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WorksheetsSocial Studies Benchmark Review
Total questions: 53
Worksheet time: 27mins
The United States borders which two countries?
Canada and Central America
Central America and Europe
West America and East America
Canada and Mexico
Which state can claim to have the highest point in the United States?
California
Colorado
Washington
Alaska
The great lakes border the United States and __________
Canada
Mexico
Florida
Brazil
How did the first Native Americans come to North America?
They migrated from what is now Mexico
They crossed a land bridge from Asia
They arrived by ships
They arrived by horseback
What was the first permanent European settlement?
Jamestown
New Haven
Plymouth
St. Augustine
What event led to the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Louisiana Purchase
Spanish-American War
Oregon Trail
Manifest Destiny
What do Rosa Parks and MLK Jr have in common?
Both were leaders in the Civil Rights movement
Both fought for the right of women to vote
Both worked on aircrafts during WWII
Both were killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center
Which of the following is a major benefit of the U.S. free enterprise system?
no competition
private property
limited capital
social programs
Which two countries joined with the US to create the world's largest free trade area?
Mexico and China
Mexico and Canada
Brazil and Canada
China and Canada
What was the goal of the abolitionist movement?
to end the practice of slavery entirely
to punish slaveholders
to regulate the cotton industry
to free slaves who had been imprisoned
The check and balances system outlined in the US Constitution were created to allow the three branches to ___
raise money through taxes
function independently
control the actions of state governments
prevent each other from gaining too much power; limits the power of each other
Popular sovereignty, a principle set forth is the Constitution, means that
People DON'T elect their political representatives
Power is divided between national and state governments
The source of the government's power comes from the people, usually through voting
Each branch of government has its own responsibilities
________ means to approve by voting
ratify
nullification
suffrage
segregation
________ is the right or privilege of voting; women wanted to vote!
segregation
suffrage
socialism
great compromise
_________ is to separate people based on race, ethnic group, or religion.
suffrage
socialism
segregation
sectionalism
_________ was a leader in the struggle for women's rights and women's suffrage movement. Women wanted the right to vote!
Martha Washington
Marian Anderson
Bessie Coleman
Susan B. Anthony
This was a nonviolent American protest against the British Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Nullification Party
Tariff
Virginia Tea Party
The "Great Charter" of English liberties forced from King John by the English barons in 1215. This became the role model for any fundamental constitution or law guaranteeing right and liberties, such as trial by jury and fair tax.
tariff
Magna Carta
suffrage
socialism
Who was the King of England during the American Revolution?
King Frederick IV
King Malcolm V
King George III
King John II
Our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This was expressed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.
segregation
socialism
unalienable rights
sectionalism
The struggle by which the 13 American colonies, led by George Washington, won independence from Great Britain and became the United States of America.
American Revolution
Magna Carta
Declaration of Independence
Suffrage
A form of government that is run for the people by the people, giving people the supreme power. The US bases their government system off this idea.
dictatorship
facism
socialism
democracy
Met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from May-June 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed in the Articles of Confederation.
Manifest Destiny
Mercantilism
Constitutional Convention of 1787
Treaty
The Judicial, Executive, and Legislative are called what?
The Big 3
Legislative Branch
the three judges
The 3 branches of government
The wife of John Adams and the second first lady of the US. She was the mother of John Quincy Adams and helped start what would be known as the Women's Rights Movement.
Martha Washington
Abigail Adams
Rosa Parks
Rhonda Adams
An escaped slave who became a leader in the anti-slavery (abolitionist) movement in America. He was an orator, writer, and political leader.
Tyke Martin
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
MLK Jr.
Movement started in Great Britain in the late 1700s which increases productivity and lowered prices by using machines to make goods rather than making them by hand. This led to great change in the way work was done and how people lived.
Urbanization
Mercantilism
Industrial Revolution
Rural
French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution. He was a statesman and a liberal leader. He later took the ideals he learned in the American Revolution back to France and became a prominent leader in the French Revolution.
Marquis de Lafayette
Cherisse Neal
James Hamilton
Frederick Douglass
Was the Spanish hero of the American Revolutionary War and was the Governor of the Spanish colony of Louisiana from 1775-1783
Santa Anna
Miguel Vera
Bernardo De Galvez
Oscar Lopez
An inventor, statesman, diplomat, signer of the the Declaration of Independence, and Delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
Theodore Roosevelt
Martin Luther King
Benjamin Franklin
George Bush
This amendment gives the 5 freedoms: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
10th amendment
1st amendment
4th amendment
3rd amendment
Which of the following is a characteristic of fascism?
military dictatorship
nationalist sentiment
exploitation of people's fear
all of the above
Which of the following is the best example of propaganda?
a television show about a family who lives in Italy under Mussolini
a billboard saying that Russians are well fed while they are actually starving
an invitation to a rally for workers rights sent in the mail
a letter from one German Jew to another warning of the government's anti-semitism
In FDR's inaugural address, he said "The only thing we have to fear is________"
fear itself
truth
terror
the Depression
How did Adolf Hitler win the support of the German people?
He formed a secret alliance
He blamed groups like the Jews for Germany's economic and social programs
He created the New Deal to fix Germany's economic and social problems
He gave speeches supporting tolerance of different religious groups.
What event directly caused the US to join WWII?
the discovery of concentration camps in Europe
the sinking if American warships by German U-boats
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Hiltler's invasion of Poland
What happened on D-Day?
The US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Russia declared war on Japan
Germany surrendered to the Allies
The Allies liberated France and Italy from Germany's control
Which of the following was a reason that Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan?
Japan was threatening to drop atomic bombs on US naval bases
An invasion of Japan could have cost up to 1 million American soldier lives
Truman did not know how destructive the atomic bombs would be
Russia declared war on Japan
Which famous historical figure first told President Roosevelt about the possibility of creating an atomic bomb?
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
What was the major decision that President Truman faced in 1945?
whether to drop atomic bombs on Japan
whether to surrender to Germany
whether to take over for President Roosevelt
whether to declare war on Japan
What happened in late April and early May of 1945?
France and Italy were liberated from Germany's control
Hitler first rose to power
Germany surrendered and Hitler committed suicide
Germany invaded Poland, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France
What was the purpose of the original concentration camps built in the early 1930's?
to exterminate groups like Jews and gypsies
to be Adolf Hitler's headquarters during the war
to imprison Allied forces during the war
to imprison groups like Jews and Gypsies and have them perform slave labor
Which of these best describes the attack on Pearl Harbor?
a catastrophic ambush
an ineffective strike
a false alarm
a setback to America's war efforts
In 1933, concentration camps in Germany ________
were death camps where millions of people were killed
held many different groups of people prisoner
did not exist
were all closed
The Holocaust is recognized as the _______
end of the war in Europe in 1945
persecution of Jewish people by the Nazis during World War I
Murder of millions of Jewish people by the Nazis during World War II
Period of violence after World War II
Who did the Nazi party target?
Roma people only
Jewish people only
Roma and Catholic people only
Jewish, Roma, and disabled people, among other groups
Which of the following did the Nazi party believe about race?
Germans are elite and belong to the master Aryan race
Race is a social construct that is not based in biology
Only Jewish people are considered non-Aryan
Only Italians belong to the master Aryan race
What kind of laws did Adolf Hitler implement as head of state in Germany?
Laws that reversed the Treaty of Versailles
Anti-semitic laws that persecuted Jewish people
Laws that made violence against not-Aryans illegal
Laws that punished the US for WWI
Under the Nazi regime, many Jewish people
rebuilt synagogues
opened new businesses
were forced to live in ghettos
found safety by fleeing to Poland
On the Night of Broken Glass, Nazis________
converted the homes of Jewish people into labor camps
began the mass murder of Jewish people in death camps
Confiscated the belongings of Jewish prisoners and sold them
Attacked jewish people, burned synagogues, and pillaged businesses
In concentration camps, prisoners were
trained as soldiers and forced to fight for Germany in the war
tattooed with numbers, and then sent home
experimented on and forced to to do hard labor
given good medical care
What was Hitler's "final solution"?
Executing all non-Aryans
Executing all Jewish people
Imprisoning all non-Germans
Imprisoning all Jewish people
Remembering the events of the Holocaust helps us _________
learn how to stop a genocide
honor the legacy of the victims
work to ensure that such events never happen again
all of the above
