3rd District Test

Question 1

Boycotts in America

Answer 1

When the English government taxed America with the stamp act, and the Townshend act

Question 2

Indentured servants

Answer 2

one who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for a free passage to America.

Question 3

Slaves

Answer 3

someone who is captured for use in forced, unpaid labor

Question 4

Triangulate trade

Answer 4

complex system and of transatlantic exchange of slaves, rum, sugar, and molasses.

Question 5

Major rivers and bodies of water in America

Answer 5

Columbia
Colorado
Missouri
Rio grande
Mississippi
Hudson

Question 6

Major consequences of the French and Indian war

Answer 6

Both sides had crippling debt and there were a lot of dead people

Question 7

Why was the Declaration of Independence written

Answer 7

Because the English government was treating America unfairly, so America wanted to declare independence from England and set up a government for itself

Question 8

George Washington

Answer 8

The commander of the Patriot army. He United the army and helped create a model of unity for the nation.

Question 9

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 9

Delegate from Virginia who wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Question 10

Electoral Votes

Answer 10

votes made by members of the electoral college, which elects the president and Vice President.

Question 11

Three parts of the federal government

Answer 11

Legislative Branch (Congress)- Makes the laws. Executive Branch (President)- Enforces the laws. Judicial Branch (Supreme Court)- Interprets the laws.

Question 12

Stamp act

Answer 12

Law requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid

Question 13

Roanoke island

Answer 13

off the coast of North Carolina, site of the first English colony in the Americas.

Question 14

First continental congress

Answer 14

Meeting of delegates from most of the colonies, called in reaction to the Intolerable Acts

Question 15

Second continental congress

Answer 15

America’s government during the revolutionary war

Question 16

Primary and secondary sources

Answer 16

primary sources are sources written by someone who lived with or near something or someone. They could also be made by the person they are referring to. Secondary sources are things written about someone or something by someone who was not there.

Question 17

The bill of rights

Answer 17

first ten amendments to the US constitution. Written guarantees to human rights that absolutely cannot be taken away by the government.

Question 18

Checks and balances

Answer 18

the system of how the three branches of government check and balance each other out.

Question 19

Major reasons Europeans came to America

Answer 19

They wanted gold, new land, slaves, and to get rich with imports and exports

Question 20

Federalism

Answer 20

system of government in which power is shared between the national government and the states

Question 20

Amendment process

Answer 20

to propose, ⅔ of each house of congress or ⅔ of states legislatures have to approve. to ratify, ¾ of state legislatures or ¾ of states approve.

Question 21

Constitutional convention of 1787

Answer 21

meeting at which the US constitution was created.

Question 22

Job of the court system

Answer 22

To decide if a person is guilty of committing a crime or innocent

Question 23

The great compromise

Answer 23

agreement to establish a two house national legislature, with all the states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house.

Question 24

The first ten amendments

Answer 24

1- freedom of religion, worship, assembly, speech, petition
2- bear arms
3-no quartering troops in private homes
4-no search or seizure without reason
5-must be proven guilty. Pay a reasonable price for property
6-fair and speedy trial
7-jury
8-bail and or punishment cannot be cruel or unusual
9- not only the first eight amendments are the people’s rights
10-all power not delegated to the federal government is reserved for state governments

Question 25

Why were the first ten amendments created

Answer 25

because the people wanted written guarantees of rights that they would have that the government couldn’t take away.

Question 26

Jury duty

Answer 26

When a person goes to court people are summoned to be an impartial voting committee to declare a persons innocence or guiltiness

Question 27

Three fifths compromise

Answer 27

three fifths of the slaves population of states were counted as population and for taxation.

Question 28

Articles of confederation

Answer 28

plan for national government that said that the national government would be run by a legislative body called confederation congress.

Question 29

Mayflower compact

Answer 29

document that helped establish the practice of self government.

Question 30

New England colonies

Answer 30

Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut

Question 31

Southern colonies

Answer 31

Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

Question 32

Middle colonies

Answer 32

New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware

Question 33

Paul revere

Answer 33

Boston silversmith who rode into the countryside to spread news of British troop movement

Question 34

John Hancock

Answer 34

president of the congress and the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.

Question 35

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 35

American writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, and diplomat.

Question 36

How many amendments are there?

Answer 36

27