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Social Studies STAAR Study Guide
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1. The first step toward guaranteeing the rights of Englishmen came in 1215 with the signing of
the ________________________.
2. The Americas received their name from a German mapmaker who named the continent after
_____________________________________.
3. The movement of plants, animals, and diseases between hemispheres is the
_____________________ Exchange.
4. The voyage that carried captured Africans to the Americas for use as slaves was known as the
____________________________.
5. The first permanent English Colony was Jamestown Virginia founded in ______________.
6. The agreement written by the Pilgrims that provided for self-government was called the
________________________________.
7. By the 1700s, the colonies formed 3 distinct regions:
__________________________________________________________________
8. The first representative assembly in Virginia was known as the
__________________________.
9. Fundamental Orders of _______________ was a constitution that some Puritan colonists
wrote to govern themselves.
10. The ______________________ trade route consisted of three stops that included the
Americans, Europe, and Africa.
11. Benjamin Franklin published ___________________________ Almanac.
12. John Locke argued that people have rights natural such as life, ___________________, and
property.
13. In 1689, The ________________________________ listed the rights of the people and
limited the power of the King.
14. In order to defeat the French in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Franklin suggested that
the colonies unite in The ________________________________ Plan of Union.
15. The Plymouth colony was established primarily by settlers who wanted
______________________________ freedom.
16. The Treaty of Paris 1763 ended the _________________________________ War.
17. The ______________________________________ restricted colonists from settling west of
the Appalachians Mountains.
18. The group that staged protests against the Stamp Act was the
__________________________.
19. In 1770, the ____________________________________ was used as propaganda to arouse
the colonists' resistance to British authority.
20. Where were the first battles of the American revolutionary War?
____________________________
21. The New England colonies relied heavily on trade in part because a cold climate and poor soil
made_______________________ unprofitable.
22. Benjamin Franklin convinced what country to lend military support to during the American
Revolution? _____________________
23. New England had long winters and__________________________ soil.
24. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are called the
_________________________.
25. The King of England during the American Revolution was ____________________________.
26. The Constitutional Convention was held in what year? ____________________________
27. The purpose of the Quartering Act was to require the colonies to provide
__________________ and supplies for British soldiers.
28. A colonist killed in the Boston Massacre was a sailor of African and Native American
ancestry. __________________________________.
29. What term was used to describe a colonist who resisted the British rule?_____________
30. What term was used to describe a colonist who favored the British rule? ______________
31. _________________________ became famous for spreading news of the British troop's
movements.
32. The ____________________ required the colonists to pay a tax on all legal documents such
as wills, contracts, and diplomas.
33. ____________________________ wrote the Declaration of Independence.
34. _____________________________ was the commanding general of the Continental Army.
35. Thomas Paine published the book _________________________ in order to convince
Americans that a break with Britain was necessary.
36. The victory at ________________________ was a turning point in the Revolution.
37. The winter at ___________________________ came to stand for the great hardships that
Americans endured in the Revolutionary War.
38. Although some fighting continued, _________________________ was the last major battle of
the American Revolution.
39. The Treaty of Paris in ______________________ ended the American Revolution.
40. The financial drain due to the British economic system of _____________________ (the
colonies supporting the mother country) was one of the main causes of the Revolution.
41. ____________________________ Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western
Massachusetts involved farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes.
42. The Articles of ___________________________ created our first national government.
43. The _____________________Ordinance set a pattern for the orderly growth in the Northwest
Territory and the rest of the United States.
44. ______________________________ is known as the Father of the Constitution.
45. The _______________________ governments had the most power under the Articles of
Confederation.
46. Where was The Constitutional Convention held?____________________________
47. _______________________________________ was a French aristocrat and soldier who
played a leading role in the American Revolution.
48. Free Speech, freedom of religion and the press are guaranteed in the __________________
Amendment to the constitution
49. The 13 original colonies were primarily located along the __________________________
Ocean.
50. Americans issued Declaration of Independence in the year ________________________
51. The court case of ____________________________ established the Supreme Court's power
of judicial review.
52. The date of the Louisiana Purchase was____________.
53. The weakness of the Articles of Confederation led to the writing of the
U.S.___________________.
54. A republic, is where the people choose ________________________ to govern them.
55. The branch of government that makes the laws is the______________________.
56. The branch of government that enforces the laws is the _______________________.
57. The branch of government that interprets the laws is the__________________________.
58. The ____________________________ Compromise addressed how slaves would be
counted for taxes and representation.
59. _______________________________ is a system of government in which power is shared
between the central government and the states.
60. People who opposed the Constitution were called _______________________________.
61. The legislature, branch of government is made up of the _________________and the
__________________________.
62. The author of the poem that in 1931 became the national anthem of the United States was
_______________________________________.
63. The treaty that ended the War of 1812 was the _______________________.
64. The Battle of __________________________ made General Andrew Jackson a national
hero.
65. Who invented interchangeable parts? ____________________________
66. One important economic legacy of the War of 1812 was the war encouraged the growth of
U.S. ______________________________.
67. Who invented the Steamboat? _________________________
68. Who invented the Telegraph? ____________________________
69. Who invented the Steel Plow? _______________________
70. Who invented the Mechanical Reaper? _______________________________
71. Textiles became a leading industry in the North after the cotton gin was invented by
__________________________.
72. The Mexican War was prompted by the annexation of ______________________________.
73. Robert Fulton’s steamboat aided the economic development by making
___________________________ on rivers more efficient.
74. Manifest Destiny resulted in the loss of land for the ____________________________.
75. The present-day states of California, Nevada, and Utah were acquired in 1848 from
_________________________.
76. ______________________________ Doctrine stated that The U.S. would not allow further
European colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
77. Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, ___________________entered the Union as a free
State. ______________________ entered the Union as a slave state.
78. At Jackson’s urging Congress passed the ____________________________ in 1830.
79. The forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from there land. _________________________
80. Refusal or rejection by a U.S. state to recognize a federal law. ____________________
81. The Santa Fe Trail, led from Independence _______________________ to Santa Fe. (New
Mexico)
82. The Nullification Crisis concerned South Carolina’s dissatisfaction with federal policy on
___________________.
83. The ______________________ Trail led from Navuoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City. (Utah)
84. ______________________________, was the belief that the United States is destined, to
expand across the North American continent.
85. In California, Americans rebelled against Mexican rule in the _____________________
Revolt.
86. On February 2, 1848, the war with Mexico officially ended with the Treaty of
______________________________________.
87. Mexico was forced to give up, a vast region of land known as the Mexican
____________________.
88. The last bit of territory the United States bought from Mexico was a strip of land called the
________________________ Purchase.
89. James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill located in the territory of
____________________________.
90. The rapid migration of people in to California in search of gold was the California
______________________.
91. Those that rushed to California in search of gold were called the _________________.
92. The Temperance movement was a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol.
93. __________________________ are those that wanted to end Slavery.
94. In the ___________________________ Decision Chief Justice Roger B. Taney said that
black Americans were not U.S. citizen.
95. The______________________ amendment to the United States Constitution banned
Slavery.
96. The missions founded in California and Texas were created by of which European people?
______________________
97. The invention of the ______________________ in the 1800 made the production of goods
faster and cheaper.
98. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott helped advance the WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
movement.
99. A _______________________________ must be proposed by two-thirds of House and
Senate & ratified by three-fourths of the states.
100. An________________________________ right is a right that cannot be taken away without
due process.
101. HORCE MANN the founded American Public Education.
102. Dorothea Dix, a reformer for the MENTALLY ill.
103. _________________________________ ,was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
104. In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott held the Seneca Falls Convention for
women’s rights.
105. The _______________ amendment to the constitution guaranteed Citizenship to all born in
the United States.
106. Women got the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.
107. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote _______________________________, a novel that portrayed
slavery as brutal and immoral.
108. POPULAR ________________________________ is a system where the residents vote to
decide an issue.
109. _____________________________ was named the President of the Confederacy.
110. ___________________________ was president of the United States or Union during the
Civil War.
111. Confederates fired shells into ____________________________ marking the beginning of
the Civil War.
112. When Virginia joined the Confederacy the South moved its capital to
___________________________.
113. The _______________________ had huge advantages in manpower and resources.
114. COPPERHEADS were those in the North that opposed Abraham Lincoln during the Civil
War.
115. The Northern or frees states were called the Union and the Southern or slave sates were
called the _______________________________.
116. Frederick Douglass urged President Lincoln to ___________________________, or free,
enslaved Americans.
117. _______________________________ was the leader General of the Confederate or
Southern Army.
118. _____________________________________ was the greatest leader of the Union or
Northern Army.
119. In 1865, Lee surrendered the Confederate forces to Grant in the small Virginia town of
_______________________________ .
120. One of the major turning points of the Civil War was the defeat of the Southern forces at the
battle of ___________________________.
121. The Civil War started in the year? ___________________
122. Who won the American Civil War? __________________________
123. Which is the only Branch of government that can use the Veto? ___________________
124. In 1803, _____________________________ as president purchased the Louisiana Territory
from France.
125. ________________________ was a slave who sued for his freedom, but lost in the
Supreme Court.
126. During the 1800s immigrants from China provided critical labor in railroad construction in the
West.