Name_________________________________________ Departmental Grade 7 Review Sheet

1. Archaeology

artifact
culture
primary source
secondary source
Land Bridge Theory

2. Economics

free market system

import
debt
export
surplus
tariff
domestic
embargo
boycott
mercantilism
laissez-faire

3. Early Civilizations

Aztec
Inca
Mayas

4. Native American/Dependency on Environment

Iroquois
longhouse
sachem
Confederacy

5. European Exploration

Columbian Exchange
Northwest passage
indentured servant
turning point
Old World- New World

A. New Spain
o
o
o
o

Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Three Gs
Missionaries
1

B. New France
fur trade
alliances
6. The Colonies
A. Early English Colonies

B.

Jamestown
o Captain John Smith
o John Rolfe
tobacco
o House of Burgesses
o legislatures

New England Colonies: __________________________

town meeting
triangular trade
Plymouth
Pilgrims
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritans
Religious freedom

C. Middle Colonies: ________________________________

toleration, diversity
breadbasket colonies
New Netherlands
New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant
William Penn

D. Southern Colonies:_________________________________

plantations
cash crops:
slavery
racism
slave codes
Middle Passage

7. French and Indian War

o Causes:
o Results:
o General Washington
o Albany Plan of Union
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8. Crisis in the Colonies

Parliament/taxes
Proclamation of 1673
No taxation without representation
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Patrick Henry
Loyalist/Patriot
Boston Massacre
Propaganda/protest
o Boston Tea Party
o Paul Revere
o Thomas Paine
o Common Sense
militia
minutemen
Lexington and Concord
Continental Army

9. Declaration of Independence

reasons
Thomas Jefferson
natural rights

10. The Revolutionary War

2.

Advantages/Disadvantages of British/Americans
Major battles
o Bunker Hill
o Battle of Long Island
o Battle of Trenton
o Valley Forge
o Saratogao Yorktown
George Washington
General Cornwallis
Role of women in the War:
a. Molly Pitcher
b. Deborah Sampson
Role of African Americans in the War

The Constitution
Articles of Confederation/weaknesses
Compromises
ratification
separation of powers
checks and balances
3

popular sovereignty
federalism
states rights
amendment
Electoral College
federal government
Bill of Rights

3. The Early Republic

Washingtons Farewell Address
Neutrality/isolationism
precedent
Marbury vs. Madison/judicial review
4. Expansion
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clarke
War of 1812/Causes/Results
Monroe Doctrine
Industrial Revolution
Erie Canal
cotton gin/effects
Andrew Jackson
o spoils system
o Bank crisis
o Indian Removal Act
o Trail of Tears
5. Westward Ho
Manifest Destiny
Oregon/Santa Fe/Mormon Trails
California Gold Rush
Texas- Remember the Alamo
Mexican War/Causes/Effects
o annexation
14. Reform
womens movement
suffrage
Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Susan B. Anthony
Sojourner Truth
temperance
Dorothea Dix
15. Slavery Divides the Nation
Abolitionist
Underground Railroad/conductor
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Uncle Toms Cabin
4

16. The Civil War

secession
Confederate States of America
Emancipation Proclamation
Advantages/Disadvantages of North and South
General Robert E. Lee
General Ulysses S. Grant