Social Studies Weekly 5th Grade Week 18 Assessment

A cabinet Secretary is responsible for this

• taking notes and answering phones for George Washington

• department of the government

• writing the Arictles of Confederation

• passing new laws

A Federalist believes

• power belongs in the hands of the people

• landowners should keep control over the economy

• the central government should be more powerful than the people

• it takes many people to run a country.

The Alien and Sedition Acts did not

• make it difficult for immigrants to become citizens

• make it easy to place immigrants in jail

• say that slaves compromised three-fifths of a person

• jail immigrants for speaking out against the government

The cotton gin

• Is a machine that cleans seeds from cotton fibers

• picks 50 pounds of cotton in a day

• made northern cotton growers rich

• ended the need for slavery

Madam CJ Walker did not spend her money on

• donating to charity

• an expensive car

• a huge mansion

• entertaining famous people

The first coins included

• half dimes

• half quarters

• half nickles

• quarter pennies

Yellow fever

• is spread by mosquitoes

• does not have a vaccine to prevent it's spread

• was discovered by Dr. Benjamin Rush

• Is most prevalent in the winter when it is cold outside.

Roger Sherman's bicameral Congress included

• representation based on population size only

• representation based both on population size and equal representation for each state

• equal representation for each state only

• 39 delegates