US History Part A End of Semester Test
Questions and Answers
1.Approximately how many enslaved people took up the British offer to
join their military in exchange for their freedom?
Answer 20,000
2.The Founders of the United wrote the Declaration of Independence and
the US constitution supporting...
Answer 1st. Contradiction
2nd. Rights and equality
3.Conflicts over white expansion into Indian territory caused the
Tippecanoe Battle
Answer 1st. Shawnee
2nd. War of 1812
4.What did the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo accomplish?
Answer It ended the war between the US and Mexico
5.What did Congress do to punish President Andrew Johnson for the
removal of his Secretary of War?
Answer It impeached Johnson.
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, 6.The South tried to justify by arguing that keeping slavery was a
matter of states'
Answer 1st. preservation
2nd. Fugitive Slave Act
7.Which actions by John D Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and other
business tycoons would suggest that.... Robber Barons?
Answer 1. Engaging in unethical busi- ness practices
2. Developing a monopoly in their industries.
8.Which most influenced American society during the Gilded Age?
Answer An in- creased number of innovations that led to
mechanization.
9.Approximately how much immigrant woman and children died in the
Trian- gle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Answer 146
10.What is Thorstein Veblen's argument in The Theory of the Leisure Class?-
Answer The leisure class contributes less to society than the working class
because they only consume.
11.What were three purposes of the Indiana reservation system?
Answer 1. To mini- mize conflict between Native Americans and settlers
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Questions and Answers
1.Approximately how many enslaved people took up the British offer to
join their military in exchange for their freedom?
Answer 20,000
2.The Founders of the United wrote the Declaration of Independence and
the US constitution supporting...
Answer 1st. Contradiction
2nd. Rights and equality
3.Conflicts over white expansion into Indian territory caused the
Tippecanoe Battle
Answer 1st. Shawnee
2nd. War of 1812
4.What did the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo accomplish?
Answer It ended the war between the US and Mexico
5.What did Congress do to punish President Andrew Johnson for the
removal of his Secretary of War?
Answer It impeached Johnson.
1/
7
, 6.The South tried to justify by arguing that keeping slavery was a
matter of states'
Answer 1st. preservation
2nd. Fugitive Slave Act
7.Which actions by John D Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and other
business tycoons would suggest that.... Robber Barons?
Answer 1. Engaging in unethical busi- ness practices
2. Developing a monopoly in their industries.
8.Which most influenced American society during the Gilded Age?
Answer An in- creased number of innovations that led to
mechanization.
9.Approximately how much immigrant woman and children died in the
Trian- gle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Answer 146
10.What is Thorstein Veblen's argument in The Theory of the Leisure Class?-
Answer The leisure class contributes less to society than the working class
because they only consume.
11.What were three purposes of the Indiana reservation system?
Answer 1. To mini- mize conflict between Native Americans and settlers
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