Unit 2 Part 1 Test Review

1. What word means, “the money people must pay to a government”?

   1. Tax

2. What word means, “a war against your own government”?

   1. Revolution

3. What word means, “an agreement between countries to help each other fight a common enemy”?

   1. Alliance

4. Who was the first President of the United States?

   1. George Washington

5. What word means, “a way of settling a disagreement in which each side gets part of what it wants”?

   1. Compromise

6. What word means, “changes that are part of the Constitution”?

   1. Amendment

7. What word means, “the group of people a president names to act as official advisers and head that departments of government”?

   1. Cabinet

8. What word means, “the area on the edge of a settled region”?

   1. Frontier

9. During what event did American colonists dress as Native Americans and dump British cargo into the Boston Harbor?

   1. Boston Tea Party

10. Which tax made the American colonists pay more for things like paper products and letters?

    1. Stamp Act

11. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

    1. Thomas Jefferson

12. Horatio Gates was the general of the Continental Army.

    1. False, it was George Washington

13. The British controlled New York City for most of the American Revolution.

    1. True

14. After the Battle of Saratoga, the Americans signed a treaty with the Spanish.

    1. False, the Spanish gave them supplies.

15. There were more Loyalists in the Southern colonies.

    1. True

16. The Battle of Yorktown was the last major battle of the American Revolution.

    1. True

17. The Treaty of Paris gave control of Florida to the United States.

    1. False, it gave the US access to any land east of the Mississippi river.