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Social Studies 7
Study for SS final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the first Americans arrive in North America? | They crossed the Berring Land Bridge from Asia. |
| What was the Iriqouis Confederacy? | A union of Native tribes in the Northeast who formed a government for mutual defense and peace. |
| What physical features should you know on a U.S. map? | Mountains, rivers, plains, and regions like the Great Lakes or Mississippi River. |
| What are some of the motivations for European exploration? | Gold, Glory, and God (trade, power, spread Christianity). |
| What was the Columbian exchange? | A transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. |
| Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe? | Ferdinand Magellan. |
| What made Jamestown successful? | Tobacco farming (cash crops) |
| What was the Mayflower Compact? | An agreement for self-government signed by the Pilgrims. |
| What was the Middle Passage? | A brutal journey enslaved Africans took across the Atlantic. |
| Why did colonists oppose the Stamp Act? / What was the saying? | No taxation without representation |
| What happened at the Boston Tea Party? | Patriots dumped tea into the harbor to protest taxes. |
| Which battle is the turning point of the revolution? | Battle of Saratoga |
| Who wrote the declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson |
| What was wrong with the Articles of Confederation? | It made the government too weak |
| What did the great compromise do? | Created two houses of congress |
| What are the three branches of Government? | Legislative, Judicial, Executive |
| What is the Bill of Rights? | The first ten amendments to the constitution are considered the Bill of Rights |
| What precedent did George Washington set? | Staying neutral to foreign affairs and only being president for 2 terms. |
| What did the Lousiana Purchase do? | Doubled the size of the United States |
| What is impressment? / What cruel method did British soldiers use in wars with America? | British forcing American soldiers into their navy |
| What was the Indian Removal Act? | Law forcing Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi |
| What was the Trail of Tears? | The deadly journey Native Americans made to Indian territory. |
| What was the Monroe Doctrine? | Warned Europe not to interfere in the Americas. |
| What invention increased slavery in the South? | The cotton gin |
| What was Manifest Destiny? | A belief that the US was destined to expand coast-to-coast |
| What did the Erie Canal connect? | Buffalo to Albany or Lake Erie to the Hudson |
| What was the underground railroad? | A secret network to help enslaved people escape |
| What did the fugitive slave act do? | Required escaped slaves to be returned to their masters |
| What was Bleeding Kansas? | Fights between pro and anti slavery believers |
| What event started the Civil War?A | Attack on Fort Sumter |
| What did the emancipation procalamation do? | Freed slaves in Confederate states |
| What battle was the turning point of the Civil war? | The Battle of Gettysburg |
| Who surrendered at Appomattox Court House? | General Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant. |
| Which amendment abolished Slavery? | The 13th Amendment |
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