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STAAR 8 Chadwick
STAAR review 8th grade Texas
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First successful English settlement in North America | Jamestown |
| Name of religious group who landed at Plymouth Rock | Pilgrims |
| Name of document signed by Pilgrims and "strangers" - self-government | Mayflower Compact |
| Date of the Founding of Jamestown | 1607 |
| Date of the arrival of the Pilgrims and signing of the Mayflower Compact | 1620 |
| Date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence | 1776 |
| Date of the writing of the U.S. Constitution | 1787 |
| Date of the Louisiana Purchase | 1803 |
| Date of the Civil War | 1861-1865 |
| Reason for the founding of Virginia | Profit |
| Reason for the founding of Massachusetts | Religion |
| Reason for the founding of Pennsylvania | Religion |
| Reason for the founding of Maryland | Religion |
| First representative assembly in the colonies 1619 | House of Burgesses |
| First written constitution in the colonies | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| This document prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains | Proclamation of 1763 |
| These acts were passed by Parliament to punish Boston for the Tea Party | Intolerable Acts |
| This act taxed all printed materials in the colonies | Stamp Act |
| British economic theory that says a nation's power is derived from its wealth | mecantilism |
| No Taxation without..... | Representation |
| Act that stated British colonies could only trade with Great Britain | Navigation Act |
| Acts which taxed all imported goods to the colonies, e.g. lead, glass | Townshend Acts |
| This act said that the British Army could demand housing for its soldiers from civilians | Quartering Act |
| This act was a tax on molasses, coffee, wine, sugar, etc. | Sugar Act |
| Who told her husband, "Remember the ladies" and was the first First Lady to live in the White House? | Abigail Adams |
| Who was a founding father and second president of the United States? | John Adams |
| He was a founding father and a free African American who rode like Revere to warn that the British regulars were coming. | Wentworth Cheswell |
| Who was the founder of the Boston Sons of Liberty and took part in the Boston Tea Party? | Samuel Adams |
| She wrote patriotic stories and plays and was active in the Boston Daughters of Liberty | Mercy Otis Warren |
| He was a slave who worked as a spy for the Patriots and was granted his freedom after the war. | James Armistead |
| He was a founding father, inventor, ambassador, and the oldest member of the Constitution Convention | Ben Franklin |
| He was the Governor of Spanish Louisiana and helped the patriot cause by harassing the British during the American Revolution | Bernardo de Galvez |
| He was an African American ex-slave who was killed in the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
| He was the King of England that lost the American colonies | King George III |
| He was a Polish, Jewish immigrant who was known as the Financier of the Revolution | Haym Salomom |
| He said "Give me liberty or give me death" | Patrick Henry |
| He was a founding father who was the major author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| He was a French nobleman who fought on the side of the Patriots | Marquis de Lafayette |
| He wrote Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
| This treaty ended the American Revolution | Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
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