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Unit 5 I. Blank-filling 1. The nickname for the USA national flag is “_____Old Glory________________”. 2. The state of ____Virginia______ was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I. 3. As US national motto, “E Pluribus Unum” means _____out of many,one__________ 5. As pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain means ___Mark number two_______. 6. The largest state in terms of area is ___Alaska_______ and the largest state in terms of population is _____California_____. 7. The meaning of Mississippi is “_____Father of Waters___”. 8. Some ____Puritans_______, called the Pilgrims, crossed the Atlantic in the ship Mayflower and settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. 9. The writer O. Henry called ____Thanksgiving Day _______ the one holiday that is purely American. 10. The first shot in the American War of Independence was heard at the village of ______Lexington_____ on April 19, 1775. 11. In May, 1775, ______the 2th Continental Congress______ met in Philadelphia and began to assume the functions of a national government. 12. On June 14, 1776, the second Continental Congress officially appointed __Georgr Washington___ as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. 13. ___Thomas_Jefferson_ was instructed by the Committee of Five to write the Declaration of Independence. 14. The Independence Day of the United States is on _____July_4th_______. 15. On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued the ____ Emancipation Proclamation ___________, which granted freedom to all slaves in areas still controlled by the Confederacy. 16. The famous “that this government of the people, by the people, for the people” was from ___the Gettysburg Address_______ 17. The 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights granted the American people the right to keep and bear ____Arms______. 18. The most extreme form of Jim Crow violence is ____Lynching______. 19. ___Chinked-out_______ is a new musical style created by Lee-Hom Wang, which blends Chinese traditional music with Western hip-h