Must Know Social Studies STAAR

Colonies where Pilgrims and Puritans settled

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

Colonies where Quakers settled

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

Colonies where Catholics settled

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

Colonies whose economic activities included fishing, ship building, subsistence farming, and cottage industry

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

Colonies whose economic activities included grain production

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

Colonies whose economic activities included production of cash crops; tobacco, rice, and indigo

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

Major cause of the American Revolution

• Argument over political borders

• Taxation without representation

• The desire for new territories

• Impressment of sailors

Year of the Declaration of Independence

• 1620

• 1776

• 1787

• 1803

Found in the Declaration of Independence

• Freedom of Religion

• Four score and seven years ago

• Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

• We the People

Found in the Declaration of Independence

• Grievances

• Suffrage

• Persecution

• Federalism