Fall Benchmark Review US History STAAR

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

• Canada and the US

• US and Mexico

• British Colonies and Spanish land claims

• Florida and the US

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

• Virginia House of Burgesses and local representative self government

• Rhode Island Congress and relief

• Connecticut Congress and Constitution

• US Congress and political relief

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.

• anger

• friendship

• distance

• political animosity

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

• members

• King

• time

• representation

The colonists sent ____________________ a list of ______________________.

• King George, grievances

• Parliament, acts

• the French, ultimatums

• Spanish, territories

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

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

• punish the colonists

• make King George !!! happy

• gain retribution on the French

______________________was the result of men protesting against British Taxation Policies.

• Townshend Act

• Stamp Act

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Treaty of Paris

_______________ 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.

• Yorktown

• Treaty of Paris

• Saratoga

• Oglethorpe

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

.

• a New Deal

• a Gentleman's Agreement

• Washington's surrender

• a peace treaty known as the Treaty of Paris

________________ 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.

• Ratification, Federalists, Anti-Federalists

• The Main Idea, Washington's people, Jefferson's people

• Rewriting, Democrats, Republicans

• Opposition, Men, Women