CDB 1 Review 8th US History

What is the significance of the year 1787?

• The Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Declaration of Independence

• The start of the Civil War

What amendment keeps soldiers from taking over your home?

• 3rd

• 5th

• 8th

• 9th

What amendment protects our freedom of religion, assembly, press, petition, and speech?

• first

• second

• fourth

• eighth

Reasons for European exploration

• Religion

• Riches

• Expansion of the Kingdom

• All of the above

Signed by many Pigrims, helped establish the idea of Self-Government

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Virginia House of Burgesses

Which colonial region is described by: cash crops, plantations, slavery, organized into counties?

• Southern

• Mid-Atlantic

• New England

• Mid Western

Proclamation of 1763 forbid colonists from settling west of the _______________________.

• Mississippi River

• Rocky Mountains

• Appalachian Mountains

What question did the Great Compromise settle?

• how slaves will be counted towards representation

• how representation in Congress will be determined for each state (size of population or equal rep)

• Virginia Plan will be the plan used to determine representation

• New Jersey Plan will determine representation

How do the amendments in the Bill of Rights protect individual freedom?

• Individuals can ignore laws they disagree with

• Individuals can choose what kinds of goods they buy

• Individuals can assemble and protest

Which battle in the American Revolution was considered the major turning point, in which the American colonists began defeating the British in most battles?

• Yorktown
• Saratoga
• Bunker Hill
• Waterloo