us history q1

Which event was a direct result of the Compromise of 1850?

California was admitted as a free state.

Which European country supported the American colonies during the Revolutionary War?

France.

How did Edwin L. Drake help industry to get larger quantities of oil?

He used a steam engine to extract oil from beneath the Earth's surface.

Which of the following officially ended the Revolutionary War and set the boundaries of the new nation?

Treaty of Paris

Which of the following resulted from the investigation of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?

changes in local labor laws for women and children.

Which is the best word to describe Lincoln's original plan for Reconstruction, which Johnson largely followed?

lenient

What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800's?

new methods of making steel

Alexander Graham Bell

opened the way for worldwide communication with the telephone.

Which of the following does NOT describe the battle of Gettysburg?

the battle that cut the Confederacy in two

The result of Shay's Rebellion was to demonstrate that

the government was unable to resolve many of the national problems, in particular, increased state taxes

Under popular sovereignty, who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?

the residents of the territory

What was the Bessemer Process?

A technique of injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon to create steel.

Who was named the first secretary of the treasury by George Washington?

Alexander Hamilton

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

All African-American families would receive 40 acres and a mule.

Which group largely supported adding a bill of rights to the constitution?

Antifederalists

During which event did the first fighting between redcoats and minutemen occur?

Battle of Lexington

What did the Supreme Court declare in the "Dred Scott" decision?

Being in free territory did not make a slave free.

Who led Tammany Hall in defrauding New York City when building the New York County Courthouse.

Boss Tweed

Which time zone had the largest concentration of railways in 1890?

Central

The XYZ Affair damaged the relationship between the United States and which other country?

France

Which action showed that President Andrew Johnson did not support greater rights for African Americans in the South?

He vetoed the Freemen's Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

What did the 13th Amendment change?

It abolished slavery completely in the United States.

Which of the following describes what the Emancipation Proclamation declares?

It declares that slaves are allowed to join the armed forces, freedom for slaves, and decent pay for working.

What was an important effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?

It gave a moral purpose to the war by turning a struggle into a fight to free the slaves.

Why is the battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?

It made the South give up the idea of invading the North.

Why was Pullman, Illinois, an unusual town?

It was built by a company to house its workers

Whose concepts did Jefferson draw upon as he drafted the Declaration of Independence?

John Locke's

Who used the power of the presidency to clean up the New York Customs House but was unable to get support from Congress for civil service reform?

Rutherford B. Hayes

What message is the cartoonist sending by portraying the monopolists as larger in size than the senators?

The monopolists have more power to influence the government.

Who wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense arguing that the time had come for American independence?

Thomas Paine

What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan?

To destroy the Republican Party, throw out reconstruction governments, to prevent african americans from exercising their political rights.

Tammany Hall was the name of a New York City political machine .

a New York City political machine

The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in order to appease the Antifederalists' concern over individual rights. .

appease the Antifederalists' concern over individual rights.

The Pendleton Civil Service Act required

applicants for government jobs to pass examinations.

An example of patronage would be appointing a friend to a political position.

appointing a friend to a political position.

What is the name of the system that maintains the separation of powers among the branches of the Federal Government?

checks and balances

Which of the following issues prompted the assassination of President Garfield?

civil service reform

The Judiciary Act of 1789 allowed state court decisions to be appealed to a federal court when

constitutional issues were raised.

The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to

decrease Chinese immigration.

Which was NOT part of the Union's three part plan to conquer the South?

draft freed slaves to fight for the Union

Which of the following did Social Darwinism discourage?

government regulation

The illegal use of political influence for personal gain is called

graft

Which of the following does not describe a typical supporter of a political machine?

opposed to immigration

The Sherman Antitrust Act

outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade.

Thomas Alva Edison

perfected the incandescent light bulb, created an electrical power system, and organized electrical power plants.

Who organized the Industrial Workers of the World?

radical unionists and socialists

The use of standardized time and time zones was introduced in order to benefit railroad companies and train travelers. .

railroad companies and train travelers.

Which of the following is an example of graft?

saying a project cost more than it did and keeping the difference for yourself

The main purpose of the company known as Crédit Mobilier was to steal railroad money for its shareholders .

steal railroad money for its shareholders

Colonial opposition to the Stamp Act was stronger than opposition to the Sugar Act because

the Stamp Act affected colonists directly.

Which of the following abolished slavery?

the Thirteenth Amendment

Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800's?

they were workers used to break strikes

What was the aim of "total war" as practiced by Union generals Grant and Sherman?

to break the Southern people's will to fight

What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act?

to lower excessive railroad rates

When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?

to restore the Union

What is the main purpose of patronage?

to reward one's supporters

What was John Brown's aim at Harper's Ferry?

to seize a federal arsenal and start a widespread slave uprising

Why did immigrants tend to group together in cities?

to speak their own language, for support and access to jobs, to practice their customs and religions together, to pool their money to build churches and synagogues

What did Christopher Sholes invent?

typewriter

Andrew Carnegie gained control of a large percentage of the steel industry by doing which of the following?

underselling his competitors, buying out his competitors, buying out his suppliers.