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Grade 2 Pre-Colonial Period
Native Americans got their shelter, food, and clothing from:
  1. store
  2. natural resources
  3. Wal Mart
  4. friends
Grade 2 US History
What does a blacksmith do?
  1. Made horseshoes and farm equipment iron and steel
  2. Printed newspapers and signed with the printing press
  3. Ground corn and wheat to make flour
  4. Made them fixed shoes
Grade 2 Great Depression
Why did Cesar Chavez and his family have to move?
  1. They lost their jobs and house in the Great Depression
  2. They were slaves
  3. They got tired of the house they lived in
Grade 2 Civil Rights
How did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fight for equal rights for African Americans?
  1. Organizing non-violent marches and a bus boycott.
  2. Throwing sticks and stones.
  3. Getting tanks and shooting white people.
  4. Painting on the walls of the city.
Grade 2 Civil Rights
What was Sojourner Truth?
  1. A slave at first, then an abolitionist
  2. A lawyer and a judge
  3. A slave owner
Grade 2 American Revolution
Even though Benedict Arnold had been a good leader, we now remember him as being a traitor during the Revolutionary War.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 2 Pre-Colonial Period
Southwest Indians lived in
  1. teepees
  2. longhouses
  3. hogans/adobes
  4. brick
Grade 2 Colonial Period
A silversmith makes things out of silver and gold.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 2 Civil Rights
An example of segregation is:
  1. African Americans and caucasians (whites) learning in the same classroom.
  2. Having different water fountains for African Americans and caucasians (whites).
  3. Everyone living in the same neighborhood regardless of the color of their skin is.
Grade 2 Pre-Colonial Period
What was the purpose of the totem pole?
  1. to show wealth and the history of their family
  2. to show respect to the trees
  3. to ask for good fortune and luck
  4. to show how many animals a family has killed
Grade 2 Jacksonian Era
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 nicely helped the Native Americans move to large, plentiful reservations.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 2 Formation of the USA
Sequoyah created which of the following?
  1. The bow and arrow
  2. The Cherokee Alphabet
  3. The Cherokee Ships
  4. The Creek houses
Grade 2 Democratic Foundations
Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?
  1. George Washington
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Benedict Arnold
  4. Thomas Jefferson
Grade 2 Colonial Period
We remember James Oglethorpe because he
  1. freed slaves in Georgia
  2. started the colony of Georgia
  3. won a war between England and Georgia
Grade 2 Immigration
Cesar Chavez's family moved from where to where?
  1. Arizona to California
  2. Texas to Arizona
  3. Texas to New York
  4. Arizona to New Mexico
Grade 2 Colonial Period
Why did King George start taxing the colonists in the first place?
  1. To get rich.
  2. To help pay for the French & Indian War.
  3. To make the colonists mad at him.
  4. To lose his job.
Grade 2 Democratic Foundations
After the war for independence was won, the leaders met to write the                Constitution               . It was a document that listed the rules of the new country.
Grade 2 Immigration
Most people that live in the United States today have ancestors that were immigrants.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 2 Civil Rights
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. went to college at the age of
  1. 18
  2. 5
  3. 15
  4. 17
Grade 2 Pre-Colonial Period
All Native Americans lived in teepees.
  1. True
  2. False
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