Study Guide

Unit 2 Half Quiz

Directions:         Please answer the following questions below.

ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED IN A BOLD, DIFFERENT COLOR

1. Iroquois Confederacy

2. Explain why the Haudenosaunee are referred to as the “Iroquois”?

3. That was the name the French gave them.

4. What present day state did the Iroquois Confederacy exist?

5. How did the Iroquois pass down their history?

6. What is a confederacy?

7. Why did the Iroquois form a confederacy?

8. What was the Great Law of Peace?

9. What type of information can you find in the Great Law of Peace?

10. What was the Grand Council?

11. How did the Grand Council function?

12. Who are the Hoyaneh?

13. How many Hoyaneh are part of the Grand Council?

14. What role do Clan Mothers have in the Iroquois Confederacy?

15. Give an example and explain how the Iroquois Confederacy use representation amongst the six nations.

16. What are similarities between the Great Law of Peace and the US Constitution? (at least three)

17. Influential Documents

18. Identify and explain each of the big ideas that influenced the Founders.

19. What was the Magna Carta? What big idea did the Founders get from this document?

20. What was the Mayflower Compact? What big idea did the Founders get from this document?

21. What was the English Bill of Rights? What big idea did the Founders get from this document?

22. What were Cato’s Letters? What big idea did the Founders get from this document?

23. What was Common Sense? What big idea did the Founders get from this document?

24. Road to Revolution

25. What war did the American Colonist and the British fight together?

26. How did Britain want to pay for this war?

27. What was the Sugar Act?

28. What was the Quartering Act?

29. What was the Stamp Act?

30. What were the Townshend Acts?

7. What was the Tea Act and how did colonists react to it?

8. What were the Intolerable Acts?  Please name and describe one part of the Intolerable Acts that was especially disliked by the colonists.

9. Where were the first shots fired from the Revolutionary War?

10. What did it mean if you were a Loyalist?

11. What did it mean if you were a Patriot?