8th Grade SS STAAR Review 2

Put in the correct order

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• House of Burgesses

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

Put in the events in correct Order

• Mexican-American War

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Gadsden Purchase

• Annexation of Texas

Put in correct order the causes of the American Revolution

• French and Indian War

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Acts

Put the Events of the American Revolution in correct order

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

Match the following:

• Alexander Hamilton

• father of U.S. Navy

• Thomas Jefferson

• led Continental Army during American Revolution

• George Washington

• convinced France to join the colonies in American Revolution

• Benjamin Franklin

• created the Bank of the United States

• John Paul Jones

• wrote the Declaration of Independence

Put the presidents in the correct order

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• James Monroe

• John Adams

• George Washington

Match the following presidents to their events

• James Madison

• Alien and Sedition Acts

• Thomas Jefferson

• Monroe Doctrine

• John Adams

• Neutrality Proclamation

• James Monroe

• War of 1812

• George Washington

• Embargo Act

The annexation of Texas caused​ the (a)  

• Mexican-American War
• American Revolution
• War of 1812

The United States paid Spain ​ (a)   for the state of ​ (b)  

• $5 million
• Florida
• $13 million
• Oregon

People moved to ​ (a)   in 1849 in the hopes to find ​ (b)   .

• California
• gold
• Utah
• wife
• Oregon
• Spirit of Christmas