Exam Review Key
I had a hard time attaching this file, so I cut and pasted it for you. Remember, to turn in the work that you did on this review (that I checked) on Monday afternoon to the teacher that gives you the exam. Also, turn in your book and your CD. The exam is work 125 points, each question is worth 1/2 of a point. You will do fine.
Have a great week! JBR!
Social Studies Exam Review
Answer Key
Use the following information to help you complete and check you Social Studies review sheet. Remember to thoroughly prepare for your exam so that you can do your very BEST☺ !!!
1. parallels
2. meridians
3. relationships
4. South Carolina
5. Climate – describes the weather conditions over a period of time; weather is the temperature for a specific period of time
6. An estuary is the area around a river’s mouth where fresh and salt water mix, an aquifer is water-saturated layers of earth below the surface
7. Learn from the past
8. Primary source – a first hand source like a diary, journal, newspaper
Secondary source is from someone who is writing about an event in history, but wasn’t present for the event
9. Asia
10. Migration is the movement from one place to another within a region or continent; immigrations is moving from one country to another following specific procedures for entering and leaving a country
11. They determine the amount of carbon 14 in the remains and by examining its context
12. Shards – broken pieces of pottery; fossils – remains from animals; and artifacts – remains from human beings (like pottery)
13. Site
14. This was the period when European nations began looking for their own direct route to the Far East
15. To serve as a buffer between the South Carolina colony and the French, Native American and Spanish
16. Spain
17. Most likely it was John Cabot
18. A trade policy designed to increase a country’s wealth
19. The drinking water made people sick, heat, humidity, and insects
20. Britain and France
21. By relaxing their restrictions on slavery
22. Pacific Ocean
23. Charity, economics, and defense – also religion
24. They could not hold public office in Georgia
25. Anglican
26. Upcountry or backcountry
27. Agrarian or farming
28. They felt they needed slave labor to grow and harvest rice (and later cotton)
29. Plantation owners and merchants
30. The trade route used by American merchants that involved the trading of rum, slaves, sugar, and molasses – between England, Africa, the Caribbean and the New World
31. Tobacco, rice and indigo
32. Passing new tax laws on the colonists
33. Georgia had grown and prospered under royal governor Sir James Wright and many Georgians had become wealthy from trade with Great Britain
34. Life, liberty and property
35. Rules and regulations
36. Bicameral legislature and 3 branches of government
37. July 4, 1776
38. Boycotting British goods
39. Legislative
40. Consent of the governed
41. Give it away
42. Stay in the center of the state’s population
43. 1790
44. many cotton producing tows were far from navigable rivers
45. the head of each family got 100 acres of land plus 50 acres for each of his family members
46. Indian trails
47. The national government took over the Yazoo lands, paid over $1million to Georgia, and agreed to remove all Indians from Georgia
48. New Echota
49. They wanted their land – and hopes of finding gold
50. Oklahoma
51. The removal of the Native Americans (primary the Cherokees) from their land in North Georgia to Oklahoma
52. Sequoyah
53. Antebellum
54. Cotton and slavery
55. Top – Planters bottom – Field Slaves
56. Slavery, tariffs (also the ideas of sectionalism, secession, states’ rights, style, and structure)
57. Abolitionist
58. Totally destroy any of Georgia’s resources (especially any that might prove beneficial to fighting in the war) – railroads and supplies for the Confederate army
59. Andersonville is in south Georgia, and it housed Union soldiers
60. Executive – enforces the law; legislative – makes the law; and judicial – interprets the law
61. Executive branch
62. President/Vice-President – 4 year terms – 2 terms max; Senators – 6 year terms; House members – 2 year terms
63. To veto means to turn down a bill; the President can veto a bill from Congress. Congress can override a veto from the President
64. Each branch checks to make sure that the other branches don’t gain too much power – makes sure that we never have a monarchy or dictatorship
65. Bill of Rights
66. 27 amendments
67. each branch of government checks the other two branches to make sure that one does not get too much power - for example, the executive keeps check on the judicial and legislative; the legislative keeps check on the executive and judicial; and the judicial keeps check on the legislative and executive
68. 13th amendment – freed the slaves; 14th amendment – gave all men citizenship of the US; 15th amendment – gave all males the right to vote
69. Reconstruction
70. No money, hurt – physically and emotionally, family gone, farms/homes destroyed, economy ruined
71. Ku Klux Klan – returning soldiers from the war were reacting to their problems
72. The burning of Atlanta by General Sherman
73. Georgia made it difficult for blacks by using such things as Black Codes, the KKK, etc.
74. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln.
75. Prejudice - preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable of a person or group of people; discrimination - treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.
76. Sharecropping is a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop. It can be helpful if the tenant can’t afford to have his own farm (like someone who has just been freed from slavery). It could also hurt this person because he becomes “tied” to the owner of the farm (like he is still a slave).
77. Black Codes - After slavery, southerners created black codes, which were used to control and inhibit the freedom of ex-slaves. Codes regulated civil and legal rights, such as marriage, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, occupational choice, and the right to hold and sell property.
