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Samuels Benchmark Review part2
Social Studies Benchmark part 2
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History
5th Grade
02/26/2009

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Was not a real massacre
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The Boston Massacre
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Done to protest the tea tax and the tea monopoly by the East India company
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The Boston Tea Party
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Laws passed to punish Boston citizens
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Intolerable Acts
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Colony representatives sent a petition to Parliment stating their rights and beliefts
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First Continental Congress
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This fighting is considered the beginning of the American Revolution
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Lexington and Concord
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Asked Native American allies to help them
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Second Continental Congress
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British won, but the fight proved the colonists would be hard to beat
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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The King hired German Hessian soldiers to fight against the cononists
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Foreign Help
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to encourage colonists to declare their independence from Britain
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Common Sense
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Thomas Jefferson was the chief writer
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The Declaration of Independence
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The Declaration of Independence was written when?
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1776
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Women served as spies, cooked, sewed and performed other duties during what time
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Americans and the Revolution
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British Army was larger, better trained and had more supplies for what?
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Fighting the war
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Final Battle of the Revolution in which the colonists won
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Yorktown
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Officially ended the American Revolution
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The Treaty of Paris
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What were the effects of the war?
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A full time army was established
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What was the first written plan of government for the US?
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The Articles of Confederation
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Daniel Shays and other former continental army soldiers tried to close the Massachusetts courts so they would not lose their farms during what rebellion?
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Shays' Rebellion
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A plan to measure and divide western lands was called what?
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The Western Lands
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Representatives decided to create a new constitution based on a federal system
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Constitutional Convention
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Who is known as the father of the Constitution?
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James Madison
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Guarantees and protects the rights of the people
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Bill of Rights
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Who proposed the Great Compromise?
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Roger Sherman
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A system that gives each branch of government different powers so they all can watch over the others
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Checks and Balances
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