Chapter 1 US History Review

Question 1

The rulebook for America’s government and how it works

Answer 1

Constitution

Question 2

Right claimed by the Supreme Court in Marbury vs Madison, it set the precedent that the Court gets to interpret our laws before they get carried out

Answer 2

Judicial Review

Question 3

Roger Sherman’s brilliant idea to combine the New Jersey and Virginia plans into our Constitution

Answer 3

Great Compromise

Question 4

Document signed in 1215 that limited King John’s powers. it later inspired our separation of powers in our national government

Answer 4

Magna Carta

Question 5

A change to our Constitution, we currently have 27

Answer 5

Amendment

Question 6

President #5, he spoke out to the world about interfering in our neighborhood

Answer 6

James Monroe

Question 7

Someone who supported the US Constitution and believed in a strong central government to keep the new USA together

Answer 7

Federalist

Question 8

List of natural rights included in our Constitution to convince the Anti-Federalists to go along and ratify

Answer 8

Bill of Rights

Question 9

Author of the Virginia Plan and Constitution and the President #4

Answer 9

James Madison

Question 10

1776 statement, issued by the Second Continental Congress, explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain.

Answer 10

Declaration of Independence

Question 11

Explorer who traveled through Suwannee Country

Answer 11

Hernando de Soto

Question 12

Route across Atlantic used to bring slaves from Africa to the Americas

Answer 12

Middle Passage

Question 13

First attempt at creating a national government

Answer 13

Articles of Confederation

Question 14

writer of the Declaration, 1st Secretary of State, President #3

Answer 14

Thomas Jefferson

Question 15

Territory in North America formerly held by France, it’s greatest real estate deal in history

Answer 15

Louisiana Purchase

Question 16

Our government is separated into these three to keep any of them from becoming too powerful

Answer 16

Branches of Government

Question 17

Interaction between Europe and North America that changed the world forever

Answer 17

Colombian Exchange

Question 18

Spanish explorer trying to conquer new lands and peoples

Answer 18

Conquistador

Question 19

A group of folks whose job is to help the President make decisions

Answer 19

President Cabinet

Question 20

Someone who believed that state government should have more power in a country than the national government

Answer 20

Anti-Federalists

Question 21

These keep the three branches of government in line, by allowing each branch to hold up action by the others

Answer 21

Checks and balances

Question 22

The city where both the Continental Congresses and the Constitutional Convention were held

Answer 22

Philadelphia

Question 23

Killed more folks than Spanish weapons, resulted in the creation of the African slave trade

Answer 23

Diseases

Question 24

First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countryment or the U.S.A. may have started off on the wrong foot, President #1

Answer 24

George Washington

Question 25

This act contradicted our right to free speech, and made President #2 look bad

Answer 25

Sedition Act

Question 26

The era during which deep thinkers developed ideas about natural rights that we expanded upon in our Declaration of Independence

Answer 26

Enlightenment

Question 27

Only one of the first 5 Presidents who served a single term, thanks in part to his feuding with Jefferson

Answer 27

John Adams

Question 28

An early law passed to keep immigrants in line

Answer 28

Alien Act

Question 29

Advantages with Columbian Exchange to people of America

Answer 29

New animals, like pigs, horses, mules, sheep, and cattle. New food

Question 30

Advantages with Columbian Exchange to Europe

Answer 30

Learned from Indians how they can grow crops from America, in their own way (ex. Maize and potatoes)

Question 31

Oldest city in America

Answer 31

St. Augustine

Question 32

Oldest English settlement in America

Answer 32

Jamestown, Virginia

Question 33

Relationship between Spain and the Indians

Answer 33

Forced them to convert them to Christianity, or use the Indians as slaves until they died

Question 34

Relationship between France and the Indians

Answer 34

the French found fortune in furs when the American Indians exchanged beaver pelts for European-made metal axes, knives, and kettles

Question 35

Relationship between England and the Indians

Answer 35

it was war between the two

Question 36

This was added to the proposed Constitution to get the southern states to agree to ratify and get our government working

Answer 36

3/5 Clause (Compromise)