US History: Units #1-3

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

• Southern

• Mid-Atlantic

• New England

• Mid Western

In Colonial America, the House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact, and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are examples of ____________________.

• Trade agreements

• Religious treaties

• Deal with Native Americans

• Representative government

Why did people in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies adapt different ways of life?

• People with specific skills settled in each area

• The regions had different geographies and resources

• The people all had different reasons for settling in North America

• The leaders of the colonies decided how the people would earn a living

New England's economy was based on:

• Ship building, fishing and lumbering

• Art and music

• Plantations and slavery

• Farming grains, wheat, and corn.

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, spoke about the colonies becoming independent from Great Britain.

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Olive Branch Petition

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

Jefferson's political ideas were influenced by the ______________________, a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly.

• Enlightenment

• Scientific Revolution

• Great Awakening

• French Revolution

Which group was initially in FAVOR of the Constitution as it was written?

• Federalists

• Antifederalists

• Loyalists

• Conventionalists

What is the significance of Marbury v. Madison?

• It upheld the president’s power to appoint judges

• It led to the formation of new positions in the judiciary branch

• It established the Supreme Court’s right to declare a law unconstitutional

• It established the Supreme Court’s right to refuse presidential appointments

Name of the act that forbid colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War.

• Proclamation of 1763
• Proclamation boundary
• Manifest Destiny
• The Quartering Act

The Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts represented-

• laws passed by colonial assemblies

• opponents of the American Revolution

• factors leading to the American Revolution