Social Studies Midterm Review for Grade 8

GRADE 8 MIDTERM REVIEW FOR SOCIAL STUDIES

The following terms and questions should be reviewed for the exam. All of the following can be found in your Social Studies NB. You can use your text if you are unsure of something. Essay questions will be taken from your notes or something you have already done for HW.

Chapter 1-14 (review of 7^th grade curriculum)

1. Prehistory

2. Ice Age

3. Berengia

4. Geologists

5. Nomads

6. Columbus

7. Northwest Passage

8. Jamestown- cash crop

9. Slavery- causes- arrival in America

10. House of Burgesses

11. Puritans, Pilgrims, Mayflower

12. First American College

13. William Penn

14. Maryland

15. Georgia

16. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

17. Triangular Trade

18. Mercantilism

19. French and Indian War- Treaty- Results

20- Proclamation Act

21. Navigation Acts

22. Wits of Assistance

23. Stamp Act

24. Boston Massacre

25. Committees of Correspondence

26. Boston Tea Party

27. Declaration of Independence

28. Saratoga

29. Yorktown

30. Articles of Confederation

31. Bill of Rights

32. George Washington

33. Louisiana Purchase- Who was President? What country did we purchase it from?

34. Lewis and Clark

35. Francis Scott Key

36. Era of Good Feeling

37. Monroe Doctrine

38. Missouri Compromise

39. Spoils System

40. Tariff

41. Indian Removal Act

42. Abolitionists

43. William Lloyd Garrison

44. Manifest Act

45. Forty-niners

Chapter 15

46. Sectionalism

47. Wilmot Proviso

48. Fugitive Slaves

49. Fugitive Slave Act

50. Underground Railroad

51. Harriet Beecher Stowe

52. Popular Sovereignty

53. Dred Scott Decision- Who was Dred Scott? Who made the ruling in the court case? What was the ruling? What was the result? (possible essay question)

54. Stephen A. Douglas vs. Abraham Lincoln - What was the topic of the debate? What was the Freeport Doctrine? (possible essay question)

55. John Brown

56. Election of 1860- Who won?

57. Confederate States of America- Who was the President? What was the Capital?

58. Fort Sumter

Chapter 16

59. Civil War- importance

60. Border States- What were the names? Explain their importance (possible essay question)

61. Advantages and Disadvantages of the North in the Civil War (possible essay question)

62. Advantages and Disadvantages of the South in the Civil War (possible essay question)

63. Main goal of the North at the beginning of the Civil War

64. Explain the Union Plan for winning the war against the Confederacy (possible essay question)

65. Main goal of the South in the Civil War. How did they plan to achieve their goal?

66. Offensive fighting

67. Who were the Rebels? Who were the Yankees?

68. First Battle of the Civil War

69. Blockade runners

70. Monitor and Merrimack

71. Battle of Shiloh

72. David Farragut

73. Antietam

74. Emancipation Proclamation

75. Thirteenth Amendment

76. Harriet Tubman

77. Clara Barton

78. Habeas Corpus

79. Peace Democrats

80. Commander of the Confederate Army

81. Gettysburg Address

82. Appomattox Courthouse

Social Study Midterm Review for Grade 7

GRADE 7 MIDTERM REVIEW FOR SOCIAL STUDIES

The following terms and questions should be reviewed for the exam.

Chapter 1

1. Astronauts: definition of- names of astronauts- what they accomplished

2. Relief maps and political maps

3. Mountain ranges

4. Latitude and longitude

5. Rivers- lakes- tributaries- Lake Michigan

6. Mass transit

7. Precipitation

8. Great American Desert

9. Atlas- cartographers

10. Table of Contents- captions- annotations- index- glossary- primary source.

Chapter 2

11. Prehistory- Ice Age- landbridge

12. Characteristic of Mongoloid Race

13. Extinct- definition

14. Nomads

15. George McJunkin- Folsom Man

16. Geologists- archeologists- artifacts

17. Carbon 14

18. Agriculture- definition of- When were Great American Indian civilizations developed?

19. Mayans- everything that pertains to them

20- Aztecs- everything that pertains to them

21. Incas- everything that pertains to them

22. Culture- environment

23. Iroquois Indians- everything that pertains to them

24. Technology

Chapter 3

25. Christopher Columbus

26. Colony

27. Explorers- Balboa, Cabral, De Leon, Magellan

28. Spain- The reason why the Spanish came to the New World

29. New World

30. Pizzaro, Cortez, DeSoto, Montezuma

31. Hacienda

32. Presidio

33. St. Augustine

34. Creoles

35. Vaquero

36. Horses- longhorn cattle

37. Why did the French come to America?

38. Cartier, deChamplain, Marquette and Joliet, La Salle

39. Netherlands- Henry Hudson, Peter Minuit

40. Sweden

41. Jean Baptiste du Sable

Chapter 4

42. Pocahontas

43. John Cabot- Sea Dogs

44. Spanish Armada

45. Roanoke

46. John Smith

47. Plantation

48. Cash crop- tobacco

49. Martin Frobisher

50. House of Burgesses

51. Mayflower Compact

52. Pilgrims or Separatists

53. Puritans

54. Massasoit, Squanto, Samoset

55. William Bradford

56. First College in America

57. Roger Williams- Rhode Island

58. Thomas Hooker- Connecticut- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

59. William Penn- Pennsylvania

60. Maryland- Lord Baltimore- Toleration Act

61. North Carolina- squatters

62. Georgia- James Oglethorpe

63. Location of English colonies in North America

Essay questions for the Midterm Exam will be taken from the textbook. These questions have already been completed for HW. Review the following questions:

p. 19 Questions 2-3-4

p. 25 Questions 1&3

p. 39 Questions 1-2-3

p. 48 Questions 1&2

p. 58 Questions 1&3

p. 81 Questions 1-2-3