STAAR Blitz Review

Unit 2:Colonization & Colonies

100

1607

1st permanent settlement in the colonies 

Jamestown 

200

These states belong to which region of colonies? 

Middle colonies 

300

These pictures represents 2 reasons for which European power's colonization in North America ? 

France/ French 

400

This picture represents the main economic activities of which region of colonies? 

Southern Colonies 

500

These "trigger words" are the main economic characteristics of which region of colonies? 

Logging

Manufacturing/Industrialization

Shipbuilding

Fishing 

Northern/ New England Colonies 

600

Trigger Words: 

1620

Pilgrims 

Self-government 

Mayflower Compact 

700

This was a religious revival in the American colonies

 Colonists put an emphasis on individual salvation and personal faith

1st Great Awakening 

800

This term bases a country's wealth on how much material possessions it has. 

Trigger Words: Materials and Markets 

Mercantilism 

Unit 3:Revolutionary Era

100

"Break-Up Letter" to King George

This document listed our grievances and requested for unalienable rights 

Declaration of Independence 

200

This forbade colonists from moving west past the Appalachian mountains 

Proclamation Line of 1763

300

Considered the 1st battle of the American Revolution 

Battles at Lexington and Concord 

400

This document ended the Amer. Rev. 

And also recognized the US as an independent nation 

Treaty of Paris 

500

Our 1st written Constitution of the colonies 

No P.A.C.C.T 

Articles of Confederation 

600

This act was created to punish MA for the Boston Tea Party 

Intolerable Acts 

700

What was considered our turning point of the American Revolution and WHY? 

Battle of Saratoga

WHY = We finally convinced the French to help fight for our independence from Great Britain 

800

Also known as the 7 Years War

Rivalry between French and the British over North American lands 

Left Great Britain in huge debt 

French and Indian War 

Unit 4:Constitution

100

This plan was proposed by James Madison at the Constitutional Convention

Favored representation based on population size and favored a strong central government 

Virginia Plan 

200

This document is a product of the beliefs of which group? 

Anti-Federalists 

trigger words: states' rights, weak central govt, Bill of Rights 

300

This decision settled the issue of how to represent enslaved indivuals 

3/5's Compromise 

400

Trigger Words: 

-- ratification of Constitution

-- national bank

--strong central gov 

-- separation of powers (3 branches) 

Federalists 

500

Combined elements of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans 

Created a bicameral legislature (Senate & House of Reps) 

Great Compromise 

600

This picture represents which principle of government 

Popular Soveriegnty 

700

Court could declare acts of Congress to be unconstitutional

This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review 

1803

Marbury VS Madison 

800

This picture symbolizes which principle of government ?

Federalism 

Shared/ balanced power between state and national governments 

Unit 5: Early Republic

100

This large piece of land was purchased by President Jefferson for 15 million dollars from France 

Louisiana Purchase: 1803 

200

Happened under Washington

Uprising by western farmers in response to Hamilton's taxation plan 

Whiskey Rebellion 

300

With this act, Jefferson closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain.

Embargo Act 

(embargo=ban on trade) 

400

This declared that the United States would not tolerate European colonization or intervention in the Americas.

Monroe Doctrine 

500

Established territorial law and paved the way for new states to be admitted into the Union 

Northwest Ordinance 

600

Congress passed this as a result/effect of the XYZ affair

• Citizens could be fined or jailed if they criticized the government or its officials.

Alien and Sedition Acts 

700

The first President's advice to the nation to remain neutral in European affairs 

Washington's Farewell Address 

800

These are causes and effects of which war? 

Who was President? 

4th President: James Madison 

Causes and Effects of War of 1812 

Units 6-7: Jackson/Westward Expansion

100

Adams-Onis Treaty helped purchase this piece of land from Spain in 1819 for $5 million 

200

1830 law by President Jackson that required the relocation of Cherokees to western territories (mainly Oklahoma) 

Indian Removal Act 

300

Land Purchase from Mexico to build a RAILROAD connecting the South to the Pacific Coast  

Gadsden Purchase 

Trigger Word: RAILROAD 

400

 1. Territory acquired from Mexico after the Mexican-American War

 2. Included present-day states on the West Coast of the US 

Mexican Cession 

500

United States purchased this current date state from Russia 

600

Term given to the presidential policies of Andrew Jackson 

-- And his belief that politics had been corrupted by "special interests" 

Jacksonian Democracy 

700

This represents the occurrence of statehood in 1845 following thier independence from Mexico

Annexation of Texas 

800

Standoff between North Carolina & federal govt. 

State's belief that it could declare a federal law unconstitutional within its own borders 

Nullification Crisis 

Unit 8: Industrialization

100

Reform effort that sought to end the practice of slavery 

-- Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, John Brown 

Abolitionism 

200

 

This reform movement led to the restriction of alcoholic beverages

-- Led to the passage of the 18th amendment 

Temperance Movement 

300

The rapid changing in the creation of goods brought about by technological advances that allowed for mass production 

Industrialization 

400

Leader who campaigned for caring for the mentally ill & prison reform 

Dorothea Dix 

500

Revival of strong religious feelings that sparked many reform movements in the 1820's-1830's

--Temperance 

--Abolitionism

--Women's Rights 

2nd Great Awakening 

600

Leader of the women's rights movement and organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 

700

Invention by Eli Whitney that increased the profitability of plantations 

Cotton Gin 

800

Connection of the East & West coasts of the United States for transportation of goods and people 

Transcontinental Railroad 

Units 9-10: Sectionalism/ Civil War

100

Abolitionists worked very hard to get this amendment passed? 

13th Amendment: abolished slavery 

200

Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens, but as property 

Dred Scott Decision 

300

Required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.

Fugitive Slave Law 

400

This amendment gives us CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS !!!!

14th Amendment 

500

DISCUSSION: What is sectionalism ? 

Loyalty to one's own section/region of the country , rather than to the country as a whole 

Each side receives 250 points !!!!!!!

600

California (CA) was admitted as a free state in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law 

Compromise of 1850

Trigger Words: 

-CA/free state

-Fugitive Slave Law 

700

Critics (opposers) of the Kansas-Nebraska Act founded this political party to stop the spread of slavery 

-- President Lincoln 

Republican Party 

800

1854 law that allowed popular sovereignty to decide whether citizens would allow slavery or not

Kansas-Nebraska Act 

Unit 11: Reconstruction

100

1st African American man elected to Congress (Senate) 

Hiram Rhodes Revels 

200

A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction?

Carpetbagger

300

Laws passed after the Civil War that restricted the way of life for blacks as if they were slaves.

Black Codes/ Jim Crow Laws

400

A group of Congressmen who sought to punish the South for the Civil War 

Radical Republicans 

500

This amendment all citizen's the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

15th Amendment 

600

Helped ex-slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, helping families reunify, and setting up black schools.

Freedman's Bureau 

700

A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.

Sharecropping 

800

This act played a huge role in westward migration 

--It provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land

Homestead Act