QUIZ1 (FROM EXPOSITIONS) – 3RD PARTIAL – 1ST TERM

SCHOOL YEAR 2018 – 2019

Student: Score:
Grade: THIRD BACCALERAUTE ROOM: A-B-C-D-E
Subject:
Teacher:
ENGLISH/AMERICAN HISTORY
MR. DAMYAN CUESTA /
DATE:
10.
Instructions:
• Read carefully before answering. • The test is scored over 10 points.
• Start with the less difficult question/topic. • The expected time for this test is 40 minutes.
• Use legible handwriting. • Make sure to write your name in the correspondent
• Develop your test with neatness. box
• Double check your test before handing it in.

TEST-EXPOSITIONS

Modified True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false. If false, change the identified word or phrase to make the statement
true.
____ 1. Both Union and Confederate leaders imposed the writ of habeas corpus, a draft that forced men into the
army. ____________________

____ 2. Clara Barton, a Union nurse, frequently cared for the sick and wounded at the front lines of battle.
____________________

____ 3. At the battle near Antietam, a creek 25 miles from Washington, D.C., Confederate General Thomas J.
Jackson earned the nickname "Stonewall Jackson." ____________________

____ 4. General George McClellan drove Union forces away from Richmond in the spring of 1862. ____________

____ 5. Many Southerners hoped dependence on cotton would force Great Britain to formally recognize the
Confederacy as an independent nation. ____________________

____ 6. By the war's end, African-Americans made up nearly 1 percent of the Northern army. _________________

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 7. Which president did the House of Representatives impeach?

a. Abraham Lincoln
b. Andrew Johnson
c. Ulysses S. Grant
d. Rutherford B. Hayes
____ 8. To curb the violence of the Ku Klux Klan in the South, Congress passed the
a. Freedmen's Bureau Act.
b. Ten Percent Plan.
c. Reconstruction Act of 1870.
d. Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871.
____ 9. These members of the Republican Party left their Northern homes after the war and moved to the
South.
a. carpetbaggers
b. scalawags
c. African-Americans
d. Radical Republicans
____ 10. Intended to overrule and nullify the Dred Scott decision, Congress drafted the
a. Thirteenth Amendment.
b. Fourteenth Amendment.
c. Tenure of Office Act.
d. Amnesty Act.
____ 11. Farmers who agreed to give most of their harvest to the landowners in exchange for use of the land,
seeds, and tools were known as
a. tenant farmers.
b. the planter class.
c. sharecroppers.
d. scalawags.
____ 12. This stated that no citizen may be denied the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude."
a. Thirteenth Amendment
b. Fourteenth Amendment
c. Fifteenth Amendment
d. Civil Rights Act of 1866

Completion
Complete each statement.

13. A(n) _______________ was an African-American settler who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to claim
land in Kansas.
14. A freestanding house made of stacks of prairie turf was called a _______________.
15. The _______________ gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges.
16. _______________ were massive single-crop farms owned by railroad companies and private investors.
17. Devices such as the steel plow, the corn binder, and the reaper were invented to meet needs in _______________.
18. Many citizens moved west due to the _______________, which offered 160 acres of land free to any head of
household who was a U.S. citizen or intended to become one.

Matching

Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some letters may not be used at
all. Some may be used more than once.
a. Sitting Bull g. Chisholm Trail
b. Red Cloud h. George A. Custer
c. Dawes Act i. Sand Creek Massacre
d. assimilation j. Battle of Wounded Knee
e. Great Plains k. William J. Fetterman
f. Ghost Dance l. cattle industry
____ 19. This is the vast grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States.
____ 20. This was the major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas.
____ 21. This ritual was supposed to restore the Native American way of life.
____ 22. This resulted when the peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho were attacked without warning by the U.S. Army.
Over 150 inhabitants were killed, mostly women and children.
____ 23. This resulted when the U.S. Army fired cannons on 340 starving, freezing Sioux; within minutes, 300 of
them were dead.
____ 24. This colonel's bad judgment in attacking Native American warriors at the Little Bighorn River resulted in
his death and that of all his troops.
____ 25. This experienced a boom as more Native Americans were moved to reservations and the demand for beef
skyrocketed.
____ 26. This was supposed to "Americanize" Native Americans by encouraging in them the desire to own property
and to farm reservation land distributed to Native American families.
____ 27. This leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux never signed the Treaty of 1868. He helped to defeat the U.S. Army at
the Little Bighorn, toured in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for a while, encouraged the Ghost Dance movement, and
was eventually killed during an attempt by reservation police to arrest him.

Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some letters may not be used at
all. Some may be used more than once.
a. Vicksburg g. Ulysses S. Grant
b. Gettysburg h. Jefferson Davis
c. Appomattox i. Gettysburg Address
d. Robert E. Lee j. William Tecumseh Sherman
e. John Wilkes Booth k. Thirteenth Amendment
f. Chancellorsville l. 1864 presidential election
____ 28. The final surrender of the Confederate Army took place here.
____ 29. He shot President Lincoln just five days after Lee surrendered to Grant.
____ 30. With the fall of Port Hudson and this city, the Union finally achieved its goal of cutting the
Confederacy in two.
____ 31. This helped Americans to realize that the United States was a single nation, not just a collection of
individual states.
____ 32. In March 1864, he was appointed commander of all Union armies.
____ 33. His march across Georgia created a wide path of destruction, terrorized civilians and destroyed the
morale of white Southerners.
____ 34. This three-day battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War because it crippled the
Confederacy so badly that Confederate troops would never again be able to invade a Northern state.
____ 35. This abolished slavery throughout the United States.
____ 36. His Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Short Answer

Answer the following question(s).

37. Why did many Native Americans move off their land during western expansion?
 38. Do you think that the assimilation policy adopted by the U.S. government was a good idea? Give at least
two reasons for your opinion.

39. How did new inventions make frontier farming both easier, and more difficult?

40. What were some physical geographic factors that presented challenges that affected settlement on the
Great Plains?

DESIGNED BY REVISED AND APPROVED BY DONE BY

Signature: Signature:

Teacher: Level/Sublevel Coordinator: STUDENT’S NAME

Damyan Cuesta Ec. Miguel Armijos