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5th grade SS Review

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the Columbian Exchange?

a)

The trading of items, animals, culture, ideas and more between Europe and the Americas.

b)

Victories along the borders of Central America.

c)

The ability to fight off disease and illness.

d)

The path to get from the Western world to the New World.

2.

Who won the Revolutionary War?

a)

Britain

b)

France

c)

Colonists

d)

It was a tie.

3.

Another word for perseverance is

a)

quit

b)

endeavor

c)

slash-and-burn

d)

mesa

4.

Containing many types of people or things

a)

monopoly

b)

settlement

c)

diverse

d)

charter

5.

A hieroglyph is

a)

a type of ancient writing that used pictures

b)

a new recipe

c)

a large landform

d)

a territory settled by coloists

6.

To gather crops such as corn and wheat for use

a)

harvest

b)

potlatch

c)

hieroglyph

d)

monarch

7.

Maize is also known as

a)

corn

b)

rice

c)

tricky

d)

beans

8.

Hunter-gatherers

a)

slept a lot

b)

worked in Congress

c)

founded new settlements

d)

lived by collecting wild plants and killing animals

9.

A typical crop that Native Americans harvested was

a)

corn

b)

beans

c)

broccoli

d)

squash

10.

What country brought horses to North America that eventually helped the Native Americans of the Plains change their ways?

a)

Mexico

b)

Canada

c)

Australia

d)

Spain

11.

The Peoples of the Plains did not live in

a)

Nebraska

b)

Kansas

c)

Maine

d)

Canada

12.

A document granting someone ownership of something

a)

claim

b)

charter

c)

monopoly

d)

warship

13.

Spoken records, including stories, that have been passed from one generation to the next

a)

totem pole

b)

amendment

c)

oral history

d)

policy

14.

Flat or gently rolling land that is covered with grass and wildflowers

a)

mountain

b)

farmland

c)

tundra

d)

prairie

15.

True or False: Native American men and women had the same roles in every tribe.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

People who buy and sell goods

a)

gypsies

b)

settlements

c)

merchants

d)

colonies

17.

A surplus is

a)

having less than you need

b)

having more than you need

c)

having just enough

d)

type of clothing

18.

A synonym for endeavor is

a)

tribe

b)

try

c)

sleep

d)

quit

19.

A way of life, including clothing, food, customs, housing, just to name a few, is known as a

a)

culture

b)

region

c)

government

d)

potlatch

20.

Navajos lived in hogans, which are

a)

underground rooms

b)

covered with animals skins or reed mats

c)

made from logs or stones covered in dirt

d)

made of ice

21.

A ------------- is a territory settled by people from another place, usually from far away, and a ------------ is a town created by people in an area previously uninhabited by that people.

a)

settlement, colony

b)

colony, settlement

22.

To declare that a place belongs to one's country when they arrive there

a)

charter

b)

endeavor

c)

negotiate

d)

claim

23.

A contract or an agreement

a)

covenant

b)

assembly

c)

proprietor

d)

dissension

24.

The art of guiding a boat, plane or other transportation vehicle

a)

vandalism

b)

recession

c)

navigation

d)

conquest

25.

All things traded in the Columbian Exchange were useful.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

What does reconciliation mean?

a)

getting along after a disagreement

b)

allowing people into a territory

c)

an addition to the Constitution

d)

increase in costs of goods

27.

A crop grown for making money is a

a)

commerce

b)

cash crop

c)

charter

d)

proprietor

28.

A disagreement between members of a group over an important issue is

a)

dissension

b)

missionary

c)

commerce

d)

covenant

29.

The buying and selling of goods is

a)

assembly

b)

covenant

c)

charter

d)

commerce

30.

A person with the legal right to something

a)

colonist

b)

proprietor

c)

president

d)

hunter gatherer

31.

What is a blockade?

a)

legos

b)

an obstacle preventing the movement of goods or people

c)

the way in which something is put together

d)

the setting where something takes place