Units 1-10 History STAAR Review cards

Question 1

Who wanted to explore for more power?

Answer 1

Spain, France

Question 2

where was Spain trying to find a new route to?

Answer 2

New routes to Asia

Question 3

What was the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 3

A self-government agreement signed by the Pilgrims

Question 4

The first colony established in the United States?

Answer 4

James town

Question 5

Reasons for exploration?

Answer 5

Gold,God,Glory

Question 6

what was it called when the colonists could only trade with the mother country?

Answer 6

Mercantilism

Question 7

Three groups of colonies?

Answer 7

southern,Northern,middle

Question 8

Who was the first group that opposed slavery?

Answer 8

Quakers

Question 9

The acts that angered the colonist?

Answer 9

intolerable,homestead,Stamp

Question 10

This built-up rage from the colonists would soon lead to?

Answer 10

A Declaration of Independence

Question 11

Laws imported to make voting fair?

Answer 11

Northwest Ordinance,Great Compromise,Three-Fifths Compromise

Question 12

The government needed more laws to improve the United States so they gave who rights?

Answer 12

The Government gave the people/Citizens right which is called Citizens responsibilities

Question 13

what were the important battles?

Answer 13

Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Yorktown

Question 14

The first government needed to run the state?

Answer 14

Articles of Confederation

Question 15

What were the first 5 amendments?

Answer 15

1st Amendment: freedom of religion
2nd Amendment: Bear arms/Guns
3rd Amendment: Porhbiats soldiers quartering in houses
4th Amendment: no unreasonable search or seizure
5th Amendment: Protects the rights of people in critical and civil cases

Question 16

what do the amendments protect?

Answer 16

People of the United States

Question 17

what does the Bill of Rights include?

Answer 17

The first ten amendments

Question 18

The Constitution had 3 Branches that are called?

Answer 18

Legislative, Executive, Judicial

Question 19

The Hilton’s Financial plan did what?

Answer 19

Stabilize the economy to establish National Banks, Pay off debts, and pass a whisky tax

Question 20

Who was President in 1789 after the American Revolution?

Answer 20

Gorge Washington

Question 21

what did George Washington state in his Fareware address?

Answer 21

He warned against having permanent foreign alliances and creating a political party

Question 22

Monroe Doctrine prevented what people from colonizing?

Answer 22

Europeans

Question 23

What caused the War of 1812?

Answer 23

British impressment of U.S salilors

Question 24

what did the Jackson era drive to?

Answer 24

Manifest Destiny

Question 25

who wanted the Nullification Crisis?

Answer 25

South Carolina

Question 26

Hudson River School

Answer 26

where artis who paint nature and landscape

Question 27

what case was caused because of the Indian removal act?

Answer 27

Worcester v. Georgia

Question 28

who was president during the Jackson era?

Answer 28

Andrew Jackson

Question 29

what era helped improve technology in farming?

Answer 29

Industrial Revolution

Question 30

What impacted the cotton industries greatly?

Answer 30

The Cotton Gin was made in 1793 by Eli Whitney

Question 31

What gender got the right to work outside of their homes?

Answer 31

Women got the right to work outside of their home and fought for that right

Question 32

What made good easier to move to other cities and brought down their price?

Answer 32

Canals are man-made rivers that allow boats to bring goods and sell them

Question 33

Free Enterprise did what?

Answer 33

allow for an economic boom with less government regulations

Question 34

what made people expand to the south of the United States?

Answer 34

Manifest Destiny

Question 35

what happened during manifest destiny that involved gold?

Answer 35

The California Gold Rush

Question 36

what was the war that happened between Mexico and the United States?

Answer 36

U.S -Mexican War

Question 37

What happened after the U.S.-Mexican War?

Answer 37

Mexican Cession which gained the U.S the land of Mexico

Question 38

what was acquired during a Treaty with Britain?

Answer 38

The Oregan Territory

Question 39

what encouraged people to be more religious and started the reform era?

Answer 39

Second Great Awakening

Question 40

What did Dorothea Dix do?

Answer 40

worked to improve prison conditions and create facilities for the mentally ill

Question 41

What movement involved the encouragement to stop drinking alcohol?

Answer 41

Temperance movement

Question 42

what was a group that worked to abolish slavery during the reform era?

Answer 42

The Abolitionist

Question 43

What were the women's intentions for protesting during the reform era?

Answer 43

To fight for women's rights to gain the ability to vote

Question 44

what is it called when a region differs from another region?

Answer 44

Sectionalism

Question 45

What was the Northern economy mostly based on?

Answer 45

Textile mills and factories

Question 46

What was the Southern economy mostly based on?

Answer 46

plantations and slave labor

Question 47

What was the Western economy mostly based on?

Answer 47

Mining and agriculture

Question 48

what was mostly debated between the North and South?

Answer 48

Slave labor/Slavery

Question 49

What law was made by the South to stop the efforts of escaped slaves?

Answer 49

Fugitive Slave Law

Question 50

what agreement was made between the North and South?

Answer 50

The Compromise of 1850 which allowed California to become a free state

Question 51

What was the problem between king George and the colonist

Answer 51

The issues between King George III and the American colonists stemmed from disagreements over taxation, representation, and perceived infringement of colonial rights, ultimately leading to the American Revolutionary War.

Question 52

what was the turning point battle of the revolution

Answer 52

the Battle of Saratoga in 1777