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Grade 7 Civil War
Sherman's capture of which city probably ensured that Lincoln was reelected?
  1. New Orleans
  2. Memphis
  3. Savannah
  4. Atlanta
Grade 8 Civil War
What made freeing the slave a new focus for the Civil War?
  1. The Battle of Vicksburg
  2. The Emancipation Proclamation
  3. The Battle of Bull Run
  4. The Fugitive Slave Act
Grade 5 Civil War
Select the correct term for the description.
kept balance between slave and free states
  1. tariff
  2. emancipation
  3. Dred Scott decision
  4. sectionalism
  5. Missouri Compromise
Grade 8 Early National Era
What made the passage of the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance possible?
  1. States turning over their western land claims to the national government.
  2. The ratification of the Constitution by Virginia, New York, and other large states.
  3. The effect of Shays' Rebellion on the economic depression of the mid-1780s.
  4. The addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.
Grade 11 Roaring 20s
The Great Migration that took place between 1915 and 1930 refers to what?
  1. workers who left the northeast for the south
  2. Native American Indians who left their reservations
  3. middle class whites who left cities to settle in suburbs
  4. African Americans who left the rural south for northern cities
Grade 5 American Revolution
Which of these laws made colonists provide British soldiers with food, transportation and housing?
  1. the Stamp Act
  2. the Quartering Act
  3. the Tea Act
Grade 8 Democratic Foundations
Which law set up an orderly plan for dividing up the Northwest Territory?
  1. Land Ordinance of 1785
  2. Southwest Ordinance of 1788
  3. Treaty of Paris 1763
  4. Treaty of Paris 1789
Grade 8 Modern Era
Which mission successfully landed the first humans on the Moon?
  1. Apollo 8
  2. Apollo 10
  3. Apollo 11
  4. Apollo 13
Grade 3 American Revolution
Where did General Washington spend the winter of 1777?
  1. Lexington
  2. Concord
  3. Washington, DC
  4. Valley Forge
Grade 7 Formation of the USA
Which was the first state to ratify the Constitution?
  1. Virginia
  2. Delaware
  3. Maryland
  4. Massachusetts
Grade 1 Colonial Period
Who did the Pilgrims invite to their feast?
  1. the Wampanoag people
  2. French traders
  3. Spanish conquistadors
Grade 8 US History
The process of adding amendments to the U.S. Constitution is outlined in which article?
  1. Article I
  2. Article II
  3. Article III
  4. Article V
Grade 9 Roaring 20s
National Prohibition started in what year?
  1. 1917
  2. 1920
  3. 1929
  4. 1933
Grade 11 World War II
The Neutrality acts of 1935 an 1937 were intended to do what?
  1. enforce policies of the League of Nations
  2. stimulate economic growth in the US
  3. avoid the policies that drew the nation into WWI
  4. Support the use of peace keeping troops in Europe
Grade 9 Roaring 20s
What were illegal saloons that still sold alcohol called?
  1. speakeasys
  2. bootleggers
  3. anti-saloons
  4. soda fountains
Grade 8 Civil War
               was a famous female spy for the South, during the Civil War.
  1. Clara Barton
  2. Dorothea Dix
  3. Rose Greenhow
  4. Julia Ward Howe
Grade 9 Roaring 20s
Scopes won the trial.
  1. True
  2. False
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