Worksheets8th GRADE SEMESTER 1 FINAL US HISTORY
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 53mins
The Treaty of Paris gave the newly formed United States all land east of which geographic landmark?
The Appalachian Mountains
The Ohio River
The Mississippi River
The Missouri River
On what date was the Declaration of Independence approved?
July 4, 1976
July 4, 1776
September 17, 1787
December 25, 1775
What are unalienable rights?
Rights that government cannot take away
Rights that government takes away
rights for aliens
Government is needed to promote equality
The trade system developed by the colonies between Europe, the Americas and Africa was called...
Salutary or Benign Neglect
Mercantilism
Triangular Trade
Navigation Acts
What was the Columbian Exchange?
An exchange of culture, plants, people, livestock, and diseases between the "Old" world and "New" world
The voyages that Columbus began
A trip that took Columbus many years
Going on vacation from one continent to the other
What is one reason Native American Indian tribes developed different forms of shelter?
The geography of the region
The interactions with European explorers
The relationship with surrounding Native American Indian Tribes.
The access that the Native American Indian Tribes had to the Bering Land Bridge
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
The Bill of Rights
The ten commandments
The ten amendments
The ten blind mice
When is America's Independence Day?
July 1
July 3
July 4
July 10
What did the Declaration of Independence do?
declared our independence form France
declared our independence from spain
declared our independence from Great Britain
declared our independence from Germany
How many senators are there?
50
100
2
435
Why do some states have more representation than others?
Pre decided
Voted on
Population
Trump
Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
The Spanish
The French
The Native Americans/American Indians
The Conquistadors
What group of people were taken to America and sold as slaves?
The French
The Africans
The Natives
The Islanders
The Constitution was written in which year?
1776
1786
1787
1990
Name the two longest rivers in the United States.
Missouri
Ohio
Mississippi
Louisiana
What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
Indian
Pacific
Atlantic
Arctic
What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
Arctic
Southern Ocean
Pacific
Atlantic
What is the capital of the United States?
Washington DC
Denver Colorado
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Greensboro South Carolina
Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
13 wars fought
13 original colonies
13 territories received from Great Britain
13 presidents
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
1
5
6
10
The first government of the new United States. It was very weak.
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Executive Branch
What is the U.S Constitution?
Supreme law of the land
An amendment
A system of government
A group of people who make laws
What group emerged to protest, sometimes violently, the economic policies of Britain?
Boston Elite
Sons of Liberty
Colonial Army
Gorilla Warfare
His engraving of the Boston Massacre is a great example of propaganda.
Samuel Adams
Paul Revere
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
As a response to the Tea Act, members of the Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Native Americans and threw crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. This event is known as the ______________________________________.
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Massachusetts Tea Party
The British Tea Party
What is Propaganda?
Information that is biased or misleading
The unjust use of power
a formal agreement between nations
to take back
What was the purpose of the Albany Plan of Union?
To Unite the 13 colonies
To organize against British rule
To create a constitution
To separate the colonies.
After the French and Indian war, who claimed most of Canada and land east of the Mississippi River?
Spain
France
Britain
Denmark
The British had many advantages in the war, including ____.
home field advantage
support of the French
men anxious to be in the army
a strong navy and well-trained army
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
George Washington
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
John Hancock
What officially ended the American Revolution and recognized the United States as an independent nation?
The Treaty of Paris of 1783
The Battle of Yorktown
The Treaty of France of 1492
The Treaty of Versailles of 1783
What are the beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular group of people?
Culture
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnocentrism
Ratification
What important geographic feature is this?
Rocky Mountains
Appalachian Mountains
Great Plains
Mississippi River
What important geographic feature is this?
Gulf of Mexico
Great Lakes
Atlantic Ocean
Mississippi River
Which European power typically established friendly relationships with Native Americans?
Spain
England
France
none of the above
What was the main economic reason for starting colonies in the New World?
Take the Native American weapons and use them to conquer Europe
Build a vast network on roads that allowed Europeans to trade anywhere in America
Capture all Native Americans and send them to Europe as personal slaves
Use the colonies to make money and resources that would be sent back to Europe
The major economic activities of the Middle Colonies included
Farming grains, livestock, mining, and trading.
large scale plantations with tobacco, rice and indigo farming.
Small farms, merchants, craftsman, boatbuilding, whaling, lumber, and fishing.
the Importation and trade of slaves.
This colonial region had Large plantations grew crops like tobacco, rice, and cotton.
New England
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, supporters of the Virginia plan and supporters of the New Jersey plan differed over the method for...
determining congressional representation
selecting the president's cabinet
adopting the amendment process
giving powers to the executive branch
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the Great Compromise between the large states and the small states resulted in...
the creation of a bicameral legislature
a provision for equal protection of the laws
a permanent solution to the slavery issue
the guarantee of voting rights for all male property owners
- A bicameral legislature is created in which states have equal representation in the Senate, but representation in the House depends on population.
- An enslaved person is counted as three-fifths of one person for purposes of both representation and taxation. These two statements describe.
These two statements describe:
grievances included in the Declaration of Independence
provisions found in the Articles of Confederation
compromises reached at the Constitutional Convention
amendments included in the Bill of Rights
What was the main reason why people settled in the New England colonies?
Religious freedom
Excellent fertile soil in the region
Gold was found in the region
To expand England’s political dominance
What did Federalists add to the Constitution to please the Anti-Federalists, and thereby pass the Constitution?
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
Great Compromise
New Jersey Plan
Which statement accurately describes the reasons for establishing Plymouth and Jamestown?
Both colonies were established to bring wealth to stockholders.
Plymouth’s founders intended to produce raw materials, while Jamestown’s founders expected to discover gold.
Both colonies were established to limit the expansion of other European empires.
Plymouth was founded as a refuge from religious persecution, while Jamestown was founded for commercial profit.
The long cold winters in the ____________________ colonies was not ideal for growing cash crops, so they focused on Shipbuilding, fishing & whaling instead.
New England
Middle
Southern
What three "unalienable rights" were given by the Declaration of Independence?
Life, Liberty, and Religion
Guns, Religion, and Property
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Liberty, Life, and Fraternity
