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8th Grade United States History
TAKS Review 2010-2011
Created by Arthur Thompson
Bailey Middle School
1. The financial drain due to the British economic
mercantilism was one of the main
system of ______________
causes of the Revolution.
2.The Americas received their name from a German
mapmaker who named the continent after
Amerigo Vespucci
_________________.
3.The movement of plants, animals, and diseases
Columbian Exchange.
between hemispheres is the__________
4.The voyage that carried captured Africans to the
Americas for use as slaves was known as the
middle passage
________________
5. The first permanent English Colony was
1607
Jamestown Virginia founded in ________.
6.The agreement written by the Pilgrims that provided
Mayflower Compact
for self-government was called the_________________
7.The first representative assembly in the American
House of Burgesses
colonies was known as the___________________.
8. The Plymouth colony was established primarily by
settlers who wanted ________
religious freedom.
9.Fundamental Orders of ______________
Connecticut was a
constitution that some Puritan colonists wrote to
govern themselves
10.The13 colonies formed three distinct regions.
New England
Middle
Southern
11.New England had long winters and_______
rocky soil.
12. The name given to a trading route with three
stops that included the shipping of African Slaves
was called The Triangular
__________trade route.
13. Economic activity in the New England colonies
relied heavily on trade in part because a cold climate
farming
and poor soil made _________unprofitable
14. The 13 original colonies were primarily located
Atlantic
along the______________
Ocean.
15. What nationality founded the Catholic missions in
The Spanish
California?_______________.
16. Benjamin Franklin published ______
Poor Richard’s
________
Almanac.
17. John Locke argued that people have _______
natural
rights such as life, liberty, and property.
18.The first step toward guaranteeing the rights of
Englishmen came in 1215 with the signing of
Magna Carta
the_______________.
19. In 1689 The ____________________established
English Bill of Rights
that the government was to be based on laws made
by Parliament, not on the desires of a ruler.
20. One result of British regulations such as the sugar
and Stamp Acts was America’s resentment of
taxation
____________
without representation.
21.To defeat the French Benjamin Franklin, suggested
that the colonies band together in the first formal proposal
Albany Plan of Union.
to unite the colonies called The___________
22. The Treaty of Paris 1763 ended the
French and Indian War.
________________
23. The _____________________restricted
Proclamation of 1763
colonists
from settling west of the Appalachians Mountains.
24. The King of England during the American
King George III
revolution was ________________.
25.The purpose of the Quartering Act was to require
housing
the colonies to provide ___________and
supplies for
British soldiers.
TAKS Review Questions #2
1. Required the colonists to pay tax on all legal
documents such as wills, contracts, and diplomas.
______________
Stamp Act
2. The group that staged protests against the Stamp
Act was the ________________
Sons of Liberty
3. A colonist killed in the Boston Massacre was a
sailor of African and Native American ancestry.
Crispus Attucks
_______________
4. In 1770, an incident called the __________
Boston
__________
Massacre was used as propaganda to arouse
the colonists' resistance to British authority.
5. _________________
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of
Independence
6. Became famous for spreading news of the British
Paul Revere
troop's movements._____________
7. Where were the first battles of the American
and Concord
revolutionary War? Lexington
_______________________
8.What term was used to describe a colonist who
Patriot
resisted the British rule? _____________
9. What term was used to describe a colonist who
Loyalist
favored the British rule? ______________
10. Who was the commanding general of the
George Washington
Continental Army? ___________________.
11. Thomas Paine published a pamphlet in order to
convince Americans that a break with Britain was
Common Sense
necessary. __________________
12. _______________________was
Marquis de Lafayette
a French aristocrat
who played a leading role in the American
Revolution.
13. An _____________
unalienable right is a right that cannot be
taken away without due process.
14. Americans issued Declaration of
1776
Independence in the year _______.
15. The turning point in the American Revolution
Saratoga
War, was the victory at_____________.
16. Benjamin Franklin convinced what country to lend
military support to the Continental army during the
France
American Revolution? _________
17. The winter at ____________came
Valley Forge
to stand for
the great hardships that Americans endured in the
Revolutionary War.
18.Last major battle of the American Revolution.
Yorktown
_________
19. The Treaty of Paris ________ended
1783
the
American Revolutionary War.
20.The Constitutional Convention was held in what
Philadelphia
city ______________
21. ___________Rebellion
Shays's
was an armed uprising
in Western Massachusetts involved mostly small
farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes.
22. The Articles of Confederation
_______________created our
first national government.
23. The _____________Ordinance
Northwest
set a pattern for
the orderly growth in the Northwest Territory and the
rest of the United States.
24. __________________
James Madison
is considered as the
Father of the Constitution.
25. The ________governments
state
had the most power
under the Articles of Confederation.
TAKS Review Questions # 3
1.The court case of ______________________
Marbury v. Madison
established the Supreme Court's power of judicial
review
2.The date of the Louisiana Purchase was
1803
______________.
3.The weakness of the Articles of Confederation
Constitution
led to the writing of the U.S. _______________.
4.People who opposed the Constitution were called
Anti-federalists
_______________.
5.The branch of government that makes the laws is
legislative
the___________.
6.The branch of government that enforces the
executive
laws is the___________.
7. The branch of government that interprets the
laws is the judicial
_________.
8.The _____________Compromise
Three-Fifths
addressed how
slaves would be counted for taxes and
representation.
9. ____________is
Federalism
a system of government in
which power is shared between the central
government and the states.
10. A republic, is where the people choose
__________________to
govern them.
representatives
11.The legislature, branch of government is made
up of the ______________
Senate and
the House of Representatives.
_____________________________
12.The author of the poem that in 1931 became the
national anthem of the United States
Francis Scott Key
was____________________.
13.The treaty that ended the War of 1812 was the
_______________.
Treaty of Ghent
14.The Battle of _______________made
New Orleans
General
Andrew Jackson a national hero.
15. Who invented interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
_____________
16. One important economic legacy of the War of
1812 was the war encouraged the growth of U.S.
manufacturing
________________.
17. Who invented the Steamboat?
___________________
Robert Fulton
18. Who invented the Telegraph?
Samuel F. B. Morse
____________________
19.Who invented the Steel Plow?
John Deere
_______________
20. Who invented the Mechanical Reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
___________________
21.Textiles became a leading industry in the North
after the cotton gin was invented by___________.
Eli Whitney
22. The Mexican War was prompted when
Texas
_________
became part of the United States.
23. Robert Fulton’s steamboat aided the economic
development of the United States by making
transportation on rivers more efficient.
_____________
24. Manifest Destiny resulted in the loss of land for
Native American
the _______________
25. The present-day states of California, Nevada,
and Utah were acquired in 1848 from _______.
Mexico
TAKS Review Questions # 4
1.The __________________stated
Monroe Doctrine
that The United
States would not allow further European
colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
2. According to the Missouri Compromise of
1820___________would
enter the Union as a free
Maine
state and _____________would
enter the Union
Missouri
as a slave state.
3. At Jackson’s urging Congress passed the
Indian Removal Act in 1830.
_____________________
4. The Journey the Cherokee’s took when they were
Trail of Tears
forced from their lands was _______________
5. Refusal or rejection by a U.S. state to recognize a
Nullification
federal law. _________________
6. The Santa Fe Trail, led from Independence
Missouri
__________to
Santa Fe. (New Mexico)
7. The Nullification Crisis concerned South Carolina’s
Tariffs
dissatisfaction with federal policy on _______.
8. The ___________Trail
Mormon
led from Navuoo, Illinois to
Salt Lake City. (Utah)
9. Manifest
______________
Destiny was the believe that the United
States had a divinely inspired mission to expand and
to spread democracy throughout North America.
10. In California, Americans rebelled against Mexican
rule in the ___________
Bear Flag Revolt.
11. On February 2, 1848, the war with Mexico
officially ended with the Treaty
Guadalupe Hidalgo
of______________________.
12.Mexico was forced to give up, a vast region of
Cession
land known as the Mexican _______________.
13.The last bit of territory the United States bought
from Mexico was a strip of land called the
Gadsden Purchase.
___________
14.James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill
located in the territory known as ____________.
California
15. The rapid migration of people in to California in
search of gold was the California ____________.
Gold Rush
16. Those that rushed to California in search of gold
were called the _________.
49’ers
17. _____________movement
Temperance
was a campaign to
stop the drinking of alcohol.
18. _____________are
Abolitionists
those that wanted to end
Slavery.
19. In the ___________Court
Dred Scott
Decision Chief
Justice Roger B. Taney said that black Americans
were not U.S. citizen.
20. The______amendment
13th
to the United States
Constitution banned Slavery.
21. The missions founded in California were created
by of which group of people? _____________
The Spanish
22.The invention of______________________
interchangeable parts in the
1800 made the production of goods faster and
cheaper.
23. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott,
Helped advance the ___________movement.
Women ‘s
24.What must be proposed by two-thirds vote of
House and Senate and ratified by three-fourths of
Constitutional Amendment
state legislatures?______________________
25. After escaping from slavery___________________
Frederick Douglass
became a leading abolitionist, a great speaker and writer.
TAKS Review #5
1._____________worked
Horace Mann
to improve of education
in the United States.
mentally ill
2. Dorothea Dix, a reformer for the ___________.
3._________________was
HarrietTubman
a conductor on the
Underground Railroad
4.Stanton and Mott held the ____________
Seneca Falls
Convention for women’s rights.
5. The _____________amendment
14th
to the
constitution guaranteed Citizenship to all born in
the United States.
6. Women got the right to vote in 1920 with the
passage of the ____
19th amendment to the Constitution
of the United States.
7. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote
____________________
a novel that portrayed
Uncle Tom's Cabin
slavery as brutal and immoral.
8.______________________is
Popular sovereignty
a system where the
residents vote to decide an issue.
9._______________was
Jefferson Davis
named the President of
the Confederacy.
Abraham Lincoln
10. _______________was
president of the Union
during the Civil War.
11. Confederates fired shells into Fort
______________
Sumter
marked the beginning of the Civil War.
12. When Virginia joined the Confederacy the
South moved its capital to.__________________
Richmond, Virginia
13. The ___________had
Union
huge advantages in
manpower and resources.
14. ______________were
Copperheads
those in the North that
opposed Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
15. The Northern or frees states were called the
Union and the Southern or slave states were called
Confederacy.
the____________
16. Frederick Douglass urged President _______
Lincoln to
emancipate, or free, enslaved Americans.
E. Lee
17. Robert
_____________is
considered to be the leading
General of the Confederate or Southern forces.
18. __________________is
Ulysses S. Grant
considered to be the
leader of the Union or Northern forces.
19. On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered the
Confederate forces to Grant in the small Virginia
Appomattox Court House.
town of_______________________
20. One of the major turning points of the Civil War
was the defeat of the Southern forces at the battle
Gettysburg
of_____________.
21.What type government is "by the people, and for the
people?“ _____________
Democracy
22.The Constitutional Convention was held in what
1787
year? _____
23.The U.S. Constitution maintains a republican system of
government through the election of _________________
representatives
who make laws.
24. Some delegates to the Constitutional Convention
opposed ratification of the Constitution because of its
Bill of Rights
failure to include a _____________
25. In 1787 Congress established a system for creating
new states from western territories through the
Northwest Ordinance
_____________________.
TAKS Review #6
1.The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 authorized the
______
arrest of escaped slaves in states where slavery
was illegal.
2. What amendment to the Constitution guarantees
6th
a speedy and public trial _____?
3.In the early 1800s power looms transformed the
textile industry and provided new job opportunities
young women
for _____________
4. The Civil War Started in the year? ____________
1861
5.Who won the American Civil War?_____________
North or Union
6. Which is the only Branch of government that can
use the Veto? ___________________
The Executive
7. The Civil War ended in the year? ____________
1865
8. Alexander Hamilton promoted what type of
economic system for the United States?
Free enterprise
_______________
9.Southern dependence on slavery and an
factories
agricultural economy resulted in lack of___________
10.The early English colonists of North America
settled near rivers, which provided resources
transportation
and a source of _____________.
11. The right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed in
_____
2nd amendment to the Constitution.
12. What important city is located at the mouth of the
New Orleans
Mississippi River? ____________
13. During the 1800s immigrants from ______
China
provided critical labor in railroad construction in the
West.
14. One of the issues that led to the Civil War was
whether final authority to interpret the Constitution
states
belonged to the national government or the _______.
15. ____________was
Dred Scott
a slave who sued for his
freedom, but lost in the Supreme Court.
16.In 1803 _________________as
Thomas Jefferson
president
purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.
17. Which is the only Branch of government that can
impeach? ________________
Legislative
Vicksburg
18. The Battle of ___________was
important in the
Civil War because it gave the Union army control of
the Mississippi River.
19. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
are called the The
________________.
20. Freedom of Religion is guaranteed by the
st
1
_______ Constitutional Amendment.
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