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Social Studies 7
Social Studies 7 Final
| Sentence | Blank |
|---|---|
| The discover of ___ meant families did not have to search for food. | farming |
| The ___ created the most accurate calendar known until modern times. | Mayans |
| The ___ built the city of Tenochtitlán on a series of islands. | Aztecs |
| In the 1400s, the world's largest empire was that of the ___ in South America. | Incas |
| The ___ ___ brought new domestic animals, new food plants, and new diseases to the Western Hemisphere. | Columbian Exchange |
| Believing that he had reached a group of Asian Islands called the Indies, Columbus called the inhabitants he encountered ___. | Indians |
| After Columbus' second voyage, 12 ships carried ___ back to Spain. | gold |
| Unlike Spain, which profited from gold, the French profited mainly from fish and ___. | furs |
| The first ___ colony established during the 1580s was abandoned after a year. | English |
| England's first permanent settlement in North America was called ___. | Jamestown |
| Virginia developed a dependable source of income for itself by growing ___. | tobacco |
| The House of ___ marked the start of representative government in North America. | Burgesses |
| New York is the farthest ___ of the middle colonies. | north |
| Quakers were amend the first in England to speak out ___ slavery. | against |
| In 1704, Delaware was ___ from Pennsylvania. | separated |
| A flat lowland called the ___ stretches along the southern coast. | Tidewater |
| George Calvert wanted Maryland to be a colony where ___ could live safely. | Catholics |
| Because Georgia's founders wanted a colony of small farms rather than large plantations, they originally banned ___. | slavery |
| The Pennsylvania Dutch were actually ___ immigrants. | German |
| One of the tasks given to Native Americans at Spanish missions was to build ___. | churches |
| In 1701, Pennsylvania colonists forced Penn and his council to give up their power to make ___. | laws |
| The Zenger case helped establish freedom of the ___ as a basic liberty. | press |
| The English Parliament passed a series of Navigation Acts to support ___. | Mercantilism |
| Authorities established slave codes in order to prevent slaves from ___. | revolting |
| Enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic on a voyage hat became known as the ___ ___. | Middle Passage |
| By the late 1600s, the southern economy had come to depend on ___ to support its plantation system. | slavery |
| At the Albany Congress, the British hoped to form an alliance with the ___. | Iroquois |
| At the Second Continental Congress, a moderate group from the ___ colonies did not support independence. | middle |
| In order to finance the colonial army, the Second ContinentalCongress decide to ___ ___. | print money |
| Some ___ feared a revolution would cost them their property. | loyalists |
| In response to Olive Branch Petition, King George declared the colonies to be in ___. | rebellion |
| The ___ ___ Boys captured cannons that helped the Continental Army drive the British out of Boston. | Green Mountain |
| The ___ won the Battle of Bunker Hill, but at a great cost. | British |
| The ___ Act was intended to help the British East India Company. | Tea |
| The British East India Company's monopoly on tea especially harmed colonial ___. | merchants |
| The ___ Act cut the powers of Massachusetts town meetings. | Intolerable |
| The "shot heard round the world" was fired in ___. | Lexington |
| The Patriots who held the Boston Tea Party disguised themselves as ___ ___. | Native Americans |
| Paine's 'Common Sense' increased support for ___ in the colonies. | independence |
| The Declaration of Independence is based on the idea of natural ___. | rights |
| The ideals of the Declaration of Independence helped to inspire leaders of the ___ Revolution in 1789. | French |
| The State Constitutions limited power of the governors because people did not want to ___ problems that caused the revolution. | repeat |
| Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress denied the powers to tax and regulate ___. | trade |
| The ___ Ordinance of 1787 provided a system for a territory to become a state. | North West |
| Because of the weakness of the central government, British troops still held forts in the North West ___. | Territory |
| Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson disagreed about the power of the federal government. ___ wanted the federal government to have more power than the state governments. | Hamilton |
| Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson also differed over foreign policy. ___ supported France, the nation that supported the Untied States during the American Revolution. | Jefferson |
| In the Election of 1796, John Adams became the second president; he was a ___. | federalist |
| Vice President Thomas Jefferson was a ___. | Republican |
| George Washington set a precedent by sending ___ to put down the Whiskey Rebellion. | troops |
| Republicans tended to be more supportive of ___, while the Federalists supported Britain. | France |
| In his farewell address, George Washington warned against the dangers of political ___. | parties |
| The actions of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other leaders of the United States were important because they helped determine how the ___ government would work. | federal |
| After much discussion about whether the Constitution allowed it, the ___ of the United States was set up in 1791 to issue paper money and make loans to farmers and businesses. | Bank |
| A tax on liquor led to the ___ ___, which marked the first time the government sent troops to fight American citizens. | Whiskey Rebellion |
| Thomas Jefferson believed that under the federalists, ___ had become too large and powerful. | government |
| Thomas Jefferson reduced the power of the federal government in economic affairs by promoting ___ ___. | laissez faire |
| The precedent set in the case of ___ vs ___ gave the Supreme Court the right to decide whether laws passed by Congress were constitutional. | Marbury; Madison |
| One of the most important powers of the Supreme Court today is ___ ___. | judicial review |
| Thomas Jefferson ordered a(n) ___ to force Britain and France to respect American neutrality. | embargo |
| The war of 1812 ended with the Treaty of ___. | Ghent |
| Opponents to the war suggested that New England states ___. | secede |
| Britain and France inferred with American neutrality by attacking American ___. | ships |
| The Native American population declined with the rival of white settlers because the settlers ___ and took ___ ___ | killed; hunting land |
| One disadvantage the United Sates faced at the beginning of the War of 1812 was a weak ___ ___. | military force |
| President James Monroe wanted to promote the growing sense of ___ ___. | national unity |
| Henry Clay thought the country would benefit from his American ___. | System |
| The region that most protested Henry Clay's plan was the ___. | South |
| The country that controlled the met territory in the Americas was ___. | Spain |
| Because of his role in leading independence movements, Simón Bolívar is called the ___. | liberator |
| The statement that was intended to protect newly independent nations in Latin America is called the ___ ___. | Monroe Doctrine |
| The Native Americans that had adopted more white customs that any other group were the ___. | Cherokees |
| The plan to move Native Americans west of the Mississippi originated with ___ ___. | Thomas Jefferson |
| The Cherokees brought their fight to the Supreme Court with 'Cherokee Nation' vs ___. | Georgia |
| The removal of the Cherokees was actually carried out during the term of President Martin ___ ___. | Van Buren |
| The law President drew Jackson used to get around the Court's decision was the ___ ___ Act of 1830. | Indian Removal |
| The route the Cherokees took when the U.S. government forced them to move to Oklahoma was the ___ of ___ | Trail; Tears |
| Advances in technology and many new ___ helped the growth of industry. | inventions |
| Businesses could obtain raw materials and get goods to market more easily because of improvements in ___. | transportation |
| Free African Americans in the North often faced ___ and were denied many rights. | discrimination |
| The ___ ___ Party did not want the land gained in the Mexican-American War to allow slavery. | Free Soil |
| The question of the admission of ___ to the Union as a free state led to the Compromise of 1850. | California |
| In 1850, slave trade was banned in ___ ___. | Washington DC |
| The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to join the United States as a free state and passed a strict ___ ___ act, which allowed escaped slaves in the North to be recaptured. | Fugitive Slave |
| ___ suffered widespread violence as proslavery and antislavery settlers fought for control of the territory. | Kansas |
| The ___-___ Act allowed settlers in the territories to decide whether to allow slavery. | Kansas; Nebraska |
| The three ___ with divided loyalties were Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky. | orderstates |
| The western counties of ___ refused to secede and later formed a new state. | Virginia |
| Leadership buy the oat experienced military officers was and advantage held by the ___. | Confederates |
| One of the great tragedies of the war was that it divided ___. | families |
| Expectations of a quick victory were dashed for both sides at ___ ___. | Bull Run |
| The 'Monitor' and the 'Merrimack' were examples of ___, which changed the nature of naval warfare. | ironclads |
| General Robert Paul E. Lee decided to invade ___ ___ when General George McClellan was forced to retreat near Richmond. | the North |
| General George McClellan was able to block General Lee at ___ because he knew the Confederate army was divided into two parts. | Antietam |
| The Union army gained control of western Tennessee after the ___ of ___. | Battle; Shiloh |
| General ___ ___ was confident in victory before his army was crushed at Chancellorsville. | Joseph Hooker |
| The Union forces won major battles at ___ and Gettysburg that helped them gain the upper hand in the war. | Vicksburg |
| In 1864 Ulysses S Grant became the commander of all the ___ forces. | Union |
| The fall of Richmond led Robert E Lee to ___, bringing an end to the war. | surrender |
| About ___ soldiers lost their lives in the Civil Wa, making it the bloodiest conflict the United States has ever fought. | 600,000 |
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