Final 150

Question 1

Why did Europeans come to America to colonize?

Answer 1

To acquire new land and to spread Christianity

Question 2

Virginia Company

Answer 2

The joint stock company that established James town

Question 3

Jamestown

Answer 3

A town established by the Virginia company to search for gold

Question 4

John Smith

Answer 4

The leader of Jamestown who is the reason why people their survived

Question 5

Pocahontas

Answer 5

The chief of Powhatan’s daughter who married a colonist and moved to England

Question 6

John Rolfe

Answer 6

The colonist who married Pocahontas

Question 7

Tobacco

Answer 7

A cash crop that Jamestown grew and sold in England

Question 8

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 8

A colonist named Nathaniel Bacon attacked Indian tribes one almost over took Jamestown which showed the government that they needed to listen to the people’s demands

Question 9

Plymouth Colony

Answer 9

The colony where pilgrims landed

Question 10

Pilgrims

Answer 10

People who went to America to freely practice their religion

Question 11

Mayflower

Answer 11

The boat that the pilgrims traveled on

Question 12

Mayflower Compact

Answer 12

The laws that were agreed to on the Mayflower

Question 13

William Bradford

Answer 13

The governor of the Plymouth colony

Question 14

Squanto and Samoset

Answer 14

2 Indian tribes that showed the Pilgrims how to plant and grow food on bad land. They had the first Thanksgiving together

Question 15

Puritans

Answer 15

People who strongly believed in religion

Question 16

John Winthrop

Answer 16

Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company

Question 17

Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

Answer 17

People who defied the puritans and had their own teachings.

Question 18

Salem Witch Trials

Answer 18

An occurrence in which many people were killed and jailed for apparently being a witch

Question 19

William Penn

Answer 19

The founder of Pennsylvania

Question 20

Quakers

Answer 20

People who very tolerant of other religions and were passive

Question 21

Pacifists

Answer 21

People who didn’t believe in war or physical conflict

Question 22

James Oglethorpe’s debtor and buffer colony

Answer 22

Founder of Georgia which was a buffer colony between Britain and the Spanish and it was where dept collectors went

Question 23

First Great Awakening

Answer 23

A religious movement that swept through Europe and The colonies

Question 24

Triangular Trade

Answer 24

A trade between the colonies Europe and Africa

Question 25

Poor Richard’s Almanack, Albany Plan of Union and Join or Die Cartoon

Answer 25

Propaganda to get colonist to fight for independence

Question 26

John Peter Zenger Trial

Answer 26

A man who got tried for writing bad things and punishing it on The New York Governor

Question 27

Cause of French and Indian War

Answer 27

Fight for control of Indian trading and land

Question 28

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 28

It forbade people from settling west of the Appalachian mountains

Question 29

The Sugar Act

Answer 29

Taxed all sugar imports

Question 30

The Stamp Act

Answer 30

Taxed all paper products

Question 31

The Boston Massacre

Answer 31

When a snowball fight turned into a gun fight between colonists and British Soldiers

Question 32

The Boston Tea Party

Answer 32

An event in which colonists dressed as Indians dropped millions of dollars of tea into the river

Question 33

The Intolerable/Coercive Acts

Answer 33

Laws passed after the Boston tea party

Question 34

Patrick Henry

Answer 34

A orator(public speaker) during the American Revolution

Question 35

Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty

Answer 35

Samuel founded the sons of liberty and the sons of Liberty protested many of the British taxi that were imposed

Question 36

John Hancock

Answer 36

He fought for an American Revolution and is known for his large and stylish hand signature

Question 37

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Answer 37

A book/pamphlet that tried to get people to fight the British

Question 38

Declaration of Independence – Year, location, author, significance

Answer 38

1776, Pennsylvania State House, Thomas Jefferson, it declared war against Briton

Question 39

Cause of American Revolutionary War

Answer 39

High taxes without representation

Question 40

Loyalists

Answer 40

People who wanted to stay with England

Question 41

Patriots

Answer 41

People who wanted to leave England

Question 42

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Answer 42

The first battles of the American Revolutionary War

Question 43

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 43

The turning point of the war

Question 44

Winter at Valley Forge

Answer 44

Where Washington and his army stayed in the winter

Question 45

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 45

Where the British were defeated

Question 46

Benedict Arnold

Answer 46

A general who defected to the British

Question 47

Lead commander of the Patriots troops in the war

Answer 47

George Washington

Question 48

Marquis de La Fayette

Answer 48

A French military officer who fought for the us in the us Revolutionary War

Question 49

Friedrich von Steuben

Answer 49

A Prussian military officer

Question 50

Francis Marion

Answer 50

He was known as the swamp fox

Question 51

guerrilla warfare

Answer 51

Untraditional warfare in which an army group charges from different sides and then retreats

Question 52

Treaty of Paris 1783

Answer 52

A treaty to end the war

Question 53

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Answer 53

A governing ordinance passed for people northwest of the Mississippi River

Question 54

Articles of Confederation

Answer 54

The first government formed for the US

Question 55

Shays’ Rebellion

Answer 55

A rebellion which the federal government could not stop which proved the articles of confederation to be wrong

Question 56

The Great Compromise

Answer 56

A compromise that made a superset house and senate

Question 57

The 3/5 Compromise

Answer 57

It allowed states to count each salve as 3/5 of a person for the population total

Question 58

The US Constitution – Father of, year, and purpose

Answer 58

Thomas Jefferson, 1787, and it established a better and stronger federal government while still keeping states powerful

Question 59

Bill of Rights

Answer 59

The first ten amendments added to the constitution

Question 60

1st Amendment

Answer 60

An amendment that grants free speech,free press, freedom of religion, protest, and petition the government.

Question 61

2nd Amendment

Answer 61

It grants people the right to bear arms

Question 62

4th Amendment

Answer 62

The right against unwarranted searches and seizures

Question 63

5th Amendment

Answer 63

The right to a jury

Question 64

6th Amendment

Answer 64

The right to a speedy and public trial

Question 65

Three Branches of Government and their purpose

Answer 65

Legislative to pass laws and represent the people Executive to enforce the laws Judicial to enforce justice and protect the constitution

Question 66

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 66

A protest over a tax opposed by the new government

Question 67

Alexander Hamilton

Answer 67

He was the first treasure

Question 68

Alien and Sedition Acts

Answer 68

Controversial laws that targeted aliens and immigrants