1. What Am I?
USI Review
Virginia SOL’s
6TH Grade Review
SOL’s 1.5b – 1.7c
2nd Benchmark Test
January 2013

2. What Am I?
Provided a weak national government
Gave Congress no power to tax or regulate commerce
Provided for no common currency
Gave each state one vote regardless of size
Provided for no executive or judicial branch

3. I Am…
The Articles of
Confederation
http://www.celdf.org/Portals/0/Images/Articles%20of%20Confederation.bmp

4. What Am I?
Livestock, grain, fish.

5. I Am……
Mid Atlantic: Specialization

6. What Am I?
Written by James Madison
Written guarantee of individual freedoms
The first ten amendments to the Constitution

7. I Am…
The Bill of Rights
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/bill.jpg

8. What Am I?
New England (New Hampshire, Rhode Island,
Massachusetts, Connecticut)
Middle/Mid-Atlantic (New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware)
Southern (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia

9. I Am……
Three Colonial Regions

10. What Am I?
Worked the land according to region
Relied on family members for labor

11. I Am…
A farmer in Colonial
America
http://www.wm.edu/niahd/journals/display_image.php?id=17543

12. What Am I?
Occurred in 1774
Delegates from all the colonies met
The delegates discussed problems with England and
promoted independence

13. I Am…
The First Continental
Congress
Carpenters Hall, where the first
Continental Congress took place.
http://www.generalatomic.com/AmericanHistory/carpentershall.jpg

14. What Am I?
War between England and France
Fought over land in the Ohio River Valley
England would go on to tax the colonists to pay for this war

15. I Am…
The French and Indian
War
http://reenacting.net/images/maps/1754areamap.gif

16. What Am I?
Natural resources: timber, fish, deep
harbors

17. I Am……
New England: Resources

18. What Am I?
Occurred in 1775
Happened in Massachusetts
Site of the first armed conflict of the Revolutionary War

19. I Am…
Lexington and Concord
http://theamericanrevolution.org/images/battles/lexcon.gif

20. What Am I?
Occurred in 1803
Bought from France
Happened when Thomas Jefferson was President
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored it

21. I Am…
The Louisiana Purchase
http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Graphics/LA%20Purchase%20Map.jpg

22. What Am I?
Human resources: skilled craftsmen,
shopkeepers, shipbuilders

23. I Am……...
New England:
Resources
Candle maker

24. What Am I?
 Appalachian Mountains  Fishing
 Boston Harbor  Shipbuilding
 Hilly terrain  Industry and naval supplies
 Rocky soil  Trade and port cities
 Jagged coastline  Skilled craftsmen
 Moderate summers and cold  Shopkeepers
winters  Village and church are center
 Religious reformers and of life
separatists
 Town meetings

25. I Am…
New England Colonial
Region
http://www.nps.gov/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/images/NewEnglandColonies.gif

26. What Am I?
Men and women who did not have money for passage to the
colonies
Agreed to work without pay for the person who paid for
their passage
Were free at the end of their contract

27. I Am…
Indentured Servant

28. What Am I?
States that people establish government to protect their
rights
Government derives power from the people
People have a right to change a government that violates
their rights
States people have unalienable rights to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness
Inspired by John Locke
Thomas Jefferson was the major author

29. I Am…
The Declaration of
Independence
http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/doc-content/images/declaration-of-independence-m.jpg

30. What Am I?
 Appalachian Mountains  Cash crops
 Piedmont  Wood products
 Atlantic Ocean  Small farms
 Coastal Plain  Slavery
 Good harbors  Indentured servants
 Rivers  Few cities/schools
 Humid Climate  Church of England
 Large farms/plantations  Counties

31. I Am…
Southern Colonial Region
http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/CA/13c8.gif

32. What Am I?
Worked as caretakers, house workers, homemakers
Could not vote
Had few chances for education

33. I Am…
Women in Colonial
America
http://www.southampton.k12.ny.us/ColonialSourcebook/j0128946.gif

34. What Am I?
Appalachian Mountains, Boston Harbor, hilly
terrain, rocky soil, jagged coastline.
Moderate summers, cold winters

35. I Am…….
New England: Geography and Climate

36. What Am I?
Happened during the Revolutionary War
Boston
1770
Colonists were shot after taunting British soldiers

37. I Am…
Boston Massacre
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/09/350px-Boston_Massacre.jpg

38. What Am I?
Appalachian Mountains Unskilled and skilled workes
Coastal lowlands (harbors and fishermen
and bays) Villages and cities
Rich farmlands Varied and diverse lifestyles
Moderate climate Diverse religions
Livestock and grain Market towns
Trading

39. I Am…
Mid-Atlantic/Middle
Colonies
http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/31/32716/figures/DIVI037.jpg

40. What Am I?
Occurred during the Revolutionary War
1773
Led by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere
Patriots threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes

41. I Am…
The Boston Tea Party
http://bostonist.com/attachments/boston_caroline/121607-boston-tea-party.jpg

42. What Am I?
Fishing, shipbuilding, industry, naval
supplies

43. I Am……..
New England: Specialization

44. What Am I?
Battle during the Revolutionary War
1777
Turning point of the war
Americans won

45. I Am..
Battle of Saratoga
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/textbooks/saratoga222.jpg

46. What Am I?
Colonies had to obey British laws enforced by governors.
Colonial governors were appointed by the king or by the
proprietor.
Colonial legislatures made laws for each colony and were
monitored by colonial governors.

47. I Am…….
Political Relationships between the Colonies and Great Britain

48. What Am I?
Revolutionary War event
1781
Happened in Virginia
American and French forces defeated the forces of Lord
Cornwallis
Marked the end of the Revolutionary War

49. I Am…
Surrender at Yorktown
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/revolution-images/images/cornwallis-surrender.gif

50. What Am I?
Lived predominately in the South
Relied on indentured servants or slaves for labor
Were educated in some cases
Had a rich social culture

51. I Am…
Large landowner in Colonial
America
Great Hopes Plantation in
Williamsburg
http://www.wm.edu/niahd/journals/display_image.php?id=12800

52. What Am I?
1783
Document
England recognized American independence
Treaty

53. I Am…
Treaty of Paris
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/graphics/treatyofparis1783.jpg

54. What Am I?
New England depended on the Southern
colonies for raw materials such as cotton
and on the Middle Colonies for grain and
livestock.

55. I Am……
New England: Examples of
Interdependence

56. What Am I?........
Great Britain imposed strict control over
trade.
Great Britain taxed the colonies after the
French and Indian War.
Colonies traded raw materials for goods.

57. I Am……
Economic Relationships between Great Britain and the
Colonies

58. What Am I?
Were captured in Africa
Shipped to the colonies
Owned as property for life with no rights
Often born into their situation

59. I Am…
Slaves
http://www.earlyamerica.com/portraits/jefferson.html

60. What Am I?
Social/Political: Village and church as the center
of life. Religious reformers and separatists.
Civic Life: Town meetings

61. I Am…..
New England: Social/Political and Civic Life

62. What Am I?
Worked as craftsmen in towns and on
plantations
Lived in small villages and cities

63. I Am…
Artisans in Colonial
America
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/liberty/images/01_history/page01_casting02_hiRez.jpg

64. What Am I?
The Mid Atlantic colonies traded with both New
England and Southern colonies to get the
products they did not produce.

65. I Am……..
Mid Atlantic: Examples of Interdependence

66. What Am I?
Structure of the government
Based on James Madison’s “Virginia Plan”
Consists of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial

67. I Am…
The Three Branches of
Government
http://www.seaford.k12.de.us/webdigs/images/govt.h2.jpg

68. What Am I?
Natural resources: rich farmlands,
rivers

69. I Am……
Mid Atlantic: Resources

70. What Am I?
Allows each branch of government to check the power of the
other
Prevents any one branch from gaining too much power

71. I Am…
Checks and balances

72. What Am I?
Human resources: unskilled and
skilled workers, fishermen

73. I Am……
Mid Atlantic: Resources

74. What Am I?
Specific time period
War
1775-1781
Americans fought against the British
Fought for independence

75. I Am…
Revolutionary War
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/American_Revolutionary_War_
collage.jpg/800px-American_Revolutionary_War_collage.jpg

76. What Am I?
Appalachian Mountains, coastal lowlands,
harbors and bays, wide and deep rivers.
Mild winters and moderate climate.

77. I Am…….
Mid Atlantic: Geography and Climate