SOL Review Questions: Society, Culture, and Domestic Affairs in US History

SOL Review Questions: Society, Culture, and Domestic Affairs in US History SOL REVIEW #4

Question #1 • _____1. Which of the following WAS NOT a part of the Radical Republicans plan for Reconstruction? • A. The 13th Amendment to end slavery. • B. The Freedman’s Bureau to aid former slaves. • C. The 15th Amendment to insure suffrage. • D. Establishing Black Codes (Jim Crow Laws) in Southern States

Question #2 • _____2. The Compromise of 1877 resulted in - • A.SamuelTildon becoming President of the U.S.A • B. The end of slavery in the United States. • C. The end of Reconstruction in the American South. • D. The creation of the Dakota Territory.

Question #3 • _____3. Which of the states below is a Northeastern State? • A. Ohio • B. Washington • C. Maryland • D. New Hampshire

Question #4 • _____4. Which of the following states would be considered a Southeastern State? • A. Nebraska • B. Arizona • C. Pennsylvania • D. Alabama

Question #5 • _____5. The dry, arid, grassland which starts around the 100’W meridian and extends west to the Rocky Mountains is known as – • A. The Central Plains • B. The Interior Lowlands • C. The Great Plains • D. The Steppe

Question #6 • _____6. This act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who paid a small filing fee and agreed to live on the land for five (5) years. During the five years, they must improve the land by planting crops or building a home – • A. Homestead Act • B. Dawes Act • C. Western Lands Act • D. Sedition Act

Question #7 • _____7. The Central Pacific railroad hired these immigrants because they worked efficiently and did dangerous work without complaint – • A. German immigrants • B. Chinese immigrants • C. Russian immigrants • D. Mexican immigrants

Question #8 • _____8. Which of the following economic and social changes took place because of the construction of Transcontinental Railroads? • A. Time zones were invented and began to be used. • B. More Americans began to settle in the West. • C. Trade increased between the Western states and Eastern states. • D. All of the above.

Question #9 • _____9. Long drives generally started in Southwestern Texas and ended at – A. Chicago, IL B. boomtowns C. railroads D. major rivers

Question #10 • Meat was used for food. • Hides were used for clothing and shelter. • Bones were used for weapons and ceremony. • Nomadic lifestyle • _____10. Identify both the Native American tribe being described and the animal – • A. Cheyenne Tribe, dogs • B. Nez Perce Tribe, walrus • C. Arapaho, cattle • D. Lakota (Sioux), buffalo

Question #11 • _____11. All of the following were reasons for American settlers to move West EXCEPT – • A. better opportunities for former slaves. • B. the discovery of gold and silver deposits in the West. • C. advances in transportation. • D. Violent conflicts between Native American tribes and Mexicans settlers.

Question #12 • _____12. The official policy of the United States of America towards Native Americans was – • A. Every Native American must convert to Christianity. • B. Native Americans must live on reservations. • C. Native Americans would be allowed to trade with Americans and travel through their towns. • D. Native Americans should be fought to the death.

Question #13 • _____13. The immediate outcome of the Battle of Little Bighorn was – • A. victory for the United States Army: the Sioux retreated to the reservation. • B. defeat for Custer and his men; they were forced to retreat to St. Louis, MO. • C. victory for the United States Army; the Sioux tribe fled to Canada. • D. defeat for the U.S. Army; Custer was killed and the 7th Cavalry was wiped out.

Question #14 • “I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed…the little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are – perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. • Hear me my chiefs. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.” • _____14. Identify the chief quoted in the text box on the bottom of this page – • A. Chief Joseph • B. Tecumseh • C. Crazy Horse • D. Sitting Bull

Question #15 • _____15. Because the Great Plains offered little wood to build traditional houses with, many settlers lived in – • A. tepees • B. tents • C. sod houses • D. Conestoga wagons

Question #16 • _____16. John Deere invented this important agricultural product – • A. Mechanical Reaper • B. Barbed Wire • C. Steel Plow • D. Cotton Gin

Question #17 • _____17. This invention ended the long drive of cattle and led to conflict between ranchers and farmers – • A. railroads and trains • B. barbed wire • C. assembly line • D. dry farming

Question #18 • Turning soil over after short rainfalls or heavy dews. • Weeding out unwanted plants to save water. • Planting seeds deep in the ground to save water. • Leaving fields fallow (unplanted) for a season to allow water and nutrients to build up again. • Windmills to bring water to the surface • _____18. All of the techniques in the box above are examples of – • A. Dry Farming • B. Sharecropping • C. Exodusting • D. Dust Bowling

Question #19 • _____19. This former Indian reservation was opened up for settlement in 1889; the land was first come first serve – A. Dakota Territory B. California C. Oklahoma D. Colorado

Question #20 • _____20. Tracts of land which were set aside for Native Americans to settle upon were known as – A. Territories B. Estuaries C. National Parks D. Reservations

Question #21 • _____21. Which region of the nation was most closely associated with the textile manufacturing industry? A. The Southwest B. New England C. The Great Plains D. Pacific Northwest

Question #22 • _____22. Which city is most closely associated with the steel industry? A. Pittsburgh B. New York City C. Philadelphia D. Detroit

Question #23 • _____23. Which city is closely tied to the automobile industry? A. St. Louis B. Cincinnati C. Detroit D. Philadelphia

Question #24 • _____24. Which of the cities below is most closely associated with the meatpacking industry? A. Washington, D.C. B. Chicago C. Santa Fe D. Seattle

Question #25 • _____25. Which of the inventors below was credited with creating the first telephone? • A. Alexander Bell • B. Thomas Alva Edison • C. Henry Ford • D. Cyrus McCormick

Question #26 • _____26. Which of the following individuals first used the assembly line to mass produce automobiles? A. Chevrolet B. Henry Ford C. Ransom Olds D. Duryea

Question #27 • _____27. Which of the following reasons WAS NOT a cause of the growth of urban centers in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s? A. Immigration of Europeans to the United States B. The migration of African-Americans to Northern cities C. Manufacturing jobs in northern industrial centers D. The Homestead Act

Question #28 • _____28. Overcrowded apartment buildings where immigrant families lived in poverty were called – • A. slums • B. tenements • C. public housing • D. suburbs

Question #29 • _____29. Parties who organized immigrant neighborhoods to vote for their candidates by providing favors or simply buying their votes were called – • A. partisans • B. political machines • C. libertarians • D. socialists

Question #30 • _____30. She was the founder of the Chicago settlement house called Hull House – • A. Susan B. Anthony • B. Elizabeth Cady Stanton • C. Dorothea Dix • D. Jane Addams

Question #31 • _____31. Which of the following factors caused a rise in big businesses across America during the late 1800s? A. Cheap Immigrant Laborers B. Catalogs and new types of advertising C. Larger Markets due to improved transportation D. All of the Above

Question #32 • _____32. Andrew Carnegie was a famous businessman who dominated this industry – A. Oil B. Steel C. Banking D. Automobiles

Question #33 • _____33. John D. Rockefeller was the entrepreneur who created a monopoly called – • A. U.S. Steel Corp • B. Standard Oil • C. Ford • D. B & O Railroads

Question #34 • _____34. The man’s who’s company dominated the automobile manufacturing business was – • A. Henry Ford • B. Andrew Carnegie • C. James P. Morgan • D. John D. Rockefeller

Question #35 • _____35. Unions began to form in the late 1800s as laborers combined to fight against – • A. Low Wages • B. the 12-hour work day • C. child labor • D. unsafe working conditions • E. All of the Above

Question #36 • _____36. Samuel Gompers was the founder of this trade union – A. Congress of Industrial Organizations B. Knights of Labor C. Molly Maguire’s D. American Federation of Labor

Question #37 • Unsafe Working Conditions • Long Hours • Low Pay • Child Labor was common and dangerous. • _____37. All of the problems in the text box above were opposed by – A. Andrew Carnegie and other industrialists. B. NAACP and the Niagara Movement. C. Progressives and Union Leaders. D. Suffragists

Question #38 • _____38. The settlement house movement was established during the late 1800s in order to assist – A. poor immigrants B. working women with children C. uneducated laborers in urban areas D. All of these

Question #39 • _____39. The Hull House, established in Chicago in the 1880s, was founded by – A. Susan B. Anthony B. Elizabeth Cady Stanton C. Jane Addams D. Mary Pickford

Question #40 • _____40. The temperance movement was devoted to the abolition of – A. alcohol B. slavery C. literacy tests D. child labor laws

Question #41 • _____41. The woman’s suffrage movement’s goal was – A. to end child labor. B. to outlaw the consumption of alcohol and “demon rum.” C. to gain the right to vote in national elections. D. “equal pay for equal work.”

Question #42 • _____42. She was the organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention and helped to draft the Declaration of Sentiments, in which women demanded the right to vote for the first time publicly – A. Elizabeth Cady Stanton B. Sojourner Truth C. Eleanor Roosevelt D. Shirley Chisholm

Question #43 • _____43. She was the leader of the woman’s suffrage movement in the 19th Century and was once arrested for casting a ballot in New York state – A. Susan B. Anthony B. Elizabeth Cady Stanton C. Lucretia Mott D. Angela Grimke

Question #44 • “Trustbuster” who sued the Standard Oil Company. • Conservationist who established several National Parks. • Passed Pure Food and Drug Act. • _____44. Which progressive President was responsible for these achievements? A. William Howard Taft B. Woodrow Wilson C. William McKinley D. Theodore Roosevelt

Question #45 • _____45. Which amendment to the Constitution outlawed the manufacturing the sale of, and the transportation of alcohol in the United States? A. 17thAmendment B. 18thAmendment C. 19thAmendment D. 21stAmendment

Question #46 • _____46. Which amendment game women the right to vote in national elections? A. 17thAmendment B. 18thAmendment C. 19thAmendment D. 21stAmendment

Question #47 • _____47. This African-American leader demanded immediate equality for people of color in the United States; he established both the NAACP and the Niagara Movement – A. W.E.B. Dubois B. Booker T. Washington C. George Washington Carver D. Elijah Lovejoy

Question #48 • _____48. This African-American leader argued that education and job skills were the key for future equality for African-Americans – A. Stokely Carmichael B. Frederick Douglass C. Booker T. Washington D. Robert Smalls

Question #49 • _____49. Which of the following methods was used to prevent African-American men from voting in the South during the late 1800s and early 1900s? A. the 15th Amendment B. literacy tests C. political machines D. blacklists

SOL Review Questions: Society, Culture, and Domestic Affairs in US History