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Grade 5 American Revolution
"The Shot Heard Around the World" refers to which battle?
  1. Bunker Hill
  2. Lexington & Concord
  3. Boston Tea Party
  4. Boston Massacre
Grade 5 American Revolution
Those who remained loyal to the King during the Revolution were known as what?
  1. Pacifists
  2. Loyalists
  3. Patriots
  4. None of the above
Grade 5 Colonial Period
In the 1770s, Benjamin Banneker became friends with the mill owners the Ellicott brothers who belonged to what denomination?
  1. Baptist
  2. Quaker
  3. Catholic
  4. Anglican
Grade 5 Colonial Period
John White led the expedition to set up a colony at                 but was forced to stay at Roanoke.
  1. Jamestown
  2. Cape Cod
  3. New York
  4. Chesapeake Bay
Grade 5 Colonial Period
In what year did the Province of Carolina split into North and South Carolina?
  1. 1667
  2. 1689
  3. 1712
  4. 1744
Grade 5 American Revolution
The Treaty of Paris of 1783 was the official end to the American Revolutionary War.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement and was located in which colony?
  1. Maryland
  2. North Carolina
  3. Virginia
  4. Georgia
Grade 5 Colonial Period
In        1620       , the Pilgrims from Plymouth, England signed the                     Mayflower Compact                     before landing in what they called            Plymouth           , in the New World.
Grade 5 Civil Rights
Voting districts are redrawn every 4 years.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
The Dutch called their colony in North America what?
  1. New York.
  2. Dutch West India.
  3. New Netherland.
  4. Delaware.
Grade 5 Civil Rights
Following the Brown v. Board decision, the town of Charleston in which state was the first school district in the former Confederacy to desegregate public schools?
  1. Florida
  2. Georgia
  3. Virginia
  4. Arkansas
Grade 5 The Frontier
The men on the Lewis and Clark Expedition were part of what army unit?
  1. Rocky Mountaineers
  2. The Privateers
  3. The Corps of Engineers
  4. The Corps of Discovery
Grade 5 The Frontier
Which two railroads operated the Transcontinental Railroad?
  1. Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern
  2. Union Pacific and Central Pacific
  3. Central Pacific and Great Northern
  4. Conrail and Norfolk Southern
Grade 5 Early National Era
Daniel Shays led armed groups of farmers in attacks on courthouses in the hope of
  1. stopping the courts from seizing any more of the farmers' property.
  2. allowing the states to form their own militias.
  3. collecting money to buy tools and seeds for planting.
  4. passing land ordinances to divide their land fairly.
Grade 5 Civil War
The Gettysburg Address is only 10 sentences long.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil Rights
President Eisenhower had to federalize the Arkansas National Guard in order to allow the nine students attend school.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
What religious group was dominate in the New England Colonies?
  1. Quakers
  2. Puritans
  3. Methodists
  4. Roman Catholics
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Mark all that is true about Pocahontas.
  1. She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan.
  2. She was very good at speaking Spanish.
  3. She helped create a time of peace between the settlers and the natives.
  4. She married an English settler.
  5. She later changed her name to Rebecca.
  6. She traveled to England.
Grade 5 Civil War
The people that fought to end slavery were called
  1. terrorists
  2. freedomnists
  3. Pilgrims
  4. abolitionists
Grade 5 American Revolution
Who organized the Sons of Liberty?
  1. Samuel Adams
  2. Patrick Henry
  3. Mercy Otis Warren
  4. Benjamin Franklin
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