8th Grade United States History

TAKS Review 2010-2011

Created by Arthur Thompson

Bailey Middle School

2.The Americas received their name from a German mapmaker who named the continent after _________________. Amerigo Vespucci

3.The movement of plants, animals, and diseases between hemispheres is the__________ Exchange. Columbian

4.The voyage that carried captured Africans to the Americas for use as slaves was known as the ________________middle passage

5. The first permanent English Colony was Jamestown Virginia founded in ________.1607

1. The financial drain due to the British economic system of ______________ was one of the main causes of the Revolution.

mercantilism

7.The first representative assembly in the American colonies was known as the___________________.House of Burgesses

New England SouthernMiddle

6.The agreement written by the Pilgrims that provided for self-government was called the_________________Mayflower Compact

9.Fundamental Orders of ______________ was a constitution that some Puritan colonists wrote to govern themselves

Connecticut

8. The Plymouth colony was established primarily by settlers who wanted ________ freedom.religious

10.The13 colonies formed three distinct regions.

12. The name given to a trading route with three stops that included the shipping of African Slaves was called The __________trade route.Triangular

11.New England had long winters and_______ soil. rocky

13. Economic activity in the New England colonies relied heavily on trade in part because a cold climate and poor soil made _________unprofitablefarming

14. The 13 original colonies were primarily located along the______________ Ocean.Atlantic

15. What nationality founded the Catholic missions in California?_______________.The Spanish

16. Benjamin Franklin published ______ ________ Almanac.

Poor Richard’s

17. John Locke argued that people have _______ rights such as life, liberty, and property.

natural

18.The first step toward guaranteeing the rights of Englishmen came in 1215 with the signing of the_______________. Magna Carta

19. In 1689 The ____________________established that the government was to be based on laws made by Parliament, not on the desires of a ruler.

English Bill of Rights

20. One result of British regulations such as the sugar and Stamp Acts was America’s resentment of ____________ without representation.taxation

22. The Treaty of Paris 1763 ended the ________________ War.French and Indian

21.To defeat the French Benjamin Franklin, suggested that the colonies band together in the first formal proposal to unite the colonies called The___________ of Union.Albany Plan

23. The _____________________restricted colonists from settling west of the Appalachians Mountains.

Proclamation of 1763

24. The King of England during the American revolution was ________________.King George III

25.The purpose of the Quartering Act was to require the colonies to provide ___________and supplies for British soldiers.

housing

TAKS Review Questions #2

2. The group that staged protests against the Stamp Act was the ________________Sons of Liberty

4. In 1770, an incident called the __________ __________ was used as propaganda to arouse the colonists' resistance to British authority. Massacre

Boston

1. Required the colonists to pay tax on all legal documents such as wills, contracts, and diplomas. ______________ Stamp Act

3. A colonist killed in the Boston Massacre was a sailor of African and Native American ancestry. _______________ Crispus Attucks

5. _________________ wrote the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

7. Where were the first battles of the American

revolutionary War? _______________________Lexington and Concord

6. Became famous for spreading news of the British troop's movements._____________ Paul Revere

8.What term was used to describe a colonist who resisted the British rule? _____________ Patriot

Loyalist 9. What term was used to describe a colonist who

favored the British rule? ______________

10. Who was the commanding general of the Continental Army? ___________________. George Washington

11. Thomas Paine published a pamphlet in order to convince Americans that a break with Britain was necessary. __________________ Common Sense

13. An _____________ right is a right that cannot be taken away without due process.

unalienable

14. Americans issued Declaration ofIndependence in the year _______.1776

15. The turning point in the American Revolution War, was the victory at_____________.Saratoga

12. _______________________was a French aristocrat who played a leading role in the American Revolution.

Marquis de Lafayette

18.Last major battle of the American Revolution. _________

17. The winter at ____________came to stand for the great hardships that Americans endured in the Revolutionary War.

Valley Forge

Yorktown

16. Benjamin Franklin convinced what country to lend military support to the Continental army during the American Revolution? _________France

20.The Constitutional Convention was held in what city ______________Philadelphia

19. The Treaty of Paris ________ended the American Revolutionary War.

1783

24. __________________ is considered as the Father of the Constitution.

21. ___________Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts involved mostly small farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes.

Shays's

25. The ________governments had the most power under the Articles of Confederation.

22. The Articles of _______________created our first national government.

Confederation

James Madison

Northwest23. The _____________Ordinance set a pattern for the orderly growth in the Northwest Territory and the rest of the United States.

state

TAKS Review Questions # 3

2.The date of the Louisiana Purchase was ______________.

3.The weakness of the Articles of Confederation led to the writing of the U.S. _______________.

1.The court case of ______________________ established the Supreme Court's power of judicial review

Marbury v. Madison

5.The branch of government that makes the laws is the___________.

1803

Constitution

legislative

4.People who opposed the Constitution were called _______________. Anti-federalists

9. ____________is a system of government in which power is shared between the central government and the states.

6.The branch of government that enforces the laws is the___________. executive

7. The branch of government that interprets the laws is the _________. judicial

Federalism

Three-Fifths 8.The _____________Compromise addressed how slaves would be counted for taxes and representation.

representatives 10. A republic, is where the people choose __________________to govern them.

11.The legislature, branch of government is made up of the ______________ _____________________________

12.The author of the poem that in 1931 became the national anthem of the United States was____________________.

14.The Battle of _______________made General Andrew Jackson a national hero.

13.The treaty that ended the War of 1812 was the _______________.

Senate and

Francis Scott Key

New Orleans

Treaty of Ghent

Eli Whitney 15. Who invented interchangeable parts?

_____________

the House of Representatives.

16. One important economic legacy of the War of 1812 was the war encouraged the growth of U.S. ________________. manufacturing

17. Who invented the Steamboat? ___________________ Robert Fulton

John Deere

Samuel F. B. Morse

19.Who invented the Steel Plow? _______________

18. Who invented the Telegraph? ____________________

20. Who invented the Mechanical Reaper? ___________________ Cyrus McCormick

24. Manifest Destiny resulted in the loss of land for the _______________

21.Textiles became a leading industry in the North after the cotton gin was invented by___________.Eli Whitney

22. The Mexican War was prompted when _________ became part of the United States.Texas

23. Robert Fulton’s steamboat aided the economicdevelopment of the United States by making _____________ on rivers more efficient. transportation

Native American

25. The present-day states of California, Nevada,and Utah were acquired in 1848 from _______.Mexico

TAKS Review Questions # 4

1.The __________________stated that The United States would not allow further European colonization in the Western Hemisphere.

Monroe Doctrine

2. According to the Missouri Compromise of 1820___________would enter the Union as a free state and _____________would enter the Union as a slave state.

Missouri

3. At Jackson’s urging Congress passed the _____________________ in 1830. Indian Removal Act

Maine

4. The Journey the Cherokee’s took when they were forced from their lands was _______________ Trail of Tears

5. Refusal or rejection by a U.S. state to recognize a federal law. _________________ Nullification

9. ______________ was the believe that the United States had a divinely inspired mission to expand and to spread democracy throughout North America.

6. The Santa Fe Trail, led from Independence __________to Santa Fe. (New Mexico) Missouri

7. The Nullification Crisis concerned South Carolina’s dissatisfaction with federal policy on _______.Tariffs

8. The ___________Trail led from Navuoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City. (Utah)

Mormon

Manifest Destiny

10. In California, Americans rebelled against Mexican rule in the ___________ Revolt. Bear Flag

14.James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill located in the territory known as ____________.

11. On February 2, 1848, the war with Mexico officially ended with the Treaty of______________________. Guadalupe Hidalgo

12.Mexico was forced to give up, a vast region of land known as the Mexican _______________. Cession

Gadsden

California

15. The rapid migration of people in to California in search of gold was the California ____________.Gold Rush

13.The last bit of territory the United States bought from Mexico was a strip of land called the ___________ Purchase.

18. _____________are those that wanted to end Slavery.

49’ers

17. _____________movement was a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol.

Temperance

Abolitionists

16. Those that rushed to California in search of gold were called the _________.

19. In the ___________Court Decision Chief Justice Roger B. Taney said that black Americans were not U.S. citizen.

Dred Scott

20. The______amendment to the United States Constitution banned Slavery.

13th

21. The missions founded in California were created by of which group of people? _____________

The Spanish

22.The invention of______________________ in the 1800 made the production of goods faster and cheaper.

23. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott,Helped advance the ___________movement.

interchangeable parts

24.What must be proposed by two-thirds vote of House and Senate and ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures?______________________

Women ‘s

Constitutional Amendment

25. After escaping from slavery___________________ became a leading abolitionist, a great speaker and writer.

Frederick Douglass

TAKS Review #5

1._____________worked to improve of education in the United States. Horace Mann

2. Dorothea Dix, a reformer for the ___________. mentally ill

3._________________was a conductor on the Underground Railroad

HarrietTubman

4.Stanton and Mott held the ____________ Convention for women’s rights.

Seneca Falls

5. The _____________amendment to the constitution guaranteed Citizenship to all born in the United States.

14th

6. Women got the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the ____ amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

19th

7. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote ____________________ a novel that portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. Uncle Tom's Cabin

8.______________________is a system where the residents vote to decide an issue. Popular sovereignty

9._______________was named the President of the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis

10. _______________was president of the Union during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln

11. Confederates fired shells into ______________ marked the beginning of the Civil War.

Fort Sumter

12. When Virginia joined the Confederacy the South moved its capital to.__________________

Richmond, Virginia

13. The ___________had huge advantages in manpower and resources.

Union

14. ______________were those in the North that opposed Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.

Copperheads

15. The Northern or frees states were called the Union and the Southern or slave states were called the____________ Confederacy.

16. Frederick Douglass urged President _______ to emancipate, or free, enslaved Americans.

Lincoln

17. _____________is considered to be the leading General of the Confederate or Southern forces.

Robert E. Lee

18. __________________is considered to be the leader of the Union or Northern forces.

Ulysses S. Grant

19. On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered the Confederate forces to Grant in the small Virginia town of_______________________ Appomattox Court House.

20. One of the major turning points of the Civil War was the defeat of the Southern forces at the battle of_____________. Gettysburg

21.What type government is "by the people, and for the people?“ _____________

23.The U.S. Constitution maintains a republican system of government through the election of _________________ who make laws.

24. Some delegates to the Constitutional Convention opposed ratification of the Constitution because of its failure to include a _____________Bill of Rights

representatives

Democracy

25. In 1787 Congress established a system for creating new states from western territories through the _____________________.Northwest Ordinance

22.The Constitutional Convention was held in what year? _____ 1787

TAKS Review #6

1.The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 authorized the ______ of escaped slaves in states where slavery was illegal.

3.In the early 1800s power looms transformed the textile industry and provided new job opportunities for _____________

2. What amendment to the Constitution guarantees a speedy and public trial _____?

arrest

4. The Civil War Started in the year? ____________

5.Who won the American Civil War?_____________

1861

6th

North or Union

young women

6. Which is the only Branch of government that can use the Veto? ___________________

8. Alexander Hamilton promoted what type ofeconomic system for the United States?_______________

9.Southern dependence on slavery and anagricultural economy resulted in lack of___________

The Executive

Free enterprise

7. The Civil War ended in the year? ____________1865

factories

10.The early English colonists of North Americasettled near rivers, which provided resourcesand a source of _____________.transportation

12. What important city is located at the mouth of the Mississippi River? ____________New Orleans

13. During the 1800s immigrants from ______provided critical labor in railroad construction in the West.

China

14. One of the issues that led to the Civil War waswhether final authority to interpret the Constitution belonged to the national government or the _______.

11. The right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed in _____ amendment to the Constitution.2nd

states

15. ____________was a slave who sued for his freedom, but lost in the Supreme Court.

Dred Scott

16.In 1803 _________________as president purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.

Thomas Jefferson

17. Which is the only Branch of government that can impeach? ________________ Legislative

18. The Battle of ___________was important in the Civil War because it gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River.

Vicksburg

19. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are called the ________________.The Bill of Rights

20. Freedom of Religion is guaranteed by the _______ Constitutional Amendment.1st

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