7th Grade U.S. History

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. What two states did the Mason-Dixon line serve as a boundary for? Pennsylvania and Maryland Massachusets and Connecticut North Carolina and South Carolina Maine and New Hampshire

2. How were indentured servants different from slaves? They worked without wages in exchange for life in America. Women could not be indentured servants. Their wages were minimal. They were the same.

3. Who was among the first to die in the Boston Massacre? Samuel Adams Samuel Maverick Mercy Warren Jack Dowle

4. What did the first section of the Declaration of Independence state? human rights laws for foreigners the power of the government natural rights

5. Who was James Armistead? a lieutenant in the Continental Navy a general in the British army a slave and a spy a committee member for the Declaration of Independence

6. Which of the following "men" was actually a woman in disguise who fought during the Revolution? Francis Marion Robert Shurtleff Henry Laurens Benjamin Tallmadge

7. Who promoted laissez faire - the doctrine that the government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs? Conrad McMunn Thomas Pinckney Adam Smith John Marshall

8. What Native American tribe did Sacagawea belong to? Shoshone Ojibwas Natchez Pomos

9. Who was defeated three times in his efforts to become president? Edward Longfellow Samuel Slater Henry Clay John Fitch

10. What did Norbert Rillieux invent? A machine that cooked sugar in closed vats under low air pressure A machine that could spin cotton with the control of the weaver A machine that could transfer writing onto a fresh piece of paper A machine that could count money