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Gr. 4 Social Studies SLO Preassessment 2019-20

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53 questions

Note from the author:

This is a preassessment of MD Gr. 4 Social Studies content standards that check for knowledge.

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What's the Big Idea?

Timeline

Brain Teaser

Glossary

Artifacts, books about history, firsthand accounts, documents

Artifacts, firsthand accounts, statues made many years later, documents

Artifacts, firsthand accounts, historians, reference books

Artifacts, documents, firsthand accounts, oral history

They read books about people, places, and events from the past.

They study artifacts left behind.

They study the land.

All of the above. 

A map symbols that shows direction

A tool a historian uses to study history

When many people agree on the way something happened 

The way a person thinks about something that happened. 

The Chesapeake

The Atlantic Ocean

Baltimore Harbor

Piedmont Plateau

Things in nature like soil, plants, animals, or climate

Things in nature like floods, erosion and tornadoes

Things made by humans like cities, roads, and buidings

Things that determine climate like distance from the Equator

What's the Big Idea?

Timeline

Brain Teaser

Glossary

They read books about people, places, and events from the past.

They study artifacts left behind.

They study the land.

All of the above. 

A map symbols that shows direction

A tool a historian uses to study history

When many people agree on the way something happened 

The way a person thinks about something that happened. 

The Chesapeake

The Atlantic Ocean

Baltimore Harbor

Piedmont Plateau

Things in nature like soil, plants, animals, or climate

Things in nature like floods, erosion and tornadoes

Things made by humans like cities, roads, and buidings

Things that determine climate like distance from the Equator

The compass rose

The map grid

The legend or key

The scale of miles

Eating more food

Recycling

Leaving the water on

Leaving the lights on

The bow and arrow

A gun

An atlatl

A slingshot

The glaciers grew.

The glaciers remained the same.

The glaciers began to melt.

There were no glaciers.

A chief to be the ruler of the tribe.

Tribes had councils to discuss issues.

Tribes had local leaders who governed several tribes at once. 

Each tribe member was his or her own leader. 

They bartered for what they wanted.

They used cash to get what they wanted.

They begged for what they wanted.

They stole the items they wanted. 

St. Mary's City

Maryland

Jamestown

Baltimore

The gentry

Slaves

Native Americans

Europeans

A religious meeting

A meeting of the freemen to discuss issures in the colony

A central meeting place where slaves gathered

A place where slaves were sold

Land set aside for Native Americans

Large farms

Unsettled land

Small towns 

The British stole their ideas.

The British moved onto their property.

The British became more involved in the day-to-day running of the colonies.

The colonists did not get angry with the British.

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

The Patriots

The Loyalists

The Sons of Lierty was a group of men who supported the British.

The Sons of Liberty was a group of men who protested the British taxes. 

The Sons of Liverty was a group of men who met to discuss how to obey the British rules. 

The Sons of Liberty was a group of men who played cards together. 

The two sides flipped a coin to see who won the war.

The British general ordered his men to surrender and give up fighting.

The British ran away from the American troops. 

Both sides give up fighting.

Poor children

African American children

Wealthy children

Farm children 

The Irish potato famine caused many Irish people to move.

The Irish wanted a change.

The Irish wanted religious freedom.

The Irish were tired of the weather in Ireland. 

Comedy

Horror and mystery

Love and romance

Informational

People pulled the canal boats.

An engine moved the canal boats across the water. 

A propeller moved the boats.

Mules moved the canal boats.

Slave store

Slave auction

Slave trade

Slave market

The owner

The watchman

The overseer

The guard

Religious people

Philanthropists

Politicians

Abolitionists

An undergrouind subway

A set of train tracks

A system of secret routes for runaway slaves

A secret way people traveled around town

Miners got sick from breathing in coal dust.

Mining was a dangerous job.

Many men mined for coal.

There was no coal mined in Maryland.

Republicans

Progressives

Democrats

Independents

Women

African Americans

Men

Children

They made people work harder.

They determined how much moneyu a person made.

They protected the rights of workers.

They kept work problems from becoming public. 

World War i began.

World War II began.

World War I ended.

World War II ended.

A new kind of dance that was popular

A time when people were prosperous and wanted to have a good time 

A party for 20 year olds

A time of war

A person who is suffering

A person who makes others suffer

Women fighting for the right to vote

Women fighting against the right to vote

A time when crops would not grow

A time when many people moved to Maryland to find work in factories

A time when there were few jobs and many people did not have enough money

A time when our country went to war

Korean War

Vietnam War

Cold War

Iraq War

Some came to escape dangerous situations in their home country.

Some came so their children would have a better education.

Some came to find better jobs

All of the above

September 11, 2001

December 12, 1941

September 11, 2010

December 11, 1980

Bringing people together from different races

Separating people because of race

Treating others unfairly because of race

Helping others fight for their civil rights

It provides services, military protection, and protection of our rights.

It tells us how to live.

It tells us what religion to believe in. 

It controls how we spend our money. 

The Golden Rule

A war memorial

The colonists' letter to declare indepe ndence from Britain

A set of rules and ideas for our government

A bill suggested by the legislature to allow women to vote

The first 10 amendments of the Counstitution that state the rights of citizens

The law the courts use to decide right and wrong in criminal cases

Rights given to Blacks after the civil rights movement

The right to free speech

The right to choose a religion

The right to choose to pay taxes or not

The right to own a gun

When you choose not to buy one thing so you will have enough money to buy something else

The study of how people produce, sell, and buy goods and services

A plan for how you will spend the money you earn

Something that is used

Goods are things that are used or consumed like a video game or a candy bar; services are things that someone does for another person.

Goods are high-quality products, services are things done for free.

Goods are free, services cost money.

Goods are things people make, services are things done to be helpful. 

When people make things for the government

When people feel special

When people work at one specific job, activity, or field of study

When people make something special

When a product costs too much

When there is not enough of something that people want

When the quality of a product is bad

When you are scared to budget money