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Grade 5 American Revolution
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
  1. the Puritans
  2. American Indians
  3. John Smith
  4. the Pilgrims
Grade 8 Great Depression
What is one term used to describe the practice of buying stocks with borrowed money in the hope of making a quick profit?
  1. What is one term used to describe the practice of buying stocks with borrowed money in the hope of making a quick profit?
  2. Margin trading
  3. Long-term investing
  4. Bear market strategy
Grade 8 Great Depression
What was one of the major causes of the Wall Street Crash?
  1. Widespread government regulation
  2. A surplus of consumer goods
  3. A lack of speculative trading
  4. Over-speculation in the stock market
Grade 5 Colonial Period
                          was fought between the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag.
  1. The French and Indian War
  2. Shays' Rebellion
  3. King Phillip's War
  4. The Seven Years' War
Grade 8 US History
Grade 7 Colonial Period
Grade 12 American Revolution
What weakness did Shays' Rebellion expose about the Articles of Confederation?
  1. the inability of the government to impose taxes
  2. the inability of the government to elect leaders
  3. the inability of the government to raise an army
  4. the inability of the government to regulate trade
Grade 9 Roaring 20s
Grade 8 Colonial Period
What historical figure is often criticized for his treatment of Indigenous peoples in the Americas?
  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. George Washington
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Thomas Jefferson
Grade 7 American Revolution
Thomas Paine wrote which influential pamphlet?
  1. Plain Truth
  2. Common Sense
  3. the Federalist Papers
  4. Declaration of the Rights of Man
Grade 8 Early National Era
Shays' Rebellion is remembered today because it
  1. threatened law and order in Massachusetts.
  2. dramatized the money problems faced by poor farmers.
  3. shocked Congress into calling for a Constitutional Convention.
  4. showed how well the Articles of Confederation worked.
Grade 8 Civil Rights
What was the name of the civil rights organization Martin Luther King, Jr. helped found in 1957?
  1. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  2. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  3. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  4. Coordinating Council for Community Organizations
Grade 5 Civil War
Juneteenth is the anniversary date of which event?
  1. The Battle of Gettysburg
  2. The end of slavery in Texas
  3. The Emancipation Proclamation
  4. The Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House
Grade 10 Supreme Court Cases
What was the decision in the case Plessy v. Ferguson?
  1. Poll taxes violated the Civil Rights Act
  2. School desegregation was unconstitutional
  3. Racial segregation in public facilities was legal
  4. Police must advise individuals being taken into custody that they have a right to remain silent
Grade 8 American Revolution
Shays' Rebellion, a group of rioting farmers angry about their economic situation and lack of representation after the Revolutionary War,
  1. brought to light the weakness of the central government in the Articles of Confederation.
  2. were financed by wealthy merchants in Boston.
  3. displayed the need for local police.
Grade 11 World War II
During WWII the Manhattan Project was the name of a plan to do what?
  1. open a second front in Europe
  2. capture Pacific islands held by the Japanese
  3. develop the atomic bomb
  4. liberate German concentration camps
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