Social Studies STAAR Review
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| show | Jamestown
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| What year was Jamestown founded? | show 🗑
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| show | First representative assembly in North America
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| What was the name of the laws established for the good of the colony of Plymouth? | show 🗑
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| show | Enlightenment
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| What was the name of the religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1700's? | show 🗑
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| Which act forbid colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains? | show 🗑
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| Which act forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers? | show 🗑
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| show | Boston Massacre
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| What was event in which colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor? | show 🗑
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| What were the names of the acts passed by Britain intended to punish the colonists? | show 🗑
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| What was the significance of "the shot heard 'round the world"? | show 🗑
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| show | America declared it's independence from Great Britain
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| List the three inalienable rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence? | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Paine
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| What were the two pamphlets that Thomas Paine wrote? | show 🗑
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| Who was the King of England during the American Revolution? | show 🗑
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| show | George Washington
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| What was the signficance of the Battle of Saratoga? | show 🗑
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| What battle marked the end of the American Revolution? | show 🗑
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| What was the name of the agreement in which Great Britain recognized America's independence? | show 🗑
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| What was the significance of 1787? | show 🗑
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| What was the first form of national government in the U.S.? | show 🗑
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| show | It did not have the power to tax.
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| Which law described the process of how territories would be incorporated as states? | show 🗑
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| show | Shay's Rebellion
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| show | James Madison
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| show | The Great Compromise
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| What is the significance of the Bill of Rights? | show 🗑
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| Which principle explains that there are powers shared between the federal government and state governments | show 🗑
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| Which principle describes a government in which the people rule? | show 🗑
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| Which principle divides the government into three different branches? | show 🗑
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| show | Checks and Balances
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| Who was the first President of the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | The Cabinet
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| What was the name of the protest by Pennsylvania farmers? | show 🗑
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| show | John Adams
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| What was the name of the incident where France asked the U.S. for a bribe? | show 🗑
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| What was the law that was aimed at immigrants coming into the United States? | show 🗑
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| What is the significance of 1803? | show 🗑
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| show | Marbury v. Madison
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| show | 1. Impressment of U.S. Sailors 2. Interference of U.S. Shipping 3. Encouraging Native American Resistance
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| show | Francis Scott Key
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| What was the name of the Cherokee journey to Indian Territory in present day Oklahoma? | show 🗑
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| Which U.S. President strongly supported Indian relocation? | show 🗑
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| show | Eli Whitney
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| show | Robert Fulton
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| show | Samuel F.B. Morse
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| show | John Deere
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| What was the name of the famous Supreme Court case that gave one steamboat company a monopoly? | show 🗑
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| show | Manifest Destiny
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| show | California became a state.
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| show | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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| What was the name of the territorial acquisition obtained as a result of the Mexican War? | show 🗑
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| show | Seneca Falls Convention
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| Who wrote "The Liberator"? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? | show 🗑
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| Which social reformer fought for better treatment of the mentally ill? | show 🗑
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| Which social reformer fought for increased educational opportunities for students and better training and higher salaries for teachers? | show 🗑
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| Which social reformer and women's rights activist was a former slave and excellent speaker? | show 🗑
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| Which social reformer was a conductor on the Underground Railroad? | show 🗑
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| What do you call a peaceful form of protest? | show 🗑
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| What do you call when the voters of a territory are allowed to determine the issue of slavery? | show 🗑
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| show | Dred Scott v. Sanford
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| Who won the Election of 1860? | show 🗑
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| show | South Carolina seceeded from the Union.
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| Which event marked the start of the Civil War? | show 🗑
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| Who was Presidet of the U.S. during the Civil War? | show 🗑
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| What battle was the "bloodiest day" in all of American military history? | show 🗑
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| What battle was known as the "turning point" of the Civil War? | show 🗑
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| What battle gave the Union control of the entire Mississippi River, thus dividing the Confederacy? | show 🗑
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| Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant? | show 🗑
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| show | 13th Amendment
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