Unit 2 Test

Question 1

Stamp act

Answer 1

Law passed by Parliament in 1765 to raise money in America by requiring taxed stamped paper.

Question 2

Sugar act

Answer 2

Law passed in 1764 to raise money for America which lowered the cost of molasses from six pence to three pence

Question 3

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 3

Set the boundary of the proclamation line that limited British settlements to the east of the appalachians.

Question 4

Coercive acts

Answer 4

included the Boston port act, the Massachusetts government act, the administration of justice act, and the quartering act

Question 5

Quartering acts

Answer 5

Required colonial legislatures to provide supplies and quarters for troops in America

Question 6

Declaratory act

Answer 6

Accompanied the stamp act; parliament had the authority to legislate the colonies

Question 7

Townshend acts act of 1767

Answer 7

Imposed duties on colonial tea, lead, paint, paper, glass

Question 8

Tea act of 1773

Answer 8

Let east India company sell through agents in America without paying the duty collected in Britain. Reduced retail price.

Question 9

Minute men

Answer 9

Special companies of militia formed in MA and elsewhere in late 1774

Question 10

Declaration of independence

Answer 10

Second continental congress announced the decision to renounce colonies allegiance to the British

Question 11

Continental army

Answer 11

Regular or professional army commanded by George Washington

Question 12

Olive branch petition

Answer 12

Last effort for peace that vowed americas to George III and requested his protection

Question 13

Declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms

Answer 13

Americans were ready to fight for freedom and liberty

Question 14

Bill of rights

Answer 14

A written summary of rights and liberties

Question 15

Natural rights

Answer 15

rights in nature, government, and to life and liberty

Question 16

Nationalists

Answer 16

Wanted to replace the confederation with something stronger

Question 17

Shay’s rebellion

Answer 17

1786-87 shut down courts and created crisis. Drove by debt ridden farmers.

Question 18

Land ordinance of 1785

Answer 18

Created the grid system of surveys which all public land was for sale.

Question 19

Northwest ordinance of 1787

Answer 19

Prohibited slavery in northwest

Question 20

Southwest ordinance of 1790

Answer 20

Set up a government that didn’t prohibit slavery south of the Ohio River.

Question 21

Judiciary act of 1789

Answer 21

Implemented the judiciary cause

Question 22

Tariff act of 1789

Answer 22

First Nation tartars to raise revenue

Question 23

Federalist

Answer 23

Supporter of the constitution who favored its ratification

Question 24

Republican

Answer 24

Headed by thomas Jefferson; financial problems w/ federalists. Wanted limited power of nation government and placing interests in farmers

Question 25

Alien and sedition acts

Answer 25

Four acts passed by congress that gave freedom of speech and liberty to foreigners in the US

Question 26

Quebec act

Answer 26

Law that appointed government for Canada

Question 27

Intolerable acts

Answer 27

Coercive and Quebec acts

Question 28

Republicanism

Answer 28

Governments must use power, but note that the power could overwhelm liberty

Question 29

Sovereignty

Answer 29

Right to take life (executions) and tax

Question 30

Whigs

Answer 30

Name for advocates of colonial resistance to the British

Question 31

Tories

Answer 31

The name for loyalists in America supporting the king and parliament before the revolution

Question 32

Declaration of rights and grievances

Answer 32

The stamp act and other taxes without consent were unconstitutional

Question 33

Second continental congress

Answer 33

Called for the patchwork of local forces to be organized into the continental army, formed navy, post office, printed dollar

Question 34

Peace of Paris

Answer 34

Treaty that ended the revolutionary war

Question 35

Contract theory of government

Answer 35

Belief that government is made by humans to protect rights

Question 36

Valley forge

Answer 36

In Pennsylvania; 20 mi northwest of the quartering of George Washington’s troop quartering

Question 37

Linda Brent

Answer 37

Harriet jacobs

Question 38

Aunt Martha

Answer 38

Molly horniblow

Question 39

Dr flint

Answer 39

Dr. James norcom

Question 40

States rights

Answer 40

Rights of individual states

Question 41

Nullification

Answer 41

A state can say a national law is null within its borders

Question 42

XYZ affair

Answer 42

Americans were mad by demand of the French for a bribe

Question 43

Jays treaty

Answer 43

The US made major concessions to avery a war over British taking of American ships

Question 44

Whiskey rebellion

Answer 44

Uprising by farmers in Pennsylvania to prevent tax on whiskey

Question 45

1st amendment

Answer 45

Freedoms, petitions, assembly

Question 46

2nd amendment

Answer 46

Right to bear arms

Question 47

3rd amendment

Answer 47

Quartering of soldiers

Question 48

4th amendment

Answer 48

Search and arrest

Question 49

5th amendment

Answer 49

Right to not self incriminate

Question 50

Federalism

Answer 50

Sharing of powers between national gov. and the states

Question 51

Federalist

Answer 51

Supporter of the constitution

Question 52

Anti federalist

Answer 52

Opponent of the constitution

Question 53

Judicial review

Answer 53

Gives federal courts the right to review acts

Question 54

Great compromise

Answer 54

Bicameral legislature which all states are equally represented

Question 55

Virginia plan

Answer 55

States should be represented by population

Question 56

New Jersey plan

Answer 56

All states would have equal representation