6th Grade History MIDTERM

Question 1

People who invest in a risky venture in hope of making a large profit

Answer 1

Speculator

Question 2

He was from Virginia and authored several Federalist Papers. He also was the principal author of the Virginia Plan, which called for the central government to have 3 separate branches.

Answer 2

James Madison

Question 3

Revolutionary war hero that won the battle of Fallen Timbers.

Answer 3

Anthony Wayne

Question 4

An outsider or someone from another country

Answer 4

Alien

Question 5

First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Answer 5

John Jay

Question 6

It is a privately owned bank of the United States. It provides a sage place to deposit government funds. The bank issues paper money that serves as the national currency.

Answer 6

National Bank

Question 7

• Stated that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.
• Claimed that states could overrule federal law.
• They boosted the idea of state’s rights.

Answer 7

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Question 8

The two political parties that fought to gain control of the country.

Answer 8

Republicans and Federalists

Question 9

This political party wanted to keep most power at the state or local level. They feared a strong central government would act like a monarchy.

Answer 9

Republicans

Question 10

This political party said the country needed a strong federal government to hold the country together and deal with its problems.

Answer 10

Federalists

Question 11

• Prominent leader of the Federalist party.
• Developed a plan to solve the nation’s financial crisis.
• First U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Answer 11

Alexander Hamilton

Question 12

Farmers rebelled because they did not want to pay taxes on the whiskey they made from their corn. The tax was part of the plan to pay off the national debt. President Washington responded quickly by sending troops. The rebellion tested the will of the new government.

Answer 12

Whiskey Rebellion

Question 13

Both wars fought monarchy

Answer 13

French Revolution and American Revolution

The American Revolution = Colonists against English rule.
The French Revolution = French people against their government.
Both fought monarchy.

Question 14

A letter to fellow Americans that had lasting influence.

It had 2 major points: to avoid political divisions at home and avoid political involvement with foreign nations.

Answer 14

George Washington’s Farewell Address

It had 2 major points: to avoid political divisions at home and avoid political involvement with foreign nations.

Question 15

Was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War. It was a struggle between Native Americans and the United States government for control of the Northwest Territory. General Anthony Wayne led the forces against the Indians.

Answer 15

Fallen Timbers

Question 16

Who won the election of 1788?

Answer 16

George Washington

Question 17

• Was directed at immigrants.
• It increased the duration from 5 to 14 years that a person had to live in the United States to become a citizen.
• The President gained the power to deport or imprison any alien he considered dangerous.

Answer 17

Alien Act

Question 18

• Targeted Republicans.
• Sedition is activity designed to overthrow the government.
• It was probably the harshest law limiting free speech ever passed in the United States.
• It made it a crime for anyone to write or say anything insulting the President, Congress, or the government in general.

Answer 18

Sedition Act

Question 19

Prophet for Islam. Muslims believe the Quran, the sacred book of Islam, was revealed to him.

Answer 19

Muhammad

Question 20

Jewish prophet whose life and teachings inspired Christianity.

Answer 20

Jesus

Question 21

• A Spanish explorer who found America.

- Completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 21

Christopher Columbus

Question 22

A group of people from England who moved to Netherlands and then to Virginia. They wanted to separate from the Church of England. They are known as Pilgrims and founded Jamestown

Answer 22

Separatists

Question 23

• Had disagreements with the Church of England wanted to change or reform it.
• Eventually left for America and formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• formed their colony to worship as they chose.
• wanted to purify the church and society.

Answer 23

Puritans

Question 24

Benjamin Franklin’s most popular work that was published every year from 1733 -1753. It was full of pithy sayings such as, “Live to eat, not eat to live.”

Answer 24

Poor Richard’s Almanac

Question 25

Colonial militia units made up of citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minute’s notice.

Answer 25

Minutemen

Question 26

Virginia/New Jersey Plan

Answer 26

Virginia Plan called for a changed in the composition of Congress (from a single legislative body to a lower and upper house). It called for representation based on population.

New Jersey Plan wanted equal representation (each state to have the same number of votes in Congress, as was the case under the Articles of Confederation).

Question 27

Branches of Government

Answer 27

Executive = President, Vice President and cabinet.  They execute the laws
Legislative = Congress (Senate and House of Representatives). They make the laws.
Judicial = Supreme Court.  They interpret the laws.

Question 28

How did the Federalists and the Republicans interpret the Constitution differently?

Answer 28

• The Republicans favored a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
• The Federalists favored loose interpretation of the Constitution.
  They believed that the states should have the powers not explicitly granted to the central government in the Constitution because they feared that the federal government would become to powerful.