Texas History
8th Grade US History
World Geography
World History
11th Grade US History
100

People who wanted to stay in the Union and work out differences over slavery.

A.Unionist

B.Federalist

C.Confederaist 

D.Quitters


A.Unionist

100

__________ is where party members choose the party's candidates.


A.Jacksonian Democracy 

B.States' rights doctrine

C.Nominating convention

D.Democratic Party


C.Nominating convention

100

Match the following definition with the correct term below:

the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union, formed in 1922 by the Communists and officially dissolved in 1991.


A.Baltic Republics

B.First Triumvirate

C.Axis Powers

D.USSR


D.USSR

100

"West African kingdom that grew rich from taxing and controlling trade and that established an empire in the 9th-11th centuries A.D."


A.Ghana

B.Mali

C.Benin

D.Songhai


A.Ghana

100

A name given to the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for World War II veterans.


A.GI Bill of Rights

B.VFW

C.Economic Opportunity Act

D.Congress of Racial Equality


A.GI Bill of Rights

200

Commander and Chief of the Texan Army.

A.Henry Smith

B.Davy Crocket

C.Jim Bowie

D.Sam Houston


D.Sam Houston

200

The practice of giving government jobs to political backers is called _______.


A.Kitchen Cabinet

B.Spoils system

C.Nullification crisis

D.Panic of 1837


B.Spoils system

200

Match the following definition with the correct term below:
"the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II, [...] it never escalated into open warfare."


A.Russian Revolution

B.Cold War

C.Crusades

D.First Indochina War


B.Cold War

200

"a West African empire that flourished from 1235 to the 1400s and grew rich from trade."


A.Mali

B.Songhai

C.Ghana

D.Benin


A.Mali

200

An interracial group founded in 1942 by James Farmer to work against segregation in Northern cities.


A.Progressive Party

B.Congress of Racial Equality 

C.Japanese American Citizens League

D.American Federation of Labor


B.Congress of Racial Equality

300

Principle of government that all political power comes from the people.

A.Ad interim 

B.Petition

C.Popular Sovereignty

D.Convention


C.Popular Sovereignty

300

To manage Indian removal to western lands, Congress approved the creation of a new government agency, the ___________.


A.Indian Removal Act

B.Indian Territory

C.Trail of Tears

D.Bureau of Indian Affairs


D.Bureau of Indian Affairs

300

Match the following definition with the correct term below:

"a type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by a central government, which usually owns the means of production.  Also called a planned economy."


A.feudalism

B.market economy

C.mixed economy

D.command economy


D.command economy

300

"A West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591."


A.Mali

B.Songhai

C.Ghana

D.Benin


B.Songhai

300

Confinement or a restriction in movement, especially under wartime conditions.


A.exile

B.draft

C.impressment

D.internment


D.internment

400

A ____ is a formal request.

A.Petition

B.Bill of Rights

C.Question

D.Noncombatants


A.Petition

400

The Cherokee's 800-mile forced march became known as the __________.


A.Indian Territory

B.Indian Removal Act

C.Trail of Tears

D.Black Hawk


C.Trail of Tears

400

Match the following definition with the correct term below:
"a Georgian (Russian) term for dinner party, with many dishes and courses, toasts, and short speeches."


A.potluck

B.supra

C.ofrenda

D.shemomechama


B.supra

400

"A West African people who lived in several city-states in what is now northern Nigeria."


A.Sohnghai

B.Egyptians

C.Benin

D.Hausa


D.Hausa

400

An organization that pushed the U.S. government to compensate Japanese Americans for property they had lost when they were interned during World War II.


A.Japanese American Citizens League

B.Congress of Racial Equality

C.Progressive Party

D.SNCC


A.Japanese American Citizens League

500

A group of advisers to a head of state, such as a president.


A.Goodfellows

B.Cabinet

C.Carpetbaggers

D.A bill


B.Cabinet

500

The ___________ in 1830, authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands to the west.


A.Indian Removal Act

B.Indian Territory

C.Bureau of Indian Affairs

D.Trail of Tears


A.Indian Removal Act

500

Match the following definition with the correct term below:
"the name of the Soviet Union's military."


A.Red Army

B.the Wehrmacht

C.Royal Army

D.Soviet Guerilla Forces


A.Red Army

500

"A Kingdom that arose near the Niger River delta in the 1300s and became a major West African state in the 1400s."


A.Mali

B.Hausa

C.Benin

D.Ghana


C.Benin

500

A 1941 declaration of principles in which the United States and Great Britain set forth their goals in opposing the Axis powers.


A.the Zimmerman Telegram

B.Declaration of Independence

C.League of Nations

D.Atlantic Charter


D.Atlantic Charter