1. Lincoln decided to go to war against the Confederacy after which event?
a. The Battle at Antietam
b. The Capture of Fort Sumter
c. The Battle at Bull Run
d. The issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation
2. Which was NOT an advantage of the North during the Civil War?
a. better generals and soldiers
b. better railroads
c. more factories
d. larger population
3. The Monitor and the Merrimack were
a. important Union generals.
b. President Lincoln’s airplanes
c. ironclad ships introduced during the Civil War
d. Confederate forts
4. The Emancipation Proclaimation
a. freed all slaves behind Union lines
b. ended the Civil War
c. freed all slaves behind Confederate lines
d. forced men to join the military
5. The Civil War ended at
a. Appomattox Court House
b. Fort Sumter
c. Shiloh
d. all of the above
6. What raw material was used to form steel?
a. coal
b. granite
c. iron
d. oil
7. The following new invention changed life for many Americans during the Industrial Revolution:
a. computer
b. printing press
c. none of the above
d. typewriter
8. Which is true about the transcontinental railroad:
a. It was the first railroad to cross the entire continent.
b. It created more opportunity for farmers.
c. It ensured a train station in every town.
d. It made long-distance travel dangerous.
9. Labor unions were formed to:
a. ensure workers only had to travel a certain distance to get to work.
b. help entrepreneurs monopolize on big industry.
c. protect workers from dangerous working conditions.
d. provide housing for workers.
10. The following immigrant attempted to take control of the steel industry:
a. Thomas Alva Edison
b. Alexander Graham Bell
c. Andrew Carnegie
d. John D. Rockefeller
11. Immigrants came to America
a. to explore a new continent.
b. because the developing country had many more luxuries than they’d had at home.
c. in search of religious freedom or improvements in their current economic situation.
d. because the North had won the Civil War.
12. The majority of immigrants came to the United States from
a. Western Asia.
b. Eastern and Southern Europe.
c. Mexico.
d. England.