Social Studies Exam

Front 1

English colonists settled Jamestown, Virginia in what year?

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1607

Front 2

Pilgrims settled New Plymouth, Massachusetts in what year?

Back 2

1620

Front 3

Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony in what year?

Back 3

1630

Front 4

The Rhode Island colony began in what year?

Back 4

1635

Front 5

Massachusetts kids were required to go to school in what year?

Back 5

1647

Front 6

Quaker William Penn received a charter for Pennsylvania in what year?

Back 6

1681

Front 7

Twenty witches were executed in Salem, Massachusetts as witches in what year?

Back 7

1692

Front 8

French settlers found New Orleans in what year?

Back 8

1718

Front 9

Georgia settled as a refuge for debtors in what year?

Back 9

1732

Front 10

The Zenger trial took place in what year?

Back 10

1735

Front 11

Eliza Lucas introduced the cultivation of indigo in what year?

Back 11

1741

Front 12

The French and Indian War began in what year?

Back 12

1754

Front 13

The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War in what year?

Back 13

1763

Front 14

British Parliament passed the Stamp Act in what year?

Back 14

1765

Front 15

British troops and colonists clashed in the “Boston Massacre" in what year?

Back 15

1770

Front 16

The Boston Tea took place in what year?

Back 16

1773

Front 17

The battles at Lexington and Concord began in what year?

Back 17

1775

Front 18

The Declaration of Independence was signed in what year?

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1776

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The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War in what year?

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1783

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The Constitution was writen in what year?

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1787

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The Constitution became law and George Washington was inagurated in what year?

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1789

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A bill of rights was added to the Constitution in what year?

Back 22

1791

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The U.S. made the Louisiana Purchase in what year?

Back 23

1803

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition took place in what year?

Back 24

1804

Front 25

Congress stopped the African slave in what year?

Back 25

1808

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Another war with Britain started in what year?

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1812

Front 27

Francis Scott Key wrote our national anthem and The War of 1812 ended in what year?

Back 27

1814

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The Erie Canal was finished in what year?

Back 28

1825

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The first wagon train crossed the Rocky Mountains in what year?

Back 29

1830

Front 30

The Nat Turner Slave Rebellion took place in what year?

Back 30

1831

Front 31

The U.S. government forced 14,000 Cherokees Indians from their homes to Oklahoma on the "Trail of Tears" in what yeat?

Back 31

1838

Front 32

Dorothea Dix started her campaign to improve treatment of mental patients in what year?

Back 32

1843

Front 33

The Knickerbockers lost to the New York Club in the first recorded baseball game in history in what year?

Back 33

1846

Front 34

The Seneca Falls convention took place in what year?

Back 34

1848

Front 35

The Gold Rush took place and Harriet Tubman escaped in what year?

Back 35

1849

Front 36

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in what year?

Back 36

1852

Front 37

The Civil War began in what year?

Back 37

1861

Front 38

The Battle of Gettysburg took place in what year?

Back 38

1863

Front 39

The Emancipation Proclamation freed many slaves in what year?

Back 39

1863

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The Civil War ended in what year?

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1865

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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in what year?

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1865

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The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery in what year

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1865

Front 43

A transcontinental railroad was finished in what year?

Back 43

1869

Front 44

Reconstruction ended in what year?

Back 44

1877

Front 45

When is the Exam?

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Friday