Social Studies Final

Question 1

to withdraw from membership in a group

Answer 1

secede

Question 2

an organized campaign to win legal, educational, employment, and other rights for women

Answer 2

women’s rights movement

Question 3

what is the 12th amendment?

Answer 3

established separate votes for president and vice president

Question 4

to refuse to buy or use certain goods and services

Answer 4

boycott

Question 5

what is the mayflower compact?

Answer 5

gave pilgrims the right to govern themselves

Question 6

the right to vote

Answer 6

suffrage

Question 7

what is the silk road?

Answer 7

the largest trade route on land

Question 8

what were roles of the cabinet?

Answer 8

secretary of state, secretary of war, treasury, attorney general

Question 9

what was the trail of tears?

Answer 9

when the cherokees moved and 4000 of them died

Question 10

what was the emncipation proclamation?

Answer 10

an order that only freed slaves fighting in the Union

Question 11

what was the oregon trail?

Answer 11

a long, hard, dangerous trip for travelers that stretched over 2000 miles from Missouri to Oregon

Question 12

what is the columbian exchange?

Answer 12

brought an exchange of goods, animals, plants, and diseases

Question 13

what is the northwest passage?

Answer 13

a believed waterway that was a shortcut from the u.s to asia

Question 14

who was fredrick douglas?

Answer 14

a former slave who published an antislavery newspaper, the north star

Question 15

a society or people sharing a language, and economy that has certain basic features

Answer 15

civilization

Question 16

who created the first cabinet?

Answer 16

george washington

Question 17

a principle of the U.S. constitution that gives each branch of government the power to check, or limit, the other branches

Answer 17

checks and balances

Question 18

a document that sets out the laws, principles, organization, and processes of a government

Answer 18

constitution

Question 19

what was the national road?

Answer 19

the first road to be built with federal money; maryland to illinois

Question 20

identical, machine made parts for a tool or an instrument

Answer 20

interchangeable parts

Question 21

what was the battle of lexington and concord?

Answer 21

when the british secretly attacked the colonists but minutemen were ready, won, and the revolutionary war began

Question 22

what is jamestown?

Answer 22

built by the Virginia Company of London in 1607; England’s first permanent settlement in North America

Question 23

what is the great compromise?

Answer 23

congress would consider 2 houses: the house of representation and the senate

Question 24

what is the boston tea party?

Answer 24

took place in the Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773; the Sons of Liberty threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor

Question 25

what happened on April 30, 1789?

Answer 25

washington became the u.s.’ first president