review exam 2 worksheet

Question 1

what is the continental army

Answer 1

the regular or professional army authorized by the 2nd continental congress and commanded by general George Washington during the revolutionary war (pg131)

Question 2

who are the loyalists

Answer 2

British colonists who opposed independence from Britain (pg132)

Question 3

what is the Bill of Rights

Answer 3

a written summary of inalienable rights and liberties, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution (pg 148)

Question 4

what is the bill for establishing religious freedom

Answer 4

a bill authorized by Thomas Jefferson establishing religious freedom in Virginia (pg 148)

Question 5

what is the Constitutional Convention

Answer 5

a convention of delegates from the colonies that first met to organize resistance to the intolerable acts (pg 149)

Question 6

what is the Albany Conference of 1754

Answer 6

a 1754 meeting, held in Albany, New York, between the British leaders and leaders of the Iroquois Confederacy (pg 106)

Question 7

what was the Royal proclamation of 1763

Answer 7

a royal proclamation declaring the trans-Appalachian region to be ‘Indian Country’ (pg 109)

Question 8

what was the Sugar Act

Answer 8

a law passed in 1764 to raise revenue in the American Colonies. It lowered the duty from 6 pence to 3 pence per gallon on foreign molasses imported to the colonies and increased the restrictions on colonial commerce (pg 112)

Question 9

what was the stamp act

Answer 9

Law passed by parliament in 1765 to raise revenue in America by requiring taxed, stamped paper for legal documents, publications, and playing cards (pg 113)

Question 10

what was sons of liberty

Answer 10

secret organizations in the colonies formed to oppose the stamp act (pg 113)

Question 11

what were the Townshend Acts

Answer 11

a series of acts of parliament, passed in 1767, imposing duties on colonial tea, lead, paint, paper, and glass (pg 114)

Question 12

what was the Boston Massacre

Answer 12

after months of increasing friction between townspeople and the British troops stationed in the city, on March 5, 1770, British troops fired on American civilians in Boston (pg 117)

Question 13

what was the Boston Tea Party

Answer 13

the incident that occurred on December 16, 1773, in which Bostonians, disguised as Indians, destroyed tea belonging to the British East India Company in order to prevent payment of the duty on it (pg 118)

Question 14

what was the Intolerable act

Answer 14

American term for the Coercive acts (pg 119)

Question 15

what were the Coercive acts

Answer 15

Legislation passed by parliament in 1774, included the Boston Port Act, The Massachusetts Gov Act, The admin of justice act, and the quartering act (pg 118)

Question 16

what was the Quartering Act

Answer 16

an act of parliament requiring colonial legislatures to provide supplies and quarters for the troops stationed in America (pg 119)

Question 17

what was the Quebec act

Answer 17

a law passed by parliament in 1774 that provided an appointed government for Canada, enlarged the boundaries for Quebec and confirmed the privileges of the Catholic Church (pg 119)

Question 18

what was the virginia plan

Answer 18

a proposal calling for the national legislature in which the states would be represented according to population (pg 155)

Question 19

what was the whiskey rebellion

Answer 19

an armed uprising in 1794 by farmers in western pennsylvania who attempted to prevent the collection of the excise tax on whiskey (pg 165)

Question 20

what was the alien accdt

Question 21

what was the alien act

Answer 21

an act passed by congress in 1798 that authorized the president to imprison or deport suspected aliens during wartime (pg 167)

Question 22

what was the sedition act

Answer 22

an act passed by congress in 1798 that provided fines for anyone convicted of writing, publishing, or speaking out against the government or its officers; broad law used later in WW1 to restrict criticism of America’s involvement in the war or its government, flag, military, taxes, or officials (pg 167)

Question 23

what was the Louisiana purchase

Answer 23

bought from France for 15 million dollars in 1803, it was the largest peaceful acquisition of territory in US history (pg 182)

Question 24

what was the embargo act

Answer 24

act passed by congress in 1807 prohibiting American ships from leaving for any foreign port (pg 184)

Question 25

what was the treaty of Ghent

Answer 25

treaty signed in December 1814between the United States and Britain that ended the war of 1812 (pg 191)

Question 26

what was the era of good feelings

Answer 26

the period from 1817 to 1823 in which the disapearence of the federalists enabled the republicans to govern in a spirit of seemingly non-partisan harmony (pg 194)

Question 27

what was Marbury v Madison

Answer 27

a supreme court decision of 1803 that created the precedent of judicial review by ruling as unconstitutional part of the judiciary act of 1789(pg 180)

Question 28

what was the Monroe doctrine

Answer 28

declaration by President James Monroe in 1823 that the western hemisphere was to be closed off to further European colonization and that the United States would not interfere in the international affairs of European nations (pg 195)

Question 29

what was the Missouri compromise

Answer 29

a sectional compromise in congress in 1820 that admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and prohibited slavery in the northern Louisiana Purchase territory (pg 198)