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Benchmark 1 Review
8th Grade Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| French Explorers | traded furs with the Native Americans |
| Spanish Explorers | Came to find gold, spread Catholicism, and to gain lots of land |
| Northwest Passage | a new sea route from Europe that led to Asia |
| New England Colonies | cold climate, dense forests, natural harbors, shipbuilding, whaling, fishing, fur trapping and trading |
| Middle Colonies | moderate climate, known as the bread basket colonies |
| Southern Colonies | warm climate, longer growing season, grew cash crops like tobacco and cotton on large plantations, started using slave labor |
| What group of people landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 far north of where they were supposed to land? | Pilgrims |
| distance from Great Britain, slow communication, need for law making structure, and traditional rights of Englishmen | Causes that led the 13 colonies to establish their own representative governments |
| John Locke, Thomas Hooker, and Charles de Montesquieu | helped influence the ideas of self government in the 13 colonies |
| Virginia House of Burgesses | the first colonial assembly of elected representatives |
| Mayflower Compact | was a social contract, majority rules, and was an example of self government |
| Natural Rights | life, liberty, and right to own property |
| power to veto a decision | an example of checks and balances in government |
| examples of individual freedoms in America | right to go to church, free speech, freedom to print different people's opinions, no excessive cruel punishment |
| Mercantilism | The idea that the 13 colonies existed to benefit the mother country (England). Basically, England got rich from the 13 colonies. When we became our own country, our leaders limited governmental control over businesses. |
| Some events that led to the start of the American Revolution (Revolutionary Period) | Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Navigation Acts, Intolerable, Acts, Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Proclamation of 1763 |
| Boston Tea Party | Son of Liberty, dressed as Indians, throw crates of tea in the Boston harbor to protest taxation without representation |
| Stamp Act | England forced the American colonists to pay a tax on most paper goods using a stamp as proof of purchase |
| Quartering Act | Colonist were forced to provide food and housing for British soldiers |
| Proclamation of 1763 | After helping England win the War of 1812, King George III forbid the colonists from moving west over the Appalachian Mountains |
| Battles of Lexington and Concord | first battles of the American Revolution, known as the "shots heard round the world" |
| Battle of Saratoga | We won this battle, turning point in the American Revolution, France decided to help us beat the British |
| Battle of Yorktown | final battle of the American Revolution, We defeated England and gained our independence!!! |
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