JCAT
Native American History
Water History
Government
Grammar
100

The names of the two plaintiffs from our JCAT court case. 

What is Laila Mokkedem and Gilles Blum?

100

The location of Cahokia.

What is modern-day Illinois and/or Missouri?

100

The people who built the Illinois and Michigan Canal. 

What is mostly Irish immigrants?

100

The three branches of government.

What is legislative, executive and judicial?

100

Identify the error: Its the team's first winning season. 

What is "its"? It should be "it is."

200

Our JCAT court case issue of this year.

What is religious freedom in public places/schools?

200

Name a product mentioned in the story about Cahokia that is from the Old World. 

What is corn or tomatoes?

200
The reason why we don't build houses out of wood in Chicago. 

What is the Great Chicago Fire of 1871?

200

The number of people on the Supreme Court.

What is 9?

200

Identity the error: I walk to the store and bought milk.

What is "walk"? It should be in the past tense: walked.

300

The name of Gilles' "grandfather.

What is Alfred Dreyfus?

300

Name at least four Native American tribes we studied (besides Cahokia).

What is Algonquin, Navajo, Iroquois, Sioux, Inuit, Cherokee and Blackfeet? 

300

Chicago became an industrial boomtown. Explain. 

What is due to water trade, and later land trade (trains) led to Chicago becoming one of America's biggest cities?
300

The two things that make up the Legislative Branch.

What is the Senate and the House?

300

There is used for...

What is to indicate a place or thing.

400

The French version of America's Bill of Rights.

What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?

400
Explain the Columbian Exchange. 

What is a trading system between the New or Old Worlds; the system traded goods and disease?

400

The first non-Native permanent settler of Chicago.

What is Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable?

400

100 _______.

What is Senators?

400

The meaning of two, to and too.

What is a number, a preposition and the meaning of "also."

500

The slogan of France.

What is liberty, equality, fraternity?

500

Explain what a nomadic tribe is and whether or not Cahokia can be considered one. 

What is a group of people that move to follow their food? Cahokia is not nomadic. Despite the fact that they hunt, they do not move their residences to do so. 

500

The Chicago River was reversed. How?

What is an entirely new canal was built [Sanitary and Ship Canal] and dug deep so gravity would pull the water towards the Mississippi River?

500
The amount of times a member of the House serves for. 

2 years, unlimited terms. 

500

Identify the error: The school had a meeting, Claire missed it.

What is these are two independent clauses and must be separated by either a semi-colon, a period or a conjunction [and].