Unit 1 Flash Cards

Question 1

Name the three G’s of exploration

Answer 1

Gold, Glory, and God

Question 2

The first successful permanent English settlement in the New World?

Answer 2

Jamestown

Question 3

What country had best relationship with the Native Americans?

Answer 3

The French

Question 4

John Locke said that all people were born with the right to….

Answer 4

Life, Liberty, and Happiness

Question 5

How many people died at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 5

5

Question 6

Who was the lawyer for the British soldiers involved with the Boston Massacre?

Answer 6

John Adams

Question 7

The Proclamation of 1763 was intended to to prevent colonists from crossing…

Answer 7

The Appalachian Mountain

Question 8

He fought in the French and Indian War for the British and gained valuable leadership skills which would help him later in life.

Answer 8

George Washington

Question 9

The Stamp Act placed taxes on…

Answer 9

Stamps, Contacts, Playing Cards, Legal Documents

Question 10

Name of resistance group who opposed the British in Boston.

Answer 10

Sons of Liberty

Question 11

Leader of Boston resistance group.

Answer 11

Samuel Adams

Question 12

Major protest organized by the Sons of Liberty.

Answer 12

Boston Tea Party

Question 13

The Intolerable Acts were a British reaction to what colonial event?

Answer 13

Boston Tea Party

Question 14

Where were the first shots (in combat) of the Revolutionary War fired?

Answer 14

Lexington and Concord

Question 15

Where did the British surrender at the end of the Revolutionary War?

Answer 15

Yorktown

Question 16

Leader of the British forces during the Revolutionary War.

Answer 16

Cornwallis

Question 17

Leader of the Colonial forces during the Revolutionary War

Answer 17

Washington

Question 18

Cash crop that made the south boom during the colonial period

Answer 18

Tobacco

Question 19

What country helped the colonist defeat the British in the Revolutionary War

Answer 19

France

Question 20

People who wanted to remain under British rule in the colonies.

Answer 20

Loyalist

Question 21

People who wanted to break away from the British crown.

Answer 21

Patriots

Question 22

Who drafted the Declaration of Indp.

Answer 22

Jefferson

Question 23

What state supported representation based on population at the Constitution Convention

Answer 23

Virginia

Question 24

Describe the Quartering Act

Answer 24

Forced colonists to accept British soldiers into their homes

Question 25

Came to the new world looking for furs

Answer 25

France

Question 26

Came to new world looking for gold/riches

Answer 26

Spain

Question 27

Country that established the Jamestown Colony

Answer 27

England

Question 28

Colony of Quakers

Answer 28

Pennsylvania

Question 29

Home of people released from debtors prison and acted as a buffer from Spanish territories

Answer 29

Georgia

Question 30

Colony established by Catholics but tolerated others

Answer 30

Maryland

Question 31

The Colonial Army spent a brutal winter here

Answer 31

Valley Forge

Question 32

Washington Crossed the Delaware to attack here

Answer 32

Trenton

Question 33

Turning Point of the Revolutionary War

Answer 33

Saratoga

Question 34

Name weakness of the Articles of Confederation

Answer 34

No Army, No way to tax, No executive or judicial branch, No national money system

Question 35

What was the Middle Passage?

Answer 35

The ocean journey that transported slaves from Africa to the Americas

Question 36

Which city had a series of Witch Trials in 1692?

Answer 36

Salem

Question 37

What is a bicameral legislature?

Answer 37

A legislature with two houses

Question 38

This document represents the first attempt at self-government in the colonies.

Answer 38

The Articles of Confederation

Question 39

Founding father who was the lawyer of for the Boston Massacre soldiers

Answer 39

John Adams

Question 40

Nickname for British soldiers due to their uniform color

Answer 40

Red Coats

Question 41

One of the Boston Massacre victims that has locations named after him in Carbondale

Answer 41

Cripus Attucks

Question 42

Largest source of debate at the Constitutional Convention

Answer 42

How to determine the number of reps a state gets in the legislative branch

Question 43

Known as the small state plan

Answer 43

New Jersey Plan

Question 44

Known as the large state plan

Answer 44

Virginia Plan

Question 45

Compromise that settled the issue of how many reps a state would have in Congress

Answer 45

Connecticut Compromise

Question 46

Compromise that settled how slaves would be counted towards a state's population

Answer 46

3/5 Compromise

Question 47

Where was the Constitutional Convention held

Answer 47

Philadelphia

Question 48

Who was the main author of the Federalist Papers

Answer 48

Alexander Hamilton

Question 49

Name for people who opposed ratification

Answer 49

Anti-Federalists

Question 50

What did many feel was lacking in the new US Constitution

Answer 50

Bill of Rights