U.S 1 Semester Exam

Question 1

What was needed before cities could develop?

Answer 1

surplus of food

Question 2

What led to a new confidence in human achievement?

Answer 2

Renaissance

Question 3

How did the first people in the Americas support themselves?

Answer 3

hunting big animals

Question 4

How was slavery in Africa different than slavery in America?

Answer 4

could escape their bondage (temporary)

Question 5

Why was Prince Henry called the Navigator?

Answer 5

sponsored first European sea voyages

Question 6

Why did the Spanish abolish the encomienda system?

Answer 6

brutally exploited Indians

Question 7

The Pueblo leader Pope lead a revolt in response to Spanish efforts to….

Answer 7

impose Spanish culture

Question 8

What was Jamestown’s biggest problem in year 1?

Answer 8

attitudes and impracticalities

Question 9

What did the first English colonies in North America hope to achieve?

Answer 9

financial gain

Question 10

Who did Nathaniel Bacon feel sympathy for?

Answer 10

English settlers on the Frontier

Question 11

During the French and Indian war, whose side did Native Americans fight for?

Answer 11

Both

Question 12

Die to salutary neglect, the colonies developed…..

Answer 12

Self-government

Question 13

Who wrote Common Sense?

Answer 13

Thomas Paine

Question 14

During which event did the first fighting between red coats and minutemen occur?

Answer 14

Battle of Lexington

Question 15

Which country supported the colonies during the Revolutionary War?

Answer 15

France

Question 16

What was the middle passage?

Answer 16

Africans from Africa to the West Indies and North America

Question 17

Who’s idea did Jefferson use in drafting the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 17

John Locke

Question 18

Which event confirmed American Independence and set the boundaries for the New Nation?

Answer 18

Treaty of Paris

Question 19

Under the Articles of Confederation, each state’s power in Congress was based on….

Answer 19

one vote per state

Question 20

During the Revolutionary war, what did the Continental army lack?

Answer 20

food and ammunition

Question 21

Articles of Confederation gave the National government the power to?

Answer 21

declare war

Question 22

Shay’s rebellion was a protest by farmers who faced problems from?

Answer 22

debts they owed creditors

Question 23

The Great Compromise was an agreement about…..

Answer 23

determining state’s representation in Congress

Question 24

Why were Democratic-Republicans outraged by the Alien and Sedation Acts?

Answer 24

believed that laws violated freedom of speech

Question 25

Adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution was supported by......

Answer 25

antifederalists

Question 26

Which event was a response to a unpopular tax by the federal government?

Answer 26

whiskey rebellion

Question 27

What principle was affirmed in Marbury v. Madison?

Answer 27

the right of Supreme Court to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional

Question 28

Who tried to unite Native Americans to protect their home land from White intruders?

Answer 28

Tecumseh

Question 29

Who did John Quincy Adams defeat in the controversial election in 1824

Answer 29

Andrew Jackson

Question 30

Which idea is promoted by nullification?

Answer 30

State's rights

Question 31

Which area did the Monroe Doctrine aim to free from European Influence?

Answer 31

Western Hemisphere

Question 32

Which Americans benefitted the most from the tariff of 1816?

Answer 32

manufactures

Question 33

Which development led to a rise in number of slaves imported to the South?

Answer 33

cotton gin

Question 34

The Battle most responsible for winning Texas its freedom is near?

Answer 34

San Jacinto River

Question 35

When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?

Answer 35

to restore the Union

Question 36

In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?

Answer 36

military leadership

Question 37

Which of the following abolished slavery in the North?

Answer 37

the thirteenth amendment

Question 38

Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?

Answer 38

It made the South give up the idea of invading the North