1. Name: ________________________________________________________
Study Guide: Semester 1 Test
Period:_______________
7th U.S. History
50 Points
Your Test is on: __________________________________________________________
Directions: Answer all of the questions below. These questions are to help you
on your semester test.
1. How many original colonies were there?
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2. What were the 3 parts (areas) of the colonies called?
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2._____________________________________________________
3._____________________________________________________
3. Why did the Southern Colonies need the help of slaves?
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4. What were the Southern Colonies 2 biggest crops (what they grew)?
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2._____________________________________________________
5. Which continent (not county) did most slaves come from?
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6. What was the Triangular Trade?
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7. What was the Middle
Passage?______________________________________________________________
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8. Describe the treatment of slaves on the slave ships.
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9. What were some of the things that the Europeans traded with the Africans in
order to get slaves?
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10. What are the slave codes?
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11. What would happen to the slaves once the reached America?
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2. 12. What is a Cash Crop?
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13. What is substiance farming?
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14. Who was the French and Indian War fought
between?___________________________________________
15. Who won the French and Indian War?
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16. What was the Quartering
Act?______________________________________________________________
17. What was the Stamp
Act?__________________________________________________________________
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18. What was the Sugar
Act?__________________________________________________________________
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19. What is Paul Revere famous
for?____________________________________________________________
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20. Describe what happened at Lexington and
Concord._____________________________________________
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21. What were
“Minutmen”?____________________________________________________________________
22. What was the Boston
Massacre?_____________________________________________________________
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23. What was the Boston Tea Party?
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24. What does “No Taxation Without Representation”
mean?________________________________________

3. __________________________________________________________________________________________
25. Who fought in the Revolutionary War?
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26. What date was the Declaration of Independence
signed?__________________________________________
27. What is a Patriot?________________________________________________________________________
28. What is a Loyalist?
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29. What is Thomas Paine famous for?
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30. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
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31. Who did the colonists pick as their leader of the Army?
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32. Describe what happened at Bunker Hill.
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33. Describe what happened at Valley
Forge._____________________________________________________
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34. What country helped the colonist out by giving them their
Navy?__________________________________
35. How else did this country help the colonists?
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36. What were the Intolerable Acts?
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37. What are the 3 Branches of Government?
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38. The President is part of which branch of Government?
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4. 39. The Supreme Court is part of which branch of Government?
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40. What are the 2 parts to the Legislative Branch?
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41. What are Check and
Balances?______________________________________________________________
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42.What are the first 10 Amendments called?
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43. What is the 1st Amendment?
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44. What is the introduction to the Declaration of Independence and Constitution
called? _______________________
45. What does Bicameral mean?
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46. What is the Great
Compromise?__________________________________________________________________
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47. What is the 3/5ths
Compromise?_________________________________________________________________
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48. What territory did the U.S. purchase from France in 1803 that doubled the size
of the United States?
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49. Who did President Jefferson send to explore the Louisiana
Territory?_______________________________
50. Who is Sacagawea? ______________________________________________________________________
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51. Who is Francis Scott Key?
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5. 52. What is the Star Spangled Banner?
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53. What president felt Native Americans should be removed from American
lands?______________________
54. What state was considered “Indian
Territory”?_________________________________________________
55. What was the Indian Removal (relocation)
Act?________________________________________________
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56. What was the Trail of Tears?
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57. What was Manifest
Destiny?_______________________________________________________________
58. Describe what happened at the
Alamo.________________________________________________________
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59. Who won at the battle of the
Alamo?_________________________________________________________
60. Why did the United States go to war with
Mexico?______________________________________________
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61. What land were they fighting
over?__________________________________________________________
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62. What was the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo?___________________________________________________
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63. Who is Santa Ana? _______________________________________________________________________
64. What was the Gadsden
Purchase?____________________________________________________________
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65. Why did people move to California in 1849?
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6. __________________________________________________________________________________________
66. What is the Oregon Trail?
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