7th grade vocabulary quiz

Which event involved the destruction of tea in protest against British taxation?

• First Continental Congress

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Battle of Yorktown

What is the term for a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer?

• Apprentice

• Expatriate

• Elector

• Artisan

Which document outlines the fundamental rights and freedoms of American citizens?

• Bill of Rights

• Charter

• Declaration of Independence

• Due Process Law

What is the term for a crop grown for sale to return a profit?

• Cash Crop

• Famine

• Frontier

• Diversity

Which group opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution?

• Artisan

• Elector

• Antifederalist

• Federalist

Match the following

• Anti-federalist:

•  A person who supported the creation of a strong central government and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

• Affirmation:

• The process through which individuals or groups of differing cultural backgrounds come to adopt the customs, beliefs, and practices of a dominant culture.
  

• Boycott:

• A person who opposed the creation of a strong federal government and advocated for states' rights during the period leading up to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

• Federalist

• A statement or declaration that something is true, often used in a legal or formal context.
  

• Assimilation

• 
  A refusal to purchase or use goods and services as a form of protest, often to exert economic pressure on a company or government.
  

Match the following

• Felony

• A meeting of colonial delegates in 1774 to discuss a unified response to British policies, including the Intolerable Acts, leading to the eventual outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
  

• Battle of Yorktown

• A decisive battle in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War, where American and French forces defeated the British, leading to the end of the war.
  
  

• Frontier

• A serious crime, typically punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or even death in some cases.
  

• First Continental Congress:

•  A formal document granting specific rights, privileges, or powers to an individual or organization, such as a town charter or corporate charter.
  

• Charter

• The border or boundary between settled and unsettled land, often associated with the expansion of territories into unknown or wild regions.
  

 The active, nonviolent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of a government is ____________________

• A protest

• Civil Disobedience

• A boycott

The document, written in 1776, in which the American colonies declared their independence from Britain is know as ____________________________________________________

• The 13th amendment

• Reconstruction

• The Declaration of Independence.

The inclusion and representation of individuals from different racial, cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds is called___________________________________

• Diversity:

• Assimilation

• Nativism