Unit 1 Ledonne U.S. History Homework Quiz Questions

Who asserted that all people were born with certain natural rights, including the right to life, liberty, and prosperity?

John Locke

The Staple Act required everything the colonies imported to come through

England

Frustration with the navigation acts encouraged colonial merchants to break the new laws, so Parliament authorized the appointment of

customs inspectors

The navigation act of 1660 required all goods imported or exported from the colonies to be carried on English ships and at least three-fourths of the crew had to be

English

An uprising occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, as soon as word was received that Parliament had dethroned

James II

Although the Scotch-Irish settled in many colonies, most headed to

Pennsylvania

What is the name of the language Africans in South Carolina developed by combining English and African words?

Gullah

In the early colonial era, single women and widows had considerably more rights than married women.

True

The emphasis on logic and reasoning by the Enlightenment thinkers was known as

rationalism

The Great Awakening began in earnest when the Anglican minister George Whitefield arrived in Philadelphia in 1739.

True

A small group of Jews, fleeing from the Portuguese in Brazil and seeking an opportunity to practice their religion, first arrived in the colonies in New Amsterdam (later called New York City) in 1654.

True

Between 1640 and 1700, the population of the American colonies increased from 25,000 to more than

250,000

The Royal Proclamation of 1763 declared that colonists could not settle west of a line drawn north to south along

the Appalachian Mountains

Parliament had imposed many taxes on trade, but what was the first direct tax Britain had ever placed on the colonists?

stamp tax

Fighting between the British and French that began in 1754 in North America is known as

The French and Indian War

To assist customs officers in arresting smugglers, the Revenue Act legalized the use of general search warrants called

writs of assistance

On March 5, 1770, a crowd of colonists began taunting and throwing snowballs at a British soldier guarding a customs house, which resulted in the

Boston Massacre

On March 5, 1770, a crowd of colonists began taunting and throwing snowballs at a British soldier guarding a customs house, which resulted in the

customs

The British introduced a series of new regulations and taxes in 1767 called the ____________________ Acts, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time.

Townshend

In the 1740s, the British and French both became interested in the ____________________ River Valley.

Ohio

The British victory at ____________________ in 1759 was the turning point in North America of the French and Indian War.

Quebec

James Otis argued in a pamphlet about the Sugar Act that because the colonists had no representatives in ____________________, they could not be taxed for the purpose of raising money.

Parliament

In October 1774 the Massachusetts assembly organized the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and chose John Hancock to lead its Committee of Safety, giving him the power to call up the militia.

True

When British troops set out for Concord on a road that took them past the town of Lexington, two men spread the alarm: Paul Revere and

William Dawes

On September 5, 1774, in Philadelphia, a colonial congress was coordinated by the committees of correspondence and called the

First Continental Congress

The Second Continental Congress voted to "adopt" the militia army surrounding Boston, and then named it the Militia of the Colonies.

False

The Quebec Act gave more territory to the colonies, including much of what is today Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

False

Perhaps the most famous naval battle of the war happened near Britain in September 1779, and involved the American naval officer

John Paul Jones

On the night of December 25, 1776, George Washington led approximately 2,400 men across the icy

Deleware River

In the West, early in 1778 Patriot George Rogers Clark took 175 troops down the ____________________ River and captured several towns.

Ohio

Part of General Howe's strategy was to capture New York City, separating New England from the ____________________ states.

southern

____________________ became the first country to recognize the United States as an independent nation.

France

The local militias in the colonies fought differently than the Continental Army, using a kind of fighting called

guerrilla warfare

People living in the Appalachian Mountains who were outraged at Patrick Ferguson’s attempts to subdue them put together a militia and intercepted Ferguson at

Kings Mountain

On October 19, 1781, approximately 8,000 British troops marched out of ____________________ and laid down their weapons, ending the last battle of the war.

Yorktown

On September 11, 1777, General Howe defeated General Washington at the Battle of Brandywine Creek and captured Philadelphia; however, the ____________________ Congress escaped.

Continental

Congressional leaders feared that if New York fell without a fight, it would hurt American morale, so they sent troops there under the leadership of

George Washington

Opposition to slavery had been growing steadily even before the Revolution, especially in the northern and middle states, where it had long been condemned by Baptists, Methodists, and

Quakers

In 1816 African American church leaders formed the first independent African American denomination, the

African Methodist Episcopal Church

The stories of the Revolution and its heroes helped Americans to think of themselves as all belonging to the same group.

True

Charles Willson Peale was an artist best known for his portraits of George Washington and other Patriot leaders.

True

After the Revolution, people no longer needed to own property to hold elective office.

False

The Revolution not only increased support for a new monarchy, it also led to an expansion of voting rights.

False

Some Loyalists went to England or the British West Indies after the war, but most moved to British North America, particularly to the region near Niagara Falls, New Brunswick, and

Nova Scotia

Attaching a list of rights to the new states’ constitutions began in 1776 when George Mason drafted

Virginia’s Declaration of Rights

In an effort to undermine the colonial economy and hurt the rebellion in the South, the British army freed thousands of

enslaved people

As they started a new nation, American leaders considered an educated public to be critical to the republic's success.

True

Although the Confederation Congress did not have the power to regulate ____________________, it could sign commercial treaties with other nations.

Trade

A rebellion known as ____________________ Rebellion occurred in Massachusetts in 1786 when the state raised taxes.

Shays’s

Even before independence was declared, Patriot leaders at the Continental Congress realized that the colonies needed to be united under some type of

central government

With the spread of democratic ideals and a lowering of property qualifications for voting, many states had begun ____________________ ordinary citizens to represent them at the state level.

electing

A major dispute with Spain involved the border between Spanish territory and the state of

Georgia

The cost of the Revolutionary War had left both the Confederation Congress and many states in ____________________.

debt

Beginning in 1785, seven states began issuing

paper money

During the boycotts of the 1760s and the Revolutionary War, American artisans and manufacturers had prospered by making goods that people previously bought from

Britain

The Articles of Confederation established a very weak ____________________ government.

central

The Confederation Congress was not given the power to

impose taxes

Under the New Jersey Plan, Congress would have two houses, with members of the first house elected by the people and members of the second house elected by the first house.

false

The delegate chosen as presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention was

George Washington

A plan that proposed scrapping the Articles of Confederation and creating a new national government with the power to make laws binding upon the states and raise money through taxes was called the

Virginia Plan

The only state that did not send delegates to the Constitutional Convention was

Rhode Island

The delegates in Philadelphia recognized that the constitution they wrote in the summer of 1787 would never be amended or changed.

False

The Great Compromise proposed that in one house of Congress—the House of Representatives—the states would be represented according to the size of their

population

The system created to prevent any one of the three branches of government from becoming too powerful is called

checks and balances

Amending the Constitution requires

proposal and ratification

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Virginia Plan?

The national legislature would have one house based on population

The Great Compromise proposed that in the Senate, each state would have equal representation.

True

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention included some of the country's most distinguished leaders as well as many common citizens of more limited means.

False

The compromise that stated every five enslaved people in a state would count as three free persons for determining both representation and taxes was called the

Three-Fifths Compromise

The Virginia Plan proposed scrapping the Articles of Confederation entirely and creating a new national government.

True

The Virginia Plan would benefit

large states with many people

In May 1787 every state except Rhode Island sent delegates to what became known as the Constitutional Convention.

True

By July 1788, the new government under the Constitution was launched, and March 4, 1789, was chosen as the date for the first meeting of the new ____________________.

Congress

Federalists wanted a strong central government that would protect property, impose taxes on foreign goods, and regulate ____________________ consistently.

trade

In Massachusetts, where opponents to the Constitution held a majority, Federalists promised to attach a bill of rights and to support an amendment that would reserve for the ____________________ all powers not specifically granted to the federal government.

states

Opponents of the Constitution were called Antifederalists because they opposed a federalist form of government.

False

What did the Federalists promise to add to the Constitution after ratification?

A bill of rights

George ____________________ was chosen to become the first president under the new Constitution.

Washington

Supporters of the Federalists and the Constitution included large landowners, artisans, farmers who lived near the coast or along rivers that led to the coast, and

merchants

The government set forth in the Constitution is a federal system because it

divides power between national and state governments

By July 1788, all states had ratified the Constitution except Rhode Island and

North Carolina

Sam Adams opposed the Constitution because he believed it

endangered the independence of states

Sam Adams opposed the Constitution because he believed it

bonds

James Madison argued that Congress could not establish a bank because it was not among the federal government's enumerated powers, or powers specifically mentioned in the Constitution.

True

The Confederation Congress issued paper notes to fund the Revolutionary War. These notes promised to repay the money after a certain length of time with interest and were called

bonds

Bonds are a form of borrowing.

True

The duty and tonnage rates included in the Tariff of 1789 angered many northern farmers.

False

One of the most important acts of Congress during its first session in 1789 was the introduction of the

Bill of Rights

Some leaders opposed the Bank of the United States because they believed

the Constitution did not give the federal government the power to create a ban

What law required all importers to pay five percent of the value of their cargo when they landed it in the United States?

Tariff of 1789

President George Washington chose John Jay to be the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

True

Federal troops crushed the Whiskey Rebellion without a fight.

True

The theory advanced in the Kentucky Resolutions stating that if the federal government passed an unconstitutional law, the states had the right to declare it invalid is called the theory of

nullification

Washington’s Farewell Address warned Americans against

sectionalism

Jay’s Treaty stated that American merchants would not be discriminated against when they traded with Britain, a status called

most-favored nation

By 1790 the area between the Appalachian Mountains and the ____________________ River had become the most rapidly growing region in the United States.

mississippi

Hoping to avoid a war with Britain, Washington sent John Jay to Britain to negotiate what came to be called

Jay’s Treaty

President Jefferson asked Congress to fund a secret expedition into the Louisiana Territory to find a route to the Pacific Ocean and trace the

Missouri River

The United States gained the Louisiana Territory by

buying it from France

Who mapped much of the upper Mississippi River in 1805 and headed west to find the headwaters of the Arkansas River in 1806?

Zebulon Pike