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KSA Social Studies Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who makes/ passes the laws in our nation? 
a)
President 
b)
Supreme Court 
c)
Congress 
d)
Governors 
2.

A government where a king or queen rules and gains power through a family line.

a)

Montreal

b)

Monarchy

c)

Dictatorship

d)

Oligarchy

3.

A government where one leader takes absolute power, usually through force and does not allow the citizens to have any say/representation.

a)

Anarchy

b)

Democracy

c)

Doctoral

d)

Dictatorship

4.

A form of government where citizens elect representatives to hold office and make decisions.

a)

Senate

b)

Autocracy

c)

Direct Democracy

d)

Representative Democracy

5.

The way a society distributes and uses various resources.

a)

Demand

b)

Specialization

c)

Money

d)

Economics

6.
Latitude and longitude are lines of what?
a)
meridians
b)
parallels
c)
time  lines
d)
measurement
7.
What group of people  created cave art?
a)
prehistoric
b)
geography
c)
landform
d)
surplus
8.
What imaginary line divides the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres?
a)
The prime meridian
b)
The meridian
c)
None of the Above
9.

Which civilization was the first to exist?

a)

Egypt - 2500 BCE to 1200 BCE

b)

Greece - 2600 BCE to 300 BCE

c)

Rome - 625 BCE to 476 CE

d)

Middle Ages - 500 CE to 1500 CE

10.

Which civilization was the most recent to exist?

a)

Rome- 625 BCE to 476 CE

b)

China - 2200 BCE to 1279 CE

c)

Middle Ages- 500 CE to 1500 CE

d)

Mesopotamia - 3000 BCE to 400 BCE

11.

imaginary lines that run East-West on a globe; Equator.

a)

Latitude

b)

Longitude

12.

imaginary lines that run North-South on a globe; Prime Meridian

a)

Latitude

b)

Longitude

13.

Which of these examples would be considered a Secondary Source? (Mark all that apply)

a)

A diary

b)

A World History Textbook

c)

A dinosaur fossil

d)

A museum tour guide at an Ancient History Museum

e)

A birth certificate

14.

What do you call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?

a)

Federalism

b)

The Preamble

c)

Bill of Rights

d)

None of the above

15.

Which of the these is NOT one of the three branches of government?

a)

Legislative

b)

Judicial

c)

Military

d)

Executive

16.

Which branch of government creates laws?

a)

Legislative

b)

Executive

c)

Judicial

17.

Which branch of government looks at laws to make sure that they follow the Constitution?

a)

Legislative

b)

Executive

c)

Judicial

18.

Congress is made up of which two chambers?

a)

The House of Representatives and the Smithsonian

b)

The Senate and the Cabinet

c)

The Cabinet and the Senate

d)

The Senate and the House of Representatives

19.

Which branch of government is in charge of enforcing the law?

a)

Legislative

b)

Executive

c)

Judicial

20.

Which of the following best completes this diagram?

a)

Colonists sought military support from France.

b)

Colonists organized boycotts of British goods

c)

Colonists signed the Declaration of Independence.

d)

Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

21.

What was one result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

a)

Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent country.

b)

Competing Seminole and Spanish claims in West Florida were resolved.

c)

The British navy agreed to stop pressing American sailors into service.

d)

British territory in eastern Canada was ceded to France.

22.

Which law, which greatly angered Abolitionists, made helping runaway slaves in the North illegal?

a)

Nebraska Act

b)

Underground Railroad Act

c)

Fugitive Slave Act

d)

Missouri Compromise

23.

Before the Civil War, why was adding a state to the Union so problematic?

a)

Most thought the U.S. was too big

b)

The Constitution said this was unconstitutional

c)

The U.S. did not have enough people to do this

d)

A new slave or free state changed the balance in Congress

24.

Which Supreme Court ruling declared slaves were not citizens?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Roe v. Wade

c)

Grant v. Lee Decision

d)

Dred Scott Decision

25.

A contract between the lords and vassals is a key part of

a)

the structure of the Crusades

b)

the structure of feudalism

c)

the structure of the Magna Carta

d)

the structure of the church

26.

What did knights offer in feudal society?

a)

protection over land, peasants, and nobles

b)

loyalty

c)

authority

27.

What is feudalism?

a)

A system where peasants ruled the kingdoms of Europe

b)

A system based on loyalty and obligation that brought social order to Europe

c)

A kingdom where kings gained too much power

28.
What drastic world changing event led to the fall of the Feudal System?
a)
Crusades
b)
100 Years War
c)
Holocaust
d)
Black Death
29.

Chang'an, the capital of the Tang dynasty, was located at the end of the _______________________________.

a)

Yellow River

b)

Silk Road

c)

steppes of Central Asia

d)

Great Wall

30.
What is humanism?
a)
the study of Christianity
b)
the study of the Bible
c)
the new interest in religious artwork
d)
the study of humans
31.

Gunpowder and the longbow changed warfare during the 100 Years War because

a)

they could pierce a knight's armor

b)

they were cheap to produce

c)

they were small in size

d)

they could not destroy a castle wall

32.

The feudalism system was weakened by the bubonic plague

a)

because there were less European workers, they could demand more pay for their labor

b)

the knights killed off the manor lords, leaving no one in charge

c)

disease poisoned the soild

d)

the church took over the feudal system

33.

The English government was influenced during King John’s reign because

a)

he wrote the Magna Carta giving himself complete power

b)

he established laws that made everyone equal

c)

his treatment of the the English nobles forced him to sign the Magna Carta giving King John more rights

d)

it made it where kings were NOT above the law and helped establish the English Parliament

34.
How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the United States?
a)
It led to war. 
b)
It doubled the nation's size.
c)
It limited trade opportunities.
d)
It led to the discovery of a water route across the country.
35.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)
Manifest Destiny 
b)
 Monroe Destiny
c)
Moving West
d)
Louisiana Purchase
36.
Industries ______________ during the 1800's.
a)
decreased
b)
increased
37.
What were the three G's that motivated most people to come to the "new world"?
a)
Gold, God, and Glory
b)
Gifts, Gadgets, and Generosity
c)
Gratitude, Guidance, and Goodwill
d)
Goodness, Grace, and Growth
38.

Who was angry about the election of Abraham Lincoln

a)

Native Americans

b)

Northern Factory (fabrica) owners

c)

Southern Slave Owners

d)

All people

39.

Which of the following best describes mercantalism?

a)

Importing raw goods to export more manufactured goods

b)

British policy that said colonies could only trade with England

c)

British allowing the colonies to govern themselves

d)

Three way trade between America, Europe, and Africa

40.

During the Constitutional Convention in 1787, delegates agreed to the “Great Compromise” which did which of the following?

a)

Allowed states to count every three of their five slaves towards population

b)

Created a Bill of Rights that protected liberty from a new, powerful national government

c)

Settled a dispute between large states like Virginia and small states like New Jersey

d)

Delayed any decision on the issue of slavery for 20 years in order to appease the South