Government Quiz 3.3-3.4

Question 1

bicameral

Answer 1

two house legislature

Question 2

unicameral

Answer 2

one house legislature

Question 3

House of Burgesses

Answer 3

Jamestown in 1619; made up of representatives from 10 districts in Virginia territory

Question 4

House of Commons

Answer 4

the lower house in Parliament

Question 5

House of Lords

Answer 5

upper house that was appointed by Crown and passed down

Question 6

Great Awakening

Answer 6

1730-1760, a spiritual revival that swept the American colonies

Question 7

New England Confederation

Answer 7

first political unity for defense against Native Americans

Question 8

Albany Plan

Answer 8

proposal that called for an annual conference of delegates

Question 9

English Bill of Rights

Answer 9

1689

Question 10

Johnathon Edwards

Answer 10

wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”; catalyst to beginning of the Great Awakening

Question 11

George Whitefield

Answer 11

preached to crowds up to 18,000

Question 12

Results in Gov. from Great Awakening

Answer 12

1) members of church to run church rather than the government
2) leads to economic freedom and Capitalism
3) encouraged more political liberty

Question 13

Who proposed the Albany Plan

Answer 13

Benjamin Franklin

Question 14

House of Burgesses

Answer 14

1st representative assembly ever called in colonies
representatives were called “burgess” cause they lived in Burgs
1st met in a church

Question 15

The lower house in government always has control of what?

Answer 15

power of the purse

Question 16

Pitt and Burke

Answer 16

the allies of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and George Washington

Question 17

Stamp Act

Answer 17

required colonists to purchase and to put a stamp on legal and commercial documents

Question 18

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 18

believed that only the colonial legislatures had the legal right to levy taxes within the colonies

Question 19

Declaration of Rights and Grievances

Answer 19

“no taxation without representation” an objection to the Stamp Act, which Parliament eventually repealed

Question 20

French and Indian War

Answer 20

War between France and England, where England gained Ohio River Valley

Question 21

What is England’s name for the American named “Intolerable Acts”

Answer 21

Townshend Act

Question 22

What was in the Intolerable acts

Answer 22

taxes on tea, lead, glass, and paper

Question 23

Which of the 4 intolerable act levied taxes got repealed?

Answer 23

glass, lead, and paper

Question 24

First Continental Congress

Answer 24

in Philadelphia, came together to discuss the Intolerable Acts

Question 25

What was the date of the Shot Heard Round the World

Answer 25

April 19th, 1775

Question 26

Prohibitory Act

Answer 26

Cut off trade between the colonies and England

Question 27

When was the Declaration of Independence signed

Answer 27

July 4th, 1776

Question 28

Who proposes Independence?

Answer 28

Richard Henry Lee

Question 29

Second Continental Congress

Answer 29

the governing body during the war for Independence

Question 30

Olive Branch Petition author

Answer 30

Dickenson

Question 31

What does the Olive Branch Petition propose?

Answer 31

send Parliament this:
1) apply constitution fairly and equally
2) give us representation
then you have total allegiance from the colonies

Question 32

Who goes against the Olive Branch Petition?

Answer 32

John Adams

Question 33

3 Reasons for the Declaration of Independence

Answer 33

1) secure foreign alliances
2) inform the colonists of Crown’s actions
3) preclude any colonial sentiment toward reconciliation with England