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Grade 5 Early National Era
In response to Nat Turner's rebellion, laws were passed banning the practice of teaching slaves to read or write.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
How long did Nat Turner's rebellion last?
  1. a few days
  2. two weeks
  3. two months
  4. two years
Grade 5 Early National Era
Between 1816 and 1840, there were over three thousand miles of canals built in the United States.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
What was the first tribe to be removed beyond the Mississippi River?
  1. Muscogee
  2. Choctaw
  3. Cherokee
  4. Seminole
Grade 5 Early National Era
Nat Turner was never captured.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
About five hundred slaves were freed as part of Nat Turner's rebellion.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
Nat Turner took what event as a sign to start his rebellion?
  1. Haley's Comet
  2. a lunar eclipse
  3. a solar eclipse
  4. a meteor strike
Grade 5 Early National Era
Answer the following questions about the Erie Canal.
Erie, Pennsylvania Buffalo, New York Cleveland, Ohio Albany, New York
What is the beginning point of the Erie Canal?
What is the end point of the Erie Canal?
Grade 5 Early National Era
One of the major problems in constructing the Erie Canal was the fact that the land at the Atlantic Ocean is over six hundred feet higher than it is around Lake Erie.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
At its completion, the Erie Canal was the world's second-longest canal.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
Tecumseh's confederacy fell apart after his death at the Battle of the Thames.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
Before 1830, many Native American territories in the American South acted as their own independent nations.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
In the weeks following Nat Turner's rebellion, fears of more slave uprisings led to the murder of dozens of slaves all across the South.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
Nat Turner was born in what year?
  1. 1776
  2. 1789
  3. 1800
  4. 1831
Grade 5 Early National Era
Benjamin Banneker was loaned materials by George Ellicott so that he could study which field?
  1. Geology
  2. Medicine
  3. Astronomy
  4. Meteorology
Grade 5 Early National Era
Most of the people killed by the state militia were not involved in Nat Turner's rebellion.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
According to contemporary newspaper accounts, it was the goal of Nat Turner's rebellion to kill all of the white people in the area.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
Nat Turner returned to the plantation after running away in 1822.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
Nat Turner's father was believed to have been a member of the Nottoway Tribe.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
There are 15 amendments to the Constitution in the Bill of Rights.
  1. True
  2. False
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