Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny
Sectionalism & The Civil War
Reconstruction & Segregation
Industrialization, Big Business, Immigration
Mr. A
100

BONUS (WORTH 200!): What is Mr. A's favorite baseball team?

Dodgers
100

((BONUS 200) Mr A is a world renowned announcer for a highschool sport. What is it?

Flag Football

100


Which Civil War Amendment officially abolished slavery across the entire United States?

  • A) 12th Amendment
  • B) 13th Amendment
  • C) 14th Amendment
  • D) 15th Amendment


B) 13th Amendment


100


An economic policy characterized by a lack of government regulations on business practices is known as:

  • A) Vertical integration
  • B) Laissez-faire economics
  • C) Social Gospel
  • D) Nativism


  • B) Laissez-faire economics
100

What two classes does Mr. A teach this year?

Ethnic Studies and U.S History

200

In the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory to the United States in exchange for how much money?

  • A) $10 million
  • B) $15 million
  • C) $25 million
  • D) $50 million

B. 15 Million

200


Which 1852 anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe dramatically shifted Northern public sentiment against slavery?

  • A) Bleeding Kansas
  • B) The Underground Railroad
  • C) Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • D) Dred Scott's Appeal


  • C) Uncle Tom's Cabin
200


Which Reconstruction Amendment defined U.S. citizenship, granted equal protection under the law to all people born in the U.S., and overturned the Dred Scott decision?

  • A) 13th Amendment
  • B) 14th Amendment
  • C) 15th Amendment
  • D) 16th Amendment


  • B) 14th Amendment
200


John D. Rockefeller gained control of 90% to 95% of the oil refining industry through Standard Oil by purchasing competing refineries in the same stage of production—a strategy known as:

  • A) Vertical integration
  • B) Horizontal integration
  • C) Collective bargaining
  • D) Sharecropping


  • B) Horizontal integration
200
What is my hometown?

Desert Hot Springs

300

Authorized by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862, the Transcontinental Railroad took four years to complete and relied heavily on approximately how many immigrant workers from China?

  • A) 2,000
  • B) 5,000
  • C) 10,000
  • D) 25,000

C. 10,000

300


The unofficial start of the American Civil War occurred in April 1861 when Southern forces bombarded and seized control of which military installation?

  • A) Fort Sumter
  • B) Fort Leavenworth
  • C) Appomattox Court House
  • D) Richmond Arsenal


  • A) Fort Sumter
300


The landmark 1896 Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson legally upheld state-mandated racial segregation under which legal doctrine?

  • A) Popular sovereignty
  • B) Laissez-faire economics
  • C) "Separate but equal"
  • D) Radical Reconstruction


  • C) "Separate but equal"
300


Most European immigrants arriving on the East Coast of the United States between 1892 and 1954 were processed through which famous facility in New York Harbor?

  • A) Angel Island
  • B) Ellis Island
  • C) Castle Garden
  • D) Hull House


  • B) Ellis Island
300

Which sports have I gone to so far? (just the name of the sports)

Flag Football, Football, Volleyball

400


In 1853, the United States paid $10 million to purchase land in southern Arizona and New Mexico to secure a southern transcontinental railroad route in an agreement known as the:

  • A) Gadsden Purchase
  • B) Louisiana Purchase
  • C) Mexican Cession
  • D) Oregon Treaty


A. Gadsden Purchase

400


In the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling, the Supreme Court ruled 7–2 against Dred Scott, stating that African Americans:

  • A) Had full citizenship rights under the Constitution
  • B) Were not citizens and therefore had no Constitutional rights
  • C) Could only vote in free states
  • D) Were automatically freed upon entering free territories


B) Were not citizens and therefore had no Constitutional rights

400


According to historical unit notes, what was the key distinction in timing between Black Codes and Jim Crow laws?

  • A) Black Codes were passed during Reconstruction (1865–1877), while Jim Crow laws enforced separation after Reconstruction (1877–1965)
  • B) Jim Crow laws occurred before the Civil War, while Black Codes were passed after 1900
  • C) Black Codes applied only to Northern states, while Jim Crow laws applied only to Western territories
  • D) Black Codes ended in 1860, while Jim Crow laws began during the War of 1812



A) Black Codes were passed during Reconstruction (1865–1877), while Jim Crow laws enforced separation after Reconstruction (1877–1965)



400


During the late 19th century, rapid urbanization led to working-class families living in overcrowded, dark, and poorly ventilated multi-family apartment buildings known as:

  • A) Settlement houses
  • B) Mansions
  • C) Tenements
  • D) Communes


  • C) Tenements
400

Name all sports Mr. A has participated in uring High school

Tennis, Track, Wrestling, (and barely football and soccer)

500


Under Article VIII of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexicans remaining in the newly acquired U.S. territories were given one year to declare their citizenship preference. If they made no declaration after one year, they were automatically considered to have elected to become:

  • A) Citizens of Mexico
  • B) Citizens of the United States
  • C) Non-citizen foreign residents
  • D) Temporary workers


  • B) Citizens of the United States
500


President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people under which specific restriction?

  • A) It freed enslaved people everywhere across all Northern and Southern states
  • B) It freed enslaved people ONLY in states currently in rebellion against the Union
  • C) It freed enslaved people ONLY in Union border states like Kentucky and Maryland
  • D) It freed only those who agreed to join the Union Army


  • B) It freed enslaved people ONLY in states currently in rebellion against the Union
500


What political agreement ended Reconstruction in 1877 by withdrawing federal troops from the South, leading to a sharp decline in Black elected officials and eventually a 27-year gap (1901–1928) with zero Black members serving in Congress?

  • A) Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • B) Compromise of 1877
  • C) Civil Rights Act of 1866
  • D) Pacific Railway Act


  • B) Compromise of 1877
500


Founded by Jane Addams in Chicago, Hull House was a famous community center providing English classes and medical assistance under the principles of which movement?

  • A) Gospel of Wealth
  • B) Social Gospel Movement
  • C) Radical Republicanism
  • D) Laissez-faire Movement


  • B) Social Gospel Movement
500

What is the name of Mr. A's partner?

Vanessa