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FIFTH GRADE QUIZ ANSWERS

(History section)

PART ONE -- Slavery and Tennessee's war
1) FALSE (about one in FOUR were slaves by that time); 2) Because the terrain was better suited to large cotton plantations in West Tennessee; 3) TRUE; 4) Andrew Johnson

PART TWO -- Volunteer State divided
1) FALSE; 2) to cut off (as in your arm or your leg); 3) TRUE; 4) Shiloh

PART THREE -- Leaving the Farm
1) TRUE; 2) FALSE

PART FOUR -- Changing the World
1) FALSE; 2) Alvin York; 3) gunpowder; 4) the suffrage movement; 5) Austin Peay

PART FIVE -- Depression hits home
1) FALSE; 2) Muscle Shoals; 3) so large boats could use it; 4) George Norris

PART SIX -- Tennessee goes to war again
1) World War II; 2) Camp Tyson; 3) TRUE; 4) the atomic bomb; 5) Cordell Hull

PART SEVEN -- Separate no more
1) integrated; 2) the Highlander Folk School; 3) because they were trying to vote; 4) FALSE; 5) to show support for striking sanitation workers

(Civics Section)

PART ONE -- What government really does
1) A and C; 2) FALSE; 3) TRUE; 4) FALSE

PART TWO -- The other constitution in your life
1) The U.S. Constitution; 2) FALSE; 3) FALSE

PART THREE -- Three branches of government
1) legislative, executive and judicial; 2) executive; 3) legislative; 4) TRUE; 5) FALSE

(Geography section)

A funny box, four lines and four dots
1) The Mississippi River; 2) The Tennessee River; 3) The Cumberland River; 4) Knoxville

Three Grand Divisions
1) A; 2) C; 3) C; 4) B; 5) A; 6) B; 7) B; 8) A

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