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AMERICAN HISTORY

“ I won because I learned!” HISTORY MIDTERM !!!

This colony was located in present day Southwest United

States.

What is New Spain?

This American colony only traded with Native Americans and did not try to change their

culture.

What is New France?

This American colony was located near the Mississippi River and in

present day Canada.

What is New France?

This American colony built missions in California to convert Native Americans to Catholicism.

What is New Spain?

This European country’s main reason of settling in America was fur

trading.

What is New France?

While a Theocracy is a government ruled by religion, this government

style has power kept within a family.

What is a Monarchy?

This government style is ruled by force. The leader is usually called a

tyrant, or the person holding the most power.

What is a Dictatorship?

An Oligarchy is when a few people hold all of the power. This style of government is used when rule is by

the people.

What is a Democracy?

This is when citizens rule through elected officials

What is a Representative Democracy?

This is the action of a country having power at more than one level of

government.

What is Federalism?

The minutemen stood up to the British troops who were marching toward Concord. When the smoke cleared, 8

minutemen lay dead and the revolution had begun.

What is Lexington?

A patriot victory, brought France and other allies into the cause

after this battle.

What is Saratoga?

This is considered to be the final battle of the American Revolution

even though small skirmishes happened for about two more years,

especially in New York.

What is Yorktown?

This opening battle of the revolution is considered the

“Shot Heard Around the World” because of the changes

it started in government.

What is Lexington?

Cornwallis and his men moved South where they had loyalist help. They defeated the patriots in this town, their

largest defeat of the war.

What is Charlestown?

This placed a tax on any paper products including newspapers, books and

playing cards.

What is the Stamp Act?

Court orders let British soldiers search houses, ship

warehouse for smuggled goods.

What is the Writs of Assistance?

Colonists were forced to provide housing for British Troops because of this act.

What is the Quartering Act?

The British East India Tea Company could sell tea in

America without paying this tax.

What are the Tea Acts?

This was passed by the British and included the Massachusetts Government Act, the Quartering Acts, and the Boston Port Bill,

this was also known as the Coercive Acts.

What are the Intolerable Acts?

This group was opposed to the Constitution because it did not protect individual freedoms.

Who are the Antifederalists?

This group was in favor of the contents of the Constitution.

Who are the Federalist?

This group wanted a strong National Government.

Who are the Federalist?

James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington

and Ben Franklin all favored the ideas of this group.

Who are the Federalist?

Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry, as well as others in this group

believed that the new constitution would favor the wealthy.

Who are the Antifederalist.

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This saw colonists ship fish, meat, and lumber to the West

Indies and then sugar, molasses and syrup to West Africa, where slaves would be traded in return.

What is triangular trade?

This swept through the colonies during the 1730’s and 1740’s and strengthened colonists religious faith from New England to the

Southern backcountry.

What was the Great Awakening?

This was the reason the French and Indian War fought.

What is control over the economic resources that were

held in the Ohio Valley Region?

Three reasons why the Jamestown Colony survived.

What is the growth of less bitter tobacco, Pocahontas and the

Powhatan, structure of the colony, and reinforcements?

These are three reasons that British citizens decided to settle

in America.

What is the hope of starting a new life, religious freedom,

adventure, and desire for wealth?

These are two groups the colonists formed as a result of the Stamp Act

and other taxes.

What are the Sons of Liberty, the Daughters of Liberty and the

committee of correspondence?

This was a movement in the mid 1700’s that saw colonists spread the idea that society could be improved through the use of knowledge reason

and science.

What was the Enlightenment?

This person inspired the colonists desire for independence and

encouraged weary troops through his writings of “Common Sense” and

“the Crisis”.

Who is Thomas Paine?

Boycotting British goods until the 13 Acts were repealed and forming

militias were the major decisions by this group.

What is the 1st Continental Congress?

Placing George Washington in charge of a Continental Army,

sending the British the Olive Branch Petition, and finally declaring

independence were major accomplishments of this group.

Who was the 2nd Continental Congress?

This was the reason why the United States had a problem maintaining

national security under the Articles of Confederation.

What is the lack of the ability to raise it’s own army? (it could

only maintain it; the states had to forward troops to them)

These were the reasons why under the Articles of

Confederation the economic system was unstable.

What is British Blockade of trade, undervalued money (no

backing; too much; states can make it) and high unemployment following

the war?

This was the reason why the Articles of Confederation had a major problem dealing with war

debt.

What is the lack of funds because the National Government could not tax? (states were asked for

money, but not forced to give it)

This was the problem the government had under the Articles of

Confederation with collecting revenue.

What is a lack of National power to collect taxes, no tariffs and no national bank to raise money?

These were the reasons why the National Government under the Articles of Confederation had

trouble defining the authority of the National Government.

What is the lack of an executive branch to make quick decisions, and the lack of a judicial branch to settle disputes between states?

This was the solution that the Great Compromise brought the

large and small populated states

What is equal representation in the Senate, satisfying the small states, and proportional representation in

the House of Representatives satisfying the larger populated states

This was the solution created to determine how slaves should be

counted toward population.

What was the 3/5ths Compromise or the idea that 5 slaves would be

counted as 3 people toward population to determine the number of House members from each state?

This was the agreement in the constitution about slave trading.

What is 20 more years of trading followed by Congress having the

opportunity to limit the slave trade?

The country realized it needed a stronger federal government after this event tested our own safety.

What was Shays’s Rebellion?

The constitution began to protect individual citizens liberties only

after this took place.

What is the passing of the Bill of Rights in 1791?

This is a Representative Democracy.

What is when citizens rule through elected officials that make decisions

for you?

This is the idea of having power at a National level as well as a state level

of government.

What is federalism?

This is the idea of sharing power in the legislative branch of government.

What is bicameralism?

This is the way that the United States created a separation of powers.

What is by creating three branches (legislative, executive, and judicial)

and three levels of government? (national, state, and local)

This is the reason why the U.S. set up a system of checks and balances.

What is the National government splitting up the power between the branches who oversee the decisions of each other making it impossible for one group to dominate another?

Name two checks that each branch has on the other branches of

government.

What are the following: executive - veto bills and appoint

judges legislative – impeach departments

secretaries or judges judicial –

declare laws or actions unconstitutional