2025 Social Studies STAAR Review

___________ was a document written by Thomas Jefferson to the king of England: expressing the colonists grievances and declaring the 13 colonies free from England.

• Magna Carta
• Constitution
• Mayflower Compact
• Declaration of Independence

Which battle ended the Revolutionary War where general Cornwallis surrendered to general George Washington? The Treaty of Paris was signed to end the war.

• Yorktown

• Lexington

• Saratoga

• Bull Run

General of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the North.

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Stonewall Jackson

What was someone called who wanted to end slavery in the United States?

• Abolitionist

• Anti-federalists

• Suffrage

• Common Man

___________ was the social contract signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, to consult each other about laws for; a form of self government.

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

• Magna Carta

• Articles of Confederation

________________ is a principle of the constitution in which the three branches have power to make sure the other branch's don't become too powerful.

• Separation of Powers
• Checks and Balances
• Republicanism
• Limited Government

______________ advised the United States to stay “neutral in its relations with other nations” and to avoid “entangling alliances”(being friends with other countries).

• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

• Washington's Farewell Address

• Jefferson Davis' Inaugural Address

_____________ were people opposed to the Constitution, preferring more power be given to the state governments than to the national government. Wanted the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution.

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists

• Democrats

• Republicans

What immigrant group came to the U.S. and helped build the western (Pacific Ocean side) section of the transcontinental railroad?

• Mormons

• Chinese

• Irish

• Dutch

Cheap labor was provided by these workers in U.S. factories and in building the transcontinental railroad here in America.

• Native Americans

• foreign immigrants

• indentured servants

• slaves