SSUSH 1-13

War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.

• French and Indian War

• King Philip's War

• American Revolution

• French Revolution

Ended the French and Indian War and effectively kicked the French out of North America.

• Treaty of Paris (1763)

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

Stated that no colonists could settle in lands to the west of the Appalachian mountains-- made the colonists very upset.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

• Quartering Act

A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• Stamp Act Congress

• Committees of Correspondence

What is communism?

• An economic system where the means of production are privately owned.

• A political system based on democratic governance.

• A social, political, and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless society.

• A system where the government controls only the defense and foreign policy sectors.

Which of the following best describes socialism?

• A system where the government controls all means of production and distribution of goods.

• An economic system where production, distribution, and exchange are owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

• A political theory advocating state ownership of industry.

• An economic system based on private ownership and the investment of resources for profit.

Which statement best describes governmental power under the Articles of Confederation?

• The power of the states greatly exceeded

  the power of the central government

• Power was shared equally by the central

  government and the states

• A strong chief executive headed a unified

  central government

• A balance of power existed among the

  three branches of the central government

The purpose of the Three-Fifths Compromise which was adopted by the Constitutional Convention of

• Balance power between states with large

  populations and those with smaller population

• Provide a means of deciding disputed Presidential elections

• Allow Congress to override a

  Presidential veto of an act passed by both

  Houses

• Reduce the fear of loss of representation

  by Southern States with large slave populations

The Federalist Papers were a series of newspaper articles published in 1787 and 1788 to win support for the

• right of the colonists to rebel against Great Britain

• ratification of the United States Constitution

• right of a state to secede from the Union

• construction of a interstate canal system

During the Battle of _________________, Americans surprised Hessian troops guarding Trenton and took most of them prisoner.

• Bunker's Hill

• Trenton

• Saratoga

• Yorktown