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Teacher _ _ _ _ _ Period _ _
Wantagh Middle School
Grade 7
Final Examination
Review Packet
Final Exam Review Guide 1. How did the earliest people migrate to North America?
2. What were the Crusades and what was their goal?
3. How did the results of the Crusades lead to European exploration?
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4. What was a major positive result of Columbus' voyages to the New World?
5. What was a major negative result of Columbus' voyages?
6. What three European countries settled in the New World? Where did each settle?
7. Why did many Europeans migrate to America in the 1600s?
8. The economies of New England and the South were totally different. Give 2 factors
that contributed to this difference.
9. At frrst, the South's economy was based on _ _ _ _ _ _ and the 3 major cash crops
were---------~----------- and ----------­
The economy in the
early New England colonies was based on
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10. How did the 13 English colonial governments significantly differ?
11. What was the major cause of the French and Indian War?
12. Despite winning this war, why couldn't the colonists settle on the land west of the
Appalachian Mountains?
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13. Explain the principle of mercantilism
14. What was the significance of the John Peter Zenger trial?
15. Why did the colonists object to the various taxes that were placed on them?
16. What was the most effective fonn of protest used by the colonists to challenge the
taxes?
17. What was "Common Sense" and who was the §.uthor?
18. Why did the colonists decide to rebel and declare their independence from England?
19. What are 3 strengths and 3 weaknesses that the colonists had during the Revolution?
20. What was the turning point of the Revolutionary War? Why?
21. What were the results of the Revolutionary War?
22. What was the major purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
23. Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
24. What was the first government after the Declaration of Independence? Why did it only
last a few years?
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25. The new government was a federal system. Explain federalism.
26. What issue did the Great Compromise settle?
27. What was the Bill of Rights and what was its purpose?
28. How did the Bill of Rights affect the ratificatiOJl of the Constitution by some states?
29. What was the primary aim or purpose of the writers of the US Constitution?
30. Where are the goals of the Constitution stated?
31. What is separation of powers?
32. List the 3 branches of government and the jobs of each.
33. What is the purpose of checks and balances?
34. What is the "unwritten Constitution"? Give 2 examples Under Washington's terms.
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35. Explain the following Constitutional terms:
Judicial review
Amendment
Elastic clause
Ratify
Census
36. What is the US Constitution? How would you describe it?
37. What is the Electoral College? Why was it created? What does it encourage
candidates to do when running for office?
38. What is much of the Supreme Court's authority based on?
39. When would people benefit most from the Supreme Court decision in Miranda v
Arizona?
40. What was George Washington's foreign policy?
41. What were 3 parts of Alexander Hamilton's plan to repay the war debt?
42. What was Jefferson's belief about the structure of the government?
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43. What major port did Jefferson try to buy from Napolean? Why was it so important?
44. What was the major result of the Louisiana Purchase?
45. What was the purpose of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
46. What were the causes of the War of 1812?
47. What were the results of the War of 1812?
48. How did the Monroe Doctrine change the foreign policy of the US?
49. What was the Industrial Revolution?
50. Explain the benefits of standardized parts.
51. After the 1820s where did many immigrants settle? Why did they go to this region?
52. What was the purpose of labor union?
53. How did the cotton gin affect the South? How did it affect the North?
54. What was Andrew Jackson's Spoils System?
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55. What was an advantage and disadvantage of the Spoils System?
56. How did Jackson abuse his Presidential power?
57. What did Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson have in
common?
58. What did each of these reformers do: Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Sojourner Truth?
59. Defme Manifest Destiny.
60. What were the results of the Gold Rush?
61. How did the Alamo lead to Texan independence?
62. Which battle gave the Texans their independence from Mexico?
63. Why was Texas known as the Lone Star Republic?
64. What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
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Locate the following:
65. the 13 original colonies
66. the Louisiana Purchase
67. The Lone Star Republic (Remember the Alamo!)
68. the Spanish Cession
69. the Mexican Cession
70. the Gadsden Purchase
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71. What is sectionalism?
72. Sectional rivalries leading up to the Civil War centered around what 3 issues?
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73. Describe the following and explain how they led to the Civil War:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Feny
Abraham Lincoln's platform on slavery
Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Law
74. Of all of the causes of the Civil War, which event caused the immediate secession of
several southern states from the Union?
75. What was the North's main goal at the start of the Civil War? How did it change?
76. What was the South's main goal at the start of the war?
77. What were the advantages each side had in the war?
78. What was the importance of the following battles: Fort Sumter, Antietam, Gettysburg?
79. What were the results of the Civil War?
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80. Define the following vocabulary tenns:
Emancipate
Scapegoat
Papular sovereignty
Suffrage
Secede
Propaganda
Repeal
Prejudice
Annex
Alliance
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