7th Grade Review
American Revolution
Early Government
Policy and Politics
Expanding the Nation
100
This is where most tobacco was grown.
What are the Southern colonies?
100
This was an English act that put tax on paper products and legal documents in the American colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
This was the first government of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
The President as military commander of the United States.
What is the "Commander-in-Chief?"
100
This person wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Who is Francis Scott Key?
200
This area was known as the "Bread Basket"
What are the Middle Colonies?
200
This was an act that put a tax on sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
200
There are 10 of these in this document.
What is The Bill of Rights?
200
These are the two main political parties of the United States.
What are Republicans and Democrats?
200
Serving only two terms as President is an example of this.
What is an example of a precedent set by George Washington?
300
This area was known for shipping and fishing.
What are the New England colonies?
300
The author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
This word means to reject a law.
What is veto?
300
Only this part of government can declare war in the United States.
What is Congress?
300
Farmers were angered by high taxes on grains, and that led to this event.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
400
Mennonites and Puritans came to the colonies because they wanted this.
What is religious freedom?
400
George Washington's army spent a miserable winter there, but received excellent training in the process.
What is Valley Forge?
400
The Legislative Branch is made up of these two houses.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
400
This is a formal agreement between two or more countries.
What is a treaty?
400
This is a term used for describing how the British forced American sailors to serve in their Navy.
What is impressment?
500
This area was too rocky and was not good for farming.
What are the New England colonies?
500
This treaty ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
500
This is the process of removing a person from office if he/she should break a law, etc.
What is impeachment?
500
This was the name of the rebellion in Massachusetts that demonstrated weaknesses of The Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
500
These are North African pirates who attacked trading ships along the Barbary Coast.
Who are the Barbary pirates?
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