6th Grade Social Studies End of Year Review

Who is the best Social Studies Teacher?

Which tribe lived in plank houses?

Where is Cactus Hill located?

What Patriot said in a famous speech: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Which invention increased the productivity of wheat?

What was an area of conflict between the Native Americans and European Explorers?

Robert de LaSalle explored the ___________

Why did delegates from the 13 colonies meet in Philadelphia?

The number of representative each state has in the House of Representatives is based upon:

In the map above, which number represents the Coastal Range?

What was the first permanent English Settlement in the New World?

The Proclamation of 1763 outlawed colonists movement west of what?

Which of the following is known as the "Lost Colony?"

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Where did General Cornwallis Surrender?

What are the first 10 amendments called?

Where was the location of the "Shot Heard Round the World?"

What Act made it mandatory for colonists to house British soldiers?

Inland port cities grew in the Midwest around the _____________.

What was the Proclamation of 1763 was about?

John Cabot explorer North America for what country?

Which branch of government can decide that laws are unconstitutional?

When new territories could vote to determine if they wanted to allow slavery or not

Which of the first five presidents was not from Virginia?

Where did Washington's Army spend a brutal winter?

The _____________ Plan declared that the government should have 3 branches.

On Jan. 1, 1863 the slaves of the Confederate states were set free by this presidential decree.

What group, formerly known as Separatists, came to the New World in the Great Migration?

What act placed taxes on anything printed?

Who wrote "Common Sense?"

What group of European settlers were the most friendly to Native Americans?

Which region has rolling flat lands with many rivers?

Choose the square with the 3 colonies established for ECONOMIC REASONS.

Where did the Quakers start their colony?

The Articles of Confederation was a problem because...

Which Native American region lived in igloos in the winter and tepees in the summer?

California was admitted into the Union as a free state because of the...

Which colony was settled by people who had been in a debtors' prison in England?

Who was the President of the Union during the Civil War

What crop caused Jamestown to be a successful colony?

Which Native American group lived in the Great Plains?

Where did British General Cornwallis surrender to General Washington?

Which of the following was a Spanish explorer and explored the southwest United States?

Which European Country set up trading posts with the Native Americans?

What were the two states that entered the Union with the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

The attack on this Union fort marked the beginning of the Civil War.

The lowest point in North America, in the Basin and Range region, is...

What English Philosopher influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence?

This region has rugged mountains that stretch from Alaska almost to Mexico.

This region has hundreds of lakes that were carved by glaciers.

Who was the leader of the Sons of Liberty?