Winter Exam

Question 1

Currency Act (1751, 1764)

Answer 1

Prohibited colonies from producing paper money, and instead had money to help the British government.

Question 2

French and Indian War (1756-1763)

Answer 2

The War between the British and the French over moving westward, and gaining land.

Question 3

Treaty of Paris (1763)

Answer 3

The British beat the French and gained territory.

Question 4

Proclamation of 1763 (1763)

Answer 4

Forbade all colonists from moving westward of the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 5

Sugar Act (1764)

Answer 5

Raises taxes on sugar to make money for the British sugar growers in West Indies. This act was strictly enforced unlike the previous Molasses Act.

Question 6

Quartering Act (1765)

Answer 6

Parliament orders local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.

Question 7

Stamp Act (1764)

Answer 7

Imposed a stamp duty on all newspapers and on legal or commercial documents. Repealed in 1766.

Question 8

Declaratory Act (1766)

Answer 8

Great Britain had the authority to tax the Colonists.

Question 9

Townshend Acts (1767)

Answer 9

Taxes were enforced to pay for the British governors and judges.

Question 10

Boston Massacre (1770)

Answer 10

British soldiers and Boston colonists break out into a fight on the streets of Boston. Five people were shot and killed.

Question 11

Tea Act (1773)

Answer 11

The British East India Tea Company was failing, so the British drastically lowered the price of tea in attempt to promote the buying of British teas.

Question 12

Boston Tea Party (1773)

Answer 12

Unidentified colonists threw imported British tea into the Boston harbor.

Question 13

Intolerable Acts (1774)

Answer 13

They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. As punishment they closed off the ports of Boston until the Colonists payed them back for the destroyed tea.

Question 14

First Continental Congress Meeting in Philadelphia (1774)

Answer 14

The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

Question 15

Declaration of Independence (1776)

Answer 15

The fundamental document establishing the United States as a nation, adopted on July 4, 1776. The declaration was ordered and approved by the Continental Congress and written largely by Thomas Jefferson.

Question 16

Articles of Confederation 1777-1789

Answer 16

The first constitution of the United States emphasized state power.

Question 17

Shay’s Rebellion (1786)

Answer 17

An armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts because of the Revolutionary War debt making many go into foreclosure.

Question 18

Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (May, 1787)

Answer 18

The gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States in 1787; all states were invited to send delegates.

Question 19

Bill of Rights (1791)

Answer 19

First ten amendments of the Constitution.

Question 20

The New York City Grid (1811)

Answer 20

New York City’s plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.

Question 21

Erie Canal (1817)

Answer 21

The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that ran from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie.

Question 22

Missouri Compromise (1820)

Answer 22

An act of congress where Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri.

Question 23

American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)

Answer 23

An abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at its meetings.

Question 24

Treaty of Guadalupe (1848)

Answer 24

America gains territory from the win of the Mexican-America War which added Arizona, California, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah.

Question 25

Compromise of 1850 (1850)

Answer 25

California would be a free state. Fugitive slave law. Slave trade in Washington DC banned. Utah and Mexico choose through popular sovereignty.

Question 26

Kansas- Nebraska Act (1854)

Answer 26

Kansas and Nebraska as a joint state would most likely vote as a free state. If each state was separated Kansas would most likely vote a slave state, and Nebraska would most likely be free.

Question 27

Dred Scott Decision (1857)

Answer 27

A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master.

Question 28

Harper Ferry Raid V. John Brown (1859)

Answer 28

Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. He killed five men in front of their families, and got hung on December 2nd, 1859.