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WorksheetsKSA Social Studies Review
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 23mins
A government where a king or queen rules and gains power through a family line.
Montreal
Monarchy
Dictatorship
Oligarchy
A government where one leader takes absolute power, usually through force and does not allow the citizens to have any say/representation.
Anarchy
Democracy
Doctoral
Dictatorship
A form of government where citizens elect representatives to hold office and make decisions.
Senate
Autocracy
Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy
The way a society distributes and uses various resources.
Demand
Specialization
Money
Economics
Which civilization was the first to exist?
Egypt - 2500 BCE to 1200 BCE
Greece - 2600 BCE to 300 BCE
Rome - 625 BCE to 476 CE
Middle Ages - 500 CE to 1500 CE
Which civilization was the most recent to exist?
Rome- 625 BCE to 476 CE
China - 2200 BCE to 1279 CE
Middle Ages- 500 CE to 1500 CE
Mesopotamia - 3000 BCE to 400 BCE
imaginary lines that run East-West on a globe; Equator.
Latitude
Longitude
imaginary lines that run North-South on a globe; Prime Meridian
Latitude
Longitude
Which of these examples would be considered a Secondary Source? (Mark all that apply)
A diary
A World History Textbook
A dinosaur fossil
A museum tour guide at an Ancient History Museum
A birth certificate
What do you call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?
Federalism
The Preamble
Bill of Rights
None of the above
Which of the these is NOT one of the three branches of government?
Legislative
Judicial
Military
Executive
Which branch of government creates laws?
Legislative
Executive
Judicial
Which branch of government looks at laws to make sure that they follow the Constitution?
Legislative
Executive
Judicial
Congress is made up of which two chambers?
The House of Representatives and the Smithsonian
The Senate and the Cabinet
The Cabinet and the Senate
The Senate and the House of Representatives
Which branch of government is in charge of enforcing the law?
Legislative
Executive
Judicial
Which of the following best completes this diagram?
Colonists sought military support from France.
Colonists organized boycotts of British goods
Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence.
Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What was one result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent country.
Competing Seminole and Spanish claims in West Florida were resolved.
The British navy agreed to stop pressing American sailors into service.
British territory in eastern Canada was ceded to France.
Which law, which greatly angered Abolitionists, made helping runaway slaves in the North illegal?
Nebraska Act
Underground Railroad Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Missouri Compromise
Before the Civil War, why was adding a state to the Union so problematic?
Most thought the U.S. was too big
The Constitution said this was unconstitutional
The U.S. did not have enough people to do this
A new slave or free state changed the balance in Congress
Which Supreme Court ruling declared slaves were not citizens?
Brown v. Board of Education
Roe v. Wade
Grant v. Lee Decision
Dred Scott Decision
A contract between the lords and vassals is a key part of
the structure of the Crusades
the structure of feudalism
the structure of the Magna Carta
the structure of the church
What did knights offer in feudal society?
protection over land, peasants, and nobles
loyalty
authority
What is feudalism?
A system where peasants ruled the kingdoms of Europe
A system based on loyalty and obligation that brought social order to Europe
A kingdom where kings gained too much power
Chang'an, the capital of the Tang dynasty, was located at the end of the _______________________________.
Yellow River
Silk Road
steppes of Central Asia
Great Wall
Gunpowder and the longbow changed warfare during the 100 Years War because
they could pierce a knight's armor
they were cheap to produce
they were small in size
they could not destroy a castle wall
The feudalism system was weakened by the bubonic plague
because there were less European workers, they could demand more pay for their labor
the knights killed off the manor lords, leaving no one in charge
disease poisoned the soild
the church took over the feudal system
The English government was influenced during King John’s reign because
he wrote the Magna Carta giving himself complete power
he established laws that made everyone equal
his treatment of the the English nobles forced him to sign the Magna Carta giving King John more rights
it made it where kings were NOT above the law and helped establish the English Parliament
Who was angry about the election of Abraham Lincoln
Native Americans
Northern Factory (fabrica) owners
Southern Slave Owners
All people
Which of the following best describes mercantalism?
Importing raw goods to export more manufactured goods
British policy that said colonies could only trade with England
British allowing the colonies to govern themselves
Three way trade between America, Europe, and Africa
During the Constitutional Convention in 1787, delegates agreed to the “Great Compromise” which did which of the following?
Allowed states to count every three of their five slaves towards population
Created a Bill of Rights that protected liberty from a new, powerful national government
Settled a dispute between large states like Virginia and small states like New Jersey
Delayed any decision on the issue of slavery for 20 years in order to appease the South
