Review For 4 ½ Week Test What Am I Dec. 2009
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REVIEW FOR 4 ½ WEEK TEST
WHAT AM I?
6TH GRADE
What Am I?
• Provided a weak national government
• Gave Congress no power to tax or regulate commerce
• Provided for no common currency
• Gave each state one vote regardless of size
• Provided for no executive or judicial branch
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• The Articles of Confederation
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• Written by James Madison
• Written guarantee of individual freedoms
• The first ten amendments to the Constitution
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• The Bill of Rights
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• Occurred in 1774
• Delegates from all the colonies met
• The delegates discussed problems with England and promoted independence
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• The First Continental Congress
Carpenters Hall, where the first Continental Congress took place
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• War between England and France
• Fought over land in the Ohio River Valley
• England would go on to tax the colonists to pay for this war
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• The French and Indian War
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• Occurred in 1775
• Happened in Massachusetts
• Site of the first armed conflict of the Revolutionary War
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• Lexington and Concord
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• Occurred in 1803
• Bought from France
• Happened when Thomas Jefferson was President
• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored it
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• The Louisiana Purchase
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• One of the 5 territories acquired by the U.S.
• Acquired with the Onis-Adams Treaty of 1819
• Acquired it from Spain
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• Florida
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• States that people establish government to protect their rights
• Government derives power from the people• People have a right to change a government that
violates their rights• States people have unalienable rights to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness• Inspired by John Locke• Thomas Jefferson was the major author
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• The Declaration of Independence
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• Happened during the Revolutionary War
• Boston
• 1770
• Colonists were shot after taunting British soldiers
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• Boston Massacre
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• Occurred during the Revolutionary War
• 1773
• Led by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere
• Patriots threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes
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• The Boston Tea Party
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• Battle during the Revolutionary War
• 1777
• Turning point of the war
• Americans won
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• Battle of Saratoga
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• Pamphlet written during the Revolutionary War
• Written by Thomas Paine
• Stated that independence from Great Britain made common sense
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• Common Sense
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• Revolutionary War event
• 1781
• Happened in Virginia
• American and French forces defeated the forces of Lord Cornwallis
• Marked the end of the Revolutionary War
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• Surrender at Yorktown
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• One of the new territories gained by the U.S. after 1801
• Became an independent republic
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• Texas
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• Favored a strong national government
• Favored limit on states’ powers
• Favored development of industry on a national scale
• Favored a national bank
• Led by Alexander Hamilton
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• The Federalist Party
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• 1783
• Document
• England recognized American independence
• Treaty
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• Treaty of Paris
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• Favored a weak national government
• Supported states’ powers
• Favored small businesses and farmers
• Opposed a national bank
• Led by Thomas Jefferson
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• Democratic Republicans or Anti-Federalists
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• Structure of the government
• Based on James Madison’s “Virginia Plan”
• Consists of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
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• The Three Branches of Government
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• Allows each branch of government to check the power of the other
• Prevents any one branch from gaining too much power
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• Checks and balances
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• One of the 5 territories added to the U.S. after 1801
• Located in the northwest
• Divided between the U.S. and Great Britain
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• Oregon Territory
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• One of the 5 territories added to the U.S. after 1801
• Gained this territory as a result of a war with Mexico
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• California and the Southwest Territory
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• Specific time period
• War
• 1775-1781
• Americans fought against the British
• Fought for independence
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• Revolutionary War