Unit 6 Test Review

In what year was the Jamestown colony founded?

• 1607

• 1706

• 1805

• 1596

Which colonial region had the distinction of being the MOST culturally diverse?

• the Southern colonies

• the New England colonies

• the Mid-Western colonies

• the Mid-Atlantic colonies

  
  

Benjamin Franklin spent much of the time during the Revolutionary war:

• Resting at his home outside of Philadelphia.

  
  

•  Serving as an aide to General Washington.

  
  

• Printing newspapers that relayed war news to all of the colonies.

  
  

• In France, attempting to gain French assistance for the war.

  
  

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the Committees of Correspondence were MOST important because they: 

• Kept Parliament informed as to what colonists were planning.

  
  

•  Provided a record of the negotiations in the Continental Congress.

  
  

• Show that the group that would become the Federalists were already very powerful.

  
  

• Were an attempt to have political communication and cooperation among all colonists.

  
  

Who is the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Ben Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• John Adams

Baron de Montesquieu developed the idea of __________________, a concept of government in which powers would be distributed among three branches.

• Concurrent Powers

• Separation of Powers

• Reserved Powers

• Extra Powers

The Election of 1800 was significant because it

• played a major role in America's acquisition of the Louisiana Territory in 1803.

  
  

• was the first peaceful transition of political power between opposing parties in U.S. history.

•  gave the Federalists control of the executive and legislative branches of the United States government.

• marked the beginning of the era known as "Jacksonian Democracy" and the push to settle the western territories.

The primary reason for the announcement of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 was

• a fear of European involvement in Latin America.

  
  

• a desire to annex the independent territory of Texas.

• to end the lingering hostility toward Britain after the War of 1812.

• to justify the annexation of Hawaii and Alaska into the United States.

  
  

What did Jackson support that allowed him the practice of giving people government jobs on the basis of 

     party loyalty?

•  corrupt bargaining

• Spoils System

• Nullification Act

• The Compromise of 1850

Manifest Destiny was the belief that:

• Americans would establish colonies following the example of European countries

• It was American destiny to eventually conquer the entire Western World

•  Americans would one day conquer England

• Americans had the God given right to overspread the American continent