Unit 2 Test

Question 1

How were American colonists taxed compared to their British counterparts in the mid-eighteenth century?

Answer 1

Much less, very low

Question 2

As Europeans gained more control in North America, how did the different native tribes respond?

Answer 2

They became more unified

Question 3

What did the Proclamation of 1763 forbid?

Answer 3

British colonists settling west of the Appalachians

Question 4

The American Revenue Act was commonly known as what?

Answer 4

The Sugar Act

Question 5

Which act was designed to address imperial financial concerns?

Answer 5

Currency Act

Question 6

Colonists generally believed that only who could tax them?

Answer 6

Colonial Legislatures

Question 7

Which act was the first to impose an internal tax on the colonies?

Answer 7

The stamp act

Question 8

When did colonists begin to protest the Stamp Act?

Answer 8

Months before it went into effect

Question 9

In 1767, Parliament passed an act suspending which colonial legislature?

Answer 9

New York

Question 10

The non importation movement significantly reduced imports in which colony?

Answer 10

Massachusetts

Question 11

How did the British react to the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 11

They passed the coercive acts

Question 12

What did colonists call the Quebec Act and the Coercive Acts collectively?

Answer 12

Intolerable acts

Question 13

What was the impact of the Boston Tea Party during the colonial era?

Answer 13

It was an unknown event with little significance

Question 14

What did the conciliatory proposition pledge?

Answer 14

Not to tax colonists

Question 15

During the rev war, loyalists made up about how much of the colonial pop.?

Answer 15

20%

Question 16

Why did the Republican theory mistrust professional armies?

Answer 16

They were the instruments of tyrants

Question 17

Why did the patriots make an effort to spread the news of the Battles of Lexington and Concord?

Answer 17

So they could garner support

Question 18

Why is the continental army’s winter at valley forge famous?

Answer 18

Soldiers died from cold, disease, and starvation (it sucked)

Question 19

How did the French view American victory at Saratoga?

Answer 19

America had a viable future (They could hold their own)

Question 20

Besides Washington’s leadership, what was the most crucial reason for the American victory in the rev. war?

Answer 20

The aid of the French

Question 21

Why did Chesapeake planters refuse to pay their debts to Britain?

Answer 21

Britain had freed many slaves w/out compensation to slave owners

Question 22

Constitutional Convention

Answer 22

Location- Philadelphia
Leaders- James Madison & Alexander Hamilton

Question 23

What concession was made to southern delegates to gain their support for the federal gov. power to regulate trade policies

Answer 23

Northern delegates agreed to drop demands for abolition of the slave trade

Question 24

Describe the American economy after the war.

Answer 24

They were short of money and had diminished incomes. Am. consumers pulled back on spending, prompting waves of bankruptcy.

Question 25

The constitution established what kind of government?

Answer 25

Federal

Question 26

Ways revolution impacted women?

Answer 26

greater access to education

Question 27

What was the goal of economic nationalists?

Answer 27

secure a charter for the Bank of North America

Question 28

Coming out of the constitutional convention, which unresolved issue would have the greatest impact on later American History

Answer 28

slavery

Question 29

How did the British respond to the states failure to repay loyalists

Answer 29

They kept their forts in the West.

Question 30

What bold plan did Hamilton create in an effort to address the rev. war debt

Answer 30

Having the federal gov. fund the national debt at its full value

Question 31

In his fair well address, Washington devoted most of his time to what topic?

Answer 31

Denouncing partisan politics

Question 32

Who was alarmed by the growing violence of the French Revolution

Answer 32

Federalists

Question 33

The xyz affairs almost caused what to take place?

Answer 33

Declaration of war against France

Question 34

Why were the federalists targeting immigrants in the Alien acts

Answer 34

Many immigrants voted for the republican parties

Question 35

What was used to justify increased taxation in the British colonies?

Answer 35

The colonies had benefited from the wars that put Britain into debt

Question 36

How did the first continental constitution feel about war with Britain?

Answer 36

They were timid but were ready to declare war.

Question 37

Why was George Washington nominated as commander in chief of the army?

Answer 37

He has military experience and was from the South.

Question 38

How did the revolution impact the number of free black Americans? How did it impact slavery in the North?

Answer 38

A large number of slaves were freed and many others escaped.

Question 39

When the states began to write their own constitutions, they tended to do what regarding qualifications for voting?

Answer 39

Voting was legal for those who had ownership of land

Question 40

Why did more North American leaders become nationalists in the mid-1780’s

Answer 40

They realized that major crisis’s required more national attention

Question 41

Bill of Rights (2 and 3)

Answer 41

2nd ammendment- right to bear arms in a militia
3rd- quartering of soldiers

Question 42

What caused whiskey rebellion?

Answer 42

Colonial anger over a tax on whiskey

Question 43

How did Washington’s Farewell Address set the tone for American foreign policy?

Answer 43

It made them to be in a state of neutrality for a hundred years

Question 44

Why were framers intentionally vague about federal judiciary?

Answer 44

They wanted a difference in state and national laws.

Question 45

Why did southerners and northerners disagree on the tariff act of 1789?

Answer 45

Northern manufacturers wanted high duties to protect industry, southern planters wanted no tariff so they could foster cheap consumer imports.