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History quiz

Total questions: 90

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Archaeology?

a)

the study of how arches are made

b)

The study of ancient peoples through artifacts

c)

the tools weapons and artifacts that people left behind

d)

the study of the ancient peoples by looking at their skeletons

e)

the study of the environment at the time of specific events

2.

What are Nomads?

a)

a group of people who were never mad

b)

a group of people who always stayed in one place

c)

a group of people who traveled with their food source

d)

a group of people who kept their members from going mad

e)

a fake group, they didn't exist

3.

What are Civilizations?

a)

a group of people who combined izations and civil rights

b)

a group of people who lived in a cave without any rules or lives

c)

they were highly developed societies

d)

societies that were not developed at all

4.

What is the Definition of a Theocracy?

a)

A society ruled by religious leaders

b)

A group of people who worship a god named theo

c)

A symbol or picture that represented a thing sound or idea.

d)

a work of art

5.

What is an Irrigation System?

a)

a society of irritating alligators

b)

an efficient way of watering crops by bringing the water to them

c)

a village

d)

a place of worship

6.

What were the Crusades?

a)

An adventure in Indiana Jones

b)

an attempt by the Europeans to take back christian holy lands from the Muslims

c)

Classical works

d)

the renaissance

7.

What was the Renaissance?

a)

just a weird word

b)

a game made up by aliens

c)

a french word that means rebirth

d)

a fancy person party

8.

True or False

Technology means to use knowledge for practical purposes

a)

True

b)

False

9.

True or False:

Conquistadors were american explorers who went to explore the new world

a)

True

b)

False

10.

What happened to the settlers of Roanoke?

a)

They were brutally murdered by vicious land sharks

b)

Nobody knows

c)

They all died

d)

they went to sleep for a thousand years

11.

What is a joint stock company?

a)

the stock market

b)

a place to buy stocks

c)

a place to put stocks together for people to be trapped in

d)

a company in which the owners bought shares or part ownership

12.

What is the definition of Persecution?

a)

killing someone with a purse

b)

mistreating someone because of their beliefs

c)

hold or express opinions that are at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially expressed.

d)

religious toleration

13.

True or False:

New Amsterdam was a port city

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Delaware was once a part of which state

a)

New Mexico

b)

the state of shock

c)

Pennsylvania

d)

New York

15.

Which religious group founded Pennsylvania?

a)

LDS

b)

Quakers

c)

Catholic

d)

Christian

16.

What are cash crops?

a)

Crops that sold easily in markets

b)

crops that grow moneys

c)

crops that did not sell easily in markets

d)

crops that were grown by slaves

17.

What is Diversity?

a)

Variety, Such as of ethnic or national groups

b)

producing just enough to meet immediate needs

c)

Crops that sold easily in markets

d)

tobacco and rice

18.

What were the principal cash crops in Maryland and Virginia?

a)

Tobacco

b)

Rice

c)

Cotton

d)

Wheat

19.

What were Slave Codes?

a)

Rules focusing on the behavior and punishment of enslaved people

b)

The code for the Padlock that held the slaves in chains

c)

an identification number for a slave

d)

a Trade route between three destinations, such as Britain, west Africa, and the west indies

20.

What is a Representative Government?

a)

a system by which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government

b)

The English Bill of Rights

c)

an economic theory whose goal is building a state's wealth and power by increasing exports and accumulating precious metals in return

d)

to bring in from foreign markets

21.

What were Writs of Assistance?

a)

A court document allowing customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods

b)

Papers which assisted you in whatever ways that you want

c)

incoming money from taxes or other sources

d)

to prevent or forbid

22.

Who was the first colonist to be killed in the Boston Massacre?

a)

George Washington

b)

Benedict Arnold

c)

Crispus Attucks

d)

Nathan Hale

23.

In September 1774, fifty-five delegates gathered in Philadelphia, This was the...

a)

the Judicial branch

b)

Continantal Congrees

c)

Continental Congress

d)

The meeting of Guadalupe Hidalgo

24.

What was the colonies main force against the British other than local militias

a)

The Colonists Army

b)

The Colonial Army

c)

The Continental Army

d)

The American Army

25.

Who Commanded the Continental Army?

a)

George Washington

b)

John Hancock

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

Paul Revere

26.

What was the Main Advantage for the British during the American Revolution?

a)

Their troops were trained

b)

They had the Strongest Navy in the World

c)

They had a Lot of money after the French-Indian war

d)

Their troops were the best in the world

27.

In the Winter of 1778, Where did General George Washington set up camp?

a)

Delaware

b)

Valley Force

c)

Valley Forge

d)

Bunker Hill

28.

What is a Blockade?

a)

A flavor of Gatorade that let the American troops block the British from taking over land

b)

a measure that keeps a country from communicating and trading with other nations

c)

a form of military strategy that involved Building a wall around a country to stop trading and immigrants from getting in

d)

A strategy in which no-one can get Gatorade

29.

What helped the Americans win the Revolutionary war?

a)

Their better trained troops

b)

Guerrilla Warfare

c)

Their superior money

d)

Everyone willing to help

30.

What treaty ended the American Revolution?

a)

The Treaty of Peaceful Revolution

b)

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

c)

The Treaty of Paris

31.

After the Revolutionary war, the states adopted which kind of system to spread power between the governor and the legislature?

a)

unicameral

b)

Multicultural

c)

Bicameral

d)

Single Ruler

32.

What was the First Document of Government Before the U.S. Constitution?

a)

The U.S Constitution of Confederation

b)

The Articles of Confederation

c)

The First Constitution

d)

the Previous Constitution

33.

After the American Revolution, The U.S. went through an economic depression, what does this mean?

a)

The money all is destroyed

b)

When everybody in the Country is too depressed to go to work and the economy fails

c)

a period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases

d)

Everything in the economy slows

34.

Thomas Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of Independence based on many of philosophies of Which European Philosopher

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Franklin Horne

c)

John Locke

d)

Joshua Flimashoot

35.

What is an Amendment?

a)

a change, correction, or improvement added to a document

b)

A change, making a document worse

c)

a Change to a document

d)

an incorrect assumption

36.

True or False:

Popular Sovereignty is he belief that government is subject to the will of the people

a)

True

b)

False

37.

True or False:

A Limited Government is, government with limited powers strictly defined by law

a)

True

b)

False

38.

What are Enumerated Powers?

a)

power specifically given Congress in the Constitution

b)

power specifically given to the House of Representatives in the Constitution

c)

power specifically given to the President in the Constitution

39.

What are Reserved Powers?

a)

power belonging only to the states

b)

power belonging only to the Government

c)

power belonging only to the President

d)

Power to impose taxes

40.

What is the Separation of Powers?

a)

A system to make sure that the government has no power over the people

b)

a principle by which powers are divided among different branches of government to make sure no one branch has too much power

41.

In what year did George Washington swear into office?

a)

1879

b)

1798

c)

1789

d)

1897

42.

True or False:

a Precedent is not something done or said that becomes an example for others to follow

a)

True

b)

False

43.

What is the Cabinet?

a)

A Box hung on the wall to store things

b)

a group of advisers to a president

c)

a group of people who help the president or other figure of power

d)

a group of people who help the population of a country

44.

What cause the Whiskey Rebellion?

a)

a group of drunk citizens

b)

a tax on a specific kind of alcohol made from wheat called whiskey

c)

Angered tax collectors

d)

a group of drunk tax collectors

45.

What does a Partisan do?

a)

take all the parts in a school play

b)

A citizen who parties all the time

c)

firmly favors one party or faction

d)

firmly flavors one party or faction

46.

Who really elects the President?

a)

the people

b)

a group of electors called the electoral college

c)

the electoral people

d)

the house of representatives

47.

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?

a)

The Gadsden purchase

b)

the Louisiana purchase

c)

the French-American Purchase

d)

the American-French Purchase

48.

True or False:

Neutral rights are privileges or freedoms that are granted to nations that do not choose a side in a conflict

a)

True

b)

False

49.

What year was the War of 1812?

a)

1811

b)

1812

c)

1813

d)

1814

50.

What is the Responsibility of the Judiciary Branch of government?

a)

to interpret the law

b)

to enforce the law

c)

to make the law

51.

What was the biggest invention of Eli Whitney?

a)

interchangeable parts

b)

The cotton gin

c)

the steel plow

d)

mills

52.

What did the Cotton gin do?

a)

It removed cotton from the plant that it grew on

b)

It quickly and easily removed the seeds from picked cotton and allowed a huge increase in cotton production.

c)

it was a car that had an engine that ran on cotton

53.

False or True:

Technology is equipment that makes use of advanced knowledge and skill to solve a problem or do a task

a)

False

b)

True

54.

True or False:

A Patent is sole legal right to an invention and its profits

a)

True

b)

False

55.

True or False:

Capitalism is an economic system in which people and companies own the means of production

a)

True

b)

False

56.

True or False:

a Favorite Son was a candidate for national office who has support mostly from his or her home state

a)

True

b)

False

57.

True or False:

Mudslinging was a method in election campaigns that uses gossip and lies to make an opponent look bad

a)

True

b)

False

58.

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

a)

True

b)

False

59.

Who was the President who organized the Trail of Tears?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

George W. Bush

d)

John Adams

60.

What were Nominating Conventions?

a)

Where Citizens from a state choose the president

b)

where delegates from the states chose the party's presidential candidate.

c)

When members of the house of representatives choose new representatives

d)

When members of the Senate choose candidates for the presidential election

61.

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?

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Growth and Expansion

c)

The Enlightenment

d)

The Renaissance

62.

True or False:

Joint occupation is a situation in which people from two countries can occupy an area

a)

True

b)

False

63.

What were Mountain Men?

a)

Men who lived by themselves in the desert

b)

Fur collectors and trappers who lived in Britain

c)

tough, independent men spent most of their time in the Rocky Mountains

d)

Men who were as big as a mountain

64.

Under who did Texas become a state in the U.S.

a)

Sam Houston

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Paul McCartney

d)

William Clark

65.

True or False:

To annex something (Such as Texas) is to to add a territory to one’s own territory

a)

True

b)

False

66.

True or false:

Clipper ships were ship with sleek hulls and tall sails that “clipped” time from long journey

a)

True

b)

False

67.

What was a telegraph?

a)

a system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet

b)

a device used to quickly separate seeds from cotton

c)

a device that used electric signals to send messages

d)

a system in which boats can travel across land using man-made waterways

68.

True or False:

Morse code was a code that used a series of 1s and 0s to represent on and off

a)

True

b)

False, it was a system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet

69.

True or False:

Trade unions were groups of workers with the same trade, or skill

a)

True

b)

False, they were groups of merchants who traveled together and traded together

70.

What was a consequence of using the cotton gin?

a)

it increased the amount of freed slaves in the south

b)

It made trading cotton less profitable

c)

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.

d)

It made slaves work harder for the same amount of cotton

71.

Which term matches the definition?

refusing to obey laws considered unjust

a)

Civil rights

b)

Civil disobedience

c)

Going on strike

d)

Violent protest

72.

Who were Abolitionists?

a)

A person who wanted to keep slaves in captivity to keep them from ruining the economy

b)

A person who supported Civil war

c)

A person who wanted slavery to never end

d)

a person who sought the end of slavery in the United States in the early 1800s

73.

Who was the famous abolitionist who created the newspaper "the north star"

a)

William Loyd Garrison

b)

Fredrick Douglas

c)

John Brown

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

74.

Which abolitionist was willing to go to violent means to end slavery?

a)

William Loyd Garrison

b)

Fredrick Douglas

c)

John Brown

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

75.

What does Suffrage mean?

a)

the right to form workers unions

b)

The right to vote

c)

the right to form trade unions

d)

the right to bear arms

76.

Which state was the first to secede from the union?

a)

Georgia

b)

South Carolina

c)

North Carolina

d)

Maryland

77.

True or False:

a Martyr is a person who dies for a cause

a)

True

b)

False, it was a well-known religious person

78.

What does secession mean?

a)

to leave

b)

to withdrawal

c)

to give up

d)

to stop participating in

79.

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

a)

States' rights

b)

separation of powers

c)

implied powers

d)

enumerated powers

80.

What was the law that would require every state to return runaway slaves

a)

the great compromise

b)

Fugitive slave law

c)

the Missouri compromise

d)

Checks and balances

81.

Who was the president during the civil war?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

George Washington

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

82.

Which states were the four Border States?

a)

Delaware, Maryland

b)

Delaware, Kansas

c)

Maryland, Virginia

d)

Kentucky, Missouri

e)

Illinois, Kentucky

83.

What was the plan, developed by General Winfield Scott, to surround the southern states to stop trade and economy?

a)

the Viper Plan

b)

The Squeeze Plan

c)

The Anaconda Plan

d)

The Northern Plan

84.

What was the southern capital during the Civil War?

a)

The District of Columbia

b)

Richmond, Virginia

c)

Kansas City, illinois

d)

Atlanta, Georgia

85.

True or False:

an Ironclad was a train reinforced with iron for better defense.

a)

True

b)

False, it was a warship equipped with iron plating for protection

86.

True or False:

Amnesty is the granting of a pardon to a large number of persons

a)

True

b)

False, it was the punishment to a large number of persons

87.

True or False:

To impeach is to to formally charge a public official with misconduct in office

a)

True

b)

False, it was to take a peach away from them

88.

True or False:

Segregation is the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group

a)

True

b)

False, it was to keep a system of water away from your plants for agricultural use

89.

What was a Poll Tax?

a)

a tax when you go through a poll booth

b)

a tax a person must pay in order to vote

c)

a tax on the voting machines

d)

a tax on the use of voting machines

90.

True or false:

Buffalo soldiers w.ere African American Soldiers during the Civil War

a)

True

b)

False