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Virginia Social Studies 6th Grade SOL
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Social Studies
6th Grade
04/15/2012

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This river was explored by the Spanish
Definition
The Colorado River
Term
What is a River
Definition
Natural stream of fresh water that empty into a larger body of water.
Term
What are plains
Definition
Vast, flat areas that are smaller than mountains
Term
What are Gulfs and Bays
Definition
Parts of a sea or ocean partly surrounded by land.
Term
What are Mountains
Definition
Landforms that extend about the surrounding terrain
Term
Patterns of Trade (one reason geographic features are important)
Definition
Trade routes grew along rivers and good were transported along the rivers to various trading posts.
Term
Plateaus (Land-related geographic feature)
Definition
Large, flat areas of land that are higher than the surrounding land
Term
Locations of cities and towns (one reason geographic features are important)
Definition
Developed in areas near large bodies of water which provided transportation for goods and provided natural resources (fresh water)
Term
Westward (frontier) movement (one reason geographic features are important)
Definition
Rivers served as major transportation networks for early settlers. Open plains located in the central US allowed wagons and later trains to settle in other areas as well.
Term
What regions of North America were explored and settled by France?
Definition
Samuel de Champlain established the French settlement of Quebec.
Rovert La Salle claimed the Mississippi River Valley.
Term
Agriculture and fishing industries (on reason geographic features are important)
Definition
The Great Plains offered a lot of land to use for farming and raising cattle. The fishing industry allowed the coastal areas to grow.
Term
American Indians constructed shelters from resources found in their environment. What are four examples of these resources?
Definition
Sod, Stone, Animal Skins & Wood
Term
What kind of resource consists of goods produced and used to make other goods and services? Examples: Canoe, Bow and Spear.
Definition
Capital resources.
Term
What is Cactus Hill located? Why is it important?
Definition
On the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia. It's important because evidence found there suggests that humans lived there as early as 15-18,000 years ago.
Term
Why were European countries motivated to gain power in North America?
Definition
Reasons for exploration:
Ecomomic - Gold natural resources, and trade
Religious - Spread of Christianity
Competitions for empire ans belief in superiority of own culture.
Term
What do Archaeologists study?
Definition
Human behavior and cultures of the past.
Term
What is Archaeology?
Definition
The recovery of material evidence remaining from the past.
Term
What were the accomplishments of the explorations?
Definition
Exchanged goods and ideas
Improved navigational tools and ships.
Claimed territories
Term
What regions of North America were explored and settled by England?
Definition
One of the first explorers sent by England was John Cabot. He explored eastern Canada.
Later various groups from England settled the 13 colonies.
Term
How did the American Indians and the Spanish interact with each other?
Definition
The Spanish
Conquered and enslaved American Indians.
Brought Christianity to the new World
Brought European diseases.
Term
How did the American Indians and the French interact with each other
Definition
The French:
Established trading posts
Spread Christian religion (the French did not enslave Indians or take their land)
Term
How did the American Indians and the English interact with each other?
Definition
Established settlements and claimed ownership of land
Learned farming techniques from American Indians
Traded
Term
In what areas did the Europeans and Indians sometimes cooperate?
Definition
Europeans brought weapons and metal farm tools
Trade
Crops
Term
What goods did the Portuguese trade with the West African empires
Definition
Metals, cloth and other manufactured goods for West African gold
Term
Plymouth colony was settled by Pilgrim separatists from the Church of England who wanted to avoid __________?
Definition
Religious persecution
Term
Georgia was settled by people who had been in _______ in England. They wanted a new life and _______ freedom in the new World.
Definition
Debtor's prison

Economic
Term
Which colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Definition
Jamestown (1607)
Roanoke Island was settled earlier but the settlers disappeared.
Term
Name three colonies that were settled for economic reasons?
Definition
Roanoke Island, Jamestown and Georgia.
Term
Name three colonies that were settled for religious reasons.
Definition
Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth and Pennsylvania.
Term
Which group of colonies:
lived in or around villages and towns? Citizens met in town meetings to discuss the important issues of the day.
Definition
New England colonies
Term
Name the four New England colonies
Definition
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut.
Term
Which group of colonies were small farms surrounding the towns and villages, but the rocky thin soil made it difficult to make a living from farming.
Definition
New England
Term
Which group of colonies was more tolerant than elsewhere and accepted a mix of people, languages, religions and cultures
Definition
Mid Atlantic colonies
Term
Which colonial region had rich farmland, rivers, unskilled and skilled workers for natural and human resources?
Definition
Mid Atlantic colonies
Term
How did England impose economic control over the colonies?
Definition
Had control over trade.
England taxed the colonies after the French and Indian War.
Colonies traded raw materials for goods made in Great Britain.
Term
How did England impose political control over the colonies.
Definition
Colonists had to obey English laws enforced by governors.
colonial governors were appointed by the king or by the porprietor
Colonial legislature made laws for each colony and were monitored by colonial governors.
Term
Why were the colonists becoming increasingly unhappy with England
Definition
1. Colonies had no representation in Parliament.
2. Some colonists resented power of colonial governors
3. England wanted strict control over colonial legislatures
4. Colonies opposed taxes
5. The Proclamation of 1763 restricted the western movement of settlers.
Term
Key philosophies in the Declaration of Independence were based on ideas FIRST expressed by whom?
Definition
European Philosophers
Term
Colonies signed the Declaration of Independence from England on:
Definition
July 4, 1776
Term
A constitution written during the Revolution to establish the powers of the new national government was called:
Definition
The Articles of Confederation
Term
What kind of system of government did the Constitution establish
Definition
A federal system of government
Term
What is a federal system of government
Definition
A system that divides power between the national government and the governments of the states
Term
What did the Great Compromise do?
Definition
Decided how many votes each state would have in the Senate and House of Representatives.
Term
All states are represented equally in the
Definition
Senate
Term
Who was elected president of the Constitutional Convention
Definition
George Washington
Term
How many states had to vote in favor of the Constitution before it could become law?
Definition
Nine of the thirteen
Term
What two people were influential in the ideas behind the The Bill of Rights
Definition
George Mason - The Virginia Declaration of Rights
Thomas Jefferson - The Virginia Statue for Religions Freedom
Term
What were some of George Washington's accomplishments
Definition
Federal court system was established
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution
Plans were initiated for development of the national capital in Washington, DC
Term
Between 1801 and 1861 was a period of _____________?
Definition
Vast territorial expansion and settlement
Term
What new territories were added to the United States between 1801 and 1861
Definition
Lousiana Purchase
Florida
Texas
Oregon
California
Term
What did Lewis and Clark explore
Definition
Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Territory from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Term
What territory was divided by the Unites States and Great Britain
Definition
Oregon
Term
After the War with Mexico, what was added to the US?
Definition
California and the southwest territory
Term
What are the 6 specific factors that influenced westward migration
Definition
1. Popular growth in the east
2. Availability of cheap, fertile land
3. Economic opportunities
4. Cheaper and faster transportion
5. Knowledge of overland trails
6. Belief in Manifest Destiny
Term
What made transportation cheaper and faster
Definition
Erie Canal
Steamboats
Steam Locomotives
Term
What trail would take people Southwest
Definition
Santa Fe Trail
Term
What two major factors influenced westward migration
Definition
Geography and economic opportunity
Term
What was the result of the steamboat?
Definition
It provided faster river transportation that connected Southern Plantations and farms to Norther industries and western territories
Term
What is Manifest Destiny
Definition
The idea that expansion as for the good and the right of the country
Term
What was the result of the invention of the reaper
Definition
It increased the productivity of the American farmer
Term
Name three leaders suffrage movement
Definition
Isabel Sojourner Truth - former slave who was an advocate for equality and justice
Susan B. Anthony - advocated for voting rights for women and equal rights for all
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - played a leadership role in the women's rights unit
Term
Name and explain the four causes of the Civil War
Definition
1. Cultural - North was an urban society and South was agricultural society
2. Slavery - lead to issues that that increasingly divided the nation and led to the are
3. Economic - North did want tariffs and was a manufacturing region. The South was agricultural and feared that tariffs would destroy their economy
4. Constitutional - North wanted strong central government and South wanted states rights.
Term
What were the main ideas expressed during the suffrage movement
Definition
Women were deprived of the basic rights such as: right to vote, educational opportunities (especially higher education), equal opportunities in business, and rights to own property.
Term
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Definition
People in each state would be able to decide the slavery issue for themselves, This as called "popular sovereignty"
Term
Name three famous abolitionist leaders. What did each person accomplish?
Definition
Harriet Tubman - helped slaves escape through the underground railroad.
William Lloyed Garrison - Wrote Liberator
Frederick Douglass - Wroth North Star
Term
What Missouri Compromise
Definition
In 1820 Missouri entered the Union as a slave state. It was decided that in order to keep an equal number of slave and free states Maine would enter the union as a free state.
Term
An important issue separating the country related to the power of the federal government. Explain how both North and South felt
Definition
South believed they had hte power declare any national law illegal
North believed they national government's power was supreme over that of the states.
Term
Which four slave states stayed in the Union
Definition
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri
Term
Explain the importance of the first Battle of Mananas
Definition
It was the first major battle of the war
Term
What are the four ways location influenced major battles and developments in the war
Definition
The Union blocked southern ports,
Control of the Mississippi
Control of high ground
Battle locations were influenced by the capture of capital cities.
Term
What made "freeing the slaved" the new focus of the war
Definition
The Emancipation Proclomation
Term
Name 7 general effects of the Civil War
Definition
Families fought against one another,
Southern troops became younger and more poorly equipped,
South as devastated (burnings), disease, com bat was brutal and man to man, women were left to run businesses, farms, and plantations in the South, and Confederate money became worthless
Term
Explain the importance of the Battle of Vicksburg
Definition
It divided the South and the North gained control of the Mississippi River
Term
Explain the importance of the Battle of Gettysburg
Definition
It was the turning point of the war. The North was able to hold off Lee's invasion
Term
Where and when did Lee surrender to Grant
Definition
Appomattox Court House in 1865
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