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WorksheetsUltimate End of the year quizizz!
Total questions: 63
Worksheet time: 16hrs 45mins
Who was the author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Paine
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the commander of the Continental Army?
George Washington
Samuel Adams
James Madison
Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
George Washington
Ben Franklin
John Hancock
What is the Declaration of Independence
A document that gives Great Britain power to tax colonies
A document that declares the colonies independence from one another
A document that lists the reasons the colonists wanted to separate from Great Britain
What does the legislative branch of government do?
Make laws
Interpret laws
Enforce Laws
What does the executive branch of government do?
Make laws
Enforce laws
Interpret laws
What does the Judicial Branch do?
Make laws
interpret laws
enforce laws
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
10
12
8
________ is an addition or change to the Constitution
an amendment
a vesto
an appeal
When the president doesn't like a bill that Congress sends to him/her he/she can _________________ the bill.
save
veto
appeal
When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
July 4, 1776
June 25, 1776
April 18, 1776
How many Supreme Court Justices are there?
8
6
9
Who won the American Revolution
United States of America
Great Britain
Germany
________ believed that slavery should be ended.
masters
plantations
abolistionists
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beacher Stow
Robert E Lee
Dred Scott _____ his case in the Supreme Court
won
lost
Political machines gave out jobs and other benefits in exchange for ________.
steel
votes
equal pay for women
Why was the Sherman Antitrust passed?
to bail out the government
to regulate big business
to stop yellow journalism
Andrew Carnegie was a leading figure in the growth of the ________ industry.
steel
oil
automobile
Which of the following was a drawback of the Industrial Revolution?
The development of new consumer goods
The use of child labor
The development of the transcontinental railroad
If you worked on an assembly line, what might a typical day be like for you?
You'd perform the same task over and over.
You'd work deep underground, mining coal.
You'd spend your day building different parts of automobiles.
On the Wright brothers first flight, how long did the plane stay in the air for?
It didn't take off
12 seconds
13 hours
Where did the Wright brothers go to test their first airplane model?
Kitty Hawk, NC
Houston, TX
San Diego, CA
George Washington Carver experimented primarily with what two vegetables/ fruits?
sweet potatoes and peanuts
strawberries and Kiwi
Cashews and grapes
George Washington Carver worked at the Tuskegee Institute with what leader of the Gilded Age?
Booker T. Washington
J.P Morgan
Ida Tarbell
Frank and Charles Duryea are inventors of the:
automobile
lightbulb
airplane
Everyone had electricity in their homes right after Edison's invention:
true
false
What did people use for a light source prior to the light bulb being built
candles and oil lamps
flashlights
their phones
The first machine that could record a voice and then play it back was the ________
phonograph
telephone
recorder
Alexander Graham Bell was always interested in __________________
sound and speech
cars and engines
lights and energy
Formally withdrawing from the United States
To Confederate
Leaving
Secession
The bigger the ___________________ of a state the more electoral votes a state receives.
trees
ceiling fans
population
For the Plymouth settlers, "thanksgiving" referred to a day of:
feasting
prayer
conflict
mourning
The Plymouth settlement was built on:
untamed wilderness
an abandoned English town
A dead Wampanoag village
Some consider Thanksgiving a day of mourning because of:
The suffering of Native Americans
The hardships of the Plymouth settlers
The destruction of New England forests
The scars of the Civil War
The Separatists (later known as pilgrims) are people who:
Were loyal to the Church of England
Make a journey for religious reasons
Were crew member on the Mayflower
The ________________ was an agreement among the men of Plimith to govern themselves.
Patent
Order of the King
Mayflower Compact
What did people use to travel as a way to carry their supplies?
Car
Wagon
Train
Ship
The Five Tribes of the Civilized Nations were forced to move west and give up their land by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In the fall and winter of 1838 the Cherokee were forced to leave their homelands and move to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). This was called the trail of______________
sorrow
misery
tears
opportunity
Ben Franklin created a segmented snake in his primary source, "join or die," to encourage the colonies to ________ together against the French
unite
surrender
The Sugar Act was an attempt to raise money in the colonies to pay for the French and Indian War. Colonists did not want to pay the extra money for the tax on sugar. However, they were more angry about a larger issue. What were colonists so angry about?
The Indians helping the French in the war
Taxation without representation
Ms. Franklin telling them to go to class
The Stamp Act was a tax on all ________ items
paper
plastic
metal
The first Committee of Correspondence was formed by ____________
John Hancock
Paul Revere
Samuel Adams
The Townshend Acts placed taxes on the following items:
glass, paper, tea, and. fabric
glass, tea, paper, and paint
glass, paper, paint, and lumber
The Boston Massacre was a clash between ______ and _______
British Soldiers and Colonists
British Soldiers and Parliament
King George III and British Soldiers
On December 16, 1773, 342 crates of. tea were tossed into Boston Harbor in an act of rebellion. This act is now known as ______________
The Boston Massacre
The Stamp Act
The Boston Tea Party
In 1793 Eli Whitney built a [BLANK] to remove seeds from cotton
cotton gin
reaper
stagecoach
all of the above
An immigrant is ...
a person who lives in a country in which he or she was not born
a person who live in a country he or she was born in
a person who is on vacation
The Industrial Revolution was...
a period of rapid invention, when machines began to do work people once did
a period in time when there was no regulation on child labor in factories
a time where many people started moving to the cities to work
all of the above
What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?
United States and Soviet Union
England and France
Germany and Italy
What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
North American Treaty Organization
North American Truce Organization
Korea was a _________________ of Japan until the end of WWII.
colony
territory
country
