1. What is a person who settles on a frontier called?

a. an explorer
b. a squatter
c. a pioneer
d. a sailor

2. What country did Native Americans side with during the war of 1812?

a. Great Britain
b. France
c. the United States
d. Spain

3. What helped make St. Louis a busy place during the 1800s?

a. laws preventing slavery
b. western expansion
c. lack of government and laws
d. St. Louis gold mines

4. What did the economy of the south depend on during the 1850s?

a. farming
b. manufacturing
c. mining
d. technology

5. How were free blacks treated in Missouri during the 1860s?

a. Free blacks were treated fairly.
b. Free blacks had the right to vote.
c. Free blacks still faced unfair treatment.
d. Free blacks had equal rights.

6. What document announced that all enslaved people in the Confederacy were now free?

a. the Bill of Rights
b. the Emancipation Proclamation
c. the Northwest Ordinance
d. the Declaration of Independence

7. Why did Missouri’s population grow so fast by the year 1900?

a. automobiles made it easier for newcomers to settle in Missouri
b. railroads made it easier for newcomers to settle in Missouri
c. gold was found in Missouri
d. oil was found in Missouri

8. What were Germany, Turkey, and Austria-Hungary called during World War I?

a. the Allied Powers
b. the Central Powers
c. the Axis Powers
d. the League of Nations

9. After World War I, what was the period of cultural changes, new ideas, inventions, and styles called?

a. the Roaring Twenties
b. the Great Depression
c. The New Deal
d. The Renaissance

10. What did civil rights leader Ivory Perry do when the Jefferson Bank in St. Louis would not hire African Americans?

a. he started his own bank
b. he helped to open a bank that only African Americans could use
c. he led a successful boycott of the bank
d. he felt there was nothing that he could do about the situation