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5th grade semester 1 final exam 2020

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which is the capitol of Pennsylvania?
a)
Albany
b)
Harrisburg
c)
Hartford
2.
What is the state for the capitol Concord?
a)
New Jersey
b)
New York
c)
New Hampshire
3.
In what state is the capital Austin?
a)
Oklahoma
b)
Texas
c)
Maine
d)
Delaware
4.
In what state is the capital Tallahassee?
a)
Tennessee
b)
Oklahoma
c)
Louisiana
d)
Florida
5.
California
a)
Sacramento
b)
Phoenix
c)
Boise
d)
Helena
6.
Alaska
a)
Salt Lake City
b)
Santa Fe
c)
Juneau
d)
Sacramento
7.

Who was was the leader of the Mexican Army?

4 lines
8.

On what date was the Alamo captured by the Mexican Army?

a)

March 6, 1836

b)

February 24, 1836

c)

March 7, 1836

d)

February 28, 1836

9.

What battle cry would rally the Texans after the defeat at the Alamo?

4 lines
10.

What was the Alamo before it became a fort?

a)

A mission

b)

A Native American village

c)

A plantation mansion

d)

A palace

11.
Who won the Battle of the Alamo?
a)
Mexico
b)
Texans
12.
I am the Commander of the Texas Army and died while leading my men at the Alamo. 
a)
 Jim Bowie
b)
William B. Travis
c)
David Crockett
d)
Coach Butcher
13.

What impact did the railroads have on Native Americans?

a)

the railroads helped the Native Americans move east

b)

Native Americans got jobs on the railroads

c)

the railroads limited their land and decreased their food supply and resources

d)

the railroads increased the amount of land the Native Americans had

14.

What was the cause of a town becoming a ghost town?

a)

the gold runs out in the local mine

b)

the railroad moves its station away from the town

c)

both

d)

none of the above

15.

I am an Exoduster and I chose to move west in hopes of finally owning land. I was also trying to escape the KKK.

4 lines
16.
What is the Pony Express?
a)
The name of a horse
b)
A new town
c)
A way to deliver mail
d)
A horse race
17.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
a)
All NA had to move to Europe
b)
All NA had to move to Canada
c)
all NA east of the Mississippi are forced to move to a territory in Oklahoma
d)
All NA west of the Mississippi River had to move to Oklahoma
18.

Land set aside by the U.S. Government for Native American tribes

a)

boomtown

b)

reservation

c)

frontier

d)

Great Plains

19.
Which present-day state were most of the Native Americans relocated to during the 1830s?
a)
Georgia
b)
North Carolina
c)
Oklahoma
d)
Mississippi
20.
What was the verdict of Worcester v. Georgia?
a)
Georgia laws must be followed on Cherokee land
b)
The Cherokee must be relocated to Indian Reservations
c)
The Cherokee can keep their land forever
d)
Georgia laws do not apply on Cherokee land
21.

What is the idea that American should spread across the North American continent known as?

4 lines
22.
Which Native American tribe is being described?
*lived in Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia
*Chief John Ross
*Capital was New Echota
a)
Creek
b)
Seminole
c)
Chicksaw
d)
Cherokee
23.
Starting with President ___, there were attempts to move Native Americans westward.
a)
Jefferson
b)
Madison
c)
Monroe
d)
Jackson
24.
Approximately ___ Cherokees died along the Trail of Tears.
a)
400
b)
1,000
c)
4,000
d)
16,000
25.

The Indian Removal Act led to the event known in History as....

a)

The Trail of Tears

b)

The trail of Death

c)

The Crying Path

d)

The Journey of Loss

26.
What president arranged the Louisiana Purchase?
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
George Washington 
c)
Andrew Jackson
d)
William Henry Harrison
27.
The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from what country?
a)
Great Britain
b)
France
c)
Russia
d)
Spain
28.

How much did the United States pay for the Louisiana Territory?

4 lines
29.
Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States so that he could pay for a war against
a)
France
b)
Great Britain 
c)
Spain
d)
Russia
30.
When did the United States of America purchase the territory of Louisiana?
a)
1703
b)
1903
c)
1803
d)
1813
31.
Which port did Jefferson want to control?
a)
Savannah
b)
New Orleans
c)
Mexico
d)
Mississippi
32.
What is represented by "A" on this map?
a)
Missouri River
b)
Mississippi River
c)
Ohio River
d)
Columbia River
33.
What is represented by "4" on this map?
a)
The United States (before 1803)
b)
Louisiana Purchase
c)
Disputed territory (between Britain, the United States, Russia, and Spain)
d)
Land controlled by the British (what is Canada today)
34.
 What year did the gold rush in California begin? 
a)
1492
b)
1619
c)
1776
d)
1848
35.
Where was gold first discovered in California?
a)
Sutters Mill
b)
San Fransisco
c)
San Diego
d)
Sacramento
36.
What was the nickname for people who moved to California during the gold rush? 
a)
Surfers
b)
Coasters
c)
Forty Niners
d)
Raiders
37.

Which state became our nation's thirty-first state in 1850?

a)

Oregon

b)

Washington

c)

Texas

d)

California

38.

Why did the telegraph replace the Pony Express?

a)

the telegraph was more harder to use

b)

Pony Express riders went on strike

c)

weren't enough horses availble in the United States

d)

the telegraph could deliver messages more quickly than the Pony Express could

39.

Mexican and Chinese miners worked hard and found a lot of gold, but they also faced discrimination. What is discrimination?

a)

unfair treatment of people based on their race, gender, age, or other characteristic

b)

given fair treatment

c)

when others help each other out

d)

treating others like you want to be treated

40.
Which word means to leave or become unassociated with?
a)
Secede
b)
Ironclad
c)
Border State
d)
Casualty
41.

The name given to the North

a)

Confederacy

b)

Rebels

c)

Union

d)

Revolutionaries

42.
Which of the following was an advantage that the Union had?
a)
Smarter Generals
b)
Defensive Strategy
c)
More Troops
d)
Highly Motivated
43.

Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all of the slaves in America?

a)

Yes

b)

No

44.
Who won the Civil War?
a)
Union
b)
Confederates
45.

The name given to the South

a)

Confederacy

b)

Rebels

c)

Union

d)

Revolutionaries

46.

California being admitted as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law are both part of

a)

The Missouri Compromise of 1820

b)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

The Compromise of 1850

d)

The Nullification Act

47.

The Dred Scott case determined that slaves

a)

could sue for their freedom with enough proof.

b)

would be freed if they lived in the Northern states.

c)

were property and could not bring a case before the court.

d)

could travel freely with their master's permission.

48.
The first state to leave the Union after the Election of 1860 was...
a)
South Carolina
b)
North Carolina
c)
Georgia
d)
Mississippi
49.
Who was the abolitionist who raided the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia and further heightened sectionalism by adding to the slave owner's fear of a revolt?
a)
John Brown
b)
Dred Scott
c)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
d)
Andrew Jackson
50.
This was the first battle of the Civil War
a)
Yorktown
b)
Bull Run
c)
Appomattox
d)
Gettysburg

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