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PA History Final 2010
____ 1. What is the state flower?
a. Mountain Laurel
b. Tulip
c. Lilac
d. Rhododendron
____ 2. What is the state bird?
a. Bald Eagle
b. Red Hawk
c. ruffed grouse
d. Falcon
____ 3. What is the state tree?
a. Hemlock
b. White Pine
c. Oak
d. Cherry
____ 4. What is the state animal?
a. Cottontail Rabbit
b. Gray Squirrel
c. Red Fox
d. White-tailed Deer
____ 5. Which of these regions would be the flattest?
a. Erie Coastal Plain
b. Piedmont
c. Allegheny Plateau
d. Ridge and Valley
____ 6. Which region do we live in?
a. Erie Coastal Plain
b. Piedmont
c. Allegheny Plateau
d. Ridge and Valley
____ 7. Which of PA’s regions is the largest?
a. Erie Coastal Plain
b. Piedmont
c. Allegheny Plateau
d. Ridge and Valley
____ 8. Which of the following towns would be the coolest based on its distance from the equator?
a. Bedford
b. Philadelphia
c. Gettysburg
d. State College
____ 9. Which of the following statements is the best example of climate?
a. Today it rained
b. It has been sunny for the past week
c. Pennsylvania has 4 seasons which all have roughly the same precipitation
d. none of the above
____ 10. Which of the following is true of Pennsylvania’s mountains?
a. they were formed by underground volcanoes
b. they have always been roughly the same height
c. they were formed by tectonic plates pushing together.
d. they are still growing every year
____ 11. Pennsylvania’s mountains once were about as large as the Rocky Mountains:
a. True
b. False
____ 12. When standing in front of the school and looking straight ahead, what mountain are you looking at?
a. Evitts
c. Tussey
b. Dunnings
d. Town Hill
____ 13. If you stand behind the school and look out what mountain do you see?
a. Evitts
c. Tussey
b. Dunnings
d. Town Hill
____ 14. Which came first: Bedford County or Fort Bedford?
a. Fort Bedford
b. Bedford County
____ 15. A term that means both living and non-living things in nature have spirits:
a. atlatl
b. allegewi
c. animism
d. spiritualism
____ 16. Largest Indian tribe in Pa, made up of 5 and later 6 different Indian nations:
a. Allegewi
b. Algonquin
c. Iroquois
d. Blackfeet
____ 17. How did Indians first arrive to North America?
a. they took ships from South America
c. They walked across a land bridge from North Asia
b. They came on boat from Southern Asia
d. They arrived on horseback from South America
____ 18. How do we know information about prehistoric Indians?
a. We study their prehistoric writings on cave walls
b. They kept detailed records on stone tablets
c. Archeologists study their ruins and artifacts to determine how they lived
d. Legends gave us accurate information about their past.
____ 19. Why do we believe that Indians migrated into North America?
a. they came to escape war
b. temperatures got too cold in their former region so they came here to find a warmer climate
c. they fled their former homes to escape disease and natural disasters
d. they followed animal herds here
____ 20. Which of the following best describes the Meadowcroft Rock Shelter?
a. a cave the Indians lived in during the winter months
b. a temporary shelter used while hunting
c. one of the oldest archaeological sites in North America
d. a Delaware longhouse
____ 21. What is “wampum”?
a. a belt made of colored beads
b. a tool that Indians used while hunting white tailed deer
c. A small house made of bark and saplings.
d. A tool used to assist women in sewing.
____ 22. Who usually skinned the deer killed after a hunt?
a. women
b. men
c. children
d. elders
____ 23. Some of the consequences of European contact were:
a. change in lifestyle
b. small pox
c. conflict between the tribes
d. all of the above
____ 24. When Indians learned how to do this they stopped moving from place to place:
a. farm
b. fish
c. hunt
d. sew
____ 25. What is a wigwam?
a. a fort built by Indians
b. a colorful belt
____ 26. Who was the proprietor (founder) of PA?
a. Ben Franklin
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. A small dome shaped house d. a tool
c. George Washington
____ 27. Where was the person from the previous question from?
a. France
b. Spain
c. England
d. Germany
d. William Penn
____ 28. What religion was he?
a. Catholic
b. Quaker
c. Mormon
____ 29. How did this man treat the Indians?
a. he cheated them
b. constantly at war with them
d. Baptist
c. viewed them as unequal
____ 30. What city did this man design?
a. Pittsburgh
b. Philadelphia
c. Reading
d. Harrisburg
____ 31. What does Pennsylvania mean?
a. brotherly love
b. Penn’s town
c. Penn’s woods
d. Land of forrest
d. fairly
____ 32. Which of the following countries did not settle in Pa at one time?
a. Spain
b. Netherlands
d. Sweden
c. England
____ 33. Why did explorers first set sail across the Atlantic Ocean?
a. to find furs
b. to find an all water route to Asia
b. to prove the world was round
d. to enslave the natives
____ 34. What was the “Great Law”
a. the basis of Penn’s government. It was the law of the land
b. Thou shalt not steal
c. It was the law that forced all people to pay taxes
d. It was the British Law that everyone had to abide by
____ 35. Penn’s sons tricked the Indians out of lands in the:
a. Treaty of Easton
b. Great Law c. Penn Doctrine
d. Walking Purchase
____ 36. What region in North America was being claimed by both the British and the French before the French and
Indian War?
a. Western Virginia
b. The Ohio River Valley
c. The Mississippi River Valley
d. Appalachian Mountains
____ 37. What colony other than PA claimed the region mentioned in the previous question?
a. Maryland
b. Virginia
c. New York
d. Ohio
____ 38. Who was sent into this region by Governor Robert Dinwiddie to tell the French to leave?
a. Henry Bouquet
b. John Forbes
c. William Pitt
d. George Washington
____ 39. Why was the spot of present day Pittsburgh such an important location during this time period?
a. If you controlled this region you could easily launch attacks into Canada
b. there were many natural resources located here that both sides wanted
c. If you controlled this region you could control all of the river travel in western PA
d. Both sides wanted to control the steel mills located here.
____ 40. Which of the following best describes Fort Necessity?
a. a Fort quickly built by George Washington after he attacked a small group of French soldiers.
b. a French fort that was quickly built after they were attacked by the British
c. a fort built along the Forbes Road near Pittsburgh
d. a British fort built near Lake Erie
____ 41. What was the name of the French fort built at the Forks of the Ohio River at the start of the French and
Indian War?
a. Fort Duquesne
b. Fort Pitt
c. Fort Presque Isle
d. Fort Ligonier
____ 42. Why was General Edward Braddock sent into the Ohio River Valley?
a. to ask the French forces there to leave
b. to form an alliance with the Indians in the region
c. to attack and capture Fort Duquesne
d. to build Fort Necessity
____ 43. What happened to Braddock and his men?
a. they successfully built a string of forts that later led to the capture of Fort Pitt
b. they were ambushed by Indians and French and severely defeated
c. they defeated the French forces and captured Fort Duquesne
d. they led raids into Canada and were instrumental in ending the war
____ 44. Who was the British Prime minister who made it his number 1 goal to win the War in North America?
a. Marquis Duquesne
b. Henry Bouquet
c. John Forbes
d. William Pitt
____ 45. Why was the Forbes Road built?
a. to gain control of the area around Lake Erie
b. To provide an access road so that British soldiers and colonists could easily launch attacks against the
Indians in our region.
c. To attack Fort Duquesne
d. To attack and destroy Fort Pitt
____ 46. Which of the following was NOT a Forbes Road fort?
a. Fort Bedford
b. Fort Loudon
c. Fort Presque Isle
d. Fort Ligonier
____ 47. What Indian tribe fought along with the British during the French and Indian War?
a. the Iroquois
b. the Algonquin
c. the Shawnee
d. the Huron
____ 48. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that Fort Bedford was built?
a. troop garrison
b. supply depot for Forbes Road builders
c. to protect settlers from Indian attack
d. place to store weapons that would be used during battle
____ 49. What fort was built in our area to help wagons cross the river along the Forbes Road?
a. Fort Bedford
b. Fort Littleton
c. Fort Juniata
d. all of the above
____ 50. The battle of Bushy Run was part of this conflict:
a. French and Indian War
c. Pontiac’s Rebellion
b. The Kittanning Massacre
d. The Revolutionary War
____ 51. Who won the French and Indian War?
a. Spanish
b. British and Colonists
c. French and Canadians
____ 52. The British decided to pay for the French and Indian War by:
a. Raising taxes on the Colonists
c. Spending less on wars
b. Stealing gold from Cuba
d. all of the above
d. French and Indians
____ 53. What British fort replaced Fort Duquesne?
a. Fort Bedford
b. Fort Necessity
c. Fort Pitt
____ 54. What is a tariff?
a. tax on imports and exports
b. tax on paper goods
d. Fort Presque Isle
c. tax on income
____ 55. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
a. November 11th 1865
b. July 4th 1776
c. June 6 1666
d. tax on tobacco
d. January 3 1807
____ 56. What did the Declaration of Independence do?
a. declared our independence from Great Britain
b. declared our independence form France
c. declared independence for all slaves
d. declared independence for all non-Quakers in PA
____ 57. What city was the Declaration adopted in?
a. Pittsburgh
b. Harrisburg
c. York
d. Philadelphia
____ 58. Which of the following is not an “inalienable right” given to us by the Declaration?
a. life
b. liberty
c. freedom of speech
d. pursuit of happiness
____ 59. What General led the troops at Valley Forge?
a. Mad Anthony Wayne
b. George Meade
c. George Washington d. Edward Braddock
____ 60. Why do Quakers always oppose wars?
a. they are pacifists
c. they are afraid to die
b. they think they cost too much
d. they believe in focusing on governmental issues not war
____ 61. If someone lived in Pa and they supported Independence they were called a:
a. Tory
b. Loyalist
c. Patriot
d. none of the above
____ 62. Why did farmers produce whiskey?
a. it was worth more than grain
b. easily transported over mountains
c. cheap and easy to make
d. all of the above
____ 63. Why did the government tax Whiskey?
a. to pay for the Revolutionary War
b. to pay for the construction of roads
c. to help raise money to build the capital
d. to raise money to pay the president
____ 64. The Whiskey Rebellion was the first time that the government:
a. taxed its citizens
c. tried to raise an army
b. enforced its tax laws with the military
d. all of the above
____ 65. Where does Washington stay in Bedford during the Whiskey Rebellion?
a. Pitt Theater
b. Espy House
c. Fort Bedford
d. Anderson House
____ 66. What was the result of the Whiskey Rebellion?
a. the farmers ran away without a fight when they saw the huge army Washington brought out to fight them.
b. There was a huge battle and the farmers won
c. There was a huge battle and the farmers lost
d. there was a huge battle with no clear winner but both sides declared victory.
____ 67.Who was the local woman that was taken captive by Indians and sent to Detroit from our area?
a. Indian Eve b. Molly Pitcher
c. Pocahontas
d. Algonquin Ann
____ 68. What was the name of the man whose unit of soldier was killed by Indians near Saxton?
a. Captain Williams
b. Captain Phillips
c. General Lee
d. General Longstreet
____69. What PA town is known for oil?
a. Titusville
b. Lancaster
c. Pittsburgh
____70. What PA town was the home city of the PA Railroad?
a. Reading
b. Pittsburgh
c. Philadelphia
d. Reading
d. Altoona
____71. What was the name of the Canal system that hauled boats from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh?
a. PA Mainline Canal b. Erie Canal
c. C&O Canal
d. State Canal
____72. What was Allegheny Portage Railroad?
a. railroad that ran from Reading to Allentown that hauled coal
b. a series of inclined planes that hauled canal boats over the Appalachian Mountains
c. A rail system that used mules and donkeys to move lumber across the state
d. A railroad running from Altoona to Holidaysburg
____73. What is the town of Broad Top known for?
a. Coal
b. Iron
c. limestone
d. Aluminum
____74. The only remaining textile mill in our area is located here:
a. New Enterprise
b. Hopewell
c. Waterside d. Loysburg
____75. The majority of mills in our area in the 1800s did this:
a. make blankets
b. made paper
c. sawed logs
d. ground grain
____76. Who constructed the 1st commercial oil well in PA
a. Robert Fulton
b. Andrew Carnegie
c. Henry Clay Frick
d. Edwin Drake
____77. The National Road:
a. Connected Philadelphia with Pittsburgh
b. connected northern Pa with southern PA
c. was the 1st road paid for by the national government
d. was built to transport farm supplies
____78. The 1st paved turnpike in the country was the:
a. Woodbury Pike
b. The Pa Turnpike
c. The National Road
d. The Lancaster Pike
____79. What put the canals in Pa out of business?
a. turnpikes
b. airplanes
c. railroads
d. steamboats
____80. If you worked for a large coal company, who owned your house
a. other workers
b. you did
c. usually the coal company
____81. The time period before the Civil War is known as:
a. antebellum
b. reconstruction
d. the government
c. renaissance
____82. Someone who opposes slavery on moral grounds is known as a
a. refugee
b. abolitionist
c. freeman
d. sovereign
d. midevil
____83. What proposed banning slavery in all lands gained from Mexico?
a. Missouri Compromise
b. Compromise of 1850
c. Wilmot Proviso
d. Abolition Act
____84. This means that a state can pick whether they want slavery or not:
a. popular sovereignty
b. compromise rhetoric
c. Antebellum
d. Manifest Destiny
____85. In most parts of the world, slavery was based on the color of your skin like in America:
a. True
b. False
____86. Pennsylvania has allowed slavery:
a. True
b. False
____87. Which of the following describes the Cheneysville Incident?
a. runaway slaves fought and killed bounty hunters
b. runaway slaves were caught and killed by bounty hunters
c. runaway slaves were caught and returned to their plantations in the south by bounty hunters
d. runaway slaves killed themselves rather than be caught and returned to slavery
____88. How did the Fugitive Slave Act affect Pennsylvanians?
a. it allowed them to keep runway slaves
b. it made it legal for them to keep and hide runaway slaves
c. it made it illegal to return runaway slaves
d. it permitted bounty hunters to come into Pa to catch runaway slaves
____89. Which of the following best describes the Dred Scot decision?
a. slaves are property and you can take them anywhere
b. slavery is illegal
c. slaves are not property and therefore have rights
d. freed slaves have all the rights of free white men
____90. There were stops on the Underground Railroad in our school district:
a. True b. False
____91. Which of the following was NOT a reason the Civil War was fought?
a. Southern states opposed a tariff on imported goods
b. Arguments over the spread of slavery
c. The North began imprisoning Southern protestors
d. Southerners believed in “states rights” and opposed the federal government telling them how to do things.
____ 92. Who is the only president from PA?
a. George Dallas
b. James Buchanan
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. Ben Franklin
____ 93. Who was president of the U.S. when southern states began seceding?
a. James Buchanan
b. Abraham Lincoln
c. Ulysses S. Grant
d. Jefferson Davis
____ 94. Where were the 1st shots of the Civil War fired?
a. Fort Sumter
b. Manassas
c. Antietam
d. Gettysburg
____ 95. Other than Gettysburg, what was the only other major battle fought on Union soil?
a. Manassas
b. Appomattox
c. Antietam
d. Shiloh
____ 96. During the Civil War, 70% of the population of the United States:
a. Lived in the North
b. Lived in the South
c. Supported Slavery
d. Supported Southern secession
____ 97. Which of the following Civil War generals was from PA?
a. Robert E. Lee
b. Ulysses S. Grant
c. General Longstreet
____ 98. What did Jay Cooke do during the Civil War?
a. ran that railroads that hauled supplies
b. Coordinated troop movements
d. George McClellan
c. Sold bonds to pay for the war
d. All of the above
___ 99. Pennsylvania produced ____ % of the North’s Iron.
a. 25
b. 35
c. 60
d. 80
____ 100. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
a. freed all slaves in the United States
b. said that if slaves fought for the Union they would be free
c. freed all slaves in the Confederacy
d. Freed the slaves in the border states
____ 101. Why is Jenny Wade important?
a. She dressed as a man to fight in the war
b. She grew food to feed the Union Army
c. She was the only civilian killed at Gettysburg
d. She kept troops supplied with water during the battle
____ 102. How did women from PA aid in the war effort?
a. making bandages and supplies
c. pretended to be men to fight in the war
b. working as nurses
d. all of the above
____ 103. During the Civil War, more soldiers died from diseases than wounds:
a. true
b. false
____ 104. What was the time period after the Civil War known as?
a. Rebuilding b. The Great Depression
c. Antebellum
d. Reconstruction
____ 105. Which of the following statements best describes Thaddeus Stevens
a. Confederate soldier who switched sides and fought for the Union
b. African American who worked hard to get blacks elected to political office
c. Abolitionist who helped write the 14th Amendment and wanted to give southern plantations to slaves.
d. Union General from Pennsylvania who fought at Gettysburg and later went on to become Vice President
____ 106. Which of the following was NOT an advantage of the North during the Civil War?
a. more people
b. more railroads
c. more factories
d. better generals
____ 107. Why did soldiers dig trenches in our school district during the Civil War.
a. They were looking for fresh water for the Union troops
b. They dug trenches looking for iron to produce weapons
c. They dug trenches to make the Cove easily defendable in case the Confederates tried to invade Altoona
d. All of the above
____ 108. Why is the Battle of Gettysburg so important?
a. If the South had won they may have won the whole war
b. It marked the turning point in the war and the Union won most of the battles afterwards
c. Lee’s army was virtually destroyed after the battle
d. All of the above
Matching: Match the following terms or locations to the statement that best describes them:
a. Little Round Top
d. Gettysburg Cemetery
b. Devils Den
e. The Angle
c. Wheatfield
f. Seminary Ridge
____109. Pickett’s Charge was focused on breaking through the Union line at this point
____ 110. From this location you could see almost the entire Gettysburg battlefield
____ 111. This location was used by Confederate Sharpshooters to “pick off” Union troops and generals.
____ 112. Abraham Lincoln came to Gettysburg to dedicate this location
____ 113. Around 4,000 men were killed here and control of this area changed 6 times during the battle.
____ 114. This is where the main Confederate line was located during the battle.