Fall Benchmark Review US History STAAR

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According to Oglethorpe, the Savannah and the Altamaha rivers were a perfect barrier between

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British Colonies and Spanish land claims

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The Virginia Company was responsible for organizing the General Assembly in Virginia that was known as the ____________________ and was created to provide ______________________

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Virginia House of Burgesses and local representative self government

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The __________________ between the colonies and Great Britain caused the colonists to write documents such as the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the Charter of the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Mayflower Compact.

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distance

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Colonists were angry about the laws Parliament was passing to tax them because they had no _______________________ in Parliament.

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representation

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The colonists sent ____________________ a list of ______________________.

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King George, grievances

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Parliament passed the tax laws known as the Sugar Act, Stamp Act and Townshend Acts to ________________.

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recover the money spent to send troops to America to defend colonists

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______________________was the result of men protesting against British Taxation Policies.

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The Boston Tea Party

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_______________ was the turning point in the American Revolution because this victory is what convinced the French to ally with American troops to help win the war.

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Saratoga

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At the end of the American Revolution, following the Battle of Yorktown and General Cornwallis’s surrender to American troops, Great Britain and the United States signed

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a peace treaty known as the Treaty of Paris

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________________ of the Constitution centered around _______________, who were for it who believed the document would increase the power of the National Government, and _____________, who were against it because it didn’t offer a bill of rights.

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Ratification, Federalists, Anti-Federalists