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Waide's TAKS review Part 6
taks review
26
History
8th Grade
04/10/2008

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Which colonies relied on farming for income?
Definition
Southern
Term
What is migration?
Definition
The movement of a large group of people
Term
What was militia?
Definition

A volunteer army usually made up of townspeople and farmers

Term
What did countries like England, Spain, and France want from colonies?
Definition
Natural Resources
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What is a patent?
Definition
A document the gives credit and rights to a person for an invention
Term
What is another word for reform?
Definition
Change
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What is a treaty?
Definition

An agreement between two or more countries

Term
Why was the south more in favor than the north for slavery?
Definition
The south needed the labor for farming.
Term
Who was the English tyrant that the American colonists hated?
Definition
King George III
Term
What was the Boston Tea Party?
Definition

Sons of Liberty dressed up like Indians and raided British ships in Boston Harbor dumping the tea in the bay in retaliation for the Boston Massacre

Term
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
Definition
America purchased a thin strip of land at the bottom of New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico.
Term
Who was commander of the Continental Army?
Definition
George Washington
Term
Who was the 7th president, known as ‘Old Hickory’?
Definition
Andrew Jackson
Term
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Definition
John Wilkes Booth
Term
What is a plantation?
Definition
Large farm in the south that often used slaves.
Term
What was the primary source of labor for factories in the north?
Definition
Immigrants
Term
What year did Columbus land in America?
Definition
1492
Term
Who was the President of Texas?
Definition
Sam Houston
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Who was the most famous traitor of the American Revolution?
Definition
Benedict Arnold
Term
Who was the lead general for the British in the American Revolution?
Definition
Charles Cornwallis
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Who printed the abolitionist newspaper, “The Liberator”?
Definition
William Lloyd Garrison
Term
Who was the first Supreme Court Justice?
Definition
John Jay
Term
Who was the French general who was a hero in the American Revolution?
Definition
Marquis de Lafayette
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Who invented the telegraph?
Definition
Samuel Morse
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Who was the Indian princess that helped make peace between the early colonists and the Indians?
Definition
Pocahontas
Term
Who made the first American flag?
Definition
Betsy Ross
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