American Colonies and a New Nation (1-6)

Question 1

What were the two main Spanish settlements in the USA?

Answer 1

Santa Fe and St. Augustine

Question 2

What method did the French use to convert Native Americans to Christianity?

Answer 2

The French Church sent a small number of Jesuit priests to New France

Question 3

Which two colonies were founded for profit?

Answer 3

Maryland and Virginia

Question 4

Which two colonies were founded for religious purposes?

Answer 4

Rhode Island, Connecticut

Question 5

How did European weapons impact the Native Americans?

Answer 5

Balance of power between tribes changed

Question 6

What did the Jamestown colonists come to America in search of?

Answer 6

Fortune

Question 7

What did the Plymouth colonists come to America in search of?

Answer 7

Protestant reformation

Question 8

The Great Awakening caused a spread of what concept?

Answer 8

Revivalism

Question 9

Loyalists were typically what kind of people?

Answer 9

Wealthy men who owned property

Question 10

How did Spain contribute to the colonies during the Revolution?

Answer 10

Supplied weapons to militias and won key victories in battles along the Gulf

Question 11

After [this battle] and when Britain lost control of [this colony], they turned their focus on defeating Patriot forces in [what region]?

Answer 11

Saratoga; New York; South

Question 12

Differences between which two groups caused Shays’ Rebellion?

Answer 12

Farmers and Veterans

Question 13

Under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government had the power to issue what?

Answer 13

Currency

Question 14

What were the main points in the Federalist argument?

Answer 14

Argued for Republicanism and a strong central/federal government

Question 15

What were the main points in the Anti-Federalist argument?

Answer 15

Argued for a direct democracy and for the federal government not to have too much power

Question 16

When the French Revolution was going on, Democratic-Republicans and Federalists were brought together or further divided?

Answer 16

Further divided

Question 17

Because job options were limited for women and women weren’t able to inherit land, they began working where?

Answer 17

Textile Mills

Question 18

How did the economy in the South prosper?

Answer 18

Exporting raw materials

Question 19

Who did most of the work in the South?

Answer 19

Enslaved people

Question 20

How did the economy in the North prosper?

Answer 20

Cheap materials from the South and exporting manufactured goods

Question 21

Who did most of the work in the North?

Answer 21

Paid white men and women

Question 22

What did William Lloyd Garrison advocate for?

Answer 22

The end of slavery through nonviolence

Question 23

What did David Walker advocate for?

Answer 23

The end of slavery through violence (if it was necessary)

Question 24

How did Frederick Douglass argue for the end of slavery?

Answer 24

By writing about his own personal experience as an enslaved man

Question 25

Through what system did Harriet Tubman help over 300 enslaved people escape?

Answer 25

The Underground Railroad

Question 26

What was John Brown’s main goal in the raid of Harper’s Ferry, VA?

Answer 26

To initiate an armed slaves’ revolt

Question 27

What war put Britain in debt and caused them to levy unfair taxes?

Answer 27

The Seven Years’ War

Question 28

What act was put in place to punish residents of Boston for the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 28

Coercive Acts

Question 29

What plan gave bigger states an advantage and advocated for representation based on population size?

Answer 29

Virginia Plan

Question 30

Did the Articles of Confederation give states or federal government more power?

Answer 30

States

Question 31

What argument did Anti-Federalists make about not ratifying the Constitution?

Answer 31

Gave the Federal government too much power

Question 32

What treaty ended the American Revolution and gave the US independence?

Answer 32

The Treaty of Paris

Question 33

What event proved that the US federal government didn’t have enough power?

Answer 33

Shays’ Rebellion