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Social Studies Test

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
a)

Taxes

b)

Debt

c)

Debt and taxes

d)

none of the above

2.
a)

Georgia was poor

b)

They relied on England for trade

c)

Georgia didn’t rely on trade with England

d)

georgia Didn’t have trade

3.
a)

The war began in Georgia and spread to New England

b)

Georgia didn’t have a war

c)

The war stayed in New England

d)

The war began in New England and spread to other colonies

4.
a)

King decree moved georgia’s border further south also forbade colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

b)

King decree moved Georgia border south.

c)

He allowed colonist to travel west of the Appalachian mountains

d)

All of the above

5.
a)

Stamp Act

b)

The revolutionary war

c)

Proclamation

d)

none Of the above

6.
a)

Men who fault in the war

b)

Men who signed the Declaration of independence

c)

Men who signed the treaty

d)

Men who died due to the cause of the major disease from the revolutionary war

7.
a)

The meaning of the Stamp Act

b)

To publicly declare independence from Great Britain

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

A list of grievances against the king England

8.
a)

To cause the revolutionary war

b)

To allow the Stamp Act

c)

To publicly declare independence from Great Britain

d)

To stop the revolutionary war

9.
a)

John Ross

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

John Marshall

10.

Which statement BEST describes the meaning of the cartoon?

a)

The colonies could not survive if they were not united against Britain

b)

Great Britain would kill people.

c)

Snakes would kill people who did wrong

d)

None of the above

11.

Which of the following best describes loyalist?

a)

To turn on Great Britain

b)

To publicly declare independence from Great Britain

c)

Colonist would trade their goods

d)

Colonist supported the king of England George the third and wanted to remain part of Great Britain.

12.

Which statement best describes the siege of Savannah

a)

To prevent trade from happening in the capital of savannah

b)

Allowing trade in the capital savannah

c)

American forces tried to capture the capital of Georgia last running in preventing any supplies from reaching the city

d)

None of the above

13.

Who was the leader of the militia who led the forces at the battle of kettle Creek?

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Elijah Clark

c)

Button Gwinnett

d)

George Walton

14.

Which of the following groups did not support the King George III

a)

Patriots

b)

Loyalist

c)

All of the above

d)

None of the above

15.

Who is the soldier of the mixed bird who were seriously wounded at the battle of kettle Creek or saving Elijah Clarke’s life?

a)

Abraham Baldwin

b)

William few

c)

Austin Dabney

d)

Lyman Hall

16.

The list of work we used to explain which of the following?

a)

Battle of kettle Creek

b)

The revolutionary war

c)

Weakness in the articles of confederation that lead to a need to revise the articles

d)

Stamp Act

17.

Which of the following describes what the great compromise was about?

a)

Set all the issues between large and small states regarding representation in Congress

b)

To try and set issues but only ace the worse

c)

None of the above

d)

All of the above

18.

Which compromise between northern and southern states resolve the issues of counting slaves towards population?

a)

2/5 compromise

b)

1/5 compromise

c)

3/5 compromise

d)

4/5 compromise

19.

Why was Georgias capital moved to Louisville

a)

To move it to the Atlanta

b)

To create savanna

c)

More of George’s residence to live further away from Savannah therefore it would make sense to move the capital to a central location

d)

More of George’s residence live further away from Atlanta therefore it would make sense to move the capital to Western location

20.

As more settlers moved into Georgia the capital move several times. The first capital was savanna followed by……

a)

Louisville Atlanta August the Milledgeville

b)

Augusta Louisville Milledgeville and Atlanta

c)

Atlanta August the Louisville Milledgeville

d)

None of the above

21.

Which statement describes the controversy surrounding the Yazzo land fraud

a)

To be nice

b)

To make natives turn on their own tribe

c)

State leaders were bribed to sell the land to companies

d)

To cause the killing of a creek chief

22.

According to the graph the relationship between slave population in cotton production was?

a)

As slavery populations decreased Cotton production increased

b)

As slavery populations increase cotton production increase

23.

Why was Eli Whitney‘s invention of the cotton gin important?

a)

It made cotton production more profitable leading to the expansion of slavery

b)

It stopped slavery

c)

It made cotton production easier not leading expansion of slavery

d)

all of the above

24.

Why was William McIntosh a creek chief murdered by his own people?

a)

He bribed the US government

b)

He sold his tribes land by signing a treaty giving up the last creek land in Georgia federal government

c)

Decided to be saving the last land

d)

All of the above

25.

The intent of the Indian removal act was to?

a)

Push the native Americans to the eastern United States

b)

To save the Indians

c)

Remove the Native Americans from the eastern United States

d)

remove Indians completely

26.

Who was the trail of tears caused by?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Thomas jefferson