US History 8th Grade Year in Review

Jamestown, Virginia is best known as the site of

• Robert E Lee's surrender to General Grant

• the Lost Colony

• the first English colony in America

• the first battle of the American Revolution

The primary labor for Southern colonial planations growing cash crops of rice and tobacco

• ranch hands

• day laborers

• enslaved persons

• indentured people

Why did England put a tax on sugar and then on paper and then on tea in the American colonies?

• to buy the Louisiana Purchase

• because they couldn't self rule

• to pay for the end of the slave trade

• to pay for the French and Indian War

The Declaration of Independence states that all people have a natural right to

• free speech and freedom of religion

• a trial by jury and due process of the law

• life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

• petition the government and worship as they choose.

Which document was the first agreement the colonies had for forming the United States government and laws

• The Constitution

• The Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

Which is considered to be the beginning of the American Revolution?

• Boston Massacre

• Appomatax Courthouse

• Battle of Lexington and Concord

• the writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Who was the first president of the United States?

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Adams

What are the opening words of the US Constitution

• Four score and seven years ago

• When in the course of human events

• We the People

• In order to protect Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Key American beliefs in a right to a trial, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and assembly are part of which of the below?

• Magna Carta

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Original US Constitution

How is the power of government kept in check thus ensuring the protecton of individual rights as written into the US Constitution?

• a right to vote given to all people residing in the US

• a unicameral Congress

• separation of powers and a system of checks and balances

• the creation of one president