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7th SS Final # 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the sugar tax? | A tax on molasses and other products by Britain on the colonies. |
| What were the Townshend Acts? | Taxes on things brought into the colonies but not things inside the colonies. |
| Why did colonists think British taxes were unfair? | They had no say in the laws that created the taxes. |
| What was the Stamp Act? | A tax on all paper documents. |
| What was Thomas Paine's argument in Common Sense? | The role of government was to serve citizens, monarchies were bad, British worked for themselves, not the colonies, and colonies had a strong military advantage. |
| What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence? | Formal statement of rights and independence of the colonies to King George. Listed abuses of the British and rights of the colonies. |
| What is an amendment? | revision or addition to a bill or to the constitution |
| What is federalism? | Principle of US Constitution that establishes powers of federal government and powers of the states |
| What was the Great Compromise? | Helped to create the constitution. The states got 2 senators each in the Senate and the number of representatives in the House were based on population |
| What is the principle of checks and balances? | Each branch of federal government has the power to check or limit the power of the other two branches |
| What was Manifest Destiny? | Belief US had a right to expand for their growing population and stretch to the west coast form the east coast |
| What were the effects of the Louisiana Purchase? | US control of the Mississippi and Port of New Orleans Growth of country with natural resources and fertile land Reduce conflict with the French |
| Who explore the Louisiana Purchase? | Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike |
| When was the Star Spangled Banner written? | 1814 about the War of 1812 by Francis Scott Key |
| What was the Monroe Doctrine? | US would not let European nations set up colonies in North America or in Latin America. |
| What was the Indian Removal Act? | 1830 act to 'offer' Native American land west of the Mississippi in exchange for their eastern lands. |
| What was the Trail of Tears? | Expression used to describe the removal and travel of native Americans to the west. Cold, hungry, many died |
| What was the impact on Native American of the Trail of Tears and the Removal Act? | Culture and lives disrupted. Many died and found life in the west very hard |
| What was the temperance movement? | Movement to limit alcohol drinking. |
| Who were abolitionists? | People working to stop or abolish slavery in the US. Wm Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass |
| Who fought for Women's Rights? | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony fought for women's right to vote. |
| Why did settlers go to Oregon? | They sought fertile land to settle. |
| Why did settlers move to California? | fertile land and gold rush 1848 |
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