Social studies CBA

Question 1

Which country focused on Fur Trading?

Answer 1

France

Question 2

Who made the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

Answer 2

Reverend Thomas Hooker

Question 3

What did the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut help establish in the colonies?

Answer 3

Self government/ distance from Great Britain

Question 4

How did churches contribute to representative governments in the colonies?

Answer 4

They elected leaders

Question 5

Why were English settlers motivated?

Answer 5

Religious and economic reasons

Question 6

What was distance from Great Britain a primary factor in?

Answer 6

Self government

Question 7

The need for colonists to settle dispute, lead to what?

Answer 7

Self government

Question 8

the Desire to find new sea routes, discover gold, and claim new territory were examples of what?

Answer 8

Reasons for exploration

Question 9

What did the Virginia House of burgess the mayflower compact and fundamental orders of Connecticut lead to?

Answer 9

Representative government

Question 10

What was the primary motivation for Spanish exploration?

Answer 10

God gold glory

Question 11

Why were Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Rhode Island founded?

Answer 11

Religious freedom

Question 12

What was the geography of the middle colonies characterized by?

Answer 12

Rich soil, and river valleys

Question 13

Large scale agriculture developed as a result of the geography of colonial region?

Answer 13

Southern geography

Question 14

What factors led to the development of free enterprise?

Answer 14

Freeland few restrictions and good rivers

Question 15

What did high profits from agriculture lead to?

Answer 15

Triangular trade

Question 16

What did the mid Atlantic colonies depend on growing?

Answer 16

Wheat and barley

Question 17

New Orleans, Boston and Charleston developed economically as a result of?

Answer 17

Ports

Question 18

Why did colonist not like the proclamation of 1763?

Answer 18

it Restricted movement west

Question 19

When was keeping the continental army together a major challenge?

Answer 19

During Valley Forge

Question 20

Who wrote plays supporting the patriot?

Answer 20

Mercy Otis Warren

Question 21

How did colonist respond to the stamp act of 1765

Answer 21

They boycotted

Question 22

What are liberty in the pursuit of happiness considered?

Answer 22

Unalienable rights

Question 23

What is Thomas Paine known for?

Answer 23

Writing common sense

Question 24

how did taxation without representation contribute to the start of American revolution

Answer 24

It colonist that were paying taxes without representation of the government

Question 25

Who does the government answer to according to the declaration of independence?

Answer 25

The citizens

Question 26

What document did Thomas Jefferson write?

Answer 26

The declaration of independence

Question 27

Why were the American colonist angerred by the law passed by the British parliament?

Answer 27

It violated their liberty/rights

Question 28

What are unalienable rights considered?

Answer 28

Natural and possessed at birth

Question 29

What did loyalist believe during the American Revolution?

Answer 29

Britain was good and they should stay

Question 30

What was the result of the treaty of Paris 1783?

Answer 30

Britain agrees US will rule from Atlantic ocean to Mississippi river

Question 31

Who is the leader of the continental army?

Answer 31

George Washington

Question 32

What is the name of the British General who surrendered at Yorktown?

Answer 32

Lord Cornwallis

Question 33

What organization was Sam Adams a member of?

Answer 33

Sons of liberty

Question 34

What did the Virginia and New Jersey plan create?

Answer 34

The great compromise

Question 35

What were the weaknesses of the articles of Confederation?

Answer 35

Restricted government nine out of 13 votes were needed to get anything done

Question 36

What is significant about the northwest ordinance

Answer 36

Created process for orderly expansion

Question 37

What are examples of checks and balances in the US Constitution?

Answer 37

President can veto laws and Congress can override a veto with 2/3 of a vote

Question 38

What was setteled between northern and southern states at the constitutional convention

Answer 38

The 3/5 compromise

Question 39

Which article of the constitution explains the judicial branch of the government

Answer 39

Article 3

Question 40

How did federalist win support for the new constitution from the anti-federalist?

Answer 40

Agreed to add Bill of Rights

Question 41

What compromise increase the political influence and power of the southern states

Answer 41

The 3/5 compromise

Question 42

What were the strengths of the articles of confederation?

Answer 42

Treaties and northwest ordinance

Question 43

What is three separate branches of government and example of

Answer 43

Separation of powers

Question 44

Article one of the constitution created which branch of government

Answer 44

Legislative branch

Question 45

Where is the executive branch of the government described in the US Constitution?

Answer 45

Article 2

Question 46

How was the US Constitution influenced by Magna Carta?

Answer 46

Limited government

Question 47

What quote from the federalist paper 51 reflects the authors of views on checks and balances

Answer 47

Separate and distinct exercise of different powers

Question 48

What does the legislative branch do?

Answer 48

makes laws

Question 49

What does the executive branch do?

Answer 49

Enforces laws

Question 50

What does the judicial branch do?

Answer 50

Interpret laws