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Title: What was the first English settlement in North America? Why was it founded?


1
What was the first English settlement in North
America? Why was it founded?
  • Jamestown, to establish a colony well suited for
    growing tobacco in the Chesapeake region

2
Why did the Puritans want to leave England? What
boat did they travel on? What was their purpose?
  • religious persecution, the Mayflower, to form a
    perfect community through their covenant with God

3
Name 2 characteristics of the New England
colonies.
  • education, small farms, harbor cities,
    Puritanically based morals and religion

4
Name 2 characteristics of the middle colonies.
  • religious tolerance, commerce, craftsmanship,
    heavy Dutch influence, big cities like New York
    and Philadelphia

5
Name 2 characteristics of the southern colonies.
  • Loyalty to the crown, plantations cash crops,
    low population density, controlled by small group
    of wealthy plantation owners

6
What religious movement was focused on getting an
emotional response from its audience? What was
its non-religious impact?
  • Great Awakening, caused people to start thinking
    more democratically and questioning authority

7
How did this movement help feed revolutionary
fervor?
  • equality in the eyes of God, pushed people to
    think democratically

8
Which enlightenment thinker pushed for a three
branch government and a system of checks and
balances?
  • Montesquieu

9
Which enlightenment thinker was an advocate for
the protection of natural rights (life,
liberty, property) and the idea that people
should overthrow a government that does not
protect these rights?
  • John Locke

10
Which enlightenment thinker pushed a social
contract that emphasized government by the
general will?
  • Rousseau

11
Which Enlightenment thinker was a serious
advocate for civil liberties like freedom of
religion, speech, and the press?
  • Voltaire

12
What did Thomas Paine argue in his pamphlet
Common Sense?
  • That the time had come to declare our independence

13
What is the name for the British policy of lax
enforcement of colonial navigation and trade
restrictions? When did they end this policy?
  • Salutary neglect, after the French and Indian War

14
Why did the British begin taxing the colonists in
1763?
  • pay for the debts they ran up in the French
    Indian (or 7 yrs.) War

15
What was the first major tax placed on the
colonists after the Seven Years War? Why did
many colonists feel taxation was unfair?
  • Stamp Act, colonists felt they had no
    representation in Parliament

16
Name two ways the colonists protested this tax.
  • boycotts, demonstrations, harassment of public
    officials, formed groups like Sons of Liberty

17
What British law required colonists to feed and
house British soldiers?
  • Quartering Act, a form of taxation that was
    resented by the colonists

18
What group of colonists wanted to remain loyal to
Great Britain? Why?
  • Tories/Loyalists, strength of empire, rights as
    British citizens, etc.

19
Who led the mob to the Customs House to set off
the Boston Massacre in 1770? What organization
was he from?
  • Samuel Adams, Sons of Liberty

20
How did the British respond to the Boston Tea
Party in 1774?
  • Intolerable (Coercive) Acts (in these the British
    closed the port of Boston, took over the MA
    govt, quartered soldiers in colonists homes)

21
What group called made the decision to split with
Britain and called for the Declaration of
Independence?
  • Second Continental Congress
  • Declaration signed on July 4, 1776

22
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of
Independence? Who were his two primary
Enlightenment influences?
  • Thomas Jefferson, Locke and Voltaire

23
What were the two main purposes of the
Declaration of Independence?
  • Establish the ideology behind revolution and list
    grievances vs. King George and Parliament

24
Where was the first actual fighting of the
Revolutionary war? Why did it happen?
  • Lexington and Concord, British sent troops to
    arrest colonial leaders and clashed with Minutemen

25
What Colonial victory brought increased support
from the French? Why were the French willing to
help us?
  • Saratoga, French were hoping to regain influence
    in North America theyd lost in 7 yrs war

26
What was the British strategy at the start of the
Revolutionary War?
  • Take control of New York (esp. Hudson River) and
    cut off Massachusetts from the rest of the
    Colonies

27
What was the freezing cold low point for the
Continental Army? Why was it significant?
  • Valley Forge, it showed the Colonial Armys
    resolve in sticking with it and winning the war

28
Where did the British surrender to Washington?
What Treaty officially gave us our independence?
  • Yorktown, Treaty of Paris (1783)

29
What document set up our nations first national
government? What was the basic configuration of
this government?
  • Articles of Confederation, loose Confederation of
    states run by a unicameral legislature

30
Name two weaknesses of the Articles of
Confederation.
  • no power to tax, no power to coin money, no
    executive branch, weak central government

31
What was the significance of Shays Rebellion
(1786)?
  • Demonstrated the weaknesses of the government
    under the Articles of Confederation, showed govt
    couldnt respond effectively to crisis

32
How did the Connecticut Compromise help create
our Congress?
  • It established a bicameral (2 house)Congress with
    rep by population in the House of Reps and equal
    rep in the Senate

33
Who appoints Justices Ambassadors? Who
approves them?
  • President, Senate

34
What branch has the power to veto propose
legislation?
  • Executive (the President)

35
How did the Constitutional Convention resolve the
issue of slavery?
  • 3/5 Compromise which made every 5 slaves count
    for 3 people when counting a states population

36
41) Which part of the Constitution gives Congress
to make all laws deemed necessary and proper?
  • Elastic Clause

37
What determines the number of representatives
that a state gets in the House of Reps.? In the
Senate?
  • its population (each state has Congressional
    Districts), each state gets two Senators
    (originally chosen by state legislatures now by
    people of each state)

38
Who has the power to enforce laws?
  • President (Executive Branch)

39
Who has the power to declares laws/acts
unconstitutional?
  • Judicial Branch, headed by the Supreme Court

40
What is the group of the Presidents advisors
called? Who were the two most influential
advisors to President Washington?
  • Cabinet, Hamilton (Treasury) Jefferson (State)

41
Who has the power to tax and declare war?
  • Congress

42
How many amendments are included in the Bill of
Rights? What group pushed for it? Why?
  • 10, Anti-Federalists they were afraid the new
    national govt would be too powerful and infringe
    on the rights of the people

43
What amendment protects you from unlawful search
seizure?
  • 4th

44
Which amendment protects your right to bear arms?
  • 2nd

45
What right do some people feel is violated by the
Death Penalty?
  • No cruel or unusual punishment (8th)

46
What amendment protects the rights of the accused?
  • 6th

47
What amendment protects you from
self-incrimination?
  • 5th

48
What freedoms are guaranteed by the First
Amendment?
  • Speech, religion, press, assembly, petition

49
What was Hamiltons (Federalist Party) vision for
America?
  • A country based on manufacturing and a strong
    central government, national bank, lots of
    commerce

50
What was Jeffersons (Democratic-Republican
Party) vision for America?
  • Agricultural society, everybody owns land,
    individual rights, weak central govt

51
What did Washington warn against in his farewell
address as he left office after his second term?
  • The formation of political parties, which pretty
    much happened right away after he left (Feds and
    Dem-Reps)

52
What laws were passed by the Federalists in 1798
to limit opposition to the government and slow
membership in the Dem-Reps?
  • Alien Sedition Acts

53
Why was Jeffersons election in 1800 significant?
  • Peaceful transition of power from Federalists to
    Democratic Republicans, tie vote decided in House
    of Reps

54
Who did Jefferson send to explore the Louisiana
Territory? Why did he send them?
  • Lewis Clark, promote the territory build
    excitement about the West

55
How did we get sucked in to the war of 1812?
  • GB France were at war were caught in the
    middle (impressment, blockades, etc.)

56
What were the key outcomes of the War of 1812?
  • Brits give up so we win, survive first big
    foreign policy crisis, establish ourselves as a
    truly independent nation

57
What was the basic message that the Monroe
Doctrine sent to Europe? Why was this
significant?
  • stay out of our hemisphere well stay out of
    yours , sets the course for U.S. foreign policy
    in Latin America (Nationalist Diplomacy)

58
Who was the first President to supposedly
represent the common man? What party did he help
build?
  • Andrew Jackson, the Democrats

59
Identify two things Jackson was famous for.
  • Trail of Tears, vetoing Natl Bank, spoils
    system, bare knuckle politics, expanding the
    use of Presidential Power

60
What major economic transformation occurred
during the Age of Jackson?
  • Market Revolution, our economy became a modern
    market based economy
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