U.S. History Unit 1

 Before the United States was a country...

• it was 13 colonies governed by Great Britain. 
• What do you mean the United States wasn't a country?
• the land was open to anyone.
• Columbus found it.

Who is the father of the constitution?

• James Madison 
• Alexander Hamilton
• Thomas Jefferson 
• George Washington

How would the British pay their debt from the French and Indian War?

• Borrowed $ from Spain
• Had no intention of paying it
• Increased colonial taxes
• Indians paid the majority

The Sons of Liberty were formed as a reaction to what?

• Stamp Act
• Revolutionary War
• Townshend Act
• French & Indian War

 ____________ was easily read and encouraged colonists to support Independence

• John Locke
• Common Sense
• Declaration of Independence
• Townshend Acts

Why did Britain close the Boston Harbor?

• In reaction to Boston Tea Party
• Townshend Acts
• French & Indian War
• Stamp Act

American colonists were angered by "taxation without representation" which means ___________.

• They had no representation in Britain
• They had no representation in America
• Did not feel Germany was represented
• King George III removed Indians

What term means the God given right to control everything from sea to sea?

• Proviso
• Popular Sovereignty
• Monroe Doctrine
• Manifest Destiny

Every state north of Missouri's southern border had to be what kind of state?

• Free
• Slave
• Frontier
• Sovereign

Where was it important to keep an equal amount of free and slave states?

• Judicial Branch
• Congress
• Governors
• Western Territories