unit 2

Question 1

grenville’s plan

Answer 1

stricter enforcement of laws, extend wartime provisions into peacetime, quartering act of 1765.

Question 2

quartering act of 1765

Answer 2

british soldiers stationed in colonies, colonists responsible for their food and housing.

Question 3

currency act

Answer 3

colonies could not print money (caused money supply to decrease while money demand increased).

Question 4

stamp act congress

Answer 4

delegates from multiple colonies wanting to repeal the stamp act as it was tyranny.

Question 5

declaratory act

Answer 5

parliament had rights to pass whatever laws they wanted in the colonies.

Question 6

revolution

Answer 6

to bring about a major or fundamental change.

Question 7

republican motherhood

Answer 7

mothers teach children the values of revolution.

Question 8

land ordinance of 1785

Answer 8

orderly sale of land. split it into townships and clearly defined it. settlers bought whatever amount they could afford.

Question 9

northwest ordinance of 1787

Answer 9

apply to become a state when population reaches 60,000.

Question 10

shay’s rebellion

Answer 10

massachusetts raises taxes so farmers are not making profit. they get angry and storm boston to demand lower taxes. the rebellion gets crushed but taxes get lowered (mobocracy).

Question 11

philadelphia (constitutional) convention 1787

Answer 11

convention to revise the obviously failing articles of confederation. they first voted to close the doors, then to remove the articles and create a stronger central government.

Question 12

great wakening

Answer 12

religious revival in the colonies that brought people back to church. new lights helped create religious devotion and enthusiasm.

Question 13

new lights

Answer 13

support the great awakening. believe they are saving people.

Question 14

old lights

Answer 14

do not support the great awakening. believe people are going for entertainment.

Question 15

johnathan edwards

Answer 15

preacher who lit the fire for the great awakening through fervor.

Question 16

george whitefield

Answer 16

preacher in the great awakening. message of grace through Jesus Christ.

Question 17

enlightenment

Answer 17

philosophical movement of questioning, discoveries, and reasoning.

Question 18

john locke

Answer 18

philosopher who suggests natural rights and questions government setting the stage for our government.

Question 19

deism

Answer 19

believe God created a perfect universe than had no more influence. believed there was reason in nature and in natural laws as God made everything perfect.

Question 20

king george’s war

Answer 20

fights between french and english colonists. england’s peace treaty leads to colonists being frustrated with england for one of the first times.

Question 21

seven years war (french and indian war)

Answer 21

war between british and french colonists. ended with france giving england a lot of american land in the treaty of paris.

Question 22

proclamation of 1763

Answer 22

british government tells colonists they cannot use the western land they won in the treaty of paris.

Question 23

mercantilism

Answer 23

more exports than imports for profit.

Question 24

navigation acts

Answer 24

series of laws limiting colonists trade and giving more benefits to the british government.

Question 25

molasses act

Answer 25

first real tax in the colonies. goal is to stop colonies from buying french molasses by adding tax to all non-british molasses.

Question 26

whig

Answer 26

political party in england.

Question 27

common sense by thomas paine

Answer 27

explains why independence is necessary and what might happen after revolution.

Question 28

battle of saratoga

Answer 28

first colonial victory against british.

Question 29

yorktown

Answer 29

last battle in the revolution that led to british defeat.

Question 30

treaty of paris

Answer 30

ended the revolutionary war and granted the us independence.

Question 31

albany plan of union

Answer 31

colonies create a council of representatives to organize affairs. ultimately rejected but laid a foundation for the future revolutionary congress.

Question 32

boston massacre

Answer 32

colonists harassed british soilders to british soldiers shot killing a few colonists.

Question 33

great compromise

Answer 33

bicameral. higher populations get more delegates in the house of representatives but each state gets 2 in the senate. bills have to go though both houses so it is fair.

Question 34

3/5 compromise

Answer 34

count slaves as 3/5 a person for representatives and taxes.

Question 35

electoral college

Answer 35

created to avoid mobocracy. didn’t think an average person was educated enough to elect a president. people vote for electors.

Question 36

electoral college

Answer 36

created to avoid mobocracy. didn’t think an average person was educated enough to elect a president. people vote for electors.

Question 37

federalists

Answer 37

supported ratification of the constitution and a strong central government, wealthy, urban.

Question 38

anti-federalists

Answer 38

did not support the ratification of the constitution and a strong central government, poorer, rural.

Question 39

continental congress

Answer 39

colonists from every colony except for georgia met tot discuss what to do about britain’s increasing tyranny. agreed that they needed to avoid further violations, but wanted an agreement with parliament (not yet revolution).

Question 40

second continental congress

Answer 40

formal resolution for independence suggested. eventually adopted the declaration of independence.

Question 41

federalism

Answer 41

the sharing of power between the national government and the state government.

Question 42

check and balance

Answer 42

no one branch has more power than the other.

Question 43

national bank

Answer 43

established by hamilton. led to states having more dependence on the federal government, allowed for other countries to help pay of debt, and stabilized a shaky national economy.

Question 44

proclamation of neutrality

Answer 44

war broke out in france but washington thought america was too young to support them.

Question 45

battle of fallen timbers

Answer 45

the natives were offended by the westward expansion of the colonists so they fought them. natives were defeated and the ohio river valley was opened for expansion.

Question 46

whiskey rebellion

Answer 46

tax was put on whiskey which angered farmers so they began attacking federal tax collectors. the federal army put down the rebellion (unlike shay’s rebellion where there was no us army) proving the constitution was working.

Question 47

virginia and kentucky resolutions

Answer 47

states can nullify federal laws if it is decided the government went beyond the powers given to it.