Cathedral High School Academic Quiz Bowl Social Studies Test
Attention:
1. Please write your name and school on your
answer sheet.
2. Please write Social Studies in the Subject
space.
Directions:
Chose the best answer for each of the following multiple choice questions
and darken the appropriate space on the scantron answer sheet. You will
receive 1 point for each correct answer. The highest, second highest,
and third highest score will receive a bonus of 20, 10, and 5 points
respectively.
Good Luck!
1.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which of the following ended the French and Indian War?
Treaty of Ghent 1757
Treaty of Paris 1763
Treaty of Span 1801
Treaty of Portsmouth 1773
a.
b.
c.
d.
When did the Second Continental begin meeting?
April 1774
May 1775
June 1776
July 1776
a.
b.
c.
d.
When were the Articles of Confederation approved?
July 1776
January 1777
March 1781
September 1783
2.
3.
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4.
Who believed that the executive, “was nothing more than an institution for carrying the
will of the Legislature into effect”?
a. James Madison
b. Roger Sherman
c. Alexander Hamilton
d. James Wilson
5.
Who most vocally suggested the addition of a Bill of Rights be added to the
Constitution?
a. John Jay
b. James Madison
c. George Mason
d. Ben Franklin
6.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which of the following did not ratify the Constitution before January 9th, 1788?
New Hampshire
Delaware
Georgia
Connecticut
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which president was the first to Veto a bill of Congress on political grounds?
Thomas jefferson
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
James Monroe
a.
b.
c.
d.
Who was the first Secretary of War?
Thomas Pickering
James McHenry
John Armstrong, Jr.
Henry Knox
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which of the following upheld the Espionage Act?
Fletcher v Peck
Plessy v Ferguson
Schenck v US
Terry v. Ohio
7.
8.
9.
10.
According to the Virginia Plan, how would the President be elected?
a. Directly by the people
b. By the electors of the state legislatures
c. Through the electoral college
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d. By the national legislature
11.
Who wrote Common Sense?
a. James Madison
b. Thomas Paine
c. Samuel Adams
d. John Hancock
12.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Who was the most vocal supporter of the Olive Branch Petition?
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
John Dickinson
Richard Henry Lee
a.
b.
c.
d.
What did the founders believe was an, “inadequate safeguard for people’s liberties.”
The Articles of Confederation
The English Constitution
The Act of Union
The Bills of Attainder
13.
14.
Which member of the Continental Congress from Delaware, arrived late and broke the
deadlock and voted in favor of independence?
a. Daniel Shays
b. James Wilson
c. William Patterson
d. Caesar Rodney
15.
How many people gathered in the Pennsylvania State House for the Constitutional
Convention?
a. 49
b. 52
c. 53
d. 55
16.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Where did the British surrender in October 1781?
Yorktown
Richmond
Philadelphia
Boston
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which of the following was NOT created by the Judiciary Act of 1789?
District Courts
Municipal Courts
Circuit Courts
Supreme Court
17.
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18.
Which future Supreme Court Chief Justice, chaired the First Congress’ special judiciary
committee and created the Judiciary Act of 1789?
a. John Jay
b. Oliver Ellsworth
c. John Rutledge
d. William Patterson
19.
A proposed amendment to the Constitution will be sent to the state ratifying conventions
when ____________ of the state legislatures approve it?
a. ⅔
b. ¾
c. ½
d. ⅗
20.
Which case established a “clear and present danger” test for deciding on whether the
state can limit free speech?
a. Gitlow v NY
b. Schenck V US
c. Fletcher v Peck
d. McCulloch v Maryland
21.
Which justice recused himself from US. v Nixon because he had previously served in the
Nixon administration?
a. John Paul Stevens
b. Thurgood Marshall
c. Harry Blackmun
d. William Rehnquist
22.
Which Amendment to the Constitution did Thomas Jefferson cite in his opposition to the
bank of the US?
a. 10th Amendment
b. 9th Amendment
c. 5th Amendment
d. 14th Amendment
23.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which of the following did Alexander hamilton cite in his defense of the Bank of the US?
Article I Section 3
Article I Section 5
Article I section 6
Article I Section 8
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24.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which provision of the Tea Act was MOST objectionable to the colonists?
The tax on tea imports
The tariff on Tea exports
The monopoly of tea sales for the British East India Company
The restriction of trade between the colonists and other European colonies
a.
b.
c.
d.
When was the Boston Tea Party?
April 1775
December 1773
March 1781
September 1774
25.
26.
Which of the following was ADDED in the revision of the Declaration of Independence
and NOT in the original draft?
a. Endowed
b. Self-evident
c. Pursuit of happiness
d. Created equal
27.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which state was the 9th to ratify the Constitution making it official?
Massachusetts
Virginia
New York
New Hampshire
a.
b.
c.
d.
Who was the First Attorney General of teh United States?
Thomas Jefferson
Caesar Rodney
William Patterson
Edmund Randolph
28.
29.
The Twelfth Amendment attempted to solve the problem revealed in the election of
1800. What was the change?
a. Electors were no longer eligible to vote for two candidates from the same party
b. Candidates for President and Vice President would be elected separately
c. Candidates for President and Vice President need to be from different states.
d. Electors were not required to vote for the candidates from their own political party
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30.
Which of the following was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Brown v.
The Board of Education cases in 1954?
a. Earl Warren
b. Warren Burger
c. William Rehnquist
d. Thurgood Marshall
31.
Besides Kansas, which other locations were being sued in the Brown v the Board of Ed
cases?
a. South Carolina
b. Georgia
c. Mississippi
d. Florida
32.
Which amendment to the Constitution was shown to have been violated in the Miranda v
Arizona (1966) Case?
a. 4th Amendment
b. 5th Amendment
c. 6th Amendment
d. 8th Amendment
33.
Who introduced the resolution at the Continental Congress, “...that these United
Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states...”?
a. Patrick Henry
b. John Adams
c. Roger Sherman
d. Richard Henry Lee
34.
Which of teh following was NOT on the committee to draft the Declaration of
Independence?
a. Ben Franklin
b. Robert Livingston
c. Gouverneur Morris
d. Roger Sherman
35.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which of the following was NOT a part of the Coercive Acts?
Closed the Port of Boston
Arrested the colonial legislators
Forced citizens to pay for the tea
Quartered troops in Massachusetts
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36.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Who chaired the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation?
Daniel Shays
John Dickenson
Richard Henry Lee
William Patterson
a.
b.
c.
d.
How many states attended the Annapolis Convention?
5
6
7
8
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which of the Federalist Papers defended the Connecticut Compromise?
10
27
39
47
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which of the following ratified the Constitution last?
Virginia
New York
New Hampshire
North Carolina
37.
38.
39.
40.
Which President broke the precedent established by George Washington by being
elected for a third term?
a. Ulysses S. Grant
b. Franklin Roosevelt
c. Grover Cleveland
d. Harry Truman
41.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Who was President when the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed?
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
a.
b.
c.
d.
Who proposed the doctrine of nullification?
Henry Clay
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
John Calhoun
42.
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43.
Which President refused to deliver the “midnight appointments” resulting in Marbury v
Madison?
a. George Washington
b. John Adams
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. James Monroe
44.
a.
b.
c.
d.
In which free territory did Dred Scott enter establishing his claim to being free?
Michigan
Nebraska
Kansas
Wisconsin
45.
Which of the following was NOT decided by the Supreme Court with John Marshall as
Chief Justice (Marshall Court)?
a. Gibbons v Ogden
b. Gitlow v New York
c. Dartmouth College v Woodward
d. Fletcher v Peck
46.
Which of the following believed that the Virginia Plan created, “a consolidated union in
which the ideas of the states should be nearly annihilated.”?
a. Robert Yates
b. James Madison
c. James Wilson
d. Gouverneur Morris
47.
Where did the Continental Congress meet in 1786 before deciding to hold a
Constitutional Convention?
a. New York
b. Pennsylvania
c. Virginia
d. Maryland
48.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which of the following was NOT a writer of the Federalist Papers?
John Jay
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
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49.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Washington vetoed a bill pertaining to __________________.
Tariffs
Building a navy
Apportionment
The elastic clause
a.
b.
c.
d.
Who was the first Secretary of State?
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Oliver Ellsworth
James Monroe
50.