebelling states
  9. Antietam
  10. Gettysburg

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 32

  1. Appomattox
  2. North (Union)
  3. South
  4. North
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Abraham Lincoln
  7. Ulysses S. Grant
  8. False
  9. True
  10. Robert E. Lee

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 33

  1. Robert E. Lee
  2. Robert E. Lee
  3. Frederick Douglass
  4. Frederick Douglass
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. preserve the Union
  7. True
  8. True
  9. True
  10. False
  11. True

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 34

  1. False
  2. True
  3. rue
  4. True
  5. False
  6. True
  7. True False
  8. Reconstruction

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 35

  1. southern resentment which led to the political, economic, and social control of the South
  2. True
  3. False
  4. True
  5. False
  6. Abraham Lincoln
  7. No, because he was assassinated
  8. the members of Congress who wanted to punish the South
  9. punish the South

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 36

  1. not allowed into the Union, put under military occupation
  2. voting rights and civil rights
  3. Andrew Johnson
  4. clashed with Johnson and impeached him
  5. No, he was not removed from office
  6. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
  7. 13th
  8. 14th
  9. 15th
  10. former slaves

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 37

  1. Election of Rutherford B. Hayes as president, Election of 1876
  2. In exchange for Southern Democrats supporting Hayes, the Republicans agreed to end the military occupation of the South
  3. former Confederates regained control of the South
  4. period in which African Americans in which African Americans denied their civil rights
  5. left embittered and devastated by the war
  6. farms, railroads, and factories
  7. Richmond and Atlanta
  8. agriculture
  9. South
  10. North and Midwest
  11. transcontinental railroad

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 38

  1. regions between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean
  2. years before and after the Civil War
  3. cattle drives
  4. land was open and unfenced
  5. gave free public land in the west to settlers who would live and farm the land for 5 years
  6. southerners and African Americans
  7. railroads, and mechanical reapers
  8. Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
  9. North and West
  10. Germany, Ireland, Great Britain, Norway and Sweden

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 39

  1. South and East
  2. Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia
  3. Japan and China
  4. freedom and better lives for their families
  5. transcontinental railroad
  6. textile and steel industry
  7. clothing industry
  8. Slavs, Italians, and Poles
  9. low pay, dangerous working conditions
  10. Ellis Island

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 40

  1. Statue of Liberty
  2. melting pot
  3. ethnic neighborhoods
  4. learn English, adopt American customs, Become American citizens
  5. public schools
  6. feared they would take jobs for lower pay, religious and cultural prejudices
  7. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Immigration Restriction Act of 1921
  8. cut off most immigration to American for next several decades
  9. Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and New York
  10. harsh, crowded into tenements and slums

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 41

  1. housing shortages and need for public services
  2. sewage and water and public transportation
  3. New York City
  4. trolleys and streetcars
  5. by early 20th century
  6. corporations
  7. Henry Bessemer
  8. Thomas Edison
  9. electricity
  10. Alexander Graham Bell

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 42

  1. Wright Brothers
  2. Henry Ford
  3. Andrew Carnegie
  4. J.P. Morgan
  5. John D. Rockefeller
  6. Cornelius Vanderbilt
  7. laissez-faire capitalism
  8. government follows a hands off policy in business
  9. immigration and migration from farms
  10. natural resources and navigable rivers

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 43

  1. True
  2. laws limiting African-American freedoms
  3. South
  4. lynchings
  5. separate but equal
  6. upheld Jim Crow Laws
  7. movement of African Americans to northern cities
  8. to escape poverty and discrimination in the South
  9. led anti-lynching crusade
  10. Booker T. Washington

VUS.2 ~ REVIEW # 44

  1. Booker T. Washington
  2. W.E. B. Du Bois
  3. W.E. B. Du Bois
  4. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  5. Indians
  6. new Indian policies
  7. industrial development
  8. Progressive Movement
  9. Theodore Roosevelt
  10. Woodrow Wilson

VUS.8 ~ REVIEW # 45

  1. long hours, low wages, no job security, no benefits
  2. a town owned by a company where workers pay rent to the company
  3. government controlled by the people, guaranteed economic opportunities through government regulation, elimination of social injustice
  4. a process by which citizens may vote on laws that have been passed by a legislative body
  5. a process that permits citizens to propose laws to their state or local governments
  6. a process by which citizens may vote to remove government officials from office before their terms are finished
  7. commission and council manager
  8. referendum, initiative, and recall
  9. secret ballot, primary elections, and 17th Amendment
  10. child labor laws

VUS.8 ~ REVIEW # 46

  1. An election where voters nominate candidates for office
  2. 17th
  3. child labor laws
  4. someone who writes about social injustices
  5. first labor union
  6. federation of skilled and unskilled workers, most powerful union in the U.S.
  7. Samuel Gompers
  8. union of skilled and unskilled works and some engineers
  9. Eugene V. Debs
  10. early attempt to organize women in textile factories
  11. violent confrontation in Chicago in 1886 between workers and police

VUS.8 ~ REVIEW # 47

  1. unsuccessful strike at the Carnegie Steel Company in 1882
  2. an 1894 strike by railroad employees against the Pullman Company
  3. improved working conditions
  4. Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
  5. a business which has no competition
  6. Clayton Anti-Trust Act
  7. Clayton Anti-Trust Act
  8. the right to vote
  9. Susan B. Anthony
  10. during World War I
  11. 19th

VUS.9 ~ REVIEW # 48

  1. end of the 19th century
  2. It gave all national equal trading rights in China.
  3. John Hay, Secretary of State under McKinley
  4. It encouraged American banks and businesses to invest in Latin America.
  5. William Howard Taft
  6. U.S. military intervention
  7. late 1800s to WWI
  8. U.S. annexed the Philippines and Puerto Rico
  9. declared its right to intervene in Cuban affairs
  10. Panama Canal
  11. Theodore Roosevelt

VUS.9 ~ REVIEW # 49

  1. Columbia
  2. U.S. marines helped American sugar planters overthrow the Hawaiian monarch, Queen Liliuokalani
  3. annexation from the Spanish-American War
  4. obey Chinese law and observe practices of fair competition
  5. 1914 in Europe
  6. Allies ~ Great Britain, France, and Russia

Central Powers ~ Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire

  1. neutral
  2. German submarine warfare, and American cultural and historical ties to Great Britain
  3. Woodrow Wilson
  4. American military resources of soldiers and war materials

VUS.9 ~ REVIEW # 50

  1. Central Powers ~ Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire
  2. Wilson’s statement of plans for peace after WWI, including plans to eliminate the causes of war
  3. Woodrow Wilson
  4. national self-determination, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations
  5. each national group should be in charge of its own destiny
  6. a region administered by another country until it was judged ready for independence
  7. an organization of nations established at the end of WWI to maintain world stability and peace
  8. Treaty of Versailles
  9. Germany be held responsible for the war
  10. new nations in Europe and the Middle East

VUS.9 ~ REVIEW # 51

  1. League of Nations
  2. recognized national self-determination in Europe but not the Middle East, Asia, or Africa
  3. They objected to U.S. foreign policy decisions being made by an international organization like the League of Nations, rather than by American leaders
  4. U.S. Senate
  5. Great Depression
  6. Great Depression
  7. (1) over-speculation in stocks using borrowed money that could not be repaid when the stock market crashed, (2) Federal Reserves failure to prevent widespread collapse of the nation’s banking system, and (3) high protective tariffs that produced retaliatory tariffs
  8. October 29, 1929
  9. the collapse of the stock market where prices dropped and the bottom fell out of the market

VUS.9 ~ REVIEW # 52