1-4 Test
- Name the special holiday that celebrates our nation’s freedom. Answer: Independence Day on July 4th.
- When do we celebrate Memorial Day and why? Answer: We celebrate Memorial Day the last weekend in May. This day is to celebrate all of the men and women who served and died in the armed forces.
- Whenis Labor Day and why do we celebrate it? Answer: Labor Day is celebrated the first weekend in September. It is celebrated by the citizens for the freedom of working at jobs that are beneficial to the entire country.
- Show the pictures on the link and let the child tell you what they know. 1-4.1 pictures
- List in order the three levels of government. Answer: local, state, national
- Which level of government is a governor in charge of? Answer: state
- Name your town, state, county, and country.
- Who was our first President? Answer: George Washington
- Before becoming President, Washington played an important part in the Revolutionary Warby … Answer: fighting in the war and then becoming a leader of the army
- Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Answer: Thomas Jefferson
- Identify each of these people by their pictures. Jefferson, Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr.
- Who was an important civil rights leader in this country? Answer martin Luther King Jr
- Name at least two things for which Benjamin Franklin was known? Answer: Science experiments, Poor Richard’s almanac, silversmith, participating in the Revolutionary War as a diplomat, a printer, writing his own autobiography
- What did Rosa Parks do that changed history? Answer: She refused to move from her seat at the front of a bus during a time in history when it was against the law for a African American to sit in the front of a bus or to do thing that we take for granted today.