Review For 4 ½ Week Test What Am I Dec. 2009

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