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Questions:
1. Match the
following events with their dates:
____ The
battleship Maine explodes, leading to the Spanish-American
War.
____ The
California Gold Rush begins.
____
Prohibition ends, allowing alcohol sales in the U.S.
____ The 19th Amendment
gives women the right to vote.
____ Andrew
Johnson is the first U.S. president to be
impeached.
A. 1933
B. 1868
C. 1919
D. 1898
E. 1849
2. The second
president of the United States was
_________________________________
.
3. In the
Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States bought the land between the
Mississippi
River and the Rocky Mountains from the country of
______________________
.
4. The only
American president to resign from office was ________________________
.
5. The Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended war between the United States and
a. Spain
b. Mexico
c. Brazil
6. The court
case Marbury vs. Madison in 1803 was the first time a law by Congress was
declared
_________________________ by the Supreme Court
7. The
Compromise of 1850 made California a free state and abolished slavery in
_________________________
.
8. Members of
the labor union the Industrial Workers of the World were also called
_________________________
.
9. A United
States led a military force that conquered Iraq in a
short war code
named _____________________________ .
10. Match the
famous U.S. author to their book:
____ Benjamin
Franklin
____ Thomas
Paine
____ Upton
Sinclair
____ Harriet
Beecher Stowe
____ Henry
David Thoreau
A. Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
B. Poor
Richard’s Almanac
C. Walden
D. Common
Sense
E. The Jungle.
U.S. History
Help
Web sites that
can help: _
The Awesome
Library's at http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
has
a social studies section
with an
"awesome" number of links to U.S. history information.
Britannica.com, an online
encyclopedia at http://www.britannica.com/
lets
you enter search
terms to find
information on your topic at multiple sites.
The history
section of Information Please at www.infoplease.com/history.html
has
almanac
sections on U.S. and world history and government, including a section on the presidents.