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Social Studies Post DA

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 48mins

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Class
Date
1.

What does it mean to have a balanced budget?

a)

Expenditures are equally spread out in the budget. 

b)

Income is equal to or more than the expenditures.

c)

Income that is earned is less than the expenditures. 

d)

Donations to charity are included in the expenditures. 

2.

Who were the Daughters of Liberty and how did they affect the American Revolution?

a)

They were women who remained loyal to Great Britain throughout the entire war.

b)

They were wives of American soldiers who followed their husbands onto the battlefield.

c)

They were women who boycotted British goods and made the goods they needed at home.

3.

Use the map to answer the question.

What is the relationship between these two maps?

a)

North America before and after the American Civil War

b)

North America before and after the American Revolution

c)

North America before and after the French and Indian War

4.

What is one way the French and Indian War contributed to the outbreak of the American Revolution?

a)

The American Indians became colonial allies.

b)

The American colonists gained a sense of unity.

c)

The British lost interest in their American colonies.

5.

Which of the following BEST explains what colonists meant by the phrase “No taxation without representation?”

a)

Colonists did not like being taxed without collecting more stamps for official documents. 

b)

Colonists did not like being taxed without having a representative in the British government.

c)

Colonists did not like being taxed without receiving military protection from the British government.

6.

Use the chart to answer the question.

Which of the following BEST completes the chart?

a)

Colonists boycott British tea.

b)

The Stamp Act is passed by Great Britain.

c)

Colonists arm themselves to fight the British.

7.

Use the information to answer the question. 

“We saw the British troops coming down the road.  Their red coats were so bright in the sunshine.  My father called for me, my brother, and my sister to grab our guns from inside the house and prepare to fight.”

-Adam Beige, 1775

Which battle is being described? 

a)

Valley Forge

b)

Battle of Saratoga

c)

Lexington and Concord

8.

According to the Declaration of Independence, when do the people of a country have the right to replace their government?

a)

when the people want a government that provides more services

b)

when that government denies the people their natural rights

c)

when that government makes the people pay very high taxes

9.

Which statement from the Declaration of Independence MOST illustrates the purpose of the document?

a)

“...it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…”

b)

“...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

c)

“...to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them…”

10.

Which of the following was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

a)

The federal government could not stop citizens from voting. 

b)

The federal government could not write its own constitution. 

c)

The federal government could not collect taxes from citizens.

11.

What was one of the biggest problems caused by the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

a)

America could not pay its debts from the American Revolution because Congress could not coin money.

b)

America did not have any allies in the American Revolution because Congress could not declare war.

c)

America could not pay its debts from the American Revolution because Congress could not collect taxes.

12.

Who would MOST LIKELY have supported James Madison's Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention?

a)

someone from a large state who wanted a strong national government

b)

someone from a small state who wanted a strong national government

c)

someone from a large state who wanted a weak national government

13.

What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights?

a)

To limit what the government can do

b)

To limit the rights of all citizens.

c)

To give the president more power.

14.

Which of the following is one reason the United States and Great Britain fought during the War of 1812? 

a)

The United States wanted Europeans to stay out of the Western Hemisphere

b)

The United States was trying to take over British colonies in North America.

c)

Great Britain was making it hard for the United States to trade with other countries.

15.

Use the map to answer the question. 

Which of the following major physical features of the United States is highlighted on this map?

a)

the Continental Divide

b)

the Atlantic Coastal Plain

c)

the Appalachian Mountains

16.

Use the map to answer the question.

What physical feature is circled on the map?

a)

Great Lakes

b)

Great Plains

c)

Rocky Mountains

17.

What role did price incentive play in cotton production in the South? 

a)

As the cost of cotton production increased, plantation owners purchased less land and cotton.

b)

As the cost of cotton production decreased, plantation owners bought more land and planted more cotton.

c)

As the cost of cotton production decreased, plantation owners planted less cotton in order to focus on crop rotation.

18.

What did John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia prove about the abolition movement?

a)

abolitionists were going to hold peace rallies in slave states

b)

abolitionists were willing to use violence to help end slavery

c)

abolitionists were calling for a war between free and slave states

19.

What is the principle called “states’ rights”?

a)

The belief that a state has to follow all federal laws.

b)

The belief that a state can ignore any federal law it does not like.

c)

The belief that a state can enslave people as long as they count them in the census. 

20.

What was one impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

by increasing demands for the government to end slavery in all states

b)

by increasing discrimination against African Americans in the North

c)

by causing the federal government to increase taxes in Southern states

21.

Why did southern states want to practice states’ rights so much?

a)

They were concerned that the enslaved population was growing too fast too quickly.

b)

They wanted to ignore any new laws helping northern states that northern lawmakers might make.

c)

They wanted to ignore any new laws against slavery that northern lawmakers might make.

22.

Which of the following was founded by the US government to provide housing, medical care, and education to former slaves and poor whites in the South during Reconstruction?

a)

the Freedmen's Bureau

b)

the Civil War Recovery Association

c)

the Former Slaves Bureau

23.

Who benefited the MOST from the system of sharecropping after the Civil War?

a)

farm workers

b)

former slaves

c)

landowners

24.

One intention of the Jim Crow laws passed in many southern states was to

a)

create segregated public schools

b)

force the closure of most plantations

c)

help fund Reconstruction-era public works

25.

What did the Fourteenth Amendment establish in the United States?

a)

that the practice of slavery was illegal

b)

that the right to vote was held by all men

c)

that states could not limit the rights of citizens