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STAAR Review

Total questions: 43

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who controlled Mercantilism?

a)

England

b)

The Colonies

c)

Europe

d)

Spain

2.

What is Civil Disobedience?

a)

Following the law

b)

Protesting Violently

c)

Agreeing with the law

d)

Peacefully Protesting

3.

What was the Mayflower Compact?

a)

A band from the 1600's

b)

A Social Contract

c)

A group of protestors

d)

1st Written Constitution

4.

What is a Cash Crop?

a)

Vegetation that looks like money

b)

A money tree

c)

A crop sold for profit

d)

Northern agriculture

5.

What is a Grievance?

a)

A Complaint

b)

A Social Contract

c)

A Tariff

d)

A Protest

6.

Who led the boycott on Tea in Boston?

a)

John Adams

b)

Continental Congress

c)

Son's of Liberty

d)

Writs of Assistance

7.

What system of economics was used in the South?

a)

Industrial

b)

Mechanical

c)

Agricultural

d)

Social

8.

What is an Amendment?

a)

A Protest

b)

A Social Contract

c)

A Political Party

d)

A Change to a law

9.

What is Unalienable Rights?

a)

Enforced laws

b)

God given rights

c)

Citizenship rights

d)

Foreign policy

10.

What does Urban Mean?

a)

In the Country

b)

Foreign Policy

c)

In the City

d)

Over the Atlantic

11.

What does Suffrage mean?

a)

Protesting

b)

Nullification

c)

Ratification

d)

Voting Rights

12.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

a)

John Adams

b)

George Washington

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

John Hancock

13.

When was the US Constitution written?

a)

1787

b)

1776

c)

1803

d)

1812

14.

Who was the first victim of the Boston Massacre?

a)

Sam Adams

b)

Patrick Henry

c)

Crispus Attucks

d)

Thomas Paine

15.

Who wrote Common Sense?

a)

Sam Adams

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Harriett Beecher Stowe

d)

John Adams

16.

What colony is missing from this list of the middle colonies (Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey)?

a)

Rhode Island

b)

Maryland

c)

Delaware

d)

Connecticut

17.

What was the Declaration of Independence a list of?

a)

Grievances

b)

Law

c)

Foreign Policy

d)

Citizens Rights

18.

What did the Proclamation of 1763 prohibit?

a)

Alcohol

b)

Growing Tobacco

c)

Voting rights for women

d)

Moving past the Appalachian Mountains

19.

What term describes the control over trade?

a)

Mercantilism

b)

Free Enterprise

c)

Embargo

d)

Suffrage

20.

What battle was known as the "Shot heard round the world"?

a)

Saratoga

b)

Yorktown

c)

Valley Forge

d)

Lexington and Concord

21.

What was the name of the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War?

a)

Treaty of Paris 1763

b)

Treaty of Paris 1783

c)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

d)

Treaty of Ghent

22.

What did the Magna Carta limit?

a)

Power of Congress

b)

Power of the President

c)

Power of the King

d)

Power of Parliment

23.

What system of government ruled over the colonies during the Revolutionary War?

a)

US Constitution

b)

Bill of Rights

c)

Virginia House of Burgess

d)

Articles of Confederation

24.

What is the first 10 amendments called?

a)

Bill of Rights

b)

Congress

c)

Principles of Government

d)

Federalist Papers

25.

What was the 1st Written Constitution in the colonies?

a)

Magna Carta

b)

English Bill of Rights

c)

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

d)

Mayflower Compact

26.

What doctrine prevented foreign countries from colonizing in Latin America?

a)

Bill of Rights

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

Monroe Doctrine

d)

Missouri Comprises

27.

Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?

a)

Colonial Sanders

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Francis Scott Key

d)

James Madison

28.

Which group supported a loose interpretation of the Constitution?

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Federalists

c)

Anti-Federalists

d)

Democratic-Republicans

29.

What court case established Judicial Review?

a)

Marbury v Madison

b)

Gibbons v Ogden

c)

McCullough v Maryland

d)

Brown v Board of Education

30.

What President warned about the Spirit of the Party and to stay out of Foreign Affairs?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

George Washington

31.

What President completed Manifest Destiny?

a)

Lincoln

b)

Jefferson

c)

Maddison

d)

Polk

32.

What land was in question during the Mexican-American War?

a)

Louisiana

b)

California

c)

Texas

d)

Oregon

33.

Who were the main Transcendentalist?

a)

Anthony and Stanton

b)

Thoreau and Emmerson

c)

Dix and Mann

d)

Mott and Truth

34.

Who was a leading Abolitionist and owned the North Star newspaper?

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Horace Mann

35.

What court case did President Jackson ignore its ruling?

a)

Gibbons v Ogden

b)

Worchester v Georgia

c)

McCullough v Maryland

d)

Madison v Marbury

36.

What event was caused by the Indian Removal Act?

a)

Trail of Tears

b)

Mexican-American War

c)

Seminole Wars

d)

Plains Wars

37.

What was Henry Clay's nickname?

a)

The Great Bambino

b)

The Great Debator

c)

The Great Compromiser

d)

The Great Orator

38.

Who was the President of the Confederate State of America?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

George Jefferson

d)

Alexander Hamilton

39.

Who started the American Red Cross?

a)

Julia Ward Howe

b)

Francis Key Scott

c)

Robert E. Lee

d)

Clara Barton

40.

What was the single bloodiest day during the Civil War?

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Vicksburg

c)

Antietam

d)

Appomattox Court House

41.

Who killed Lincoln?

a)

Mark David Chapman

b)

Sirhan Sirhan

c)

John Wilkes Booth

d)

Lee Harvey Oswald

42.

What act gave settlers free land?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Merrill Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Townshend Act

43.

What group helped the newly freed slaves find jobs, homes and work?

a)

Freedmans Bureau

b)

Federal Home Act

c)

Dawes Act

d)

Morrill Act