7th Grade Review 1
Asia and North America
What two continents were crossed during the migration across the Bering Strait land bridge?
This document guarantees freedom of speech, religion, and the right to bear arms
What is the Bill or Rights?
poll taxes
literacy tests
grandfather clauses
What laws were passed to limit the rights of formerly enslaved persons?
THis document was created by woodrow Wilson after World War I to create a League of Nations
What is the Fourteen Points?
This is describing what economic problem
"A few years ago I could go to the store with $100 and come back with six or seven bags of groceries. now I'm lucky if $100 will buy three bags. Boys have prices have gone up!"
what is inflation?
"Unemployment Rate drops 1.5% in upstate New York" would be studied by this social scientist
What is an economist?
forced the British to withdraw from North America during the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
muckrakers who exposed corruption and abuses in society
Who were Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclar?
Many Americans did not support the law
What was one reason why national Prohibition failed?
This individual is best known as a major leader of the 1960's civil rights movement
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
diary of a factory worker
What is an example of a primary source?
This document contains the following words:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal...with certain unalienable rights."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
achieve reform by supporting a constitutional amendment
What were the temperance movement and the women's suffrage movement?
the government is spending more money then it has
What is deficit spending?
Presdient John F. Kenedy and Presidnet Lyndon B. Johnson sent trops in Vietnam for what reason
What is limit the spread of communism?
Diseases brought by Europeans called large numbers of deaths
What was one impact of European exploration on Native Americans?
This prevents one branch of the national government from becoming too powerful
What are checks and balances?
The acquistion of overseas territories by the United States during the late 1800s.
What is imperialism?
increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced vale of money
What is inflation?
The following examples is from what time period in history
Harlem Renaissance
The great Migration
fads and flappers
The Stock Market Crash
What is the Roaring Twenties?
tobacco
Which cash crop is credited with helping the Jamestown colony to survivve?
The purpose of the Lewis and Ckark expedition was to gain land through
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
when a company has total control of an industry
What is a monopoly?
These headlines are most associated with
"Nuremberg laws take away Jewish citizenship in Germany"
"Synagogues and Jewsih-owned businesses destroyed Across Germany"
What is the Holocaust?
victory gardens, rationing, scrap drives, and bond drives are most closely associated with
What are homefront efforts during World War II?
The Dutch
Who were the first Europeans to establish a colony of what is now New York State?
This was one effect of the Supreme Court's decision to Marbury v. Madison.
What is the power of the Court to declare a law unconsititutional?
reasons why immigrants leave their homeland
What is a push factor?
declaring war on Japan
How did the United States repsond to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
In which decade would these three headlines have been published:
"African Americans boycott buses in Montgomery"
"Levvitown suburban development continues to Grow"
What are the 1950s?
This was the first example of representative democracy in the colonies
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
One result of the War of 1812
How America maintained its independence from Great Britain?
reasons why people are attracted to move to a particular country.
What is a pull factor?
dropping atomic bombs was not necessary to end the war
What statement is an opinion about World War II?
The most direct result of the Watergate scandal was the
What is the resignation of President Richard Nixon?