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STAAR Vocabulary Practice

Quiz by Tara Carson

Grade 8
Social Studies (2018)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

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  • Q1
    Include increase wealth (gold), expand empire (glory) and spread Christianity (God).
    Reasons for exploration
    30s
  • Q2
    claimed Florida, Texas, California & built missions
    Spain
    30s
  • Q3
    claimed land in New World to profit from fur trading
    France
    30s
  • Q4
    fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, harbors
    New England Economy
    30s
  • Q5
    Depended on plantations(large farms) producing large amounts of cash crops, especially rice and tobacco.
    Southern Colonies Economy
    30s
  • Q6
    English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preach a doctrine of pacifism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania
    Quakers
    30s
  • Q7
    a place for Catholics to live peacefully
    Maryland
    30s
  • Q8
    distance from Britain; town meetings; Mayflower Compact; Virginia House of Burgesses; Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
    Reasons for Growth of Representative/Self Government
    30s
  • Q9
    law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
    Proclamation of 1763
    30s
  • Q10
    The idea that government derives its authority by sanction of the people.
    Consent of the government
    30s
  • Q11
    in response to Boston Tea Party, 4 acts passed in 1774, Port of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to be tried elsewhere, provided for quartering of troop's in barns and empty houses
    Intolerable Acts
    30s
  • Q12
    life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
    Unalienable Rights
    30s
  • Q13
    The turning point of the American Revolution. France decided to help the Americans.
    Saratoga
    30s
  • Q14
    1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade)
    Articles of Confederation
    30s
  • Q15
    Enacted in 1787, it is considered one of the most significant achievements of the Articles of Confederation. It established a system for setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the Union on an equal footing with the original 13 states
    Northwest Ordinance
    30s

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