STAAR Review 4

What was the year Jamestown was established?

• 1620

• 1607

• 1787

• 1776

Colony established by the Pilgrims and Puritans for religious freedom

• Georgia

• Rhode Island

• Virginia

• Massachusetts Bay Colony

President who had the Indians removed to advance the settlement of the West “Trail of Tears.”

• Andrew Jackson

• George Washington

• John Q. Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

The action of the Sons of Liberty in protest of the Tea Act, led to the Intolerable Acts.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Celtics

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Boston Marathon

What war "equaled" debt for Britain and led to the taxation of American colonists?

• American Revolution

• The French & Indian War

• The Napoleonic Wars

• World War II

The year the U.S. bought the Louisiana from Napoleon, who needed money to fight the British

• 1803

• 1793

• 1860

• 1974

Wrote the pamphlet, “Common Sense”trying to persuade the colonists to support independence

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas the Train

• Thomas Edison

• Thomas Paine

The last piece of territory purchased from Mexico in 1853 completing the continental U.S.

• Texas

• Florida

• Oregon

• Gadsen Purchase

What was the treaty that ended the US-Mexican War and included the Mexican Cession?

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Treaty of Dabenport

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Treaty of Paris 1763

Document added to the Constitution guaranteeing the rights of the citizens of the U.S.

• Magna Carta

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of Independence

• Monroe Doctrine