Mid Term

Question 1

Jamestown and Plymouth. main motivation? adventurers wanted to stake English claim to prevent Spanish from taking over all of North America

Answer 1

first English colonie

Question 2

labor system where people paid for their passage to the New world by working for an employer for a certain number of years

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indentured servants

Question 3

European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition

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enlightenment

Question 4

1st president of the U.S., commander-in-chief of the continental army during American Revolutionary Wat, and one of the Foundig Fathers of the U.S.

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George Washington

Question 5

First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War

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Battle of Lexington

Question 6

A founding father of the u.s. author of the common sense, was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and Revolutionary

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Thomas Paine

Question 7

A founding father of the u.s. leader of the movement that later became the American Revolution and was an architect that helped shape political culture of the U.S.

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Samuel Adams

Question 8

former after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became that United States of America

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continental army

Question 9

adopted by continental congress on November 5, 1777. Served as u.s. 1st constitution

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Articles of Comfederation

Question 10

statement adopted by comtinental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4,1777. announced the 13 American colonies

Answer 10

Declaration of Independence

Question 11

name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enrollment of tax collections and judgements for debt

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shays’ rebellion

Question 12

u.s. federal statue adopted on Septembr 24, 1789 in the first session of the first congress. established federal judiciary of the u.s.

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judiciary act of 1789

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an act of best of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies

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separation of powers

Question 14

collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. promoting the ratification of the u.s. constitution

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the federalist

Question 15

American statesman, political theorist, and the 4th president of the u.s. aka “Father of the Constitution for drafting the u.s. constitution.

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James Madison

Question 16

a Founding Father of the u.s. chief staff aside to General George Washington. Founder of the Federalist Party

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Alexander Hamilton

Question 17

a political and diplomatic episode on 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the u.s. and republican France

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XYZ affair

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a tax protest in the u.s. beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington

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Whiskey Rebellion

Question 19

American soldier, politician, and diplomat who negotiated Pinckney’s treaty

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Thomas Pinckney

Question 20

landmark u.s. Supreme Court case in which the court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the u.s. under Article III of the constitution.

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Marbury vs. Madison

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American lawyer and Founding Father, and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. elected 2nd Vice President of the u.s.

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Thomas Jefferson

Question 22

Native American leader of the Shawnee and large tribal confederacy which opposed the u.s. during ________ War and became an ally of Britain in the War of 1812

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Tecumseh

Question 23

7th president of the u.s. elected to the u.s. House of Representatives and the to u.s. senate

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Andrew Jackson

Question 24

American statesman who served as the 6th president of the u.s. from 1825 to 1829

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John Quincy Adams

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u.s. foreign policy regarding the domination of the American continent of 1823

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Monroe Doctrine

Question 26

invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794, used to easily separate cotton fibers from their seeds

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Cotton Gin

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first tariff passed by congress with an explicit function of protecting u.s. manufacturing items from foreign competition

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Tariff of 1816

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includes Vice President and the heads of 15 executive departments

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presidents cabinet

Question 29

ran through New York for about 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo. Built to create navigable water route from NYC to Great Lakes

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Erie Canal

Question 30

9th u.s president, an American military officer and politician. last president born as British subject

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William Henry Harrison

Question 31

10th u.s. president. elected Vice President on the 1840 Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison and became president after his running mate’s death in April 1841

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John Tyler

Question 32

a founding father of the u.s., signer of the treaty of Paris and first Chief Justice of the u.s.

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John Jay

Question 33

American politician who served as 8th president of the u.s.

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Martin Van Buren

Question 34

American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. Key and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South

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Eli Whitney

Question 35

Indians of the southwestern U.S. built of Adobe or stone, many- storied terraced communal structures for dwelling and defensive purposes

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pueblos