Section 2 - Midterm

Question 1

The British hoped to_________.

Answer 1

gain greater control over colonial trade and frontier settlement as well as to reduce the administrative cost of the colonies and the enormous debt left by the French and Indian War.

Question 2

With the end of the French and Indian War, _______ claimed a
vast new expanse of territory, at least on paper.

Answer 2

Great Britain

Question 3

As a direct tax on the colonists, the Stamp Act imposed an internal tax on items the colonists used, such as____.

Answer 3

newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards

Question 4

Prime Minister________ , author of the Sugar Act of 1764, introduced the Stamp Act in the early spring of 1765.

Answer 4

Grenville

Question 5

Charles Townshend was ______.

Answer 5

to manage the Empire’s finances; chancellor of the exchequer

Question 6

The ________ placed duties on various consumer items like paper, paint, lead, tea, and glass.

Answer 6

Townshend Revenue Act of 1767

Question 7

The Tea Act of 1773 triggered a reaction with far more significant consequences than the_______.

Answer 7

1765 Stamp Act or the 1767 Townshend Acts

Question 8

Colonists had attacked or burned British customs ships in the past, but after the Gaspée Affair, the British government ________.

Answer 8

convened a Royal Commission of Inquiry

Question 9

The Tea Act of 1773 gave the _______ the ability to export its tea directly to the colonies without paying import or export duties and without using middlemen in either Great Britain or the colonies.

Answer 9

British East India Company

Question 10

In early 1774, leaders in Parliament responded with a set of four measures designed to punish Massachusetts, commonly known as the ______

Answer 10

Coercive Acts

Question 11

Paul Revere rode from Massachusetts to ________with the Suffolk Resolves, which became the basis of the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress.

Answer 11

Philadelphia

Question 12

The Revolution succeeded because ________.

Answer 12

colonists from diverse economic and social backgrounds united in their opposition to Great Britain

Question 13

Local rebel militias that were able to mobilize in a minute’s time were called ______.

Answer 13

minutemen

Question 14

The Mecklenburg Resolves stated that_______.

Answer 14

that a rebellion against Great Britain had begun, that colonists did not owe any further allegiance to Great Britain, and that governing authority had now passed to the Continental Congress.

Question 15

The author of a pamphlet, first published in January 1776, entitled Common Sense was ________.

Answer 15

Thomas Paine

Question 16

The Declaration, written primarily by ________, included a long list of grievances against King George III and laid out the foundation of American government as a republic in which the consent of the governed would be of paramount importance.

Answer 16

Thomas Jefferson

Question 17

The British defeat at ______ made the outcome of the war all but certain.

Answer 17

Yorktown

Question 18

Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris, individual states were encouraged to ______.

Answer 18

refrain from persecuting Loyalists and to return their confiscated property

Question 19

This first American money was called _______.

Answer 19

Continental currency

Question 20

The __________ opened some new doors for women, as they took on public roles usually reserved for men.

Answer 20

Revolution

Question 21

________ formed the Ladies Association of Philadelphia and led a fundraising drive to provide sorely needed supplies to the Continental Army.

Answer 21

Esther DeBerdt Reed

Question 22

A few _______ took part in combat.

Answer 22

women

Question 23

During the 1770s and 1780s, Americans took bold steps to _____.

Answer 23

define American equality

Question 24

In the late eighteenth century, republics were ____.

Answer 24

few and far between

Question 25

Monarchy rests on the _________.

Answer 25

practice of dynastic succession, in which the monarch’s child or other relative inherits the throne.

Question 26

Conservative Whigs defined themselves in opposition to _______.

Answer 26

democracy, which they equated with anarchy

Question 27

Radical Whigs favored______.

Answer 27

broadening the popular participation in political life and pushed for democracy.

Question 28

In eighteenth-century America, as in _________, a married woman had no legal or economic status independent of her husband.

Answer 28

Great Britain

Question 29

Abigail Adams is best remembered for her______.

Answer 29

eloquent letters to her husband, John Adams

Question 30

The ideals of the Revolution generated a movement toward _____.

Answer 30

the abolition of slavery

Question 31

The __________, which ended the war for independence, did not address Indians at all.

Answer 31

1783 Treaty of Paris

Question 32

In the system of checks and balances, ______.

Answer 32

three separate branches of government —executive, legislative, and judicial—would maintain a balance of power.

Question 33

The stated purpose of the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 was to ____.

Answer 33

amend the Articles of Confederation

Question 34

_________put forward a proposition known as the Virginia Plan.

Answer 34

James Madison

Question 35

The Connecticut Compromise was also known as the _______.

Answer 35

Great Compromise

Question 36

Many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had serious reservations about______.

Answer 36

democracy, which they believed promoted anarchy

Question 37

The Federalists, particularly John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, put their case to the public in a famous series of essays known as _________.

Answer 37

The Federalist Papers

Question 38

_______saw unchecked democracy as a dire threat to the republic.

Answer 38

Federalists

Question 39

Congress passed its first major piece of legislation by_____.

Answer 39

placing a duty on imports under the 1789 Tariff Act

Question 40

Many Americans opposed the 1787 Constitution because it seemed a _____ .

Answer 40

dangerous concentration of centralized power that threatened the rights and liberties of ordinary U.S. citizens.

Question 41

Jefferson returned to the United States in ______after serving as a diplomat in _________.

Answer 41

1790 ; France

Question 42

The _______defined citizenship in stark racial terms.

Answer 42

1790 Naturalization Act

Question 43

For women, the right to vote remained out of reach except in the state of ______.

Answer 43

New Jersey

Question 44

The ________aimed to increase national security against what most had come to regard as the French menace.

Answer 44

Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 45

The first conflict fought by Americans overseas was the __________.

Answer 45

war against the Muslin Barbary States in 1801

Question 46

Perhaps the greatest real estate deal in American history, the ________greatly enhanced the Jeffersonian vision of the United States as an agrarian republic in which yeomen farmers worked the land.

Answer 46

Louisiana Purchase

Question 47

The__________ prohibited American ships from leaving their ports until Britain and France stopped seizing them on the high seas.

Answer 47

Embargo Act of 1807

Question 48

. An underlying cause of the War of 1812 was _______.

Answer 48

British support for native resistance to U.S. western expansion

Question 49

In 1809, Tecumseh, a Shawnee war chief___

Answer 49

rejuvenated the Western Confederacy

Question 50

In July 1814, forty-five hundred hardened British soldiers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay and______.

Answer 50

burned Washington, DC, to the ground, forcing President Madison and his wife to run for their lives

Question 51

____________ had much to celebrate in 1763.

Answer 51

Great Britian

Question 52

Because the _______raised constitutional issues, it triggered the first serious protest against British imperial policy.

Answer 52

Stamp Act

Question 53

The _________ occurred after Parliament had partially repealed the Townshend Act.

Answer 53

Boston Massacre

Question 54

___________, the first man killed–and, though no one could have known it then, the first official casualty in the war for independence-was of Wampanoag and African descent.

Answer 54

Crispus Attucks

Question 55

In the summer of _______, the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia and agreed to sever ties with Great Britain.

Answer 55

1776

Question 56

_________ formed the Ladies Association of Philadelphia and led a fundraising drive to provide sorely needed supplies to the Continental Arm

Answer 56

Esther DeBerdt Reed

Question 57

Democracy is a system of government characterized by __________.

Answer 57

majority rule

Question 58

Phillis Wheatley, who was born in Africa in 1753 and sold as a slave to the Wheatley family of Boston, achieved full literacy and went on to become one of the best-known ______ of the time.

Answer 58

poets

Question 59

In lieu of creating a new federal government, the Articles of Confederation created a _________ between the states.

Answer 59

”league of friendship”

Question 60

_______ introduced and Congress approved the Bill of Rights.

Answer 60

Virginia Representative James Madison