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America Land I Love
EXAM Test 6
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History
7th Grade
01/03/2012

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Seven Years' War
Definition
French and Indian War

5
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Ole'Deluder Satan Act
Definition
To ensure that children learned to read the Bible
3
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"Trail of Tears"
Definition
Cherokee Indians forced to leave homes and travel West to Indian reservation
11
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Independence Missouri
Definition
Wagon trains started here to travel West
13
Term
History of Plymouth Plantation
Definition
William Bradford is the author.

2
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Jamestown
Definition
First permanent English colony in New World
2
Term
Independence Rock, Missouri
Definition
Wagon trains usually reached it in July

13
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"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Definition
Daniel Webster

9
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Great Migration
Definition
Largest wagon train to go West,

13
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Pathfinder of the Seas - he studied oceanography
Definition
Matthew Maury

10
Term
City upon a hill
Definition
Massachusetts Bay Colony

3
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Missionary to Japan
Definition
Jonathan Goble

11
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Huckleberry Finn
Definition
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

10
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Doubled the size of America
Definition
Louisiana Purchase

8
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promoted transcendentalism
Definition
Ralph Waldo Emerson

11
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Explored Kentucky
Definition
Daniel Boone

4
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First President of the Republic of Texas
Definition
Sam Houston

13
Term
Pilgrims established this colony
Definition
Plymouth

2
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Lord North repealed all but one Townshend Act
Definition
Tea Tax

6
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Sponsored Columbus's expedition
Definition
Ferdinand Isabella (Spain)

1
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Discovered Hawaii
Definition
James Cook

11
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Opened Japan to trade
Definition
Matthew Perry

11
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Invented the steel plow
Definition
John Deere

10
Term
Leatherstocking Tales
Definition
James Fenimore Cooper

12
Term
Invented the mechanical reaper
Definition
Cyrus McCormick

10
Term
Lone Star Republic
Definition
Texas

13
Term
President is officially placed into office
Definition
Inauguration

7
Term
Made further improvements on the power loom
Definition
Francis Cabot Lowell

10
Term
Who America was named for
Why?
Definition
Amerigo Vespucci
First to realize it was a continent
1
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Types of colonial government
Definition
Royal, proprietary and self-governing

4
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The Bible and his rifle were his 2 best friends
Definition
Jedediah Smith

13
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"Father of Texas"
Definition
Stephen Austin

13
Term
circuit-riding preacher
Definition
Peter Cartwright

11
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Moby Dick
Definition
Herman Melville

12
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wrote the Blue-Backed Speller
Definition
Noah Webster
12
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First modern explorer to set foot on the mainland of N. America
Definition
John Cabot

2
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Vehicle invented by Jonathan Goble
Definition
Rickshaw

11
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The Star Spangled Banner
Definition
Francis Scott Key

8
Term
What treaty opened up Japan to missionaries?
Definition
Townshend Harris

11
Term
Most used textbook in colonial America
Definition
New England Primer

4
Term
Purchased Louisiana territory from this nation
Definition
France

8
Term
Colony founded for debtor prisoners
Definition
Georgia

3
Term
Nicknamed Old Tippecanoe
Definition
William Henry Harrison

9
Term
Cayuse Indians murdered who?
Why?
Definition
Marcus Whitman
Blamed him for their children dying
13
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Wrote History of Plymouth Plantation
Definition
William Bradford

2
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Declared himself dictator of Mexico
Definition
Santa Anna

13
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Give me Liberty or give me death!
Definition
Patrick Henry

6
Term
18 minute battle won Texan independence
Definition
Battle of San Jacinto

13
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Founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Definition
Richard Allen

12
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Published Poor Richard's Almanac
Definition
Ben Franklin

4
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Father of the Sante Fe Trail
Definition
William Becknell

13
Term
Father of Western African Missions
Definition
Lott Carey

11
Term
Wrote reading textbooks with moral applications
Definition
William McGuffey

12
Term
Who died at the battle of the Alamo
Definition
Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie

13
Term
Nailed 95 Theses to church door in Germany sparking What?
Who?
Definition
The Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
1
Term
vehicles heading west
Definition
Prairie schooners

13
Term
Great Revival in the 1700's
Definition
Great Awakening

5
Term
Old Rough and Ready
Definition
Zachary Taylor

13
Term
This act required colonists to furnish British soldiers with living quarters and supplies
Definition
Quartering Act

5
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The colonies existed solely for the good of Great Britain
Definition
Mercantilism

4
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First major amphibious landing of American forces
Definition
Battle at Veracruz

13
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Commanding officer of the Americans at the Alamo
Definition
Colonel William Travis

13
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Explored Mexico and conquered the Aztec empire
Definition
Hernando Cortes

1
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