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3rd Quarter Benchmar
VA SOL 6th Grade
Question | Answer |
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This term means two or more people depend on each other for goods and services. | interdependence |
This term means for a region to focus on one or a few products. | specialization |
In the southern region, what type of resource would farmers and enslaved African Americans be called? | human |
Which colonial region specialized in livestock, grains and fish? | Mid Atlantic |
Which colonial region specialized in tobacco, rice, cotton, indigo and forest products? | Southern |
Which colonial region had the Boston Harbor (deep harbor) along with timber and fishing? | New England |
Worked as caretakers, house-workers, and homemakers. | women |
Worked to pay for their passage to the New World, but were free at the end of their contract. | indentured servants |
Worked as craftsmen in towns and plantations. | artisans |
Key philosophies in the Declaration of Independence were based on ideas from which group of people? | European Philosophers |
A colonial legislature made laws for each colony, but was monitored by which colonial official? | Colonial Governors |
Which colonial event was marked by colonists in Boston being shot after taunting British soldiers? | Boston Massacre |
What happened on July 4, 1776? | Approval of the Declaration of Independence |
Who championed the cause for independence? | John Adams |
Which document was written during the Revolutionary War to establish powers of the new national government? | Articles of Confederation |
Which document provided for a weak national government? | Articles of Confederation |
Weaknesses of the Articles led to which new document? | Constitution |
Who was president of the Constitutional Convention? | George Washington |
Which decided how many votes each state would have in the Senate and the House of Representatives? | Great Compromise |
Name the three branches of government created in the U.S. Constitution. | Judicial, Legislative, Executive |
A minimum of what number of the original 13 states had to vote in favor of the Constitution in order for it to become law? | 9 |
First 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. | Bill of Rights |
Which two documents helped shape the Bill of Rights? | Virginia Declaration of Rights, Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom |
Which of the first five presidents was not from VA? | John Adams |
Who was president when the federal court system was established? | George Washington |
Who was president when the two-party system emerged? | John Adams |
Who was president when the Louisiana Purchase was bought? | Thomas Jefferson |
This is what the U.S. gained after the War of 1812. | respect |
Which president warned European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere? | James Monroe |
Who was the African American who helped design Washington, D.C.? | Benjamin Banneker |
Which territory did Spain give the U.S. in a treaty? | Florida |
Which territory was divided by the U.S and Great Britain? | Oregon Territory |
Which territory was added after it became an independent republic? | Texas |
A war with which country gained the U.S. both California and the SW Territories? | Mexico |
The idea or belief that expansion was for the good and the right of the country. | Manifest Destiny |
Term that means a person who organizes resources to bring a new or better good or service to market in hopes of earning a profit. | Entrepreneur |
Who invented the cotton gin? | Eli Whitney |
What major outcome resulted from the invention of the cotton gin? | increased production of cotton and thus increased the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton. |
Which two people invented the reaper? | Cyrus McCormick & Jo Anderson |
What was the outcome of the invention of the reaper? | Increased the productivity of the American Farmer |
Who improved the steamboat? | Robert Fulton |
This group of people demanded the freeing of the slaves. | abolitionists |
This group of people supported “all men and women are created equal.” Wanted women to have the right to vote. | suffragists |
William Lloyd Garrison wrote which paper? | Liberator |
Who led slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
The South believed in states rights, what did Northerners believe? | Strong central government, nation is a union that could not be divided. |
Compromise where Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. | Missouri Compromise |
Which act would let the people decide if they wanted slavery or not? (popular sovereignty) | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
What prompted the southern states to secede? | Election of 1860, Lincoln's election |
What event began the Civil War? | Firing on Fort Sumter |
Name the 5 border states during the Civil War. | West Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware |
The western counties of which state refused to secede from the Union? | Virginia |
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