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WorksheetsAGC 1 - What do you know already
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which of the following definitions best describes 'History'?
An account of the past
The study of life and living organisms
The study of social problems
The study of the human mind and its functions
What are the 'Bill of Rights'?
A required tax citizens pay in exchange for protection under the law
The last seventh amendments to the US Constitution
A document that states total power resides in the President of the USA
The first 10 amendments to the US Constitution
The election of this president in 1860 was a short-term cause of Southern States leaving the Union.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Harry Truman
True or False: The 13th Amendment formally eliminated slavery in the USA
True
False
This federal agency was set-up to provide relief to newly-freed slaves and poor white refugees in the South after the Civil War.
The White Man's League
American Red Cross
The Freedmen's Bureau
The Radical Republicans
An economic system where resources are owned by individuals and they compete to earn profits based on supply and demand.
Capitalism
Communism
Socialism
Mixed Economy
A period in which products were made by machines and produced on a massive scale. Made possible by innovators and wealthy investors.
The French Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
The Cognitive Revolution
The Agricultural Revolution
This amendment guarantees that you do not pay excessive fines and prevents cruel and unusual punishment for crimes.
2nd Amendment
21st Amendment
15th Amendment
8th Amendment
True or False: When the Civil War began, there were an equal number of "Free-States" and "Slave-States".
True
False
This is the defining principle of Communism
Total power resides in the head of state
Government is responsible to regulate fair business practices
No private ownership of resources allowed
Requires a traditional economic system
