Social Studies Checkpoint Review

Label the following Key geographic regions.

a

b

c

The Rocky Mountains

The Mississipi River

The Great Plains

Which two of the following would be considered PULL factors in migration?

• War

• no war

• Famine

• education

What continent is located at 0, 30E ? 

• Antartica

• Africa

• Europe

• North America

For the United States Constitution to be adopted as the rules of our government, it had to be ratified. If something is ratified, it is . . .

• written and read

• owned not borrowed

• signed and approved

• created not copied

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assasinated? (a)  

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• James K. Polk

Select the location on the map that was annexed in 1845 which started a major war between the United States and Mexico over disputed territory.

How did Abraham Lincoln wanted to treat the South? (a)  

• harshly

• leniently

• severely

• rigorously

Match the following person with the event they spearheaded...

• first African-American baseball player to cross the "color line" and join MLB

• Freedom Riders

• Integration in Little Rock H.S.

• Little Rock Nine

• Black law student who challenged UT LAW

• Rosa Parks

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Herman Sweatt

• civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States

• Jackie Robinson

Which did the Federalists believe in and which did the Anti Federalists believe?

• Were against approving the Constitution

• Federalists

• Supported the Constitution

• Anti Federalists

• Wanted to have a strong national republic

• Anti Federalists

• Wanted small local governments

• Federalists

The​ ________ of the branch of the U.S. Government carries out the law.​ (a)  

• Executive Branch

• Legislative Branch

• Judicial Branch