Grade 2 Unit 6 - Workbook

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7. What happened to the President’s House during the War of
   1812?
   A. Native Americans attacked and burned it.
   B. The U.S. Army made a fort there.
   C. Andrew Jackson wrote a song about it.
   D. The British Army attacked and burned it.


8. Why did Mary Pickersgill make a flag for Fort McHenry?
   A. The British soldiers asked her to make a big flag.
   B. The old flag had been destroyed.
   C. The American soldiers wanted a very big American flag
   for the fort.
   D. She hoped that Dolley Madison would see the flag.


9. Who saw the attack on Fort McHenry and wrote a poem that
   begins, “O say can you see,” that became our national anthem?
   A. Francis Scott Key
   B. Dolley Madison
   C. Andrew Jackson
   D. James Madison

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