History Final-Grade 7

The difference between cash crops and subsistence farming?

Subsistence is when you make enough for your family, cash crops are when you make a profit from it

Who signed the Declaration of Independence so big?

John Hancock

What is the Boston Tea party?

When the Sons of Liberty dressed as mohawks and boarded ships loaded with tea, they dumped 342 chests of tea overboard.

What is The Bill Of Rights?

First 10 amendments of the constitution 

Industrial Revolution

Factories started replacing farms

Revolutionary War

When we gained independence from Great Britain

Eli Whitney

Invented the cotton Gin

What was the Trail of Tears?

Native Americans placed was invaded so they had to walk hundreds of miles to Oklahoma 

Another name for the French and Indian War

The sevens year war

Taxes

Extra money put on an item and goes to the government

Impressment

When people were forced into military service.

What is the Spoils System?

When a president replaced all of his cabinet his supporters

What was the Manifest Destiny?

The idea that we should own the entire country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

What are Rendezvous?

They are meeting’s

What were clipper ships? 

Very fast, small ships with large sails that could sail as fast as most steamships. Usually ferried goods and people. Used as merchant ships.

Judicial Branch

* Hears cases involving the constitution
* Hears appealed cases 
* Military Law
* State VS State
* Supreme/Federal court 

Legislative Branch

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* Congres 
* Regulates trade 
* Collects taxes
* Declares war
* Senate and the House of Representatives 
* 100 senators 

Executive Branch

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* The president and vice president
*  Carried out the nation’s laws and policies
*  Appoints judges to the Supreme Court
* Chief of the armed forces
* Deals with foreign affairs

Stamp Act

was a tax on all printed materials such as newspapers, cards, pamphlets, and wills.

Boycott

 To abandon a company

Mudslinging

Insulting your opponent during an election.

Lowell girls

The girls who worked in the cotton mills in poor conditions.

Robert Fulton

 Invented the steamboats

Patriots

\-Hated taxes

\-Freedom

\-Gained their independence 

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Loyalist

\-Loyal to there King

\-Afraid of what would happen if they broke free