History STAAR Review 8th grade

Why did the Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers, and Catholics come to America?

• economic freedom

• political freedom

• religious freedom

What was New England's economy based on?

• agriculture and slavery

• fishing, whaling, shipbuilding, trading, and forestry

• growing cash crops of grain

An economic system in which the government controls the trade. (Britain used this on its colonies)

• free enterprise

• mercantilism

The Southern colonies economy was based on this?

• cash crops and plantation system

• fishing, whaling, shipbuilding, trading, and forestry

• cash crops of grain

Pilgrims arrive and write the Mayflower Compact

• 1607

• 1620

• 1776

The British establish Jamestown, Virginia for commercial profit

• 1607

• 1620

• 1776

He wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776

• Samuel Adams

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

Taxation without representation, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party

• causes of the French and Indian War

• causes of the American Revolution

• causes of the Civil War

Place where the First and Second Continental Congresses and Constitutional Convention was held

• Jamestown, Virginia

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Plymouth, Massachusetts

The turning point of the Revolution, France becomes the U.S. ally

• Lexington

• Concord

• Saratoga

• Yorktown