Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress Social Studies Grade 5

1.A class in Lansing is making a timeline of Michigan. In what year did Michigan become a state?

2.Which city is the capital of Michigan?

3.On a wall map, a student traces every Great Lake that touches Michigan. Which set is complete?

4.A family drives from St. Ignace to Mackinaw City. What does the Mackinac Bridge connect on that trip?

5.A class studies a diagram of the Soo Locks at Sault Ste. Marie. What do those locks let ships do?

6.How is the United States government divided at the national level?

7.A student says Detroit must be the capital because it is Michigan's largest city. Which reply is right?

8.On a classroom map of Michigan, 1 centimeter stands for 10 kilometers. A road on the map measures 4 centimeters. What distance does that road stand for?

9.Looking at the outline of Michigan, what two large landforms make up the state?

10.A map key marks the Straits of Mackinac. Where are those straits, and what crosses them?

11.Which states share a land border with Michigan?

12.From downtown Detroit, which city is directly across the Detroit River, and in what country is it?

13.On a map of the Lower Peninsula, a student points to the Thumb. What is that region?

14.Which statement about Lake Michigan is true?

15.A class compares the Great Lakes by the area of their surfaces. Which lake is largest?

16.Where is Isle Royale, and which state does it belong to?

17.What kind of water fills the Great Lakes?

18.Which water feature is outside Michigan?

19.Which description matches the Grand River?

20.What does the Detroit River do?

21.Why were locks built on the St. Marys River at Sault Ste. Marie?

22.A freighter is leaving Lake Huron for Lake Erie. Which route matches the connecting waters?

23.Which description fits the Keweenaw Peninsula?

24.A class labels two Michigan places on a physical map. Which pairing is correct?

25.Which place is the highest point in Michigan?

26.How many counties does Michigan have?

27.It is 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time in Marquette. Ironwood, in Gogebic County, uses Central Time. What time is it in Ironwood?

28.On the class map of Michigan, north is at the top. Where is the Upper Peninsula compared with the Lower Peninsula?

29.North is at the top of a classroom map. Grand Rapids is west of Lansing. On which side of the Lansing dot should the class place Grand Rapids?

30.What is the job of a map legend, also called a key?

31.On a practice map in a Lansing classroom, 1 inch stands for 20 miles. The route the class draws is 3 inches long. How many miles does that route stand for?

32.Which sentence gives a relative location for Ann Arbor?

33.Which of these is an absolute location?

34.Which description of Michigan's place on Earth is correct?

35.What does Michigan's state motto mean in English?

36.A class has two Michigan maps. One colors counties and marks cities. The other shades highlands and traces rivers. Which names fit?

37.Cold winter air crosses the open water of a Great Lake and then drops heavy snow on the shore it reaches next. What is that snow called?

38.Why are large farms more common in the southern Lower Peninsula than in the Upper Peninsula?

39.How did the Great Lakes basins form?

40.Where does the name Michigan come from?

41.Which nations formed the Council of Three Fires in the Great Lakes region?

42.Which home best matches many Great Lakes American Indian communities before European settlement?

43.Why were birchbark canoes so useful around the Great Lakes?

44.In a garden lesson, the class learns about the three sisters. Which crops are those?

45.What did French traders most want from the Great Lakes region during the fur-trade era?

46.What did Jacques Marquette do at Sault Ste. Marie in 1668?

47.Who founded Detroit in 1701, and what was it at the start?

48.What happened to Detroit after France lost the French and Indian War?

49.What did the Odawa leader Pontiac do in 1763?

50.What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 do for the land that became Michigan?

51.Which states were formed from the Northwest Territory?

52.Under the Northwest Ordinance, when could a part of the territory apply for statehood?

53.When did the British leave Detroit so the United States flag could be raised there?

54.What was created in 1805 with Detroit as its capital?

55.What happened at Detroit in 1812, during the War of 1812?

56.Why does a class map of September 10, 1813, mark a naval battle on Lake Erie?

57.How did the Erie Canal, opened in 1825, affect Michigan?

58.What was the result of Michigan's boundary dispute with Ohio in the 1830s?

59.Who was Stevens T. Mason in 1835?

60.What changed about Michigan's capital in 1847?

61.Which statement about American Indian nations in Michigan is accurate today?

62.What brought a mining boom to the Upper Peninsula in the 1840s?

63.Which statement about slavery and Michigan is accurate?

64.Why was Detroit an important stop for people escaping slavery?

65.Which side did Michigan fight for in the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865?

66.What did the 13th Amendment do when it was ratified in 1865?

67.What is true of Michigan's white-pine lumber era?

68.When and where was the Ford Motor Company incorporated?

69.What was the Model T, introduced in 1908?

70.Who organized General Motors in 1908?

71.What changed at Ford's Highland Park plant in 1913?

72.What was the result of the Flint sit-down strike in 1936 and 1937?

73.What began in 1929 and left many people in Detroit waiting in soup lines?

74.What did people mean by calling Michigan the Arsenal of Democracy?

75.Which statement about the Mackinac Bridge is true?

76.When did voters approve the Michigan constitution that still frames the state government?

77.Which statement about Rosa Parks and Michigan is accurate?

78.What did the Declaration of Independence do in 1776?

79.Why did leaders replace the Articles of Confederation?

80.Which group makes national laws for the United States?

81.Which jobs belong to the president as head of the executive branch?

82.What is the job of the judicial branch?

83.What is a veto?

84.How can Congress override a presidential veto?

85.How is Michigan represented in the two houses of Congress?

86.What is the Bill of Rights?

87.Which action is a responsibility of a citizen rather than a protected freedom?

88.Who makes most day-to-day decisions about a Michigan public-school district?

89.Which government raises and commands the United States armed forces?

90.Which governments can collect taxes?

91.A 17-year-old in Flint wants to vote for president. An 18-year-old citizen in the same city also wants to vote. What does the law allow?

92.Which description matches the Michigan Legislature?

93.What is the role of Michigan's governor?

94.What does a local school board in Michigan do?

95.Which law stands highest if a Michigan law conflicts with the United States Constitution?

96.A class of 24 students in Alpena wants to ride a lighthouse boat, but the boat has room for 16. What does the shortage of seats show?

97.The class can tour the capitol in Lansing or visit the Grand Rapids Public Museum on the same Saturday, but not both. The class picks the capitol. What is the opportunity cost?

98.A spring frost near Traverse City ruins much of the tart cherry crop. Shoppers still want cherries. What is likely to happen to the price?

99.In a Grand Rapids furniture shop, one person saws the boards, another builds the frames, and a third applies the finish. What is this way of working called?

100.At a tart cherry orchard near Suttons Bay, which item is a capital resource?

101.Which item is a capital good?

102.A Detroit plant sells auto parts to a factory in Windsor, Canada. A store in Marquette sells bananas grown in another country. Which sorting is right?

103.A Michigan city uses tax money to plow snow, keep a park open, and help pay for schools. What does this example show?

104.Nora shovels sidewalks in Kalamazoo and earns 24 dollars. She pays a 9-dollar field-trip fee and spends 6 dollars on lunch. How much money is left?

105.At a school fair in Holland, a student buys a jar of local honey for 4 dollars and sells it for 10 dollars. What is the profit?

106.A bike shop in Traverse City offers a free bell with every helmet. Why would the shop do that?

107.A resident uses personal savings to open a kayak rental on the Au Sable River near Oscoda, hoping visitors will pay to paddle. Which role is that?

108.Which resource is nonrenewable?