U.S. History Quiz

A group of top presidential advisors can be called?

• Cabinet

• Senate

• Congress

• Supreme Court

Who was one of the first African Americans appointed by the president to work for the federal government?

• Frederick Douglass

• Booker T. Washington

• Thurgood Marshall

• Benjamin Banneker

  
  

List two problems with the NorthWest Ordinance.

• Bringing slaves into the territory

• High taxes and poor infrastructure

• Lack of resources and harsh climate

• Conflicts with Native Americans and unclear land claims

Francis Scott Key was an American __________ & __________ who was held captive on a British ship in __________, where he watched the British attack Fort Henry.

• Lawyer & poet; Baltimore

• Soldier & musician; New York

• Politician & writer; Boston

• Artist & scientist; Philadelphia

Key’s motivation to write the national anthem, '__________,' was:

A great shift to a society that relied on machines to make and do things is called?

• Industrial Revolution

• Technological Era

• Machine Age

• Digital Revolution

The four main ways of travel are ____.

• Walking, horseback, carriage, boat

• Car, plane, boat, bicycle

• Bus, subway, tram, ferry

The easiest way to ship goods was:

• by water

• By train

• By ship

• By horse

Description of Clinton’s Ditch. choose 4

• Canal

• uneven

• Used locks

• A railway line

• People thought it would fail

Trains powered by steam engines were called?

• Locomotives

• Steamrollers

• Engines

• Railcars