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Big TAKS Review
Rules of the Game
• 1) I will choose one player from each team to answer. Only they may answer.
• 2) The first person of the two who makes a sound with their noisemaker gets to answer.
• 3) You must say the answer not just the letter.• 4) If the first person doesn’t answer within three seconds
or if he/she doesn’t answer correctly, the next person may answer. 5) Some questions are worth more than 1 point. 6) If anyone talks during a question, their team is
disqualified for that question.
Lifelines:
• 50/50: I will take away two answers so that you have only two choices (you have one of these)
• Ask the Audience: You may ask your team what they think (you have two of these)
1) A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives is
called a:
• A) monarchy
• B) theocracy
• C) sovereignty
• D) republic
2) What is the legislature called in the United States?
• A) Congress
• B) the Senate
• C) the Supreme Court
• D) Parliament
**Follow-up Question: 3 points
• What are the two houses of Congress?
3)Who lost control of land in Canada at the end of the French & Indian War?
a) Spain
b) France
c) England
d) The Thirteen Colonies
4) Many of the grievances that are part of the Declaration of Independence are
addressed in these first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution:
a) The Magna Cartab) The Bill of Rightsc) The Mayflower Compactd) The Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut
5) The first permanent colony established by the English in
1607 was:
A) Massachusetts Bay
B) Rhode Island
C) Roanoke
D) Jamestown
6) This agreement took parts of the Virginia Plan and parts of the New Jersey Plan to settle a dispute over
how states would be represented in Congress:
• A) the Three-Fifths Compromise
• B) the Great Compromise• C) the Wilmot Proviso• D) the Missouri
Compromise
7) What did the U.S. Constitution lack that kept it from being ratified earlier?
a) Protective tariffs
b) National banks
c) A Bill of rights
d) National taxes
• 8) William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was a member of this religious group that believed in religious toleration, pacifism, and the abolition of slavery:
• a) Methodists
• b) Protestants
• c) Quakers
• d) Catholics
9) Which of these was a factor that led to the development of plantation agriculture in the South?
A)The climate allowed planters to raise profitable cash crops. B)Tariffs permitted planters to make a greater profit. C)The federal government paid a bonus to cotton producers. D)Canals carried crops to western markets.
10) Which political party was in favor of protective tariffs, a national bank, and income
tax?
a) The Democratic-Republicansb) The Whigsc) The Bull Moose Partyd) The Federalists
11) Who was considered a leader of the Federalists ?
A) Jefferson
B) Lincoln
C) Roosevelt
D) Hamilton
12)This document, signed by the men of Plymouth colony aboard ship in
1620, provided a basis for self-government once they reached shore:
• a) the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• b)the Articles of Confederation
• c) the Bill of Rights• d) the Mayflower
Compact
13) This English document first limited the powers of government and was the basis for many democratic documents
for years to come:
• a) the Magna Carta• b) the Emancipation
Proclamation• c) the Mayflower
Compact• d) the Fundamental
Orders of Connecticut
14) This political party wanted more power for the people and the state
governments and was against tariffs:
• A) The Democratic-Republicans
• B) The Whigs• C) The Bull Moose Party• D) The Federalists
15) Which colonists wanted to fight the British for American independence?
a) Nationalists b) Loyalists
c) Separatists d) Patriots
16)This law for the orderly expansion of the United States would eventually include 5 new states north
of the Ohio River in 1787:
A) The Gadsden Purchase
B) The Louisiana Purchase
C) The Northwest Ordinance
D) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
17) The ____________ doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
• A) Northwest Ordinance
• B) Louisiana Purchase
• C) Adams-Onis Treaty
• D) The Gadsden Purchase
18) Why did the British government tax the colonists so heavily after 1763?
a) they wanted to pay for the American Revolution
b) they all wanted to be rich c) they wanted to pay for the French &
Indian War d) they wanted to pay for the Civil War
19) This “Founding Father” wrote the Declaration of Independence, believed in “Power by the People”, and also purchased the Louisiana Territory from France:
a) Washingtonb) Jeffersonc) Adamsd) Franklin
20) This was the first battle of the
American Revolution:
• a) Yorktown
• b) Bunker Hill
• c) Lexington & Concord
• d) Saratoga
21. How did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention settle the issue described above?
A) Three-Fifths Compromise B) New Jersey Plan C)Virginia Plan D) Mason-Dixon Line
22) This battle marked the turning point for the Americans during the Revolution: A) YorktownB) Bunker HillC) Lexington & ConcordD) Saratoga
23) Which law taxed almost all printed material in the colonies?
a) The Sugar Actb) The Declaratory Actc) The Coercive Actsd) The Stamp Act
24) This argument was used against the British to justify going to war in
1775:
• a)“construction and implementation”
• b)“mutilation and retribution”
• c) “taxation without representation”
• d) “congregation and litigation”
25) ________ were colonists that supported the British government during the American Revolution.
• A) Patriots• B) Loyalists
• C) Neutralists• D) Titans
26) All of these were advantages for the British during the Revolution
EXCEPT?• a) they had more money
• b) they had more troops
• c) they knew the land better
• d) they had more supplies
27) Who was the leader of the Continental Army?
• A) Thomas Jefferson• B) George
Washington• C) Lord Cornwallis• D) Benjamin Martin
28) What was the western boundary of the United States after the
American Revolution and before 1803?
• A) the Appalachian Mountains• B) the Rocky Mountains• C) the Missouri River• D) the Mississippi River
29) Tariffs, which were said to be unconstitutional by several southern
states, led to the _________ in 1832.
• a) XYZ Affair• b) Nullification Crisis• c) Prohibition• d) Reconstruction
30) All of these people were left out of the political process during the early years of the United States EXCEPT:
• a) Women
• b) African-Americans
• c) white landowners
• d) teenagers
31) What were Lewis and Clark looking for on their expedition?
• a) the Northwest Passage
• b) the Silk Road• c) the Cumberland
Road• d) the Seven Cities
of Cibola
32)Which region benefited the most from protective tariffs?
• a) the West
• b) the South
• c) the East
• d) the North
33) The idea of _________ involved expanding the U.S. from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
a) Manifest Destiny
b) Checks and Balances
c) Limited Government
d) Mercantilism
34) What was the last battle of the American Revolution in which the
British surrendered to the Americans?
• a) Saratoga
• b) Yorktown
• c) King’s Mountain
• d) Lexington & Concord
35) This was the first plan of government during the early years
of the U.S. from 1781-1787:
• A) the Articles of Confederation
• B) the U.S. Constitution
• C) the Bill of Rights• D) the Mayflower
Compact
**Follow-up Question: 3 points(anybody may answer)
• One of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation was that it…
36) What principle insures that no branch has more power than
another:
• A) impressment
• B) amendment process
• C) checks and balances
• D) Congress
37) ______ ______ wrote the brochure “Common Sense” to urge colonists to declare independence
against the British government:
a) Thomas Paineb) Thomas Jefferson
c) Samuel Adamsd) Paul Revere
38) ________ were colonists that chose no side during the American
Revolution.
• A) Patriots• B) Loyalists
• C) Neutralists• D) Buccaneers
• 39)The Declaration of Independence was signed:
A) August 6, 1821B) June 9, 1945C) July 4th, 1776D) July 4th, 1861
40) What was the first form of representative government in the English colonies that
startedat Jamestown in 1619?
• A) Parliament
• B) The House of Burgesses
• C) The House of Representatives
• D) Congress
41) This set of laws were intended to punish the colonists for the
Boston Tea Party and were called “intolerable”:
• A) the Townshend Acts
• B) the Tea Act• C) the Declaratory
Act• D) the Coercive Acts
42) Why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton oppose the 15th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution?
A) Public education was not addressed. B) Women were still excluded from voting.
C) Slavery was still allowed in the territories. D) Native Americans gained citizenship.
43) Which speaker is voicing a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? A Speaker 1 B Speaker 2 C Speaker 3 D Speaker 4
44) Which Civil War leader is described in the box above? A Robert E. Lee B Ulysses S. Grant C Abraham Lincoln D Jefferson Davis
45) The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution —
A brought immediate equality to Native Americans B established a process for the admission of
western states into the Union C created new congressional districts
D granted civil rights primarily to African Americans
46) The speech above shows that Lincoln believed that the South should —
A) be allowed to continue the practice of slavery B) pay for the damages suffered by the Union C) receive fair treatment after the war D) be punished for seceding from the Union
47) In the excerpt above, Mann shows his support for —
A women’s suffrage B prison reform C public schools
D improved sanitation
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