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