Social Studies (4th Grade TCAP Review Part 1)

Question 1

Which was NOT a goal for Lewis and Clark's expedition?

Accepted Answer

Record information about plants, water, animals, and weather

Question 2

What was the main cause of the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

taxation without representation.

Question 3

Who gained the most economically from the invention of the cotton gin?

Accepted Answer

Slave owners who made a profit from the clean cotton.

Question 4

What country did the United States fight during the Revolutionary War?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 5

Who was the General of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?

Accepted Answer

George Washington

Question 6

Which sentence explains one reason for writing the United States Constitution?

Accepted Answer

The government had no judicial branch.

Question 7

Which geographic feature provides transportation, boundaries and food and water source?

Accepted Answer

rivers

Question 8

Many plantation owners wanted slavery to stay legal because slaves

Accepted Answer

provided a cheap source of labor.

Question 9

Which Native American group lived in what is now Tennessee before it was colonized by Europeans

Accepted Answer

Creek

Question 10

What country did Thomas Jefferson buy the Louisiana Purchase from?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 11

Which branch of the federalgovernment decides if a law follows the U.S. Constitution?

Accepted Answer

the Supreme Court

Question 12

The abolitionist movement angered many people in the South because it

Accepted Answer

called for the end of slavery.

Question 13

True or False: Lewis and Clark found a direct water route to the Pacific.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

Kent is located nearest to

Accepted Answer

A forest

Question 15

Which European group settled in Florida in the 1500s?

Accepted Answer

Spanish

Question 16

Sequoyah is an important person in history because he

Accepted Answer

invented an alphabet for his native language.

Question 17

How was Sacagawea important to the history of the United States?

Accepted Answer

She translated for the Corps of Discovery.

Question 18

How did the increase in population of European settlers affect American Indians?

Accepted Answer

more battles over land

Question 19

Before the American Revolution, colonists protests laws which forced them to provide

Accepted Answer

housing

Question 20

On the Trail of Tears, many Native Americans

Accepted Answer

became sick and died.

Questions 20