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

• Affirmation:

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

• 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.

• Assimilation

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

• Federalist

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

• Anti-federalist:

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

Match the following

• Felony

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

• Charter

• 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.
  

• Frontier

• 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.
  
  

• First Continental Congress:

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

• Battle of Yorktown

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

 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