Social Studies 7 Final Review

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Social Studies 7 Final Review

• Read each question CAREFULLY!!
• Read question first THEN read ALL options
• Concentrate on key/vocab words
• Use the process of elimination

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Geography

• Mountains, hills, plains and plateaus are
  examples of?
• Landforms
• Vegetation
• Mineral resources
• Political barriers

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Answer
1. Landforms
Native Americans
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Answer to 2
(2) Effects of Exploration in the Americas
Native Americans

• Which statement provides evidence that Native
  Americans adapted to their environment?
• Pueblos irrigation system
• Great Plains spoke many different languages
• Mayan advances in math
• The Delaware using oral tradition

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Answer 1. Pueblo irrigation system

• What was one result of the Columbian Exchange
  (the Encounter)?
• (1) Native American Indian populations continued
  to increase.
• (2) The African slave trade ended.
• (3) Diseases were spread to native populations.
• (4) Spains empire in the New World declined.

Exploration And Settlement
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Answer
3 Diseases were spread to native populations.

• Which document is considered a primary document?
• A textbook
• A personal diary
• An encyclopedia
• A biography

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Answer 2 personal diary

• Early explorers who came to the New World were
  looking for a northwest passage in order to
• Prove the world was round
• Improve trade with natives
• Explore the Great Lakes
• Find a shorter route to Asia

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Answer 4 Shorter route to Asia
English Colonies
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Answer to 61. Seek religious freedom

• Exploration and Colonies
• Cruel Treatment
• Poor sanitary conditions
• Starvation and disease
• Overcrowding and imprisonment
• These are examples of conditions on
• Mayflower Compact
• Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria
• Middle Passage
• Oregon Trail

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Answer(3) middle passage
Colonial America

• Which generalization best sums up the founding of
  the English Colonies?
• Place to worship in peace
• Business people looking to sell land to other
  settlers
• Different goals ranging from making money to
  following their faith.
• Provide a new start to poor people throughout
  Europe

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Answer 3
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Causes of the Revolutionary War
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Answer
Causes of the American Revolution
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Answer
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Causes of the American Revolution
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Answer

• Which statement about Valley Forge during the
  winter of 1777-78 is most accurate?
• Conditions ended American hopes for independence.
• Loyalists were discouraged
• It was the scene of much hardships for Washington
  and troops.
• It was a turning point of the American Revolution

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It was the scene of much hardships for Washington
and troops.
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Answer

• Government
• -Wrong doings of the King
• -Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
• -Establish USA
• Which Document is associated with the above
  items?
• Albany Plan of Union
• Declaration of Independence
• Articles of Confederation
• Constitution

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Answer Declaration of Independence
Government
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Answer
Government
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Answer

• Supreme Court decisions usually based on 1st
  Amendment issues usually involve the
• a. rights of individuals
• b. control of big business
• c. collection of taxes on income
• d. corruption in government

And More Government
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Answer rights of individuals
Westward Expansion (no more govt) phew!
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Answer
(4) Louisiana Purchase

• Westward Expansion

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Answer to 18
Westward Expansion
Which event was a major cause of the War with
Mexico (18461848)? (1) Missouri Compromise (2)
discovery of gold in California (3) passage of
the Northwest Ordinance (4) annexation of Texas
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Answer
(4) annexation of Texas

• Westward Expansion

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Answer
Westward Expansion

• The Cherokees have been dragged from their homes
  and encamped at the forts all over our nation.
  Their property has been taken and sold off before
  their eyes for almost nothing.
• This quotation from an eyewitness on Trail of
  Tears describes events connected with the
• Battle of Little Big Horn
• Dawes Act
• Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Indian Removal Act

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Answer Indian Removal Act

• Which of the following is not a reason people
  moved west?
• Gold was discovered in California
• Fertile land available
• States in the east were overpopulated
• Free land available

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Answer 3. States were overpopulated
Industrialization
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Answer(2) Water
Slavery
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Answer Harriet Tubman

• The Louisiana Purchase was important to the
  growth of the USA because it
• Doubled the size of the country
• Gave control over the Great Lakes
• Completed Manifest Destiny
• California became a state of the Union

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Answer

• (1. doubled the size of the nation

Slavery
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Answer to 24
Causes of the Civil War
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Answer
Industrialization

• The first employees of the Lowell Textile Mills
  were
• Slaves imported from the South
• Young girls from farms
• Immigrants
• Young boys from nearby farms

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Answer
(2) Young girls from farms

• What is the main effect of Eli Whitneys cotton
  gin on the South?
• Cotton Mills moved to the South
• Cotton became the souths leading cash crop
• Cotton farmers no longer needed slave labor
• Cotton exports to Europe dropped sharply

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Answer 2 Cotton became the leading cash crop

• Civil War
• By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation,
  President Abraham Lincoln
• (1) lost Northern support for the war
• (2) broadened Union war goals to include ending
  slavery
• (3) strengthened the principle of states rights
• (4) brought a quick end to the war

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(2) broadened Union war goals to include ending
slavery

• During the first half of the 19th Century
  (1800-1850) differences between the North, South
  and West led to
• Sectionalism
• Isolationism
• Federalism
• communism

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Answer Sectionalism

• What advantage did the South have over the North
  during the Civil War?
• (1) greater manufacturing
• (2) more effective navy
• (3) better government
• (4) more capable military leaders

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More capable military leaders

• Which advantages did the North have over the
  South during the Civil War?
• Circle all that apply.
• (1) greater manufacturing
• (2) more effective navy
• (3) Railroads
• (4) more capable military leaders

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Answer

• (1) greater manufacturing
• (2) more effective navy
• (3) Railroads

Reconstruction of the South
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Answer

• (1) Prevent formerly enslaved persons from
  exercising their rights.

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