Unit 1 Test

Question 1

Slave Codes

Answer 1

Laws keeping African captives from owning property, testifying against whites, receiving education or meeting in groups

Question 2

Cause of French & Indian War

Answer 2

Fought for dominant war for power in North America, took 7 yrs

Question 3

Columbus Voyage

Answer 3

Financed by Spain

Question 4

Glorious Revolution

Answer 4

the revolution against James II; there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (1688-1689)

Question 5

Stamp Act

Answer 5

Required a “stamp” be purchased and placed on all printed materials

Question 6

Intolerable Acts

Answer 6

Coercive Acts and Quebec Act

Question 7

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 7

America was named after him

Question 8

Thomas Paine & Common Sense

Answer 8

To declare independence

Question 9

“Ideal republic”

Answer 9

Choice and royal

Question 10

Articles of Confederation

Answer 10

first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. Congress held most power.

Question 11

Bill of Rights

Answer 11

The first ten amendments, ratified in 1879

Question 12

Marbury vs. Madison

Answer 12

Idk

Question 13

Cotton Gin

Answer 13

Removed seeds from cotton

Question 14

Abolitionist Movement

Answer 14

Idk

Question 15

1849 Gold Rush

Answer 15

Found gold in California

Question 16

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 16

Louisiana territory purchased from French leader Napoleon Bonaparte for 11.25million

Question 17

Second Great Awakening

Answer 17

Religious movement

Question 18

Enumerated Power

Answer 18

Power specifically mentioned in the Constitution

Question 19

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 19

Freed all enslaved persons in states still in rebellion

Question 20

13th amendment

Answer 20

Bans slavery

Question 21

14th amendment

Answer 21

Guaranteed full citizenship status to and rights to every person born in the U.S.

Question 22

15th amendment

Answer 22

No make citizen can be denied the right to vote on basis of race, color or previous condition of service

Question 23

William Tecumseh Sherman

Answer 23

Union general who cut a path of destruction through Georgia pressuring civilians into giving up the fight

Question 24

Jefferson Davis

Answer 24

First president of the confederate states of America

Question 25

Andrew Jackson

Answer 25

17th president after Lincoln’s assassination

Question 26

Battle of Antietam

Answer 26

First battle in northern soil, bloodiest single day battle in American history, convinced Lincoln to free slaves in the south