7th Grade Review
This imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This period began when European settlers established permanent communities in North America.
What is colonization?
The United States government is divided into these three branches.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
This term describes the movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
This conflict divided the United States into the Union and Confederacy.
What is the Civil War?
This civilization developed along the Nile River and built the pyramids at Giza.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This 1773 protest involved colonists throwing British tea into Boston Harbor to oppose British taxation.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This system prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
Mountains, rivers, climate, and natural resources are examples of these characteristics.
What are physical characteristics?
This period focused on rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This deadly disease spread across Europe during the 1300s and killed millions of people.
What is the Black Death (Bubonic Plague)?
This 1770 event, in which British soldiers killed several colonists, increased tensions between Britain and the American colonies.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This principle divides powers between state and national governments.
What is federalism?
This phrase describes the movement of settlers across the continent during the 1800s.
What is westward expansion?
This movement sought to end slavery in the United States.
What is abolition?
This German monk challenged the Catholic Church in 1517 by publishing his Ninety-Five Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
This group of essays was written to convince Americans to ratify the proposed U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
Citizens demonstrate this responsibility when they vote in elections.
What is civic participation?
Access to resources such as water, fertile soil, and minerals often influences this human activity.
What is settlement?
This movement worked to secure equal rights for African Americans during the 1950s and 1960s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
European nations competed to find new trade routes and establish colonies, motivated in part by this famous phrase referring to wealth, religion, and power.
What are “Gold, God, and Glory”?
This 1803 purchase from France nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This document serves as the highest law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
This type of migration occurs when people are required to move against their will.
What is forced migration?
This term describes efforts to improve society through changes in laws, policies, or behavior.
What is reform?