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WorksheetsUIL Social Studies Tryout
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 13mins
Why is June 19 considered a holiday in Texas?
The United States was attacked by Japan
Texas was freed from Mexico
Day that all enslaved Texans learned they were free
Celebration for a Hispanic girl on her fifteenth birthday
What bird imitates the calls of other birds with songs and is the state bird of Texas?
Sparrow
Blue jay
Cardinal
Mockingbird
Which monument is a reminder of the Texas victory in the last battle of the Texas Revolution?
Statue of Liberty
San Jacinto Monument
Come and Take It Cannon
Eiffel Tower
African Americans had to find jobs and housing
Farmers had to learn to grow crops without to
Anger over new found African American rights
These were characteristics of a time of rebuilding called_____.
Reconstruction
Enlightenment
Prohibition
Progressivism
What action in Texas following the ending of the Civil War best completes this
diagram?
General Granger announces that enslaved Texans are free
Trade treaties are adopted with Mexico
Ulysses S. Grant opens a business in Laredo
Economy collapses with widespread unemployment
Why were so many of the battles waged in Texas
during the Civil War fought along the Gulf Coast?
There were no major settlements inland
Most of Texas’ industries were along the coast
To keep Confederate ships from carrying goods
into and out of the ports
Seat of government was in the area
Which agreement opened free trade among the United States, Mexico and Canada?
Declaration of First Nations
European Union
Lighthouse of Commerce
North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement
_______ is the development of a world culture and interdependent world economy.
Feudalism
Globalization
Imperialism
Dictatorship
Canada
Province:
Newfoundland
?
Alberta
What province completes the chart about Canada?
British Columbia
Nunavut
Quebec
Nova Scotia
Luxembourg
Centrally located
?
Which reason finishes the diagram for why Luxembourg is so attractive to foreign
businesses?
Large land area
Most people are multilingual
Extreme climate
Lack of infrastructure
Taiwan has one of the world’s most prosperous economies. Its wealth comes largely from high-technology industries, manufacturing and trade with other countries.
What are high-technology industries?
Produce computers and other kinds of electronic equipment
Home or village based industry in which family members supply their own equipment to make goods
Crop grown for the purpose of selling
Industry that provides services like banking, education and tourism to people rather than producing goods
Which South American country exports electricity because it has the world’s largest hydroelectric power generator at the Itaipu Dam on the Parana River?
Argentina
Uruguay
Venezuela
Paraguay
What country has large deposits of coal, oil and natural gas, minerals such as nickel, tin, iron ore and gold and its soil can produce rich yields of grain and vast forests and yet has difficulty obtaining and transporting them?
Croatia
The Czech Republic
Armenia
Russia
Which European country sparked the Industrial Revolution over 250 years ago but today must import one-third of its food because of a lack of farmland and a limited growing season?
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Italy
Which country is an archipelago off the coast of eastern Asia?
India
China
Japan
Nepal
What area is a major crossroads between Africa and Southwest Asia and is home to the Suez Canal, one of the world’s most important waterways?
Guiana Peninsula
Sinai Peninsula
Baja Peninsula
Balearic Islands
Spending bill originates in the House of Representatives
Referred to committee
Passed by both houses
?
What step completes the diagram for a bill to become a law in the Confederacy?
Supreme Court reviews it
President signs it
People discuss it
States approve/disapprove it
Which goal of the government is NOT contained in both the United States Constitution and the Confederate States of America Constitution?
Establish justice
Insure domestic tranquility
Provide for the common defense
Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
Appoints federal judges-
Executive Branch
Can veto acts of Congress
Can declare executive acts unconstitutional-
Judicial Branch
Can declare acts of Congress unconstitutional
Can override veto-
Legislative Branch
Can impeach judges
What principle of government is illustrated in the above?
Popular sovereignty
Federalism
Limited government
Checks and balances
Which statement would be closest to the intent of Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg?
What the soldiers who fought there did is more important than the honor they are now given
To be paid for a speech
To call attention to local dignitaries
Seek assistance from foreign countries
How did Abraham Lincoln, in the Gettysburg Address, describe the nation that he thought was intended by our Founding Fathers?
Everyone is entitled to a job
All men are created equal
Church attendance is mandatory
Education is required
Who was to “recognize and maintain” the freedom of the African American slaves?
United States government
Each state’s government
Confederate States of America
The Catholic Church
Acting under which power as President of the United States did Abraham Lincoln enact the Emancipation Proclamation?
Legislative leader
Head of a political party
Chief executive
Commander in chief
The _____ Amendment guarantees “equal protection of the laws”.
2
18
14
24
Who is the political leader pictured?
Joe Biden
Thomas Perez
John Kerry
Ernest Moniz
What are responsibilities of a democratic citizen?
Benefits and protections guaranteed to you by law
Duties that you owe to your fellow citizens to make sure the government continues
Political agreement between countries to support each other in disputes with other countries
Practice handed down from the past
Which is an example of a right of an american citizen?
Freedom of speech
Go to school
Get involved
Obey the laws
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
Where would these crops tend to be grown in the United States during colonial times?
Farms in middle colonies
In the colonial towns
Farms in the backcountry
Plantations in the southern colonies
Which statement best explains why a transcontinental railroad needed to be built in the 1850s?
There was a growing demand for a quicker way for people and goods to cross the country
Pony Express and the telegraph were able to transport goods and people
The various landforms it would have to cross made it too expensive to build
Native Americans would have to be displaced in order to build it
Life on the Great Plains
New steel plow that could cut through the tough prairie sod
Special windmills designed to pump water from deep
beneath the ground
How did these new inventions change life on the Plains?
Allowed industry to grow and prosper
Focused the economy on mining
Enabled cities to flourish
Improved farming efforts helped homesteaders to survive
What new industry created a growing demand for products made from oil?
Electric light bulb
Typewriter
Automobile
Mechanical reaper
Volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War
Nicknamed the “Angel of the Battlefield”
Founded the American Red Cross
Which individual is best described in the description above?
Jane Addams
Clara Barton
Mary Hayes
Lucretia Mott
Nicknamed “The Great Compromiser”
Helped create the Missouri Compromise in 1820
Created the Compromise of 1850
Who is best known for these political actions?
James Garfield
Sam Houston
Henry Clay
Winfield Scott
Which battle, as part of the Anaconda Plan, called for Union troops to gain control of the Mississippi River to weaken the Confederacy?
Chickamauga
New Orleans
Shiloh
Vicksburg
Who was the abolitionist leader, in the picture, that planned to steal weapons from the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia to use in an attack on slave owners in Virginia?
Nat Turner
John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison
Joseph Cinque
Which novel, that describes the cruelties of slavery, was able to win many people over to the abolitionist cause?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Pride and Prejudice
Red Badge of Courage
Lincoln
How were African American lives more difficult after the end of Reconstruction?
A public school system was established
Many industries expanded to the South
Families were able to stay together
Jim Crow Laws restricted where they could go
Which crop brought a greater demand for slavery in the South?
Cotton
Corn
Wheat
Hay
How did differences between the two regions (North and South) increase so dramatically?
Politicians tried to pass laws in the best interest of the nation
Southerners lived a mostly rural way of life
Trade agreements between the two sections brought them closer together
A dominant religion in both sections brought them together
Which cause best completes the chart?
Free enterprise
Progressivism
States’ rights
Nationalism
