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Past and Present Assessment

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

_____________ means being free from other people and places.

a)

Pilgrims

b)

Past

c)

History

d)

Independence

2.

A __________ is person who lives in a colony.

a)

Native

b)

tradition

c)

timeline

d)

colonist

3.

The ____________ is a holiday that honors the Declaration of Independence.

a)

4th of July

b)

inventor

c)

future

d)

history

4.

____________ Americans were the first people to live in America.

a)

past

b)

Native

c)

president

d)

tradition

5.

A ___________ is a special way of doing something that is passed down over time.

a)

timeline

b)

tradition

c)

4th of July

d)

colonist

6.

The Pilgrims built a ________ called Plymouth.

a)

timeline

b)

colony

c)

future

d)

president

7.

__________ is the study of things that have happened in the past.

a)

tradition

b)

history

c)

colony

d)

future

8.

An ________ is someone who makes an invention.

a)

president

b)

Native

c)

colonist

d)

inventor

9.

A __________ is a line that shows the order in which things happen.

a)

timeline

b)

inventor

c)

colonist

d)

future

10.

The ___________ is the time before now.

a)

present

b)

past

c)

future

d)

timeline

11.

What do we call the time we live in right now?

a)

present

b)

past

c)

future

d)

timeline

12.

Which of these is a way that communities change over time?

a)

people eat in resaurants

b)

families spend time together

c)

more roads and houses

d)

families shop in stores

13.

Why did people in the colonies have a war with England?

a)

to become part of England

b)

to grow more food

c)

to have a new king

d)

to make their own laws

14.

Today we buy our clothes at a store in the past people _____.

a)

made their own clothes

b)

shopped online

c)

went to Target

d)

had Grandma buy them

15.
a)

past

b)

present

c)

future

16.
a)
past
b)
present
c)
future
17.

What is history?

a)

History tells the story of people and places from the past.

b)

History tells the story of people and places from the future.

18.

Which of these leaders helped write the the Declaration of Independence?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

LeBron James

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Paul Revere

19.

What did Thomas Edison invent?

a)

the light bulb

b)

the wheel

c)

the computer

d)

the telephone

20.

Technology makes peoples' lives easier.

a)

true

b)

false