7 th Grade Review Sheet for Final Exam.1) What you need to know: What is History? Why do people study history?

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1 Name: Rondinelli Date: 7 th Grade Review 7 th Grade Review Sheet for Final Exam.1) What you need to know: What is History? Why do people study history? 2) What is Geography? 3) What is archeology? 4.) What is Economics? 5) What are Primary Sources? Give Examples. 6) What are Secondary Sources? Give Examples.

2 7) Where did Indians originally come from? 8) How did they come to North America? 9) Why did each Indian Culture group develop a different culture? 10) What were the two major Native American groups that lived in New York? What types of houses did they live in?

3 1. Briefly describe the Iroquois Nation (Confederacy) (Name of tribes and it s significance! Age of Exploration and Colonization: 2. What impacts did the early explorers, like Columbus, have on North and South America? (Think about the Columbian Exchange) 3. What is a colony? 4. Briefly describe the territories that the French, British and Spanish colonized! French Colonies: English Colonies: Spanish Colonies: The English Colonies: 5. What was the idea behind the economic system of mercantilism? 6. Describe the environment and its impact on life in the New England Colonies!

4 7 Describe the environment and its impact on life in the Middle Colonies. 8) Describe the environment and its impact on life in the Southern Colonies! Road to American Revolution: 7. Why did the French and Indian War ( ) start? Who was the war between? 8. What was the purpose of the Albany Plan of Union? 9. What was the result of the French and Indian War? (Winners/Losers/Treaties) 10) What was the purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?

5 What was the purpose of the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts? Why did the colonists protest these Acts? 10. What did the saying No taxation without representation mean? 11. What was the Boston Massacre? 12. What was the Boston Tea Party? 13. What were the Intolerable Acts? The American Revolution: 14. What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence? What was the date that it was signed? 15. Who were the Loyalists and the Patriots?

6 16. Who were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty? 17. Who won the American Revolution? 18. What was the last battle of the American Revolution? What did America gain from the Treaty of Paris (1783)? The United States Constitution: 19. What is a government? 20. What are the three branches of government and their powers (Separation of Powers)? 21. What is a Constitution? 22. What were the Articles of Confederation? What was its major problem?

7 23. What is a Compromise? What was the Great Compromise? 24. What is Democracy? 25. What is Federalism (Division of Power)? 1) Delegated (Enumerated) Powers: a) b) c) d) 2) Reserved (Residual) Powers: a) b) c) 3) Concurrent (Shared) Powers: a) b) 26. What are Checks and Balances? Define Veto: Define Impeach: Define Unconstitutional: Define Amendments: Define Bill of Rights:

8 27. Describe the following Bill of Rights Amendments: 1 st Amendment- 2 nd Amendment- 4 th Amendment- 5 th Amendment- 8 th Amendment- Life in the United States ( ): 28. Who was the first President of the United States? What was the First Cabinet and its purpose? 29. What were the elements of Hamilton s financial plan to lift America out of debt? 30. Why did Washington want America to remain neutral and warn Americans to stay away from European affairs? 31. What was the significance of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803? What were the names of the two men that Jefferson appointed to explore the territory? 32. What were the causes of the War of 1812? 33. Who wrote the National Anthem and at what battle?

9 34. What was the significance of the Battle of New Orleans? Who was the hero at the battle? What the outcome of the war? 35. What was the Industrial Revolution? Why was it important to the economy of the United States? 36. What were some new inventions during the Industrial Revolution 37. How did farmers begin to transport their goods across the country during the Industrial Revolution? 38. What city did the Erie Canal help prosper? 39. What democratic changes occurred under Andrew Jackson during his presidency? 40. What was the Spoils System? 41. What was the Trail of Tears?

10 42. What was the Suffragists Movement? Who were some of the leaders? What was the Seneca Fall Conference? 43. What was abolitionism? Who were some important abolitionists? What was the Underground Railroad? Who was the conductor? United States Expansion (1820 s-1850 s): 44. What was the Monroe Doctrine: 45. Define the word Manifest Destiny? 46. How did the United States acquire Florida? 47. How did the United States acquire Texas? 48. How did the United States acquire the Oregon Territory?

11 49. How did the United States acquire California and the American Southwest? What was the Gadsden Purchase? Causes and Events of the Civil War: 50. What is Nationalism? What is Sectionalism? Differences between the North and the South North South 51. What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and Compromise of 1850?

12 52. What where some of the advantages of the North during the Civil War? 53. What was Abraham Lincoln s position on slavery? What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? 54. Where did most of the fighting and most of the damage take place during the civil war? 55. Why was the Civil war such an important war in U.S. history? 56. What was the period known as Reconstruction about?