History STAAR study guide

Jamestown

What was the first permanent English settlement?

Mayflower Compact

What was America’s first attempt at self government?

DOC

What was a breakup letter from America to great Brittan and was made in 1776?

The Constitution

What was written in 1787 and was made in the Philadelphia Convection?

Louisiana Purchase

What happened in 1803 and led to the westward expansion?

Civil War

What lasted from 1861-1865 and made slaves free people?

Virginia House of Burgesses

What was the first attempt of a representative government in the new world?

Mayflower Compact

What was the first attempt of self-government in the new world?

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

What was the first written constitution in the English Colonies?

Magna Carta

What limited the power of the king back in England and established Due prossesing?

English Bill of Rights

What document paved the way for the Constitution and said how to elect representatives for congress?

Representative Government

What is a type of government which the people elect representatives?

New England: Sustenance Farming

Middle: Stable farms

Southern: Cash crop farming

What are the economical differences between the three colonial regions, New England, Middle and the southern Colonies?

Plantations

What is a system in a planter owns large tracts of land and uses slave labor to harvest cash crops ?

First Great Awakening

What was a colonial religious revival movement emphasizing faith in god and verses human reason?

Roger Williams

Who founded Rhode Island?

James Oglethorpe

Who founded Georgia?

Anne Hutchinson

Who was banished from Massachusetts and moved into Rhode Island?

Mercantilism

What is the economic system that England used to control America?

French & Indian War

What was named the 7 years war?

Treaty of Paris,1763

What was the treaty that ended the French and Indian war ?

Proclamation of 1763, Quartering act, Taxation without representation, Mercantilism

After the French and Indian war, what 4 actions did Brittan take that enraged Colonists ?

Proclamation of 1763

What banned colonists from going west of the Appilation mountains?

James Otis

Who was the man that stated “No taxation without representation”?

Lexington and Concord

What was the battle known as the “Shot heard around the world”

Saratoga

What was the turning point of the American Revolution

Valley Forge

What was a camp in which 1/5 of the soldiers died?

Yorktown

What was the last battle of the American Revolution?

Treaty of Paris , 1783

What document made England recognize America as a free country

AOC

What was the first ever gov of the US? (Abbreviation)

Samuel Adams

Who was the founder of the Sons of Liberty?

Benjamin Franklin

Who was a founding father from PA?

King George III

Who was the king of England during the Revolution

Thomas Jefferson

Who wrote the DOI

George Washington

Who was the commander in chief of the Continental army

Thomas Paine

Who wrote “Common Sense”

Abigail Addams

Who was an early woman’s right activist?

Lord Cornwallis

Who was the general of the British army

Patrick Henry

Who said “Give me Liberty or give me death”

John Paul jones

Who was the founder of the US Navy

Paul Revere

Who warned the colonists of the British during Lexington and Concord

Marquis De Lafayette

Who was a French nobleman who helped train troops

Haym Salomon

Who was a Jewish colonist who helped fund the American revolution?

Intolerable Acts

What were acts used to punish the people for the Bostin Tea Party

Stamp Act

What was a tax on all printed paper

People who take an active role towards their community

Define Civic Virtue

increase power and wealth

What were the reasons of European Colonization in America

William Penn

Who was the colonial leader who believed in equality under God and founded a colony for Quakers?

John Locke

Who was an English Philosopher that believed people were born with Unalienable Rights?

William Blackstone

Who influenced BOTH the bill of rights and the Constitution?

Shays’ Rebellion

What was the event in which MA Farmers rebelled against the people

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

What is the ONLY strength of the AOC?

Democracy

What is the belief that the gov is run by the people

Republicanism

The idea that the gov. is controlled by the people?

Founding Fathers

who are the people who helped influence our gov called?

The Great Compromise

What was the compromise that satisfied the small and large states at the Philadelphia Convention ?

3/5 Compromise

What was the compromise that satisfied the slave states and non-slave states at the Philadelphia Convention ?

Limited Gov

What is it called when the power from gov is limited

Federalism

What is the concept in which you share power with state gov and national gov

James Madison

Who is the Father of the Constitution?

Preamble of the Constitution

“ We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union…”

Checks and Balances

What is the system that makes sure that no one branch has too much power?

Popular Sovereignty

What policy is Power of People?

Separation of Powers

What policy describes 3 branches of gov?

2/3 congress vote and 3/4 of state legislature

How is the Constitution amended?

George Mason

Who influenced James Madison for the BOR?(Bill of Rights)

Individual Rights

Rights granted by the citizens of the US

Federalist

Someone who supported Ratification of the original constitution

Federalist Papers

Series of 85 essays about a federalist’s thoughts

Antifederalists

People who did not support the constitution

Antifederalist Papers

what promoted the idea of a loose central government.

Charles de Montesquieu

Who was an Enlightenment Philosopher that believed in republicanism?

William Penn

Who was the founder of Pennsylvania

BOF (Bill of Rights)

First 10 amendments

Unalienable Rights

Human Rights

John Peter Zenger

Who is the colonial figure who established freedom of press?

Religion, Assembly, petition, press, speech

What are the 5 rights of the first 10 amendments?

Amendments 2, 3, 4

What 3 amendments refer back to the grievances addressed in the DOI

5th Amendment

Rights of the accused

Amendments 6,7

Accessible Jury for trial

8th Amendment

No unusual punishment AND no excessive bail

Amendments 9, 10

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Black Codes

What did the southern states do to limit the effects of the 13th amendment?

14th Amendment

Reconstruction Amendment

15th Amendment

Granted suffrage to African American males

Personal Responsibilities

Responsibility for behavior

Responsible Citizenship

Obey rules and laws

at least 18, permanent resident for at least 5 years, apply for citizenship, tested in English and government/history, take oath for allegiance

How does one become a naturalized citizen of the U.S.?

God, Glory, and Gold

What were the reasons for colonization of North America?

Power

The central theme of conflict around the development of the first two political parties was how much the _____ the gov should have.

democratic-republicans, federalists

Name the first two political parties

Thomas Jefferson

who led the Democratic- Republicans

Alexander Hamilton

Who led the Federalists

Promote industrialization

What were the beliefs of the Federalists

promote agriculture

What were the beliefs of the Democratic-Republicans

1st secretary of treasures

Who was Alexander Hamilton

pay off national and state debts

what was Alexander Hamilton’s financial / economic plan?

Farmers were mad that there was a tax on

alcohol

What was the Whiskey Rebellion?

That the federal gov was much more stable now

What did the Whiskey Rebellion prove

No forming political parties along the sectionals, remain neutral, Public debt

List the three warnings issued in Washington’s Farewell address?