PBSC FLORIDA CIVICS LITERACY CORRECT FINALS
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived? - ✔✔-American Indians
-Native Americans
✔✔What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves? - ✔✔-Africans
-people from Africa
✔✔Why did the colonists fight the British? - ✔✔-because of high taxes (taxation without
representation)
-because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
-because they didn't have self-government
✔✔Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? - ✔✔(Thomas) Jefferson
✔✔When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? - ✔✔July 4, 1776
✔✔There were 13 original states. Name three. - ✔✔-New Hampshire
-Massachusetts
-Rhode Island
-Connecticut
-New York
-New Jersey
-Pennsylvania
-Delaware
-Maryland
-Virginia
-North Carolina
-South Carolina
-Georgia
✔✔What happened at the Constitutional Convention? - ✔✔-The Constitution was
written.
, -The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
✔✔When was the Constitution written? - ✔✔1787
✔✔The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of
the writers. - ✔✔-(James) Madison
-(Alexander) Hamilton
-(John) Jay
-Publius
✔✔What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for? - ✔✔-U.S. diplomat
-oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
-first Postmaster General of the United States
-writer of "Poor Richard's Almanac"
-started the first free libraries
✔✔Who is the "Father of Our Country"? - ✔✔(George) Washington
✔✔Who was the first President? - ✔✔(George) Washington
✔✔What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803? - ✔✔-the Louisiana
Territory
-Louisiana
✔✔Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s. - ✔✔-War of 1812
-Mexican-American WarH Civil War
-Spanish-American War
✔✔Name the U.S. war between the North and the South. - ✔✔-the Civil War
-the War between the States
✔✔Name one problem that led to the Civil War. - ✔✔-slavery
-economic reasons
-states' rights
✔✔What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did? - ✔✔-freed the slaves
(Emancipation Proclamation)
-saved (or preserved) the Union
-led the United States during the Civil War
✔✔What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? - ✔✔-freed the slaves
-freed slaves in the Confederacy
-freed slaves in the Confederate states
-freed slaves in most Southern states
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived? - ✔✔-American Indians
-Native Americans
✔✔What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves? - ✔✔-Africans
-people from Africa
✔✔Why did the colonists fight the British? - ✔✔-because of high taxes (taxation without
representation)
-because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
-because they didn't have self-government
✔✔Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? - ✔✔(Thomas) Jefferson
✔✔When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? - ✔✔July 4, 1776
✔✔There were 13 original states. Name three. - ✔✔-New Hampshire
-Massachusetts
-Rhode Island
-Connecticut
-New York
-New Jersey
-Pennsylvania
-Delaware
-Maryland
-Virginia
-North Carolina
-South Carolina
-Georgia
✔✔What happened at the Constitutional Convention? - ✔✔-The Constitution was
written.
, -The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
✔✔When was the Constitution written? - ✔✔1787
✔✔The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of
the writers. - ✔✔-(James) Madison
-(Alexander) Hamilton
-(John) Jay
-Publius
✔✔What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for? - ✔✔-U.S. diplomat
-oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
-first Postmaster General of the United States
-writer of "Poor Richard's Almanac"
-started the first free libraries
✔✔Who is the "Father of Our Country"? - ✔✔(George) Washington
✔✔Who was the first President? - ✔✔(George) Washington
✔✔What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803? - ✔✔-the Louisiana
Territory
-Louisiana
✔✔Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s. - ✔✔-War of 1812
-Mexican-American WarH Civil War
-Spanish-American War
✔✔Name the U.S. war between the North and the South. - ✔✔-the Civil War
-the War between the States
✔✔Name one problem that led to the Civil War. - ✔✔-slavery
-economic reasons
-states' rights
✔✔What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did? - ✔✔-freed the slaves
(Emancipation Proclamation)
-saved (or preserved) the Union
-led the United States during the Civil War
✔✔What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? - ✔✔-freed the slaves
-freed slaves in the Confederacy
-freed slaves in the Confederate states
-freed slaves in most Southern states
