STAAR Quiz #7 2018

What caused many people in the northeast to move into cities?

• Industrialization
• Plantationism
• Mercantilism

Slavery, the cotton gin, and a mild climate led to the _____ system in the South.

• Plantation

• Industrial

• Factory

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Samuel Adams

Who was the leader of the Continental Army, President of the Constitutional Convention and became the first President of the United States?

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

Inventor, statesman, diplomat and signer of the Declaration of and delegate to the Constitutional Convention.

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• Samuel Adams

• John Adams

What was the first American Constitution? Congress by giving states the final authority over all decisions.

• Articles of Confederation

• The US Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

What was the compromise that settled the issue of how states could count their slaves towards their population for representation in Congress and taxes?

• Unalienable Rights 
• 3/5 Compromise
• The Compromise of 1850

What are rights that cannot be given up, taken away or transferred? They include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

• Embargo of 1807
• Compromise of 1850
• Unalienable Rights

Who invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin, a device that made processing raw cotton faster and easier? 

• Andrew Jackson
• Eli Whitney
• James Madison

What was the law, under Jefferson's presidency, that called for a total ban of trade with any foreign country?

• Embargo of 1807
• Compromise of 1850
• Manifest Destiny