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Grade 1 Civil Rights
What did Dr. King do for a living?
  1. mayor
  2. minister
  3. football player
  4. bus driver
Grade 1 Pre-Colonial Period
Mark all of the things that made life hard for the settlers at Jamestown.
  1. They often fought against the nearby Indian tribes (and the tribes fought back).
  2. They built beautiful houses to live in.
  3. Many of the Gentlemen did not want to do hard work.
  4. They had bad water in their wells.
  5. Unfriendly ships shot cannons at the settlement.
  6. It was too dangerous to leave the settlement to hunt, fish, or tend a garden.
Grade 1 Colonial Period
At the beginning of the French & Indian War, most of the Native Americans fought on the side of the British.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 1 Colonial Period
Where did the Pilgrims come from?
  1. England
  2. Disneyworld
  3. Pluto
Grade 1 American Revolution
On what date did the Boston Massacre occur?
  1. July 4, 1776
  2. March 5, 1770
  3. June 6, 1944
Grade 1 American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin went to college.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 1 The Presidents
Who was the first president?
  1. George Washington
  2. Abraham Lincoln
Grade 1 Pre-Colonial Period
What was "counting coup"?
  1. Touching your enemy and showing bravery.
  2. A new way of counting numbers.
  3. How many scalps a warrior got during a battle.
  4. A new dance.
Grade 1 Colonial Period
Mark all of the items Europeans traded with the Algonquians for the furs they trapped.
  1. Metal tools
  2. Cloth
  3. Deer meat
  4. Alcohol
  5. Guns
  6. Fancy hats
Grade 1 Civil War
Who won the Civil War?
  1. The Union Army - North
  2. The Confederate Army - South
Grade 1 Colonial Period
What was the Middle Passage?
  1. The way African slaves were brought from Africa to the colonies in the New World.
  2. The easiest way to sail to England.
  3. The bridge that crossed in the middle of the river.
  4. The way slaves were sold to plantation owners.
Grade 1 Pre-Colonial Period
The Nez Perce people got their name from French fur traders who saw some of them with shells in their pierced noses.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 1 Early National Era
What country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
  1. Spain
  2. India
  3. France
  4. China
Grade 1 Pre-Colonial Period
Where did many of the Sioux children have to go to school?
  1. One-room school houses
  2. Homeschools
  3. Public schools
  4. Boarding schools
Grade 1 Colonial Period
What is special about the Liberty Bell?
  1. pictures
  2. a crack
  3. different colors
Grade 1 Colonial Period
What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America?
  1. The Mayflower
  2. The Cornflower
  3. The Daisy
Grade 1 Pre-Colonial Period
The Dakota, Nakota and Lakota are all part of the Sioux nation.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 1 Colonial Period
The United States government honored all the treaties they made with the Sioux people.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 1 Colonial Period
Pennsylvania is named after it's founder, William Penn.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 1 Colonial Period
Manteo and his tribe, the Croatoans, fought against the Englishmen at the Roanoke Island settlement.
  1. True
  2. False
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