Final Exam Review

Which colonial region is described by this: cash crops, small farms, plantations, slavery, organized into counties?

• Southern

• Mid-Atlantic

• New England

• Mid Western

In the Southern colonies, what was the economy mostly based on?

• Shipbuilding
• producing iron and textiles in factories
• whaling and fishing
• producing cash crops on large farms

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• A document that set up an organized government for the Pilgrims

• A list of religious rules the Pilgrims had to follow

• A map that later showed the hidden fort at Jamestown

• A document that kept the colonies from trading with other countries

the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, list of the basic rights of individuals.

• democracy

• Constitution

• monarchy

• Bill of Rights

The branch of government that suggests laws and carries out the laws made by Congress. Its leader is the president.

• Judicial

• Legislative

• Executive

How does the system of Checks and Balance protect people?

• it keeps any of the branches from over powering the other so as not to destroy the rights of people
• it keeps any of the branches from fighting so the people are safe
• it keeps one branch in power and destroys the rights of people
• it keeps all branches in power so as to destroy the rights of  people

Which compromise concerned how many representatives different sized states would have in Congress?

• The Great Compromise
• The 3/5 Compromise
• The Commerce Compromise
• The Intolerable Compromise

This was the document that setup America's first government?

• New Jersey Plan
• The Great Compromise
• The Articles of Confederation
• The Virginia Plan

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are known as..

• The good amendments

• The Civil War amendments

• The Revolutionary War amendments

• The War of 1812 amendments

The Amendment that gave women the right to vote

• 1st
• 10th
• 19th
• 21st