Core Knowledge Series
History
Grade 4

501.)  What was Zachary Taylor's nickname?
502.)  What did Senator Thomas Corwin say would be a result of the Mexican War in the United States?
503.)  Who commanded the Mexican troops defending Mexico City?
504.)  The Mexican War ended when the Americans took what city?
505.)  In addition to Texas, name the six states that the U.S. gained (in whole or in part) from Mexico as a result of the Mexican War.
506.)  What are people who work to improve problems with society called?
507.)  What was the name of the movement that tried to get people to stop drinking alcohol?
508.)  What was the biggest problem with American society in the 1830s?
509.)  What were reformers fighting slavery called?
510.)  What reformer worked to help improve the treatment of the mentally ill in the mid 1800s?
511.)  Before reforms led by Dorothea Dix in the 1840s, how were mentally ill people treated?
512.)  What nineteenth century Massachusetts reformer worked to make education available to more children?
513.)  What is the term for the belief that all children should learn to read and write and become good citizens?
514.)  What are people who work for equal rights and opportunities for women called?
515.)  What nineteenth century feminist wrote about women "If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply - any... Let them be sea-captains, if you will"?
516.)  Lucretia Mott was a reformer concerned with what?
517.)  Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a reformer concerned with what?
518.)  An important meeting to further women's rights was held in what New York city in July of 1848?
519.)  What two great abolitionists and former slaves attended the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
520.)  Whose rights did the document "Declarations of Sentiments and Resolutions" from the Seneca Falls Convention address?
521.)  What did many people think was the most shocking demand in the Declarations of Sentiments and Resolutions?
522.)  What was the bloodiest war in American history?