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What is Archaeology?
the study of how arches are made
The study of ancient peoples through artifacts
the tools weapons and artifacts that people left behind
the study of the ancient peoples by looking at their skeletons
the study of the environment at the time of specific events
What are Nomads?
a group of people who were never mad
a group of people who always stayed in one place
a group of people who traveled with their food source
a group of people who kept their members from going mad
a fake group, they didn't exist
What are Civilizations?
a group of people who combined izations and civil rights
a group of people who lived in a cave without any rules or lives
they were highly developed societies
societies that were not developed at all
What is the Definition of a Theocracy?
A society ruled by religious leaders
A group of people who worship a god named theo
A symbol or picture that represented a thing sound or idea.
a work of art
What is an Irrigation System?
a society of irritating alligators
an efficient way of watering crops by bringing the water to them
a village
a place of worship
What were the Crusades?
An adventure in Indiana Jones
an attempt by the Europeans to take back christian holy lands from the Muslims
Classical works
the renaissance
What was the Renaissance?
just a weird word
a game made up by aliens
a french word that means rebirth
a fancy person party
True or False
Technology means to use knowledge for practical purposes
True
False
True or False:
Conquistadors were american explorers who went to explore the new world
True
False
What happened to the settlers of Roanoke?
They were brutally murdered by vicious land sharks
Nobody knows
They all died
they went to sleep for a thousand years
What is a joint stock company?
the stock market
a place to buy stocks
a place to put stocks together for people to be trapped in
a company in which the owners bought shares or part ownership
What is the definition of Persecution?
killing someone with a purse
mistreating someone because of their beliefs
hold or express opinions that are at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially expressed.
religious toleration
True or False:
New Amsterdam was a port city
True
False
Delaware was once a part of which state
New Mexico
the state of shock
Pennsylvania
New York
Which religious group founded Pennsylvania?
LDS
Quakers
Catholic
Christian
What are cash crops?
Crops that sold easily in markets
crops that grow moneys
crops that did not sell easily in markets
crops that were grown by slaves
What is Diversity?
Variety, Such as of ethnic or national groups
producing just enough to meet immediate needs
Crops that sold easily in markets
tobacco and rice
What were the principal cash crops in Maryland and Virginia?
Tobacco
Rice
Cotton
Wheat
What were Slave Codes?
Rules focusing on the behavior and punishment of enslaved people
The code for the Padlock that held the slaves in chains
an identification number for a slave
a Trade route between three destinations, such as Britain, west Africa, and the west indies
What is a Representative Government?
a system by which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government
The English Bill of Rights
an economic theory whose goal is building a state's wealth and power by increasing exports and accumulating precious metals in return
to bring in from foreign markets
What were Writs of Assistance?
A court document allowing customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods
Papers which assisted you in whatever ways that you want
incoming money from taxes or other sources
to prevent or forbid
Who was the first colonist to be killed in the Boston Massacre?
George Washington
Benedict Arnold
Crispus Attucks
Nathan Hale
In September 1774, fifty-five delegates gathered in Philadelphia, This was the...
the Judicial branch
Continantal Congrees
Continental Congress
The meeting of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What was the colonies main force against the British other than local militias
The Colonists Army
The Colonial Army
The Continental Army
The American Army
Who Commanded the Continental Army?
George Washington
John Hancock
Thomas Jefferson
Paul Revere
What was the Main Advantage for the British during the American Revolution?
Their troops were trained
They had the Strongest Navy in the World
They had a Lot of money after the French-Indian war
Their troops were the best in the world
In the Winter of 1778, Where did General George Washington set up camp?
Delaware
Valley Force
Valley Forge
Bunker Hill
What is a Blockade?
A flavor of Gatorade that let the American troops block the British from taking over land
a measure that keeps a country from communicating and trading with other nations
a form of military strategy that involved Building a wall around a country to stop trading and immigrants from getting in
A strategy in which no-one can get Gatorade
What helped the Americans win the Revolutionary war?
Their better trained troops
Guerrilla Warfare
Their superior money
Everyone willing to help
What treaty ended the American Revolution?
The Treaty of Peaceful Revolution
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Paris
After the Revolutionary war, the states adopted which kind of system to spread power between the governor and the legislature?
unicameral
Multicultural
Bicameral
Single Ruler
What was the First Document of Government Before the U.S. Constitution?
The U.S Constitution of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation
The First Constitution
the Previous Constitution
After the American Revolution, The U.S. went through an economic depression, what does this mean?
The money all is destroyed
When everybody in the Country is too depressed to go to work and the economy fails
a period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases
Everything in the economy slows
Thomas Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of Independence based on many of philosophies of Which European Philosopher
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin Horne
John Locke
Joshua Flimashoot
What is an Amendment?
a change, correction, or improvement added to a document
A change, making a document worse
a Change to a document
an incorrect assumption
True or False:
Popular Sovereignty is he belief that government is subject to the will of the people
True
False
True or False:
A Limited Government is, government with limited powers strictly defined by law
True
False
What are Enumerated Powers?
power specifically given Congress in the Constitution
power specifically given to the House of Representatives in the Constitution
power specifically given to the President in the Constitution
What are Reserved Powers?
power belonging only to the states
power belonging only to the Government
power belonging only to the President
Power to impose taxes
What is the Separation of Powers?
A system to make sure that the government has no power over the people
a principle by which powers are divided among different branches of government to make sure no one branch has too much power
In what year did George Washington swear into office?
1879
1798
1789
1897
True or False:
a Precedent is not something done or said that becomes an example for others to follow
True
False
What is the Cabinet?
A Box hung on the wall to store things
a group of advisers to a president
a group of people who help the president or other figure of power
a group of people who help the population of a country
What cause the Whiskey Rebellion?
a group of drunk citizens
a tax on a specific kind of alcohol made from wheat called whiskey
Angered tax collectors
a group of drunk tax collectors
What does a Partisan do?
take all the parts in a school play
A citizen who parties all the time
firmly favors one party or faction
firmly flavors one party or faction
Who really elects the President?
the people
a group of electors called the electoral college
the electoral people
the house of representatives
What was the exchange of land called when napoleon sold most of the french's land in north america to the U.S. for 15 Million dollars?
The Gadsden purchase
the Louisiana purchase
the French-American Purchase
the American-French Purchase
True or False:
Neutral rights are privileges or freedoms that are granted to nations that do not choose a side in a conflict
True
False
What year was the War of 1812?
1811
1812
1813
1814
What is the Responsibility of the Judiciary Branch of government?
to interpret the law
to enforce the law
to make the law
What was the biggest invention of Eli Whitney?
interchangeable parts
The cotton gin
the steel plow
mills
What did the Cotton gin do?
It removed cotton from the plant that it grew on
It quickly and easily removed the seeds from picked cotton and allowed a huge increase in cotton production.
it was a car that had an engine that ran on cotton
False or True:
Technology is equipment that makes use of advanced knowledge and skill to solve a problem or do a task
False
True
True or False:
A Patent is sole legal right to an invention and its profits
True
False
True or False:
Capitalism is an economic system in which people and companies own the means of production
True
False
True or False:
a Favorite Son was a candidate for national office who has support mostly from his or her home state
True
False
True or False:
Mudslinging was a method in election campaigns that uses gossip and lies to make an opponent look bad
True
False
True or False:
A Bureaucracy is not a system of government in which specialized tasks are carried out by appointed officials rather than by elected ones
True
False
Who was the President who organized the Trail of Tears?
Andrew Jackson
Theodore Roosevelt
George W. Bush
John Adams
What were Nominating Conventions?
Where Citizens from a state choose the president
where delegates from the states chose the party's presidential candidate.
When members of the house of representatives choose new representatives
When members of the Senate choose candidates for the presidential election
What was the common belief that the United States should stretch across north america, that it was god's will for it to go from sea to shining sea?
Manifest Destiny
Growth and Expansion
The Enlightenment
The Renaissance
True or False:
Joint occupation is a situation in which people from two countries can occupy an area
True
False
What were Mountain Men?
Men who lived by themselves in the desert
Fur collectors and trappers who lived in Britain
tough, independent men spent most of their time in the Rocky Mountains
Men who were as big as a mountain
Under who did Texas become a state in the U.S.
Sam Houston
Andrew Jackson
Paul McCartney
William Clark
True or False:
To annex something (Such as Texas) is to to add a territory to one’s own territory
True
False
True or false:
Clipper ships were ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that “clipped” time from long journey
True
False
What was a telegraph?
a system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet
a device used to quickly separate seeds from cotton
a device that used electric signals to send messages
a system in which boats can travel across land using man-made waterways
True or False:
Morse code was a code that used a series of 1s and 0s to represent on and off
True
False, it was a system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet
True or False:
Trade unions were groups of workers with the same trade, or skill
True
False, they were groups of merchants who traveled together and traded together
What was a consequence of using the cotton gin?
it increased the amount of freed slaves in the south
It made trading cotton less profitable
It encouraged farmers to grow more cotton in more places. Because Southern planters relied on enslaved workers to plant and pick their cotton, the demand for slave labor increased.
It made slaves work harder for the same amount of cotton
Which term matches the definition?
refusing to obey laws considered unjust
Civil rights
Civil disobedience
Going on strike
Violent protest
Who were Abolitionists?
A person who wanted to keep slaves in captivity to keep them from ruining the economy
A person who supported Civil war
A person who wanted slavery to never end
a person who sought the end of slavery in the United States in the early 1800s
Who was the famous abolitionist who created the newspaper "the north star"
William Loyd Garrison
Fredrick Douglas
John Brown
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Which abolitionist was willing to go to violent means to end slavery?
William Loyd Garrison
Fredrick Douglas
John Brown
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What does Suffrage mean?
the right to form workers unions
The right to vote
the right to form trade unions
the right to bear arms
Which state was the first to secede from the union?
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Maryland
True or False:
a Martyr is a person who dies for a cause
True
False, it was a well-known religious person
What does secession mean?
to leave
to withdrawal
to give up
to stop participating in
what was the idea that states should have all powers that the Constitution does not give to the federal government or forbid to the states
States' rights
separation of powers
implied powers
enumerated powers
What was the law that would require every state to return runaway slaves
the great compromise
Fugitive slave law
the Missouri compromise
Checks and balances
Who was the president during the civil war?
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Which states were the four Border States?
Delaware, Maryland
Delaware, Kansas
Maryland, Virginia
Kentucky, Missouri
Illinois, Kentucky
What was the plan, developed by General Winfield Scott, to surround the southern states to stop trade and economy?
the Viper Plan
The Squeeze Plan
The Anaconda Plan
The Northern Plan
What was the southern capital during the Civil War?
The District of Columbia
Richmond, Virginia
Kansas City, illinois
Atlanta, Georgia
True or False:
an Ironclad was a train reinforced with iron for better defense.
True
False, it was a warship equipped with iron plating for protection
True or False:
Amnesty is the granting of a pardon to a large number of persons
True
False, it was the punishment to a large number of persons
True or False:
To impeach is to to formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
True
False, it was to take a peach away from them
True or False:
Segregation is the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group
True
False, it was to keep a system of water away from your plants for agricultural use
What was a Poll Tax?
a tax when you go through a poll booth
a tax a person must pay in order to vote
a tax on the voting machines
a tax on the use of voting machines
True or false:
Buffalo soldiers w.ere African American Soldiers during the Civil War
True
False
