8th Grade Assessment Review Chapters 5-8

8th Grade Assessment ReviewChapters 5-8 More Terms The Colonies Government Terms War Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Government The Three Branches of Government

$100 Answer from Government What is Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?

$200 Question from Government System that prevents any of the branches of government from becoming too powerful

$200 Answer from Government What is a system of checks and balances?

$300 Question from Government Presidential power to override a bill passed by Congress

$300 Answer from Government What is veto power?

$400 Question from Government Division of power between the state and federal government

$400 Answer from Government What is Federalism?

$500 Question from Government This branch can impeach a President and declare war

$500 Answer from Government What is the legislative branch?

$100 Question from Terms to approve, as in a treaty

$100 Answer from Terms What is to ratify?

$200 Question from Terms Sets out the laws an principles of government

$200 Answer from Terms What is a constitution?

$300 Question from Terms Our first constitution, it created a weak alliance among the 13 states and had only one branch of government

$300 Answer from Terms What was the Articles of Confederation?

$400 Question from Terms Stated that some slaves would be counted as part of the population

$400 Answer from Terms What is the three–fifths compromise?

$500 Question from Terms Taxed glass, paper, paint, glass, lead, tea, and silk

$500 Answer from Terms What were the Townshend Acts?

$100 Question from More Terms This branch of government can declare a law unconstitutional

$100 Answer from Policies What is the judicial branch?

$200 Question from More Terms Branch of government that carries out the laws

$200 Answer from More Terms What is the executive branch?

$300 Question from More Terms Turning point of the Revolutionary War, it convinced the French to become our ally and ended the threat to New England.

$300 Answer from More Terms What is the Battle of Saratoga?

$400 Question from More Terms In this document colonists asked King George to repeal the Intolerable Acts

$400 Answer from More Terms What is the Olive Branch Petition

$500 Question from More Terms Five things protected under the First Amendment

$500 Answer from More Terms What is freedom of speech, press, assembly, petition, and religion?

$100 Question from War Who wrote most of the Declaration of Independence? (1) John Adams (3) Patrick Henry (2) Benjamin Franklin (4) Thomas Jefferson

$100 Answer from War Who is Thomas Jefferson?

$200 Question from War Which document is most closely associated with this cartoon drawn in 1754? (1) Mayflower Compact (2) Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (3) Albany Plan of Union (4) Emancipation Proclamation

$200 Answer from War What is the Albany Plan of Union?

$300 Question from War Debates at the Constitutional Convention (1787) between delegates from states with large populations and states with small populations were mainly resolved by (1) creating a two-house legislature (2) establishing federal control over interstate commerce (3) permitting states to count Native American Indians in their population (4) providing for an electoral college

$300 Answer from War What is creating a two house legislature?

$400 Question from War Which statement expresses an opinion about the causes of the Revolutionary War? (1) Colonists participated in triangular trade. (2) The Boston Massacre took place on March 5, 1770. (3) Samuel Adams founded the Sons of Liberty. (4) The Quartering Act was a serious violation of the colonists’ liberties.

$400 Answer from War The Quartering Act was a serious violation of the colonists’ liberties.

$500 Question from War What was a result of the French and Indian War that led directly to the American Revolution? (1) The British lost most of their colonies in the Americas. (2) French colonies expanded west of the Appalachians. (3) Native American Indians were given lands west of the Appalachians. (4) England decided to make the American colonists help pay war debts.

$500 Answer from War What is England decided to make the American colonists help pay war debts.

$100 Question from the colonies Which statement represents one of the main ideas in the Declaration of Independence? (1) The United States needs a strong central government. (2) The power of the president must be limited by the legislative and judicial branches. (3) People have a right to rebel against an unjust government. (4) Americans cannot afford to pay high British taxes.

$100 Answer from the Colonies What is People have a right to rebel against an unjust government.

$200 Question from the Colonies Colonial boycotts of British goods before the Revolutionary War were effective measures because they (1) reduced the profits of British merchants (2) lowered the prices of imported products (3) left British troops short of supplies in the colonies (4) allowed the Americans to start their own factories

$200 Answer from the Colonies What is reduced the profits of British merchants?

$300 Question from the Colonies

$300 Answer from the Colonies What is the Albany Plan of Union?

$400 Question from the Colonies Which set of events is in the correct chronological order? (1) Boston Tea Party → Declaration of Independence → French and Indian War (2) French and Indian War → Boston Tea Party → Declaration of Independence (3) Declaration of Independence → French and Indian War → Boston Tea Party (4) French and Indian War → Declaration of Independence → Boston Tea Party

$400 Answer from the Colonies What is: French and Indian War → Boston Tea Party → Declaration of Independence

$500 Question from the Colonies The creation of the Virginia House of Burgesses was an important step in the development of democracy in colonial America because it (1) adopted a bill of rights for women (2) allowed citizens to vote directly on proposed laws (3) provided the first written constitution (4) established a representative form of government

8th Grade Assessment Review Chapters 5-8