Unit 2: Foundations Of US Government

Question 0

Trade route between the New World, Africa, and the West Indies.

Answer 0

Triangular Trade

Question 1

The English philosopher who developed the social contract theory.

Answer 1

John Locke

Question 2

The brutal passage taken by the slaves from Africa to the New World.

Answer 2

Middle Passage

Question 3

The first permanent English settlement.

Answer 3

Jamestown

Question 4

People who agree to work for 5-7 years I. Exchange for their voyage to the New World.

Answer 4

Indentured Servants

Question 5

The first representative, legislative body in the colonies.

Answer 5

VA House of Burgesses

Question 6

Settled in Plymouth and wrote the Mayflower Compact.

Answer 6

Pilgrims

Question 7

This document was the first example of self government in the colonies.

Answer 7

Mayflower Compact

Question 8

This colony had religious intolerance

Answer 8

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 9

John Winthrop said that the Massachusetts Bay Colony would be like “___________” for all to look up to

Answer 9

City upon a hill

Question 10

This document limited the King’s power in 1215

Answer 10

Manga Carta

Question 11

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware

Answer 11

New England Colonies

Question 12

Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland

Answer 12

Southern Colonies

Question 13

Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island.

Answer 13

Middle Colonies

Question 14

This colony was settled because colonists were looking for good or a profit.

Answer 14

Jamestown.

Question 15

This colony was a haven for Catholics who had been persecuted in other colonies and fled here

Answer 15

Maryland

Question 16

This colony was founded as a debtors’ colony

Answer 16

Georgia

Question 17

This established freedom of press in the colonies

Answer 17

Zinger Trial

Question 18

The first written Constitution in the colonies

Answer 18

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (FOOC)

Question 19

This document established freedom of religion in it’s colony

Answer 19

Maryland Toleration Act

Question 20

This form of democracy was found mostly in New England and allows citizens to vote in each matter

Answer 20

Direct democracy

Question 21

England’s first attempt to settle in the New World

Answer 21

Roanoke

Question 22

This document gave additional rights to England’s citizens

Answer 22

English Bill of Rights

Question 23

This colony was settled by Quakers who believed that all people have an “inner light”

Answer 23

Pennsylvania

Question 24

What was the purpose of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay settlements?

Answer 24

Religious freedom

Question 25

The colonies existed to benefit England economically

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Mercantilism

Question 26

A period of religious revival and growth for many denominations

Answer 26

Great Awakening

Question 27

The non-enforcement of trade laws in the colonies

Answer 27

Salutary neglect

Question 28

Who sided with the British during the French and Indian war?

Answer 28

Colonists

Question 29

Who sided with the French during the friend and Indian war?

Answer 29

Indians

Question 30

A dispute over _____ led to the French and Indian war.

Answer 30

Land

Question 31

What Native American group helped the British in the French and Indian war?

Answer 31

Iroquois

Question 32

This marked the end if the French and Indian war.

Answer 32

Treaty of Paris 1763

Question 33

Who won the French and Indian war?

Answer 33

England/Britain

Question 34

This ended due to British debt from the French and Indian war

Answer 34

Salutary neglect

Question 35

What began to be enforced at the end of the French and Indian war

Answer 35

Navigation laws

Question 36

In which legislator where the colonists being taxed without representation

Answer 36

Parliament

Question 37

The king issued this to keep colonists from settling on land west of the Appalachian Mountains

Answer 37

Proclamation Line of 1763

Question 38

This imposed a tax on sugar

Answer 38

Sugar Act

Question 39

This act required colonists to house British troops

Answer 39

Quartering act

Question 40

Which legislative bodies did colonists believe had legitimate power to tax them

Answer 40

Colonial Assemblies/Legislatures

Question 41

This act placed a tax on legal documents

Answer 41

Stamp Act

Question 42

This act said Congress shall have the power to make laws that apply to colonists in "all cases whatsoever"

Answer 42

Declaratory Act

Question 43

These acts placed duties on glass, tea, lead, and paper

Answer 43

Townshend Acts

Question 44

Colonists threatened British soldiers, British soldiers open fire resulting in the death of five colonists

Answer 44

Boston Massacre

Question 45

This act drove American tea merchants out of business

Answer 45

Tea Act

Question 46

These people remained faithful to the king during the Revolution

Answer 46

Loyalists

Question 47

This was a result of the Tea Act. A group of colonists dresses as Indians threw tea in the harbor

Answer 47

Boston Tea Party

Question 48

These were a result of the Boston Tea Party

Answer 48

Intolerable Acts

Question 49

The first battle of the American Revolutionary War

Answer 49

Lexington & Concord

Question 50

Those who rebelled against the King of England and fought for independence

Answer 50

Patriots

Question 51

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine

Answer 51

Common Sense

Question 52

Pamphlet mentioned in #51 (Common Sense) encouraged this

Answer 52

Independence

Question 53

This person was the primary writer of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 53

Thomas Jefferson

Question 54

Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness

Answer 54

Unalienable rights

Question 55

Jefferson used who's natural rights as foundations for the Declaration of Independence

Answer 55

John Locke

Question 56

The turning point of the American Revolution

Answer 56

Saratoga

Question 57

This country joined the colonists after the turning point

Answer 57

France

Question 58

This was the last battle if the American Revolution

Answer 58

Yorktown

Question 59

This treaty ended the American Revolution

Answer 59

Treaty of Paris 1783

Question 60

Te first national government of the US-created in 1776

Answer 60

Articles of Confederation

Question 61

The articles outlines a weak _________ government

Answer 61

National

Question 62

The articles outlines a strong _______ government

Answer 62

State

Question 63

Passed by Congress under the Articles. Established townships from western land and set aside part of that land for the establishment of schools

Answer 63

Land Ordinance 1785

Question 64

Passed by Congress under the Articles. Established steps for statehood for and around Ohio river

Answer 64

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Question 65

This event was by angry farmers exposed the weaknesses of the Articles

Answer 65

Shay's Rebellion