GP 2 + GP 3 Material

Question 1

Principal author of the Declaration of Independence is…

Answer 1

Thomas Jefferson

Question 2

Delegates met in Sep 1774 in Pennsylvania to respond to the Coercive Acts. This meeting was called the

Answer 2

First Continental Congress

Question 3

Who fought in the French and Indian War and why?

Answer 3

Britain and France over the Ohio River Valley

Question 4

When boycotts on the Stamp Act occurred…

Answer 4

Parliament repealed the act

Question 5

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 5

This battle convinced the France and Spain to side with America during the Revolutionary War

Question 6

What was the last battle in the Revolutionary War?

Answer 6

The Battle of Yorktown

Question 7

What was the Treaty of Paris?

Answer 7

A treaty recognizing America as a free country

Question 8

The Coercive Acts

Answer 8

Boston Port Act
Massachusetts Gov. Act
Quartering Act

Question 9

Proc of 1763 declared

Answer 9

Colonists couldn’t settle west of the Appalachians

Question 10

What was the main point of Hamilton’s financial plan?

Answer 10

Protecting the rights of states against a powerful national government

Question 11

What was the message of the Second Great Awakening?

Answer 11

All people could attain salvation

Question 12

Temperance Movement addressed

Answer 12

alcoholism

Question 13

US military strategy for the war with Mexico was to

Answer 13

fortify Texas and wait for the Mexican army to attack

Question 14

Treaty of Guadalupe Higaldo

Answer 14

Mexico had to cede 500,000 square miles of territory to the United States

Question 15

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 15

an addendum to another bill that prohibited slavery in state territory gained from Mexico

Question 16

Freeport Doctrine

Answer 16

Stephen Douglas’s argument that people could keep slavery out of a territory by refusing to pass laws supporting it

Question 17

Jay’s Treaty

Answer 17

States that American merchants would not be discriminated against when they traded with Britain
gave them the ‘most-favored’ nation status

Question 18

Oliver Perry

Answer 18

arranged for the construction of a fleet on the coast of Lake Erie in Ohio

Question 19

The Treaty of Ghent

Answer 19

ended the War of 1812

Question 20

The Monroe Doctrine’s main message was

Answer 20

The Americas were off-limits to future European colonization

Question 21

Adam-Onis Treaty of 1819

Answer 21

gave Florida to the US

Question 22

Missouri joining the US caused disruption because

Answer 22

the balance between free states and slave states was broken

Question 23

The Trail of Tears was started by

Answer 23

Martin Van Buren

Question 24

President Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the US by

Answer 24

removing all federal deposits and giving them to state banks

Question 25

What political party emerged in opposition to Jackson?

Answer 25

the Whigs