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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is a history textbook?
primary source
secondary source
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is a speech by a state's governor?
primary source
secondary source
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is a person's journal or diary?
primary source
secondary source
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is an old family photo?
primary source
secondary source
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is a television documentary?
primary source
secondary source
- 6. Multiple Choice
Who were the first people to live in most states?
American Indians
Canadians
Europeans
Mexicans
- 7. Multiple Choice
What question did Ed Lawler try to answer about early Philadelphia?
Where did Congress meet?
Where did the president live?
Where was the Supreme Court?
Where was the Library of Congress?
- 8. Multiple Choice
Why is understanding history so important?
it helps us precisely predict the future.
it helps us better understand who we are.
It allows us to change the way things happened.
All of them.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is one way that the Unites States grew larger?
It acquired lands from other countries.
It created new land by reclaiming it from the sea.
It hired scientists to make new bodies of land.
It gained most of its new land by taking control of Canada.
- 10. Multiple Choice
What was the first part of the United States made up of?
original 13 states
Mexican Cession
Louisiana Purchase
Northwest Region
- 11. Multiple Choice
What made the Great Plains attractive to many settlers?
the possibility of finding gold
the excitement of life in the cities
the opportunity to find work in factories
the promise of inexpensive land for farming
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why do states develop in different ways?
they have different natural resources
they have different people who settled them
they have large cities and a lot of farmland
they are part of the same country
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