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purpose of the legislative branch

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pass laws

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first college in America

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Harvard

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founded Maryland

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Lord Baltimore

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year of Jamestown

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1607

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discovered the Mississippi River

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de Soto

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introduced tobacco

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Rolfe

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means laws are written

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innumerated

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cut off all trade with foreign countries

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embargo act

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model for all future colonies

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Plymouth

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year Lexington

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1775

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founded Georgia

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Oglethorpe

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means exists for the benefit of the mother-country

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mercantilism

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13
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where the treaty that ended the War of 1812

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Gentz, Belgium

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14
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sailed around Africa

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de Gama

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which war was Molly Pitcher apart of

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Battle of Monmouth

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who spoke against sugar act

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James Otis

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the two men who wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

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James Madison
Thomas Jefferson

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said we need independence

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Lee

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last battle of War of 1812

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Battle of New Orleans

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surrendered at Yorktown

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Cornwallis

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year Cabot

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1497

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end of colonization; year of Georgia

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1733

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23
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case with midnight judges

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Marbury v Madison

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24
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supreme law of the land

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Constitution

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conquered Aztecs

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Cortes

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1607

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Jamestown

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27
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1588

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Spanish Armada

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1517

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Protestant Reformation

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1765

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Stamp Act Congress

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1774

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First Contintental Congress

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1783

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Treaty of Paris– end of War for Independence

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1497

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Cabot explored New World

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1620

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Plymouth

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34
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1733

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Georgia founded

colonization ends

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35
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1619

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House of Burgesses

women came

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36
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1st Spaniard set foot on N. AMerica mainland

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de Leon

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37
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Father of the Constitution

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Madison

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38
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secretary of war

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Knox

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39
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political philosopher of England

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Locke

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40
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judicial review was established by

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Marshall

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41
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book written by Tocqueville

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Democracy in America

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42
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try to carve out his own nation

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Burr

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43
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published the 1st Bible in America

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Eliot

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44
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set freedom of press

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Zenger

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45
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Swamp Fox

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Marion

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46
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Hamilton established the ___________ party

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Federalist

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47
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attorney general

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Randolph

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48
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the only successful crusade which happened in the Iberian Peninsula

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Reconquista

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49
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discovered that there was a way around Africa

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Diaz

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50
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took a three year voyage around the world

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Magellan

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51
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discovered St. Lawrence River

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Cartier

52
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printed !st English Bible

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Tyndale

53
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colonies owned by group of men

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proprietary

54
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bought Manhattan from the Indians

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Minuet

55
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made up the majority of AMerican population after English

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Scots-Irish

German

56
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constitutional convention

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1787

57
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defeat of the Spanish Armada

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1588

58
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Columbus discovers new world

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1492

59
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election in which the president was different political party than vice president

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1791

60
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first contiental congress

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1774

61
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founding of Jamestown

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1607

62
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founding Massachusetts Bay Colony

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1630

63
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Lousiana Purchase

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1803

64
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French and Indian War

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1754

65
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Treaty of Ghent

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1814

66
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Bill of Rights

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1791

67
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In the Middle Ages,
______was the economic
system of Europe.

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feudalism

68
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the first written constitution in
the present-day United States
was the

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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

69
Q

Most of the southern colonies
followed the_______ church.

A

Anglican

70
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To defend against the French,
Benjamin Franklin proposed the——— for a union of the
colonies,

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Albany Plan

71
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The American War for Independence began

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April 19, 1775

72
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divided government-owned
land into townships.

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Land Ordinance of 1785

73
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John Adams’s vice president
was

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Jefferson

74
Q

Meeting of northeastern
states which claimed that
states could nullify federal
laws

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Hartford Convention Center

75
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inventor of the movable-type
printing press

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Gutenberg

76
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first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Winthrop

77
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discovered Cumberland Gap

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Boone

78
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founder of Log College

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Tennent

79
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young Virginian lawyer who
declared, “Give me liberty, or
give me death!”

A

Henry

80
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Prussian general for the Patriot army

A

von Steuben

81
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Native American who helped the British in the War for Independence

A

Joseph Brant

82
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prime minister who passed the Stamp Act

A

Grenville

83
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Commentaries on the Laws of England

A

Blackstone

84
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leader of rebellion during Critical period

A

Shays

85
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AMerican diplomat who negotiated a treaty with Spain

A

PInckney

86
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explored SOuthern portion of Louisiana territory

A

Pike

87
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conquered Aztecs

A

Cortes

88
Q

What major English precedent for American government emerged from the
magna carta

A

representative government

89
Q

What was the name of John
Paul Jones’s ship which captured the British Serapis?

A

Bonhomme Richard

90
Q

What colony was intended
to be a haven for English
Catholics

A

Maryland

91
Q

Which colonial industry was
uniquely important to New
England?

A

fishing and whaling

92
Q

most widely used textbook in colonial America

A

New England Primer

93
Q

method of education common to the southern states

A

old field schools

94
Q

What economic theory were
the Navigation Acts intended
to implement?

A

mercantilism

95
Q

Which of the following was
not part of George Grenville’s
program?

A

administration of Justice Act

96
Q

What town did George Washington reclaim from the Hessians on Christmas night in
1776?

A

Trenton

97
Q

Which plan was most similar
to the Articles of Confederation?

A

New Jersey Plan

98
Q

Which part of government is
checked by the president’s
veto power?

A

legislature

99
Q

Which of the following was
not a part of Alexander Hamilton’s financial plan repay
America’s debt?

A

federal income tax

100
Q

Which of the following Native
American tribes did not ally
with the French in the French
and Indian War?

A

Iroquois

101
Q

Which region opposed the
War of 1812?

A

New England

102
Q

Which effect of the crusades
helped end feudalism in Europe?

A

rise of the middle class

103
Q

Which of the following was an
effect of the Great Awakening?

A

The colonies disestablished the official
churches.

104
Q

Which of these was a British
advantage in the French and
Indian War?

A

a highly centralized colonial government

105
Q

How did John Locke’s political theory differ from William
Blackstone’s?

A

believed that the law of nature came
from reason rather than God

106
Q

How did the constitution resolve the problem of the unstable money system under
the articles of confederation

A

ongress was given the power over monetary issues.

107
Q

Marbury v. Madison defined
what principle of constitutional governmen

A

The Supreme Court has the authority to
strike down unconstitutional Jaws.

108
Q

What was the name for
the alliance of Native American tribes formed about A.D.
1400?

A

Tree of Peace
Leaugue of Nations

109
Q

Whom did Queen Elizabeth I
send to search for the Northwest Passage?

A

Forbischer

110
Q

What was the name for the
trend of raising fences or
hedges to farm sheep?

A

enclosure movement

111
Q

What was the first institution
of higher learning in British
North America?

A

Harvard

112
Q

What was the name of
the French fort that George
Washington failed to capture
during the French and Indian
War?

A

Dusquene

113
Q

What political principle prevented the colonists from accepting any parliamentary
taxes even if they were external?

A

no taxation without representation

114
Q

What law virtually expelled
the American colonies from
the British Empire

A

Prohibitory Act

115
Q

Which constitutional compromise resolved the issue of
states’ slave populations?

A

3/5 Compromise

116
Q

What interpretation of the
Constitution did not allow for
a national bank?

A

strict construction

117
Q

Which legislation, passed under President John Adams,
allowed Napoleon to manipulate the United States into war
with Great Britain?

A

Macon Bill

118
Q

After winning the Battle of
Lake Erie, who told General
Harrison, “We have met the
enemy, and they are ours”?

A

Olver Hazard Perry

119
Q

Hernando Cortés conquered
the_?

A

Aztecs

120
Q

The German printer and editor who was brought to trial
for criticizing the governor of
Newyork

A

Zenger

121
Q

Sinners in the Hands of an
Angry God” was preached by
?

A

Edwards

122
Q

Letters from a Farmer in
Pennsylvania was written by

A

Dickinson

123
Q

To quell uprisings, King
George III appointed_? to be
the military governor of massachusett

A

Howe

124
Q

The American forces at the
Battle of Saratoga were commanded by General ?

A

Gates

125
Q

The first American dictionary
was written by

A

Webster

126
Q

The first secretary of the treasury and the one responsible
for organizing the American
economic system was

A

Hamilton

127
Q

The first chief justice of the
Supreme Court was ?.

A

Jay

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