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Grade 6 American Revolution
What did the Sons of Liberty do with the tea during the Boston Tea Party?
  1. Stole it
  2. Drank it
  3. Dumped it in Boston Harbor
  4. Burned the ships that carried it
Grade 6 Progressive Era
What was the name of the document signed at the Seneca Falls Convention that described rights desired by the attendees?
  1. Declaration of Sentiments
  2. Equal Rights Amendment
  3. Petition for Universal Suffrage
  4. Declaration of the Rights of Women
Grade 6 Colonial Period
Who led the rebellion that burned Jamestown in 1676?
  1. John Smith
  2. William Berkeley
  3. Nathaniel Bacon
  4. William Bradford
Grade 6 American Revolution
The Boston Tea Party was led by the Sons of Liberty.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 6 Colonial Period
Which colonist married chief Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas?
  1. John Smith
  2. John Rolfe
  3. Walter Raleigh
  4. Myles Standish
Grade 6 Great Depression
Which president's reforms were known as the New Deal?
  1. Teddy Roosevelt
  2. Woodrow Wilson
  3. Calvin Coolidge
  4. Franklin Roosevelt
Grade 6 Great Depression
What event brought the federal government into protecting social welfare?
  1. World War II
  2. The Civil War
  3. The Great Depression
  4. The Teapot Dome Scandal
Grade 6 American Revolution
In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passed the                 .
  1. Stamp Act
  2. Molasses Act
  3. Townshend Acts
  4. Intolerable Acts
Grade 6 Progressive Era
While in Paris in the 1890s, Ida Tarbell published her first biography about which French Revolutionary figure?
  1. Louis XVI
  2. Manon Roland
  3. Georges Danton
  4. Nicolas de Condorcet
Grade 6 Civil Rights
Thurgood Marshall successfully argued which landmark Supreme Court case?
  1. Plessy v. Ferguson
  2. Bethel SchoolDistrict #43 v. Fraser
  3. Board of Education v. Earls
  4. Brown v. The Board of Education
Grade 6 The Frontier
Who ended up with the majority of the profits from the California gold rush?
  1. miners
  2. lawyers
  3. merchants
  4. government
Grade 6 Civil War
What was the name of William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper?
  1. The Liberator
  2. The North Star
  3. The Emancipator
  4. The American Issue
Grade 6 Progressive Era
What was Ida Tarbell's occupation?
  1. inventor
  2. journalist
  3. mathematician
  4. teacher
Grade 6 American Revolution
Benedict Arnold's first military experience came when he joined, at age 16, the Connecticut militia for which conflict?
  1. King George's War
  2. Pontiac's Rebellion
  3. French and Indian War
  4. American War of Independence
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