United States History
Mr. Kevin W. Walsh
Final Exam Review
Multiple Choice Section 80 questions x 1 point (85)
Directions: You will chose 85 questions to answer. Each question is worth 1 point. You will skip 15 questions.
1. When the Articles of Confederation were put in place, how did many Americans view a strong central government?
2. What European ideas/philosophies greatly influenced the Declaration of Independence?
3. What elected position in Federal government faces short terms because authors of the Constitution wanted people’s voice to
be heard frequently?
4. Give two examples of how the Constitution adapts and changes over time.
5. A President veto of a bill passed by Congress is an example of what?
6. Is the president creating/consulting with his cabinet a right guaranteed in the Constitution?
7. What did Marbury vs. Madison and McCulloch vs. Maryland do for the federal government?
8. What is the role of political parties in the United States?
9. Why did antifederalists oppose the new Constitution?
10. Since Jefferson was a strict constructionist, he should have never approved what?
11. One way the Constitution was different from the Articles of Confederation was in the number of branches of the federal
government. How many did Constitution create?
12. What did small state delegates support at the Constitutional Convention
13. A member of the United States Congress must resign if he is elected or appointed to a position in the executive or judicial
branch is an example of what?
14. Is the Declaration of Independence a statement of democratic principles or framework of government?
15. Where was the first permanent English settlement in the North America?
16. What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?
17. What Puritan leader brought followers to Massachusetts Bay in 1629 and wrote “City on a Hill”?
18. Who developed and planted tobacco in Virginia? (and he married Pochantas)
19. Who established Rhode Island and fought for separation of church and state?
20. According to Mercantilism, why did colonies exist?
21. Who had voting rights in the English Colonies?
22. What was the first British Act to put a revenue tax on the colonists?
23. What did the Coercive Acts do?
24. In the Declaration of Independence, whom did America indict for injuries to the colonies?
25. What was the act that forbids colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains?
26. Describe the Continental Army in the first few years of the Revolutionary War.
27. Where did Britain get men for their army?
28. Where were the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War?
29. What battle ended the Revolutionary War?
30. Who wrote Common Sense?
31. What was the cause of Shay’s Rebellion?
32. List key ideas of Federalists.
33. What did the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions say?
34. What was the main purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?
35. What did the first amendment say?
36. What amendment started prohibition?
37. What amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms?
38. What amendment protects citizens from illegal search and seizures?
39. What did the 5th amendment say?
40. What amendment outlawed slavery?
41. What amendment granted women the right to vote?
42. What amendment granted African Americans the right to vote?
43. What amendment was passed as a direct result of the Intolerable Acts which allowed British soldiers free lodging in colonists
homes?
44. What amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment?
45. What did the 9th amendment express?
46. What amendment ended prohibition?
47. What did the 10th amendment say?
48. What did the idea of Manifest destiny mean?
49. What were some advantages the North had over the South early in the war?
50. What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do?
51. What did the case Plessy vs. Ferguson allow for?
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What was the name of the journalists who exposed the Meat Packing Industry in his book The Jungle?
How did Lincoln win the presidential election of 186What state most strongly supported secession after Lincoln’s election
How did Stephen Douglass propose slavery be decided in Kansas and Nebraska territory?
Why did John Brown attack in the town of Pottawatomie?
What did John Wilkes Booth believe his assassination would do for the south?
Why did Sherman destroy so much of the south on his March to the Sea?
What did the Battle of Bull Run prove?
What reconstruction plan was killed by a presidential pocket veto?
What was the major issue over the readmission of Southern states to the Union?
What happened to President Johnson’s impeachment?
Give characteristics of Gilded Age politics?
From 1876-1897, describe the political control of the national government.
What event was most crucial in bringing about U.S. participation in World War I?
What did the Zimmermann telegram say?
Why did Wilson fail to obtain ratification of the Treaty of Versailles in the Senate?
What did women receive after their support of the war effort during World War I?
Prove that the US was not truly neutral from 1914-1916?
What was US foreign policy following World War I?
Why did Standard Oil become so successful?
Why did Mark Twain call the era after the Civil War the “Gilded Age”?
When a federal income tax was implemented in 1913, it was designed to offset the loss of revenue from what?
What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act do?
What did Wilson view the US’s entry into World War I as an opportunity to do?
What was some significant causes of the Great Depression?
When New Deal legislation was passed, it changed the view of the Federal Government. What did the Federal government
now do?
78. What New Deal program got men 18-25 out of the house and working in parks?
79. What is a lasting result of the New Deal (think big picture)?
80. What did Social Security Act do?
81. Why was the League of Nations created?
82. Why did the United States not enter World War II prior to Pearl Harbor?
83. What were Hoovervilles? How did they get that name?
84. How did higher interest rates in the 1930s complicate the recovery from the Great Depression?
85. Who was British prime minister during Battle of Britain and World War II?
86. What happened on Dec 7 1941?
87. What happened to Japanese Americans during World War II?
88. What was the purpose of the Manhattan Project?
89. Why did organize crime grow in the 1920s?
90. Where did the D-Day invasion occur?
91. What was the purpose of the GI Bill?
92. What events lead US into World War II?
93. What was main purpose of government ordered rationing?
94. What was one major result of World War II (think long term)?
95. What was agreed to at the Yalta Conference?
96. How did US justify the use of the atomic bomb on Japan?
97. What battle in the Pacific allowed US to gain control after four Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk?
98. What was the last German offensive in Europe?
99. What “weapon” helped the Soviet Union at the Battle of Stalingrad?
100. What was the end result of Germany after the Allies defeated Hitler?
Modern World History
Mr. Kevin W. Walsh
Final Exam Review
Written Portion (Wednesday)
Identify Section: 5 questions x 5 points (25)
There are 10 presidents listed in the identify section of your final. You must answer 6 of the 10 identifies.
Explain the significance of each president and how they influenced the nation during their presidency. What
significant events occurred; What influence did they have? Why are they important?
1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Monroe
5. Andrew Jackson
6. Abraham Lincoln
7. Andrew Johnson
8. Theodore Roosevelt
9. Herbert Hoover
10. Franklin Roosevelt
There are 10 events listed in the identify section of your final. You must answer 5 of the 10 indentifies. Explain
the significance of each president and how the event influenced the nation. What happened? Why did it happen?
Why is it important?
1. Declaration of Independence
2. Boston Tea Party
3. Louisiana Purchase
4. Trail of Tears
5. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
6. Surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House
7. Sinking of the Lusitania
8. Great Depression
9. Bombing of Pearl Harbor
10. Dropping of Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Essay Question (25 points)
Choose 1 of the following essays to write
1. Choose 5 significant events in our nation’s history that have occurred and helped to make America into
the world power that the nation is today. Explain the importance of each event as it leads to the growth
and development of the United States. Identify the event, what happened, when, why, and how it
happened; then, explain how each event impacted the United States.
2.
The United States throughout our long history has become a global power. Over our history we have
transformed from a small collection of colonies to a united nation which is the sole superpower. Explain
the rise of the United States from weak colonies to world superpower. Explain what advantages we have
and what key events occurred throughout our history that got us to this point.
Point Breakdown for Final
Wednesday Writing Section
-5 Identify Questions x 5 points (people)
25 points
-5 Identify Questions x 5 points (events)
25 points
-1 Essay Question x 25 points
25 points
-10 map skills questions x 1 point
10 points
Thursday/Friday Objective Section
85 Multiple Choice Questions x 1 point
85 points
Total 170 points