Semester 1 Review

Question 1

Indentured Servants

Answer 1

• worked off payment to New World

- promised land after term worked off

Question 2

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

Answer 2

• Virginians rose up due to lack of protection from Native Americans
• led to restructuring governemtn

Question 3

Pilgrims

Answer 3

• moved to New England for religious freedom

- seperatists

Question 4

Mayflower Compact (1620)

Answer 4

-structured government of New England colony

Question 5

John Winthrop - Arbella (1630)

Answer 5

-“City Upon a Hill”

Question 6

Anne Hutchinson (1630s)

Answer 6

-banned from Massachusetts to Rhode Island for views of women’s rights in worship

Question 7

Great Awakening (1730s)

Answer 7

• religious revival

- George Whitefield

Question 8

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 8

• ended Salutary Neglect

- colonists couldn’t settle west of Appalachians

Question 9

Navigation Acts

Answer 9

-attempt to implement mercantilism in colonies

Question 10

Sugar Act (1764)

Answer 10

-tax on sugar for colonies

Question 11

Stamp Act (1765)

Answer 11

• very unpopular in colonies
• Stamp Act Congress
• eventually repealed

Question 12

Sons of Liberty

Answer 12

-formed after Stamp Act by Sam Adams

Question 13

Tea Act (1773)

Answer 13

-unpopular in colonies, led to Boston Tea Party

Question 14

Boston Tea Party

Answer 14

• colonists dumped millions of dollars of tea in harbor
• organized by Sons of Liberty
• led to Coercive Acts

Question 15

Coercive/Intolerable Acts (1774)

Answer 15

-closed Boston Port until colony payed off the tea they dumped

Question 16

Quartering Act (1774)

Answer 16

-colonists had to house British Soldiers

Question 17

Townshend Acts (1767)

Answer 17

-attempt to raise revenue from colonies

Question 18

Boston Massacre (1770)

Answer 18

-colonists antagonized British troops, troops shot at them

Question 19

Common Sense

Answer 19

• Thomas Paine

- structured argument for Declaration

Question 20

John Locke

Answer 20

• European philosopher

- rights of man

Question 21

Second Continental Congress (1775)

Answer 21

• organized for war

- drafted Declaration of Independence

Question 22

Lexington + Concord (1775)

Answer 22

-first battle of Revolutionary War

Question 23

Saratoga (1777)

Answer 23

-ended British attempt to unite forces from Canada and New York

Question 24

Yorktown (1781)

Answer 24

-decisive U.S. victory, effectively ended war

Question 25

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Answer 25

- ended Revolutionary War - recognized U.S. independence - British would pull of of U.S. - U.S. would return seized property to Loyalists

Question 26

Weaknesses of Articles of Confederaton

Answer 26

- couldn't tax - held very little power over the states - very hard to get things passed

Question 27

Northwest Ordinances(1786)

Answer 27

-determined how new territories would be added as a state

Question 28

Shay's Rebellion (1787)

Answer 28

- farmers rose up, federal government could do nothing to end it - revealed weakness of Federal government

Question 29

Constitutional Convention (1787)

Answer 29

-met in Philadelphia to discuss revisions for Articles, ended up writing new government

Question 30

3/5 Compromise

Answer 30

-when determining representation, slaves would count as 3/5

Question 31

NJ Plan

Answer 31

-each state gets 2 reps

Question 32

VA Plan

Answer 32

-reps based off population

Question 33

CN/Great Compromise

Answer 33

- bicameral legislature | - house of reps is lower house, by population

Question 34

Electoral College (senate, president)

Answer 34

-no direct elections of senators or presidents

Question 35

Federalists

Answer 35

- Hamilton - ties with England - expanded federal government - focus on industry

Question 36

Republicans

Answer 36

- TJ - ties with France - small federal government - focus on agriculture

Question 37

Bill of Rights

Answer 37

- rights guaranteed to everyone | - created so constitution would pass

Question 38

Republican Motherhood

Answer 38

-mothers' duty to raised children to be good citizens

Question 39

Tecumseh and Tenkswatawa

Answer 39

-Native American leaders, attempt to unite them

Question 40

Washington's Precedents

Answer 40

- 2 term | - Mr. President

Question 41

Hamilton's Funding + Assumption

Answer 41

- federal government would assume all state debt | - government would give money to any current bond holders

Question 42

Loose v. Strict interpretation

Answer 42

-debate over elastic clause, use of implied powers

Question 43

Whiskey Rebellion (1791)

Answer 43

- farmers protested taxes | - GW put down rebellion himself

Question 44

Washington's Farewell Address

Answer 44

-warned against agreements with other nations

Question 45

Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)

Answer 45

-U.S. neutral between GB and France

Question 46

Citizen Genet Affair (1793)

Answer 46

-French diplomat, tried to organize American attacks on British

Question 47

Jay's Treaty (1794)

Answer 47

- Britain vacated forts in U.S. - U.S. agreed to mostly trade with GB - established Northeast boundary

Question 48

Pinckney Treaty (1795)

Answer 48

-established U.S. and Florida border

Question 49

Alien + Sedition Acts (1798)

Answer 49

-people couldn't criticize the government

Question 50

VA + Kentucky Resolutions (1798)

Answer 50

-argued states had right to nullify federal law

Question 51

Midnight Judges (1800)

Answer 51

- John Adams appointed many judges in his final days in office - Chief Justice John Marshall

Question 52

Revolution of 1800

Answer 52

-peaceful shift in power to political parties

Question 53

XYZ Affair (1797)

Answer 53

- French diplomats attempt to get a bribe from U.S. | - angered Americans, hurt relations

Question 54

Jefferson's Inaugural address

Answer 54

-uniting political parties

Question 55

Marbury v Madison (1803)

Answer 55

-established principle of judicial review

Question 56

Embargo Acts (1807)

Answer 56

-ended trade with GB and France when they didn't respect U.S. shipping rights