Chapter 2 Americans and Their History

Which is probably most useful to an archeologist who is studying a group of early hunter-gatherers?

• a map

• a podcast

• an artifact

• a biography

True or False:

The Bill of Rights was created as a compromise to add more protection of people's rights.

• True

• False

Objects that are left behind and are useful to an archaeologist

studying a group of hunter-gatherers is ____.

• constitution

• culture

• segregation

• artifacts

Two former presidents of the United States are ________.

• Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant

• Thomas Jefferson and George Washington

• George Washington and Alexander Hamilton

• Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson

Amendments were written to the new Constitution, leading to the creation of __________.

• The Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Articles of Confederation

Frederick Douglass was a famous ___________.

• archaeologist

• doctor

• President

• abolitionist

A person who comes to live in a new land.

• An archaeologist

• An immigrant

• An explorer

• A delegate

The belief that white Americans had a duty to expand the country from coast to coast is _____.

• Columbian Exchange

• House of Representatives

• Louisiana Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

A plan of government.

• compromise

• Bill of Rights

• Manifest Destiny

• constitution

True or False?

The North had a farming economy that depended on slavery.

• True

• False