1. History Test 2

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3. Question 1 What English law passed prior to the American Revolution allowed trials without juries? Sugar Act

4. Question 2 Definition: The term referred to the followers of James II and became the name of a major political party in England. Another name for the Loyalists, those Americans who remained loyal to the British during the Revolutionary War. Tories

5. Question 3 Like many of the avoidable wars fought in human history, the American Revolution was, in large part, due to what characteristic of the warring nations? Profound misconceptions about the motivations of the opponent

6. Question 4 Definition: Author of Common Sense and other pamphlets, this writer was a recent immigrant from England. Thomas Paine

7. Question 5 What was the extent of Spanish holdings in North America in 1764? All of Mexico, and from California to the Mississippi River.

8. Question 6 Definition: The document, drafted primarily by Thomas Jefferson, that declared the independence of the thirteen mainland colonies from Great Britain and enumerated the reasons for separating. Declaration of Independence

9. Question 7 The battle location outside of Boston where the British tried to break the siege of that town, and where the rebels were bolstered by captured British cannons hauled in by sled in the snow from Fort Ticonderoga was? Bunker Hill

10. Question 8 Definition: American military leader and frontiersman who led raids on British troops and Native Americans in the West during the Revolutionary War. George Rogers Clark

11. Question 9 What was the essence of the strategy of the British army’s multiple attacks in New York State during 1777? To divide most of New York from New England and in doing so divide the rebelling colonies in two.

12. Question 10 Definition: Signed on September 3, 1783, this treaty established the independence of the United States from Great Britain. It set specific land boundaries and called for the evacuation of British troops. Treaty of Paris

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14. Question 11 Following the American Revolution what statement below would best describe the politics of each state? Each state was it own little country

15. Question 12 Definition: The idea of Dr. Benjamin Rush that nurturing incorruptible future leaders was women’s principal responsibility under the new government. republican motherhood

16. Question 13 The law which passed creating five new states, whose land was sold to help pay national debts was what? Northwest Ordinance

17. Question 14 Definition: American diplomat and jurist who served in the Continental Congress and helped negotiate the treaty which ended the Revolutionary War. He was the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and negotiated the agreement with Great Britain that became known as the treaty that bears his name. John Jay

18. Question 15 What American icon was co-author of the Declaration of Independence, negotiator in Paris for the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, at the Constitutional Convention he was ailing and in his eighties? Benjamin Franklin

19. Question 16 Definition: The revolt in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 named for one of its leaders. Their demands included a more responsive state government, paper money, and tender laws that would enable them to settle debts and pay taxes with goods rather than with specie. Shays’s Rebellion

20. Question 17 Definition: Written by James Madison, this plan proposed a powerful central government dominated by a National Legislature of two houses; it also favored a system of greater representation based on state’s population. Virginia Plan

21. Question 18 Definition: A plan proposed by a delegation from Connecticut that established a bicameral Congress with a House of Representatives, based on a state’s population, and the Senate, in which each state would be represented equally. Great Compromise

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23. Question 19 Who was George Washington’s Vice President and the second President of the United States? John Adams

24. Question 20 Definition: The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. These contain basic protection of the rights of individuals from abuses by the federal government, including freedom of speech, press, religion, and assembly. Bill of Rights

25. Question 21 Definition: Concluded in 1794 between the United States and Great Britain to settle the difficulties arising mainly out of violations of the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and to regulate commerce and navigation. Jay Treaty

26. Question 22 Definition: The first bank was established in 1791 as part of the system proposed by Alexander Hamilton to launch the new government on a sound economic basis. Bank of the United States

27. Question 23 Definition: Name given to the episode in which the French government (the Directory) demanded, through three unnamed agents, that the U.S. government pay a bribe and apologize for criticizing France. XYZ Affair

28. Question 24 Definition: American inventor who developed the first application of steam power in an industrial setting. He also developed a method of automating flour mills that a generation later was a standard in U.S. mills. Robert Fulton

29. Question 25 Private merchant ships hired to serve as a substitute for an American navy, many of whom were pirates. Privateers

30. Question 26 Definition: British-born textile pioneer in America. He oversaw construction of the nation’s first successful water- powered cotton mill. Samuel Slater

31. Question 27 The Federalists used their majority in Congress and hold on the White House, and a wave of partisanship, to pass four laws that threatened free speech and established strict rules for the admission of aliens to citizenship. Alien and Sedition Acts

32. Question 28 Definition: American inventor and manufacturer whose invention of the cotton gin (1793) revolutionized the cotton industry. He also established the first factory to assemble muskets with interchangeable parts. Eli Whitney

33. Question 29 Definition: In the early 1790's western Pennsylvania farmers resisted paying tax on a type of alcohol drink; they held protest meetings, tarred and feathered collaborators, and destroyed property. In 1794 the Washington administration sent thirteen thousand troops to restore order, but the revolt was over by the time they arrived. Whiskey Rebellion

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35. Question 30 Definition: Shawnee leader who attempted to establish a confederacy to unify Native Americans against white encroachment. He sided with the British in the War of 1812 and was killed at the Battle of the Thames. Tecumseh

36. Question 31 What institution determined that Thomas Jefferson had defeated Aaron Burr for President? House of Representatives

37. Question 32 Definition: Federal judicial officials appointed to office in the closing period of a presidential administration. The Republicans accused Adams of staying awake all night in order to sign these Federalist appointments. midnight appointments

38. Question 33 What impact will the Second Great Awakening have upon education in America? each denomination created their own schools

39. Question 34 Definition: American jurist and politician who served as the chief justices of the U.S. Supreme Court (1801- 1835) and helped establish the practice of judicial review. John Marshall

40. Question 35 What amendment to the U.S. Constitution ended the arrangement where the first place winner in the election became president and the second place became vice president? 12 th Amendment

41. Question 36 Definition: While governor of the Indiana Territory, he attacked and burned Prophetstown in 1811. The ninth president of the United States (1841), he died of pneumonia after one month in office. William Henry Harrison

42. Question 37 From what country (or people) was the Louisiana Purchase bought? France

43. Question 38 Definition: A gathering of Federalists in 1814 that called for significant amendments to the Constitution and attempted to damage the Republican party. The Treaty of Ghent and Andrew Jackson’s victory at New Orleans annulled any recommendation of the meeting. Hartford Convention

44. Question 39 What was unique about the Battle of New Orleans? The peace treaty ending the war had been signed.

45. Question 40 Definition: The 7 th president of the U.S. (1829-1837) who, as general in the War of 1812, defeated the Red Sticks at Horsehoe Bend (1814) and the British at New Orleans (1815). As president he denied the right of individual states to nullify federal laws and increase presidential powers. Andrew Jackson