8th Grade Social Studies: EXP, COL, AM REV, CONST

Constitution

100

Plan that favored small states. Wanted equal representation regardless of population

New Jersey Plan

200

Plan that favored big states. Wanted presentation based on population and a bi-cameral congress. Proposed by James Madison.

Virginia Plan

300

Lawe or Ordinance created for the admission of new states into the Union. Hint: Under this lawe Ohio was the first state admitted.

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

400

Compromise that settled REPRESENTATION of Slaves in Congress

3/5 Compromise

500

Agreement that created a bi-cameral congress.

2 houses : Senate & House of Representatives

A combination of the New Jersey plan and the Virginia Plan

Great Compromise

All units

100

The soil is rocky and the winters are long, shorter growing seasons than Mid-Atlantic colonies are in the ________________________________colonies. Hint: Massachusetts.

What is New England

200

Maryland was established as a colony for which religious group?

Catholics

300

Which Geographic feature was the limit for colonists to settle after the French and Indian War? Hint: Colonists could not go beyond this point.

The Appalachian Mountains

400

What is the battle known as the TURNING POINT of the American Revolution

Battle of Saratoga

500

Tobacco, rice, indigo, and corn were popular crops grown in the ____________________colonies.

What is Southern

Economy of the Colonies

100

The south had a _________________ based economy.

What is plantation

200

Reason for the establishment of the Transatlantic Slave trade in the 1500s-1600s?

Demand of Plantation labor

300

This colonial region had shipbuilders, traders, and fisherman because of its close proximity to the ocean.

What is New England

400

What allowed the Mid-Atlantic to have longer growing seasons that the New England region? Hint: Middle colonies

Mild Climate

500

What is the main cash crop of the Virginia Colonies during the colonial era? Hint: Virginia is in Southern colonies

Tobacco

Establishing Representative Government

100

Thomas Jefferson is known for writing the 

Declaration of Independence

200

The Mayflower Compact was significant because it established a form of _________________________based on a social contract.

What is representative (self) government

300

Plymouth was a colony based on escaping _________________________persecution.

religious

400

English philosopher from whom Thomas Jefferson borrowed ideas to write the Declaration of Independence

John Locke

500

Life, Liberty, and Property are natural (UNALIENABLE) rights that cannot be taken away. These beliefs led colonists to develop what type of government? Hint: They vote to choose someone to voice their concerns.

Representative Government

Exploration

100

England motivation to explore America was expansion (Glory) what did England do to fit in the motivation of Glory? Hint: what did they expand?

Empire by establishing colonies in America (13 colonies)

200

France motivation to explore America was economic (Gold) what did France do to fit in the motivation of Gold? Hint: what did they trade?

Fur

300

Name one motive for European exploration

What is: to increase wealth (gold) to spread Christianity (God) to expand empires (glory)

400

Spain motivation to explore America was religious (GOD) what did Spain do to fit in the motivation of God? Hint: what did they SPREAD?

Christianity

500

Why did explorers search for the NORTHWEST PASSAGE? Hint: What is the INITIAL reason for exploration? 

To find a new sea route to Asia