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Grade 4 Modern Era
Booker T. Washington was born free in West Virginia.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Civil Rights
In its first years, students at the Tuskegee Institute helped to build their campus.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Civil Rights
To reach Canada, the majority of the escaped slaves crossed Lake Erie or Lake Ontario.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Reconstruction
The period of time when the southern states were brought back to the Union is the                  .
  1. Civil War
  2. Black Codes
  3. Freedmen's Bureau
  4. Reconstruction
Grade 4 Reconstruction
The Freedman's bureau was established to provide freed slaves with food, shelter, and medicine.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 American Revolution
The Americans did not win the American Revolution.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 American Revolution
People who wanted independence from Britain
  1. tax
  2. Patriots
  3. leap year
  4. Loyalists
Grade 4 Civil War
Lincoln did not free all slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation because he did not believe he had the authority under the Constitution to do so.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Civil War
The Emancipation Proclamation applied to how many states?
  1. 3
  2. 7
  3. 10
  4. 12
Grade 4 Civil War
In September 1862 President Lincoln announced the                          , freeing all African Americans in the Confederate states.
  1. states rights
  2. union
  3. Emancipation Proclamation
  4. siege
Grade 4 Colonial Period
Two reasons people explored were
  1. to find new friends and buy a new boat
  2. to find new land and find gold
  3. to trick the Native Americans and draw maps
Grade 4 Civil War
What did the Fugitive Slave Law require?
  1. That all people (even in free states) help to return runaway slaves to their owners.
  2. That slaves who made it to the Northern states were free.
  3. That all slaves could try to get to freedom.
  4. That people in the North did not have to help return runaway slaves to their owners.
Grade 4 Reconstruction
What did the Reconstruction Act do?
  1. it allowed men to vote
  2. It allowed African American men to vote
  3. it allowed women to vote
Grade 4 US History
Samuel Wilson supplied rations to troops during which war?
  1. World War I
  2. The Civil War
  3. The War of 1812
  4. American War of Independence
Grade 4 American Revolution
What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
  1. 1763
  2. 1776
  3. 1783
  4. 1700
Grade 4 American Revolution
The early American colonies gained independence after defeating the British in which war?
  1. Revolutionary War
  2. French and Indian War
  3. Boston Massacre
  4. Civil War
Grade 4 Civil War
An end to slavery is called?
  1. abolition
  2. reconstruction
  3. black codes
  4. secede
Grade 4 American Revolution
                  is given credit for being the main writer of the Declaration of Independence.
  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. John Adams
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. George Washington
Grade 4 American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin did not sign the Constitution.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Civil War
The Civil War, or the "War Between the States", started in                .
  1. 1761
  2. 1861
  3. 1961
  4. 2001
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