Amendments
Excessive bail and cruel punishments are forbidden by the __________Amendment.
A. 7th
B. 8th
C. 10th
D. 11th
A. 7th
In ______societies, even though the men governed the villages, it was the women who owned the property and passed it on to their daughters.
A. Hopi
B. Comanche
C. Shoshone
D. Karankawa
A. Hopi
Which of the following explorers did not start his journey from Cuba?
A. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
B. Francisco Vazquez Coronado
C. Hernan Cortez
D. Hernando de Soto
B. Coronado
Although many of the trees in the ____area of the Central Plains region have been cut down, many people still consider the area to be a natural landmark.
A. Rolling Plains
B. Grand Prairie
C. Llano
D. Cross Timbers
D. Cross Timbers
Which weather phenomenon has been described as sounding like a train?
A. a blizzard
B. a hurricane
C. a hailstorm
D. a tornado
D. a tornado
Which amendment prevents the government from forcing civilians to house soldiers during peacetime?
A. 3rd
B. 6th
C. 9th
D. 12th.
3rd
In addition to the Comanche, the _______also lived in the Texas Panhandle.
A. Caddo
B. Coahuiltecan
C. Kiowa
D. Tonkawa
C. Kiowa
Which explorer reached the New World first?
A. Vasco Nunez de Balboa
B. Christopher Columbus
C. Amerigo Vespucci
D. Juan Diaz de Solis
B. Columbus
A string of cities that have grown to be joined together as a densely populated area is called.
A. crossroads
B. megalopolis
C. metropolis
D. municipality
B. megalopolis
What type of chart shows the size of a country in relationship to the data presented and not its actual land size?
A. cartogram
B. geogram
C. query chart
D. weighted chart
A. cartogram
Amendments to the Constitution are authorized by Article ______________________
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
D. Article 5
Who founded the village of Oraibi in 1050?
A. Caddo
B. Hopi
C. Jumano
D. Zuni
B. Hopi
Who reported seeing the Seven Cities of Cibola on an expedition he led from Mexico?
A. Marcos de Niza
B. Cabeza de Vaca
C. Don Juan Onate
D. Alonzo de Leon
B. Cabeza de Vaca
What affects a region's rainfall and temperature?
A. human geography
B. physical geography
C. economic geography
D. cultural geography
B. physical geography
In Jamestown, the representatives who wrote the laws were called
A. burghers
B. burgesses
C. legislators
D. representatives
B. burgesses
The Bill of Rights is essentially the first __ Amendments of the Constitution.
A. 4
B. 7
C. 10
D. 12
C. 10
Which of these tribes lived in the Great Plains?
A. Concho
B. Kiowa
C. Shawnee
D. Coahuiltecan
B. Kiowa
French explorer La Salle helped France challenge Spain's claim on Texas by building a fort on Garcitas creek near___________.
A. Corpus Christi Bay
B. Lake Pontchartrain
C. Matagorda Bay
D. South Padre Island
C. Matagorda Bay
The world's longest river is the ______?
A. Amazon
B. Mississippi
C. Nile
D. Ural
C. Nile
A. Concord
B. Baltimore
C. Lexington
D. Roxbury
C. Lexington
Immigration is discussed in
A. Article 1 of the Bill of Rights
B. Article 1 of the Constitution
C. Article 3 of the Bill of Rights
D. Article 3 of the Constitution
B. Article 1 of the Constitution
What tribe processed the sap of the maple tree into a syrup?
A. Algonquian
B. Cherokee
C. Iroquois
D. Ojibwa
C. Iroquois
Early European explorers came to the New World in search of__________?
A. gold
B. silver
C. Spices
D. all of the answers are correct
D. All of the answers are correct
El Captian is the natural landmark early settlers used to find their way through___________.
A. Big Bend
B. the Guadalupe Pass
C. the Llano Basin
D. the Piney Woods
B. the Guadalupe Pass
The federal agency that established schools and gave aid to African Americans after the Civil War was the _____?
A. Civil War chest
B. Freedman's Bureau
C. Reconstruction Agency
D. Slavery Bureau
B. Freedman's Bureau