STAAR Review - 7th Grade Material

**EXPLORATION**

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The country of _____ claimed areas that would one day be the states of Florida, Texas, and California. They also built missions to spread their religion and culture.

• Spain

• France

• England

• NONE of these are correct

**INDUSTRIALIZATION**

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Which word is "the movement of people from farms and rural areas to cities [often to find jobs in factories]"?

• urbanization
• reservation
• segregation
• projection

**WESTWARD EXPANSION**

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Which of these is the best definition of "manifest destiny"?

• the expansion of the U.S. from coast to coast
• the plan to completely take over Canada and Mexico
• the effort to increase the number of U.S. voters
• the desire of U.S. Presidents to serve for their entire lives

**WESTWARD EXPANSION**

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Why did the U.S. and Mexico go to war in 1846? [hint: the U.S.-Mexican War lasted until 1848, and resulted in victory for the United States]

• Mexico had invaded the U.S. and attacked Washington D.C. [destroying the White House]

• the U.S. President had called the Mexican President a "coward" several times

• recent Texas annexation, a disputed boundary, and the U.S. desire to achieve "manifest destiny"

• Mexico was looking to expand its territory, and thought the U.S. would be easy to defeat

**REFORM ERA**

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The "Temperance Movement" of the 1800s was finally successful in the early 1900s when "Prohibition" was written into the U.S. Constitution. This was an effort to get Americans to -

• consume less alcohol

• go to church more often

• pay their taxes on time

• give money to charities

**SECTIONALISM**

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SECTIONALISM - loyalty to one part of the country over the country as a whole

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*Northern Economy = factories, textile mills, immigrant labor

* Southern Economy = ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

*Western Economy = mining for gold, farming wheat and grains

• cash crops on plantations, slave labor

• fishing, lumbering, and ship-building

• ranching cattle, horses, goats, and pigs

• NONE of these are correct

**SECTIONALISM**

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Which of these congressional acts dealt with the possible expansion of slavery into new territories and states?

• ALL of these answers are correct

• the Missouri Compromise

• the Compromise of 1850

• the Kansas-Nebraska Act

**CIVIL WAR**

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Based on these graphs, which side had more resources during the Civil War?

• the North [also known as the Union] had more resources

• the South [also known as the Confederacy] had more resources

• the two sides had an equal amount of resources

• that information is NOT on these graphs

**CIVIL WAR**

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Where did Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrender his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant? [hint: this event basically ended the Civil War in April of 1865]

• at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia

• at the White House in Washington D.C.

• at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas

• at the Confederate capitol in Mississippi

**RECONSTRUCTION**

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*the 13th Amendment abolishes slavery

*the 14th Amendment grants citizenship rights to former slaves

*the 15th Amendment protects voting rights for freed men

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• Which of these amendments gave former slaves the freedom to move wherever they wanted?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• NONE of these are correct