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Semester Exam 1
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History
8th Grade
01/13/2011

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Slavery:
-slaves should count when determining a state's population and its number of representatives
-Slaves should count in deciding a state's share of federal taxes

What question could be made of this?
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What did the founding fathers take in consideration while making the three fifths compromise?
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What event happened in 1765? What person was the most important in this event?
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The Stamp Act, Sam Adams
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What event happened in 1770? What person was the most important in this event?
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Boston Massacre, Crispus Attucks OR John Adams
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What did the first three articles of the US Constitution reflect the principle of?
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The separation of powers
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Why did early English colonists of North America settle near rivers? (at least 3 reasons)
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crops, food, drinking (if fresh water), transportation, and easy trade
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What kind of colony was the Virginia colony?
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Corporate colony
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The Plymouth colony was established primarily by settlers who wanted...?
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religion
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Explain a representative government.
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People elect the representatives...
They make the laws....
Representatives conduct the government on behalf of the people.
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What year did Washington and his troops flee NY?
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1776
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What year did Americans win the battle of Saratoga?
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1777
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What year did the British capture Charleston?
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1780
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What year did the surrender at Yorktown happen?
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1781
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What year did the Americans and British sign the treaty of Paris?
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1783
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What happened in 1781?
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The surrender at Yorktown
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What are all of the rights stated in the first amendment?
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speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition
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rights that cannot be taken away
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unalienable rights
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people who defended the colonists (INDEPENDENCE)
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patriots
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People who supported the British
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Loyalists
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Essays that explained and defended the Constitution
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Federalist papers
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called for counting 3/5 of the slave population for representation and taxation
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Three Fifths Compromise
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admits states as equal states when they enter the union
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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Alexander Hamilton favored a strong federal government bc he believed it would benefit the economy. What are 2 examples of what Hamilton believed.
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industrial economy, FREE ENTERPRISE
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Why was Jamestown a successful colony?
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tobacco (fertile soil), and the working & eating policy
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How does the Amendment Process work?
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2/3 house and senate & 3/4 of state legislatures vote a new amendment through
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Representation in the House of Representatives is based on ______________ . Senate ________ .
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population, equal
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What were the six problems of the Articles of Confederation?
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inflation, no $$, taxes, quarreling, disrespect from other countries, and Shay's Rebellion
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Why were the Bill of Rights added to the US Constitution?
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to protect citizens
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What country did Ben Franklin convince to support George Washington's Continental army?
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France
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What were 3 of Thomas Jefferson's accomplishments?
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Louisiana Purchase, University of Virginia, President, writer of Statute of religious freedoms, and the Declaration of Independence
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1819, the first representative assembly in the American colonies
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House of Burgesses
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company that financed Jamestown expedition and founded the House of Burgesses
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The Virginia Company
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the right to say wrongs of the government freely (First Amendment)
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free speech
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a 1215 document granting all rights to English people
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Magna Carta
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turning point in the American Revolution which got France to support the Continental Army
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Battle of Saratoga
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the residents vote to decide an issue
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Popular sovereignty
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business cannot be conducted freely based on choices of individuals (supported by Alexander Hamilton)
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Free enterprise
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ability of each branch of government to check each other
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checks and balances
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pamphlet by Thomas Paine that supported the Revolution
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Common Sense
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British order forbidding colonists to settle west of the Appalachians
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Proclamation of 1763
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agreement signed by Pilgrims to obey colony laws
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Mayflower Compact
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British tax on imported sugar/molasses
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Sugar Act
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Law that taxed by many printed material in the colonies
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Stamp Act
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What did the colonists argue that the sugar and stamp act were?
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taxation without representation
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conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which 5 colonists were killed including Crispus Attucks
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Boston Massacre
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What type of colony did New England have?
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fishing and trading
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What type of colony did the middle colony have?
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Farming grain and wheat
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What type of economy did the Southern Colonies have?
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tobacco growing/plantaion
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