Fall US History STAAR Review

Which of these completes this graphic organizer?

• Parliament repeals the Stamp and Sugar Acts.
• King George III allows colonists to petition Parliament for tax relief.
• Parliament passes the Intolerable Acts.
• King George III appoints colonial representatives to Parliament.

At the end of the American Revolution, following the Battle of Yorktown and General Cornwallis’s surrender to American troops, Great Britain and the United States signed

.

• a New Deal

• a Gentleman's Agreement

• Washington's surrender

• a peace treaty known as the Treaty of Paris

The ______________________ was a law that outlined the process for admitting or adding new states to the Union.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Constitution

• Northwest Ordinance

• Southeast Laws

Which reason explains a purpose of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

• To create a process to admit new states to the country

• To settle territorial disputes with Great Britain

• To establish the western boundary of the country

• To fund the exploration of the Louisiana Territory

Our _________________ Amendment rights protect against laws that keep people from doing things based on their religious beliefs.

• Sixth

• Second

• Fourth

• First

_______________ was the turning point in the American Revolution because this victory is what convinced the French to ally with American troops to help win the war.

• Yorktown

• Treaty of Paris

• Saratoga

• Oglethorpe

Colonists were angry about the laws Parliament was passing to tax them because they had no _______________________ in Parliament.

• members

• King

• time

• representation

Which group was among the first to call for an end to slavery?

• American Indians, because they viewed the plight of slaves as similar to their own
• Quakers, because slavery contradicted their religious beliefs
• British loyalists, because Great Britain had ended the slave trade
• Puritans, because the New England economy did not rely on slavery

Where were the first shots of the Revolutionary war?

• Medford

• Lexington and Concord

• Cambridge

Which group helped establish the colony of Maryland in the 1630s?

• English Catholics seeking religious freedom

• Spanish workers seeking job opportunities

• Irish families escaping a natural disaster

• Russian merchants escaping political conflict

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8.23(A)

8.29(B)