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Grade 5 Colonial Period
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, was exiled from Massachusetts Bay colony for advocating for the separation of church and state.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Early National Era
Which side did Tecumseh support during the War of 1812?
  1. French
  2. English
  3. American
  4. He did not participate.
Grade 5 Colonial Period
New Hampshire was the last of the New England colonies to be founded.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Egypt
Before mummification the brain of the deceased was taken out through the nose using a hook.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Pennsylvania was founded by members of the Shakers.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Much of the land that made up the Middle Colonies had been controlled by which country before England?
  1. Spain
  2. France
  3. Portugal
  4. The Netherlands
Grade 5 Civil War
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
  1. Jefferson Davis
  2. Robert E. Lee
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Ulysses S. Grant
Grade 5 Civil War
                       was an escaped slave who became a writer, orator, journalist, and leading abolitionist.
  1. William Lloyd Garrison
  2. Frederick Douglass
  3. Harriet Tubman
  4. Dred Scott
Grade 5 US Geography
Lake Ontario is the Great Lake that is the farthest                .
  1. north
  2. south
  3. west
  4. east
Grade 5 Bodies of Water and Continents
What is the landform, or body of water, that is partly enclosed by land, and is usually smaller than a gulf?
  1. estuary
  2. fjord
  3. bay
  4. island
Grade 5 The Frontier
What was the primary mission of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
  1. remove Native Americans from Louisiana
  2. explore and map the Louisiana Purchase
  3. find gold in the Rocky Mountains
  4. capture Spanish territory in California
Grade 5 American Revolution
In 1764, Parliament passed the                 Act to raise money for Britain.
  1. Tobacco
  2. Rice
  3. Sugar
  4. Stamp
Grade 5 Civil War
The Gettysburg Address was given by                 .
  1. Robert E. Lee
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Jefferson Davis
  4. Ulysses S. Grant
Grade 5 Civil Rights
Rosa Parks was arrested here when she refused to giver up her seat on the bus. Also the site of a major bus boycott.
  1. Atlanta, GA
  2. Savannah, GA
  3. Pearl Harbor, HI
  4. Birmingham, AL
Grade 5 US Geography
Which is the only Great Lake to be located entirely within the United States?
  1. Erie
  2. Huron
  3. Ontario
  4. Michigan
Grade 5 Civil War
What was the name of the Union strategy of blocking southern ports to prevent goods and supplies from reaching citizens in the South?
  1. the Continental System
  2. the Constrictor Plan
  3. the Anaconda Plan
  4. the Great Blockade
Grade 5 Egypt
In the Egyptian mummification process it took forty days to dehydrate a body.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Economics
Inflation is an increase in the value of currency.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 US Laws and Amendments
The                Amendment declared slavery to be illegal everywhere in the United States.
  1. Thirteenth
  2. Fourteenth
  3. Fifteenth
  4. Sixteenth
Grade 5 Civil War
Sherman's "March to the Sea" used a strategy called total war to destroy the resources of the south.
  1. True
  2. False
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