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58. What is one reason colonists came to America?
• freedom
• political liberty
• religious freedom
• economic opportunity
• practice their religion
• escape persecution
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59. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
• American Indians
• Native Americans
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60. What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
• Africans
• people from Africa
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61. Why did the colonists fight the British?
• because of high taxes (taxation without representation)
• because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
• because they didn’t have self-government
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64. There were 13 original states. Name three.
• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island
• Connecticut
• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware
• Maryland
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Georgia
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65. What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
• The Constitution was written.
• The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
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67. The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.
• (James) Madison
• (Alexander) Hamilton
• (John) Jay
• Publius
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68. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
• U.S. diplomat
• oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
• first Postmaster General of the United States
• writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
• started the first free libraries
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1800s
71. What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
• the Louisiana Territory
• Louisiana
1800s
72. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
• War of 1812
• Mexican-American War
• Civil War
• Spanish-American War
1800s
73. Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
• the Civil War
• the War between the States
1800s
74. Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
• slavery
• economic reasons • states’ rights
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75. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?*
• freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
• saved (or preserved) the Union
• led the United States during the Civil War
1800s
76. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
• freed the slaves
• freed slaves in the Confederacy
• freed slaves in the Confederate states
• freed slaves in most Southern states
1800s
77. What did Susan B. Anthony do?
• fought for women’s rights
• fought for civil rights
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78. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.*
• World War I
• World War II
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• (Persian) Gulf War
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80. Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
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85. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?*
• fought for civil rights
• worked for equality for all Americans
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86. What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?
Terrorists attacked the United States.
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87. Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
• Cherokee
• Navajo
• Sioux
• Chippewa
• Choctaw
• Pueblo
• Apache
• Iroquois
• Creek
• Blackfeet
• Seminole
• Cheyenne
• Arawak
• Shawnee
• Mohegan
• Huron
• Oneida
• Lakota
• Crow
• Teton
• Hopi
• Inuit
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