Unit 2 quiz questions

Question 1

In 1778, what did George Rogers Clark do?

Answer 1

He scored major victories on the frontier for the patriots.

Question 2

What action did Washington take in 1777 to control the smallpox outbreaks affecting his troops?

Answer 2

Mass inoculation

Question 3

True or False: John Adams was very sympathetic to his wife’s plea to “remember the women” when forming a new government.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

True or False: After the Battle of Saratoga, Parliament offered to grant all of the demands the colonies had made before declaring independence.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What was an outcome of the Battle of Saratoga?

Answer 5

The decisive American victory helped convince France to ally with the patriots.

Question 6

True or False: Since American nationalism did not yet exist, the celebration of Independence Day would not begin until over a century after the revolutionary war.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

The Revolution seemed on the verge of collapse by December of 1776. What political figure’s words emboldened the Continental Congress and patriots in general, including the famous lines “These are the times that try mens souls”?

Answer 7

Thomas Paine in The American crisis

Question 8

True or False: During the Revolution, the British army freed more slaves than did the colonists.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

True or False: Most native American nations allied themselves with the patriots during the Revolutionary War.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

True or False: Following the Revolutionary War, property qualifications for voting were raised in most states.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

True or False: Benjamin Franklin was one of the commissioners who negotiated the terms of the Treaty of Paris.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Who was a wealthy and idealistic Frenchman who fought with the Americans and became Washingtons most trusted aide?

Answer 12

The Marquis de Lafayette

Question 13

Under the government of the Articles of Confederation,

Answer 13

The central government, rather than the states, had control over foreign relations.

Question 14

True or False: The British gained control of New York city early in the war

Answer 14

True

Question 15

What was true of the tories(loyalists)

Answer 15

They frustrated the British by their weakness and disorganization

Question 16

Who entered the war as an ally of the British?

Answer 16

The French

Question 17

Who made use of hired foreign soldiers during the Revolutionary War?

Answer 17

Britain

Question 18

What was significant about the Battle of Trenton?

Answer 18

It was a pivotal American victory that restored Washingtons confidence in his soldiers.

Question 19

True or False: The Americans were aided by an African American unit known as the Ethiopian Regiment

Answer 19

False

Question 20

True or False: The Americans scored a key southern victory at the battle of kings mountain

Answer 20

True

Question 21

In the late 1778, the British shifted their military focus to the south because they__

Answer 21

Expected strong tory support there

Question 22

As a result of the American Revolution, women gained

Answer 22

few new social, political, or economic rights

Question 23

The greatest single American loss in the war occurred at

Answer 23

Charleston, South Carolina

Question 24

True or False: The word “slavery” does not appear anywhere in the constitution of 1787

Answer 24

True

Question 25

True or False: The Northwest Ordinance was based on the goal of treating the western lands similar to the way imperial nations treated colonies

Answer 25

False

Question 26

What was established by the Land Ordinance of 1785?

Answer 26

The partitioning of land into square townships in what was then called the Northwest Territories of the United States

Question 27

True or False: The most influential figure in the Confederation government was Robert Morris

Answer 27

True

Question 28

True or False: George Washington led the Newburgh Conspiracy until he realized it would fail

Answer 28

False

Question 29

What worried the anti-Federalists?

Answer 29

About the rights of individuals and states.

Question 30

Much of John Adams presidency revolved around a growing crisis with

Answer 30

France

Question 31

True or False: The majority of Federalists supported the revolutionaries in france

Answer 31

False

Question 32

True or False: President George Washingtons response to the Whiskey rebellion drove many Americans to to throw their support behind the Republican Party

Answer 32

True

Question 33

What was the great Compromise over

Answer 33

representation in the New Congress

Question 34

At the Constitutional Convention, the New Jersey Plan proposed a legislature

Answer 34

With equal representation for each state

Question 35

The Constitutional Convention required the Constitution be ratified by

Answer 35

State conventions

Question 36

Who was the first president inaugurated in Washington D.C

Answer 36

Thomas Jefferson

Question 37

Jefferson believed that a large amount of national debt would

Answer 37

Lead to corruption and rebellion

Question 38

The twelfth amendment to the Constitution involved

Answer 38

presidential elections

Question 39

The Know-Nothing party was built on

Answer 39

Nativism

Question 40

Who invented the mechanical reaper to harvest grain?

Answer 40

McCormic

Question 41

By 1860, where was the majority of the nations population located

Answer 41

West of the Appalachian mountains

Question 42

What describes Norwegian immigrants in the mid-19th century?

Answer 42

Many settled in the Upper Midwest, where they established farms and new towns

Question 43

What years was the first telegraph message transmitted?

Answer 43

1844

Question 44

19th century developments in transportation in order

Answer 44

Turnpikes, Steamboats, Canals, Railroads