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Social Studies Review Units 3-6

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  • Label the largest mountain ranges in the United States.
    Rocky, Appalachians, Sierra Nevada
  • Why were Many Colonists Growing Tired of British Rule?
    Because the colonists did not have any representation
  • Jamestown became the first English settlement in North America, why is that?
    John Smith saved Jamestown from starvation
  • Which is not an example of a landform? A. valleys B. mountains C. peninsulas D. forests
    Forests
  • What important event during the Revolutionary war happened in the city of Yorktown.
    The British surrendered!
  • Name all the US regions
    Northeast, Southwest, Midwest, Northwest (west), Southeast
  • What's a landform?
    mountains, volcanoes, valleys, peninsulas, plains
  • This document was one of the first attempts at self-government in the early English colonies
    The May Flower Compact
  • This document mentioned the power of unalienable rights or that certain rights cannot be taken away by the government.
    The Declaration of Independence
  • Who was fighting in the Revolutionary War?
    The 13 Colonies and Great Britain
  • What happened during the Boston Tea Party, why did the colonist dump tea?
    the colonists closed the Boston Harbor. The tax on tea was too expensive and it was a protest of having no representation
  • What is a patriot?
    Colonists who wanted independence from Great Britain
  • Who’s Thomas Jefferson?
    The Second Continental Congress directed Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.
  • Who’s George Washington?
    A. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress asked him to lead the Continental Army
  • What made the colonists angry after the British won French and Indian War?
    pay high taxes and bill from the war
  • Since the Treaty of Paris officially ended the Revolutionary War. Where was this event taken place?
    Paris, France
  • What law did the British pass to stop colonists from moving west into American Indian territory?
    the Proclamation of 1763
  • What is the Declaration of Independence?
    The document addressed the colonists’ complaints against the king.
  • Who’s Paul Revere?
    A patriot who made an engraving of “The Bloody Massacre
  • American colonists wanted independence because they had no taxation without _____________!
    Representation!
  • This colony mysteriously disappeared and all that was left was "Croatoan" carved on a tree
    Roanoke