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7a final
final for 7th grade history terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jamestown settlers saved their colony by planting | tobacco |
| Protestants who wanted to leave and found their own churches | Separatists |
| Religious settlements established in California by the Spanish | missions. |
| This movement that drove 15,0000 Puritans to Massachusetts | Great Migration |
| This group maintained the friendliest relations with the Native Americans | The French |
| This law protected Catholics from any attempt to make Maryland a Protestant colony | Act of Toleration |
| The Seven Years’ War was a war between | France and Britain |
| In the 1730s and 1740s, a religious revival swept through the colonies, called | Great Awakening |
| theory that a nation’s power depended on expanding its trade and increasing its gold reserve | mercantilism |
| leg of the triangular trade route in which enslaved Africans were shipped to the West Indies was know as | the Middle Passage |
| This taxed almost all printed material in the colonies | Stamp Act |
| Colonial leaders used the Boston Massacre killings as | propaganda |
| These colonists were determined to fight the British for American independence | Patriots |
| This was the name given to Americans who supported independence | Patriots |
| This law, passed by the Confederation Congress, created a territory out of the lands north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi Rivers | Northwest ordinance |
| government in which citizens rule through elected representatives | republic |
| Articles of Confederation could go into effect, when it was approved by | 13 states |
| Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress needed this many states to pass a law | 9 |
| Under the federal system the final authority is the | Constitution |
| created a government that divided powers between the national government and the states is called | federal system |
| This keeps any one branch of government from gaining too much power | checks and balances |
| America’s first constitution | Articles of Confederation |
| James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote essays supporting the Constitution | The Federalist |
| President George Washington considered this a grave danger | political parties |
| Congress established a federal court system with | Judiciary Act of 1789 |
| Anthony Wayne forced 12 Native American nations from the Great Lakes region to sign this treaty | Treaty of Greenville |
| This made it illegal to criticize the government | Sedition Act |
| The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 spelled out this theory | states rights |
| The first 10 amendments | Bill of Rights |
| The amount the nation’s government owes | national debt |
| Federalists believed in | a national bank |
| This law gave the president the power to deport aliens | Alien Act |
| The election of 1800 was decided by | the House of Representatives |
| Supreme Court reviewing and ruling on acts | judicial review |
| The Louisiana Territory was purchased from | France |
| This prohibited trade with another country | embargo Act |
| Henry Clay and John Calhoun were know as | War Hawks |
| treaty that ended the War of 1812 | Treaty of Ghent |
| This amendment requires electors to vote for the president and vice president on separate ballots | 12th |
| The changes in the way goods were made in the mid 1700s first appeared in | Great Britain |
| called for a tariff to stimulate growth of American industries | American System |
| set the official border between Canada and the United States at the 49th parallel | Convention of 1818 |
| revolution that changed the way people worked | Industrial Revolution |
| agreement that provided for the disarmament along the Canadian border | Rush Bagot Treaty |
| to break away from the United States | secede |
| Congress passed this act in order to relocate Native Americans | Removal Act |
| that people from both Great Britain and the United States could settle in Oregon Country | joint occupation |
| Mountain men made their living as | fur trappers |
| This group took the law into their own hands in Gold Rush society | vigilantes |
| this city was originally called Deseret | Salt Lake City |
| mountain mens high point of the year | rendezvous |
| the United States was set apart to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacifi | Manifest Destiny |
| The United States insisted this was the border between the United States and Mexico. | Rio Grande |
| this profession made huge profits during the Gold Rush | Merchants |
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