Review 3 - Civil War, Immigration, Business, Overseas Expansion
Read each question carefully. Record any vocabulary words you aren't
sure of to look up afterwards.

1. Why did the admission of Kansas and other new states to the Union in the
mid 1800's cause controversy?
a. It required an amendment to the Constitution.
b. It threatened to cause more problems with Mexico.
c. It threatened to change the balance between slave and non-slave states.
d. It required resources for the settlement of each state.

2. What was the "Tweed Ring?"
a. a political machine
b. an immigrant neighborhood
c. a monopoly
d. an immigrant organization

3.Muckrakers contributed to reform movements by:
a. giving food to those in need
b. exposing crime and corruption
c. joining labor unions
d. getting people the right to vote

Base your answer to questions 4 on the poem below:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

4. The main message of the poem is to:
a. encourage slaves to go back to Africa
b.welcome new immigrants to America
c. support a quota on immigrants
d. imprison illegal immigrants

5. By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Pres. Lincoln:
a. lost Northern support for the war
b. broadened Union goals to include ending slavery
c. continued his plan of state's rights
d. brought an end to the war

6. In the late 1800's, some Americans believed that a powerful
county had the right to control territory outside its borders.
What term refers to this?
a. communism
b. imperialism
c. isolationism
d. totalitarianism

7."Workers and machines are in small spaces where accidents
could happen. Dust fills the air making it difficult to breathe.
Cloth lies around just waiting for the fatal spark." These conditions
described in the quote encouraged the development of:
a. corporations
b. monopolies
c. political machines
d. labor unions

8. Corporations, stocks and trusts are most closely associated with:
a. invention of the automobile
b. forming of labor unions
c. rise of big business
d. acquiring of colonies around the world

Base your answer for the next two questions on the chart below.

9. At the beginning of the Civil War, the South had an advantage over the North in:
a. stock of banks
b. value of farm land
c. farm acreage
d. railway mileage

10. Which conclusion about the Civil War is most clearly supported by the information
in the chart?
a. The North expected to win the war quickly.
b. The South would have the advantage in a long war.
c. The South would have a larger and better equipped army.
d. The North and South were evenly prepared for war.