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Fourth Grade (Grade 4) US History Questions

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Grade 4 American Revolution
What did the Americans call the Coercive Acts of 1774?
  1. The Intolerable Acts
  2. The Impossible Acts
  3. The Stamp Acts
  4. The Boston Tea Party Acts
Grade 4 Civil War
Tubman helped which abolitionist plan his raid on Harper's Ferry?
  1. William Lloyd Garrison
  2. Frederick Douglass
  3. William Seward
  4. John Brown
Grade 4 Civil War
What was the turning point of the Civil War?
  1. Battle of Vicksburg
  2. Battle of Gettysburg
  3. Battle of Fredericksburg
  4. Battle at Fort Sumter
Grade 4 Civil Rights
The Underground Railroad was an actual railroad.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Civil Rights
People who led escaped slaves from station to station were called what?
  1. engineers
  2. passengers
  3. conductors
  4. stockholders
Grade 4 Civil Rights
Before 1821, why did many slaves flee south to Florida?
  1. Florida was a free state.
  2. Florida ignored the Fugitive Slave laws.
  3. From Florida they could sail to South America.
  4. Florida belonged to Spain which already abolished slavery.
Grade 4 American Revolution
                  commanded the Continental Army.
  1. George Washington
  2. Thomas Paine
  3. Patrick Henry
  4. John Adams
Grade 4 Civil War
How many Southern states seceded from the United States?
  1. 1
  2. 9
  3. 11
  4. 15
Grade 4 Roaring 20s
Bessie Coleman realized that she wanted to be a pilot after hearing pilots who returned from which war tell their stories?
  1. World War I
  2. World War II
  3. Korean War
  4. Spanish-American War
Grade 4 American Revolution
                  was the President of Congress and had the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence.
  1. John Adams
  2. Nathan Hale
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. John Hancock
Grade 4 Civil War
Tubman fought for women's suffrage, which is another word for what?
  1. equal pay
  2. the right to vote
  3. the right to own land
  4. the right to an education
Grade 4 American Revolution
                  helped get France to support and join forces with America.
  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Samuel Adams
  3. John Adams
  4. Benjamin Franklin
Grade 4 Civil Rights
The number of escaping slaves on the Underground Railroad increased after the passage of which law?
  1. Slave Trade Act
  2. Confiscation Act
  3. Fugitive Slave Act
  4. Northwest Ordinance
Grade 4 Roaring 20s
Bessie Coleman was the first woman of either African American or Native American descent to earn a pilot's license.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 American Revolution
                   was the English General who surrendered to American Army during the Battle of Yorktown.
  1. Charles Cornwallis
  2. George Washington
  3. Patrick Henry
  4. Nathan Hale
Grade 4 US History
                  wrote the Declaration of Independence.
  1. Thomas Paine
  2. Francis Scott Key
  3. King George III
  4. Thomas Jefferson
Grade 4 American Revolution
Join or Die was a cartoon published by Franklin
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Formation of the USA
The Northwest Ordinance was passed by the                              .
  1. First Continental Congress
  2. First United States Congress
  3. Second Continental Congress
  4. Congress of the Confederation
Grade 4 Industrialization
What subject did George Washington Carver study at Iowa State Agricultural College?
  1. art
  2. botony
  3. chemistry
  4. mathematics
Grade 4 American Revolution
Which part of the Declaration of Independence stated the document's goals?
  1. Intoduction
  2. Preamble
  3. Indictment
  4. Denunciation
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