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Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
Making products where each individual is responsible for a particular job.
Assembly Line
Bootlegger
Communism
Flapper
18th Amendment made consumption of or making alcohol illegal.... better known as _______.
Chicanery
Acolyte
Prohibition
Embezzlement
After the 18th Amendment passed these secret bars became popular.
Scopes Trial
Speakeasy
Prohibition
Communism
A Tennessee Biology teacher taught "Evolution," a scientific theory against the traditional religious beliefs during the 1920s. After the trial it became illegal to teach evolution in public schools.
Scopes Trial
Speakeasy
Prohibition
Communism
President at the beginning of the Great Depression
Overproduction
Herbert Hoover
Dust Bowl
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President at the end of the Great Depression who created the New Deal
Overproduction
Herbert Hoover
Dust Bowl
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Location that suffered sever drought and abandoned farms due to heavy debt
Overproduction
Fire Side Chat
Dust Bowl
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Harding’s friends committed which scandal involving stealing illegal oil?
Teapot Dome Scandal
Monopoly Scandal
Harlem Scandal
Red Scare Scandal
Which political party took over Russia following WWI causing the US to panic?
Democracy
Monarchy
Communism
Socialism
Who led a raid or search for people in the United States who were accused of being Communists?
Langston Hughs
Calvin Coolidge
Billy Sunday
Mitchell Palmer
Why was the 21st Amendment passed?
Women were not voting, so it limited voting to only educated women
After the Scopes Trial about evolution, it became illegal to teach about the theory
Prohibition was a failure and it cancelled out the 18th Amendment that outlawed alcohol
Too many immigrants were coming to America and this limited which groups to stop the spread of Communism
Why as Al Capone so famous during the 1920s?
He fought for women to gain the right to vote
He was the first pilot to fly non-stop from NY to Paris, France.
He defended John Scopes in court when he taught about Evolution
He was most famous for smuggling alcohol and was a ruthless gangster that led organized crime rings
What was the final ruling made by the Supreme Court in the Scopes Trial?
It was illegal to put suspected Communists in jail
Members of the Ku Klux Klan would face charges for their violent behavior
Teaching Evolution in schools was illegal
Teaching Evolution in schools was legal
What happened on October 29th, 1929
The Stock Market crashed causing widespread bankruptcy
Women were given the right to vote
Prohibition was enforced or alcohol became illegal
Prohibition was appealed or the ban on alcohol was over
Which president responded to the Great Depression by saying "Helping Americans will just make them lazy. They should help themselves or volunteer to help each other."
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
GEOGRAPHY
SOCIOLOGY
The oldest religion in the world.
ROMAN CATHOLIC
BUDDHISM
HINDUISM
DAOISM
Largest continent
ASIA
EUROPE
AFRICA
NORTH AMERICA
Most populous country in Asia
INDIA
CHINA
PHILIPPINES
THAILAND
It is the way of life.
CULTURE
RELIGION
(noun) something handed down from ancestors or history
maim
illuminate
perceptive
haphazard
legacy
The 1st amendment protects which of the following?
Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Freedom of religion, speech, press assembly and petition.
Right to trial by jury.
No quartering of soldiers.
The 2nd amendment protects which of the following rights?
Right to keep and bear arms.
Rights of accused persons (speedy and public trial).
Powers reserved to the states.
Other rights of the people.
The 3rd amendment protects which of the following rights?
Right of a trial by jury.
Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition.
No quartering of soldiers.
Right to keep and bear arms.
The 4th amendment protects which of the following rights?
Powers reserved to the states.
Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Freedom from excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishments.
Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, and double jeopardy.
The 5th amendment protects which of the following rights?
Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, and double jeopardy.
Rights of accused persons (speedy and public trial).
Other rights of the people.
Right to keep and bear arms.
The 6th amendment protects which of the following rights?
No quartering of soldiers.
Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, and double jeopardy.
Powers reserved to the states.
Rights of accused persons (speedy and public trial).
The 7th amendment protects which of the following rights?
Right of trial by jury.
No quartering of soldiers.
Rights of accused person (speedy and public trial).
No quartering of soldiers.
The 8th amendment protects which of the following rights?
No quartering of soldiers.
Powers reserved to the states.
Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Freedom from excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishments.
The 9th amendment protects which of the following rights?
Right of trial by jury.
No quartering of soldiers.
Freedom from excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishments.
Other rights of the people.
The 10th amendment protracts which of the following rights?
Freedom from excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishments.
Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, and double jeopardy.
Powers reserved to the states.
Right of trial by jury.
Legal steps that must be followed and that all citizens must be treated the same under the law
eminent domain
indictment
Probable cause
due process
Formal charge by a grand jury
Probable Cause
Guilt
Indictment
Innocence
Strong reason to think a person or property was involved in a crime
Probable Cause
Indictment
Due Process
Censorship
Double Jeopardy refers to
Following established legal procedures
The government’s right to take private property for public use
Paying an amount for bail that is unfairly high
Being tried twice for the same crime
Which amendment protects an accused person’s right to remain silent? Guilty people usually plead the _____.
1st Amendment
9th Amendment
5th Amendment
4th Amendment
Lets the government limit, but not prevent, gun ownership
2nd Amendment
3rd Amendment
8th Amendment
7th Amendment
States that citizens have rights beyond those listed in the Constitution that cannot be taken away
8th Amendment
5th Amendment
9th Amendment
10th Amendment
Provides for juries in civil cases
6th Amendment
7th Amendment
4th Amendment
5th Amendment
Limits the power of the national government
9th Amendment
3rd Amendment
4th Amendment
10th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment states that no person can be denied the right to vote based on race, color or previous servitude.
21st Amendment
15th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
The amendment that lowered the voting age to 18 was the
26th Amendment
27th Amendment
21st Amendment
22nd Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to
their jurisdiction (authority). These words can be found in..
12 Amendments
13 Amendments
14 Amendments
15 Amendments
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States
and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge (limit) the privileges or immunities (rights)
of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor
deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws.
12 Amendments
13 Amendments
14 Amendments
15 Amendments
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on
account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
12 Amendments
13 Amendments
14 Amendments
15 Amendments
Who tried to scare and intimidate
blacks to keep them from voting during Reconstruction period of US.
KKK
Freedmen’s Bureau
Black Codes
Emancipation Proclamation
Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force
14th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Sherman's Executive Order
15 Amendment
Kayla decides she wants to believe in a new religion
1st
10th
19th
24th
Selma just turned 18 and is going to vote in next month's presidential election.
4th
17th
26th
27th
Carl's family had been making wine for many years but thanks to this amendment that was now illegal.
10th
18th
20th
25th
Which amendment would protect Jessica from having her car search randomly by the police?
3rd
4th
23rd
27th
Thanks to the ___ amendment Emily does not have to house soldiers.
1st
2nd
3rd
14th
Which Amendment ended slavery?
4th
9th
11th
13th
Which amendment would allow a newspaper the right to print a negative story about the president?
1st
8th
22nd
24th
Which amendment prevented Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama from running for president again after their second term?
2nd
7th
19th
22nd
The __ amendment made it legal to buy alcohol for adults 21 years or older.
7th
9th
16th
21st
Dan uses a rifle to go hunting. Which amendment allows Dan to own a gun?
1st
2nd
5th
15th
Which amendment allows people to gather peacefully?
1st
5th
20th
27th
This is the amendment that police are required to remind people of when they arrest someone. "I plea the __"
5th
6th
11th
25th
Which amendment defines who is a U.S. citizen?
6th
11th
14th
22nd
Introductory part of a statute or deed stating its aims
Preamble
Concurrent Power
Amendments
Preface
What does ratify mean?
To approve
To decline
What was the name given to the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution that protect individual freedoms?
Bill of Rights
Articles of Confederation
The Federalist Papers
The Great Compromise
This was an agreement between the states that created 2 houses of Congress based on both state population and equal representation for each state -
Separation of Powers
The Great Compromise
Limited Government
This was a revolt that took place in 1786 in Massachusetts that revealed a need for a national army -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Shay's Rebellion
The Great Rebellion
Congress is made up of two Houses called what?
House of Representatives and Senate
Judicial and Legislative
Executive and Senate
Majority and Minority
Which of the following are rights granted by the 6th amendment:
the right to vote
suffrage
segregation
The 1st plan of government
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris
Mount Vernon
The US government is divided into:
one branch
two branches
three branches
four branches
Makes the law called Acts
executive
legislature
judicial
supreme court
The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
16th
17th
18th
19th
Direct election of Senators
16th
17th
18th
19th
Gave women the right to vote
16th
17th
18th
19th
Voting age 18 yrs old
22nd
23rd
26th
27th
Prohibited the manufacture, sale and distribution of Alcohol
18th
19th
21st
24th
__________ v. __________
executive
legislature
congress
judicial
When one court case replaces another
overturn
repeal
opinion
legislature
A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939.
Prohibition
Montreal Protocol
The New Deal
Monroe Doctrine
410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States conferred the right to have an abortion.
Salem Trials
Scopes Trial
Roe v. Wade
Lindbergh Trials
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Magna Carta
Federalist Papers
Declaration of Independence
Preamble of the Constitution
First 10 Amendments of the Constitution
Magna Carta
Bill of Rights
Preamble
Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and 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, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
New Deal
Preamble of the Declaration of Independence
Preamble to the Constitution
Magna Carta
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that 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.-
New Deal
Declaration of Independence
Preamble of the Constitution
Magna Carta
If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X
John Paul Jones
Nathan Hale
Abe Lincoln
"I have not yet begun to fight!" This was the immortal retort of Captain ____ to a request to surrender as he and his crew engaged in a desperate battle with a British frigate off the northern coast of England during the American Revolution.
Patrick Sinclair
Nathan Hale
John Paul Jones
Arthur St. Clair
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country !
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
Nathan Hale
George Washington
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." American patriot _____ said it on September 22, 1776, his last words before he was hanged for spying on British troops.
Austin Roe
Benedict Arnold
John Paul Jones
Nathan Hale
American military officer who served during the Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army and rose to the rank of major general before defecting to the British side of the conflict in 1780.
John Anthony Walker
Aldrich Ames
Benedict Arnold
Aaron Burr
What was the name of the first of (permanent English) American colony in 1607 ?
Jamestown
Jonestown
St. Augustine
Newport
What state did the Salem Witch Trials take place ?
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Virginia
Oregon
Pocahontas notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia. What tribe did she belong ?
Sioux
Powhatan
She-shone
Mattaponi
_____ arrived in N. America from Norway in the 10th century.... 985 AD to be the first known European to land in North America?
Leif Erikson
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Pilgrims
What was the name of the Pilgrims’ ship?
Nina
Pinta
Mayflower
Santa Maria
December 21, 1620, after 66 days at sea and several weeks docked in Provincetown Harbor while the passengers explored Cape Cod. The Mayflower finally docked in _______ on December 18th. On December 21st, the first expedition took the shallop ashore.
Plymouth, Virginia
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth, NY
Plymouth,
N. Carolina
What is the oldest European-founded city in the United States? Founded in 1565 by Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles of Spain.
Jamestown,
Virginia
Plymouth, Massachusetts
St. Peters,
Florida
St. Augustine, Florida
Who did Pocahontas marry?
Thomas Rolfe
farmer
John Rolfe, a tobacco planter
Aaron Barr
preacher
William Butten
doctor
Name the Treaty that was signed to end the Revolutionary War with England.
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Washington
Treaty of Fort-Stanwix
Who was the first president to live in the White House?
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Name of George Washington's plantation home that lies on the Potomac River and 13 miles south of Washington DC ?
Blair House
Kennebunkport
Monticello
Mount Vernon
