8th Grade SS STAAR Review 2

Put in the correct order

• House of Burgesses

• English Bill of Rights

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

Put in the events in correct Order

• Annexation of Texas

• Mexican-American War

• Gadsden Purchase

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Put in correct order the causes of the American Revolution

• Townshend Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

• Sugar Act

• French and Indian War

• Stamp Act

Put the Events of the American Revolution in correct order

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Yorktown

Match the following:

• Thomas Jefferson

• father of U.S. Navy

• Benjamin Franklin

• convinced France to join the colonies in American Revolution

• Alexander Hamilton

• wrote the Declaration of Independence

• George Washington

• created the Bank of the United States

• John Paul Jones

• led Continental Army during American Revolution

Put the presidents in the correct order

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• James Monroe

• George Washington

• James Madison

Match the following presidents to their events

• Thomas Jefferson

• Alien and Sedition Acts

• James Monroe

• Neutrality Proclamation

• John Adams

• Monroe Doctrine

• James Madison

• War of 1812

• George Washington

• Embargo Act

The annexation of Texas caused​ the (a)  

• Mexican-American War
• American Revolution
• War of 1812

The United States paid Spain ​ (a)   for the state of ​ (b)  

• $5 million
• Florida
• $13 million
• Oregon

People moved to ​ (a)   in 1849 in the hopes to find ​ (b)   .

• California
• gold
• Utah
• wife
• Oregon
• Spirit of Christmas