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3/2/23 chapter 1-7 test

What was the first permanent European settlement in the present-day United States?

St. Augustine

Who founded the city of Quebec?

Samuel de Champlain

What English monarch broke ties with the Roman Catholic Church, beginning the English Reformation?

Henry VIII

In which settlement did the House of Burgesses meet?

Jamestown

What established the first town school system in America?

Old Deluder Satan Act

What colony set a precedent of religious freedom?

Rhode Island

Who was the best-known missionary to the Native Americans?

David Brainerd

Where did the First Continental Congress meet?

Philadelphia

Who led the Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga?

Ethan Allen

Who wrote the famous pamphlet *Common Sense*?

Thomas Paine

Who was the first secretary of state of the United States?

Thomas Jefferson

What city was the first capital of the United States after the Constitution was ratified?

New York City

How old must the president be before he takes office?

35 years

How long is the president's term in office?

4 years

What branch of government interprets the laws?

judicial

Interest in trade with the East was revived by the

Crusades

England was prepared for limited government because of the

Magna Carta

Pennsylvania was founded as a haven for

Quakers

Rice and indigo were most frequently grown in the coastal regions of what colonies?

southern

The smallpox inoculation was introduced by 

Cotton Mather

The famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was given by

Jonathan Edwards

Conflict over territory, fur trade, and fishing rights between Britain and France led to the

French and Indian war

British soldiers could legally occupy colonial buildings through what Act?

Quartering Act

The United States government was founded as a(n)

Federal Republic

Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists stood for what kind of construction of the Constitution?

loose