Social studies unit two test Flashcards

1
Q

The ___ Act made it impossible for the colonists to pay private debts with paper money.

Sugar

Coercive

Stamp

currency

A

Currency

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2
Q

______ had a very different emphasis in the colonies than in England.

Families

Colleges

Taxes

Churches

A

Colleges

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3
Q

______ was tied directly to landownership.

A

political statice

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4
Q

_______ was a leading preacher during the Great Awakening.

Jonathan Edwards

Charles Townshend

Nathaniel Bacon

Billy Sunday

A

Jonathan Edwards

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5
Q

The king who abdicated his power in the Glorious Revolution was ___.

James ll

George I

Edmund Andros

Charles II

A

James II

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6
Q

The English ___ had a direct bearing on many documents in U.S. history.

A

Bill of rights

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7
Q

The ___ Act was a statement by Parliament that it had authority to tax the colonists.

Authority

Delaware

Declaratory

Intolerable

A

Declaratory

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8
Q

The ___ Acts were also called the Coercive Acts.

A

Intolerable

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9
Q

___ Rebellion was an effort to remove White settlers from the area west of the Appalachians.

Paxton’s

Powhatan’s

Townshend’s

Pontiac’s

A

Pontiac’s

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10
Q

The ___ Act placed a tax on paper used for certain purposes.

A

stamp

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11
Q

The word “itinerant” means ___.

A

traveling or journeying, especially on a circuit

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12
Q

The leader of the rebellion against Governor Berkeley was ___.

A

Nathaniel Bacon

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13
Q

Though the colonists were on the western side of the Atlantic, they were still ___.

A

Englishmen

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14
Q

___ was called the “Gibraltar of North America.”

A

Louisburg

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15
Q

called for a boycott of all British imports

A

Samuel Adams

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16
Q

lawyer who defended soldiers after the Boston Massacre

A

john adames

17
Q

Chancellor of the Exchequer who led the Parliament in passing unpopular acts

A

Charles Townshend

18
Q

The ___ Act did away with the right of smugglers to a trial by jury.

A

sugar act

19
Q

abuse of unrestrained government power

A

tyrant

20
Q

money; something used as money or a medium of exchange

A

currency

21
Q

The definition of “boycott” is ___.

A

an agreement to abstain from buying in order to force the sellers to be reasonable