US STUDIES EXAM

Question 1

What was the Columbian exchange?

Answer 1

The exchange of ideas food, crops, and population between the new and old world

Question 2

Name the positive things that came out of the Colombian exchange.

Answer 2

Sugar tobacco chocolate and potatoes were discovered in the new world

Question 3

Name a negative thing that came out of the Columbia Exchange.

Answer 3

Diseases were spread

Question 4

How did the Columbian Exchange help the market and economy?

Answer 4

Almost all the world connected through the exchange

Question 5

What did John Rolfe bring to the colonies?

Answer 5

Tobacco seeds

Question 6

What were two things that Jamestown had that Massachusetts didn’t?

Answer 6

There is more freedom in Jamestown and people knew each other better because they were closer together.

Question 7

What did Christopher Columbus want to do in 1492?

Answer 7

He wanted to make more Christians and find a new route to Asia and the Spice Islands

Question 8

Name the three major crops of the southern colonies (and the other one).

Answer 8

Tobacco, Rice, and Indigo (and cotton)

Question 9

Name two major ways the southern colonies differed from the New England colonies.

Answer 9

The South formed for cash, while New England farmed for their family; The south planted cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo, while New England planted, corn, beans, and squash.

Question 10

Who is Bacon’s Rebellion against (what colony)?

Answer 10

Virginia

Question 11

What did the House of Burgesses do?

Answer 11

Granted supplies and originated laws

Question 12

Why did the British begin to heavily tax the colonists?

Answer 12

They were broke after the war

Question 13

Why did people enjoy the phrase taxation without representation?

Answer 13

Since the colonies were no longer under British rule, they felt taxation was unconstitutional

Question 14

What was common sense and who was it written by?

Answer 14

A document that said that America should break away from Britain and it was written by Thomas Paine.

Question 15

Why were all men not created equal at the time they said that?

Answer 15

Slaves had no rights.

Question 16

How many total grievances were there in the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 16

27

Question 17

What is a grievance?

Answer 17

A formal complaint.

Question 18

Who did many of the grievances begin with?

Answer 18

King George III

Question 19

Who gives the government power?

Answer 19

The people

Question 20

Name two ways the French aided the Americans during the American Revolution.

Answer 20

Supplies and troops

Question 21

Why did the British REALLY sign the Treaty of Paris?

Answer 21

To get rid of the threat from the French in North America ( the french gave up their territory)

Question 22

Name two weaknesses of the articles of confederation.

Answer 22

Congress could not tax, and there was no executive branch as a central power.

Question 23

Name two strengths of the articles of Confederation.

Answer 23

They could ask to borrow money (but the states can say no), and they could make peace and sign treaties

Question 24

Who would have most likely supported the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 24

Those who feared and supported a strong central government.

Question 25

How did Bacon's Rebellion demonstrate the weaknesses of the articles of Confederation?

Answer 25

The government cannot raise enough money because states can say no, and they could not raise an army against this threat

Question 26

What was the Northwest Ordinance?

Answer 26

A document that celebrated (and claimed) the newly won lands in the west, stopped slavery and encouraged education

Question 27

What did the Treaty of Paris state?

Answer 27

America gets full independence, and America gets all the territory up to the Mississippi River

Question 28

What two leaders are considered the founders of the first political parties?

Answer 28

Hamilton and Jefferson

Question 29

What type of government did Democratic-Republicans support?

Answer 29

Strong central government

Question 30

What type of government did the Federalists support?

Answer 30

State-based government

Question 31

What was the Great compromise?

Answer 31

A document that gave all states equal representation.

Question 32

What was the purpose of checks and balances?

Answer 32

checks and balances made sure that no branch of government overpowered another.

Question 33

What was the main purpose of the establishment of the 3/5 compromise?

Answer 33

The south one of the 3/5 compromises to that slaves could count as people in votes (that made sure that they had a little more representation)

Question 34

Which group did not want to give up until the bill of rights was added to the Constitution?

Answer 34

Anti-federalists

Question 35

What was the purpose of the federalist papers?

Answer 35

To convince New York to support the Constitution

Question 36

What was the Albany plan and who was its author?

Answer 36

The Albany Plan was a plan to unite the colonies and it was written by Ben Franklin

Question 37

What did the proclamation line of 1763 do?

Answer 37

A line drawing at the Appalachian Mountains to prevent the Americans from getting passed because Britain could not protect them further than that.

Question 38

Which colonies were the New England colonies?

Answer 38

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut

Question 39

Which colonies were the middle colonies?

Answer 39

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware

Question 40

Which colonies were the Southern colonies?

Answer 40

Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia