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

1. SOL Review Questions: Society, Culture, and Domestic Affairs in US History A Review for the SOL Test

2. Question #1 _____1. Which of the following WAS NOT a part of the Radical Republicans plan for Reconstruction? • The 13th Amendment to end slavery. • The Freedman’s Bureau to aid former slaves. • The 15th Amendment to insure suffrage. • Establishment of Black Codes in Southern States

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

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

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

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

7. 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 – • Homestead Act • Dawes Act • Western Lands Act • Sedition Act

8. The Homestead Act

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

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

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

12. 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 – • Cheyenne Tribe, dogs • Nez Perce Tribe, walrus • Arapaho, cattle • Lakota (Sioux), buffalo

13. The Sioux Tribe and the Buffalo

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

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

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

17. 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 – • Chief Joseph • Tecumseh • Crazy Horse • Sitting Bull

18. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

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

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

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

22. Joseph Glidden’s Barbed Wire

23. 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 – • Dry Farming • Sharecropping • Exodusting • Dust Bowling

24. Dry Farming

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

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

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

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

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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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? • Immigration of Europeans to the United States • The migration of African-Americans to Northern cities • Manufacturing jobs in northern industrial centers • The Homestead Act

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

35. 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

36. 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

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

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

39. 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

40. Question #34 _____34. The man whose company dominated the automobile manufacturing business was – A. Henry Ford B. Andrew Carnegie C. James P. Morgan D. J.D.Rockefeller

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

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

43. 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 – • Andrew Carnegie and other industrialists. • NAACP and the Niagara Movement. • Progressives and Union Leaders. • Suffragists

44. Progressives and Union Leaders

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

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

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

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

49. 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 – • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Sojourner Truth • Eleanor Roosevelt • Shirley Chisholm

50. 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 – • Susan B. Anthony • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Lucretia Mott • Angela Grimke