Mid Term Study Cards

Question 0

1607 was the founding of what?

Answer 0

Jamestown, Virginia

Question 1

The founding of settlements in the New World identifies what era?

Answer 1

The Colonial Era

Question 2

The Plymouth colony was founded so the pilgrims could practice what?

Answer 2

Their religion

Question 3

Who founded a refuge for Quakers?

Answer 3

William Penn

Question 4

The Southern Colonies made their primary living on what?

Answer 4

Cash crops

Question 5

The hands off policy of the British Government towards trade during the early to mid-1700’s was called what?

Answer 5

Salutary Neglect

Question 6

The 13 colonies where located around what body of water?

Answer 6

The Atlantic Ocean

Question 7

Settling near rivers provided a source of what?

Answer 7

Transportation

Question 8

The barrier separating the colonies from the Ohio River Valley is the what?

Answer 8

The Appalachian Mountains

Question 9

What set of colonies would you find small farms and commercial fishing?

Answer 9

The New England Colonies

Question 10

Cold climate and poor soil made the New England Colonies rely heavily on what for income?

Answer 10

Trade

Question 11

There was an abundance of lumber which led to what?

Answer 11

Ship building

Question 12

Warm climate lead to a plantation economy in which states?

Answer 12

The Southern States

Question 13

What grew in the south because of a need for a steady supply of cheap labor and labor shortages?

Answer 13

Slavery

Question 14

The European demand for tobacco and rice contributed to the development of what?

Answer 14

A plantation based economy in the south

Question 15

What was the reason for America to form their own representative government during the colonial era?

Answer 15

Because of the long distance the British Government was from the colonies

Question 16

Americans wanted increased political participation so they leaned toward what type of democracy?

Answer 16

A representative democracy

Question 17

To vote in the colonies and the newly formed United States up until the election of Jackson 1828 what did you have be/own?

Answer 17

You had to be a white male that owned property

Question 18

Sequencing

1. French and Indian War
2. Stamp Act
3. Boston Massacre
4. American Revolution
5. U.S. Constitution Written

Answer 18

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Question 19

Sequencing

1: Lexington and Concord
2. Battle of Saratoga
3. Battle of Yorktown
4. Treaty of Paris 1783

Answer 19

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Question 20

The Proclamation of 1763 stated you could not settle past what?

Answer 20

The Appalachian Mountains

Question 21

Taxation without what was a major cause of the American Revolution?

Answer 21

Representation

Question 22

Taxation without representation means that you should have the consent of what?

Answer 22

The people you govern

Question 23

The battles of Lexington, Concord, and Saratoga would be found in what era?

Answer 23

American Revolution Era

Question 24

The document that declared independence from Great Britain and showed the rest of the world that the colonists were justified in revolution was called the what?

Answer 24

The Declaration of Independence

Question 25

What was the name for the rights that people are born with and can't be taken away from them? (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness)

Answer 25

Unalienable Rights

Question 26

The battle which is considered the turning point of the revolution and convinced the French to help the American army was?

Answer 26

The battle of Saratoga

Question 27

What is the name of the era that may be defined with the debating the strengths and weaknesses of the AOC?

Answer 27

The Constitutional Era

Question 28

The constitutional convention originally contended to revise what document? But ended up abolishing it and wrote a whole new constitution

Answer 28

The AOC

Question 29

What was the first official government of the United States that provided laws such as the northwest ordinance which regulated the breaking up of western lands and had a weak central government that did not provide for w national court system.

Answer 29

The Articles of Confederation

Question 30

Desire for a strong central government lead to the creation of what?

Answer 30

The U.S. Constitution

Question 31

Who was the father of the constitution? He was a federalist who supported a strong central government.

Answer 31

James Madison

Question 32

The compromise in the constitution that decided how slaves would be counted for representation in the House of Representatives for the southern states is called the what?

Answer 32

3/5ths Compromise

Question 33

What compromise addressed representation issues concerning large populated states and small populated states. Where the House of Representatives members is based on population of the state and the senate has 2 representatives from each state.

Answer 33

The Great Compromise