7th Grade U.S. History End of Year Review

A term used in the early 1800s for the region that includes present-day Oregon, Washington, and Idaho as well as parts of Wyoming, Montana, and western Canada.

• Oregon Trail

• Western Pennsylvania

• Indian Territory

• Oregon Country

States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race.

• 22nd Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

A political party organized by Henry Clay; they believed the federal government should help the economy and promote business.

• Green Party

• Republican Party

• Democratic Party

• Whig Party

Practice of forcing people into military service.

• Nullification

• Impressment

• Suffrage

• Naturalize

The plan at the Constitutional Convention, favored by smaller states, that called for three branches of government with a single-chamber legislature.

• New Jersey Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

• Oregon Trail

• Virginia Plan

Not permitted by the Constitution.

• constitutional

• unconstitutional

• ratification

• private law

A plan at the Constitutional Convention that settled the differences between large and small states.

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Oregon Trail

• Great Compromise

• Magna Carta

A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.

• House of Representatives

• Federalists

• Electoral College

• Senate

A document that sets out the basic laws, principles, organization, and processes of a government.

• bill of rights

• declaration of independence

• constitution

• republic

A term to describe one of the more than 80,000 people who joined the California Gold Rush in 1849.

• electoral college

• mormon

• eighty-niner

• forty-niner