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WorksheetsVUS SOL Review (SOL 2-6)
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Who settled New England seeking freedom from religious persecution in Europe and formed a “covenant community” based on the Mayflower Compact?
Puritans/Pilgrims
Quakers
Presbyterians
Hugenots
Which colonial region was settled by mainly the Dutch, English and the German-speaking immigrants seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity?
Northeast / New England Colonies
Middle / Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Southern Colonies
Western Colonies
In VA, what were the people called who received large land grants from the King of England?
Puritans
Pilgrims
Catholics
Cavaliers
In VA, where did small farmers or artisans mainly settle?
Along the James River
Inland near the Appalachian Mountains
Along the eastern coastline
South near the North Carolina border
What settlement was established in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London as a business venture and was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
St. Augustine
Jamestown
Williamsburg
Plymouth
It operated in VA continuously and is known today as the General Assembly. It was established in the 1640’s and was the first elected assembly in the New World.
The Virginia Legislature
The General Court
The House of Burgesses
The House of Representatives
The explorations and settlements by the English in the American colonies, and the Spanish in the Caribbean, Central American and South America often led to violent conflicts with which group of people?
French
Mexicans
Native Americans
Dutch
The first Africans were brought against their will to Jamestown in what year to work on tobacco plantations?
1607
1619
1642
1776
This colonial region developed an economy based on shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, and subsistence farming. Eventually, this region began manufacturing. Which region is being described?
Northeast / New England Colonies
Middle / Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Southern Colonies
Western Colonies
NY, NJ, Pennsylvania, and Delaware had shipbuilding, farming and trading. New York City and Philadelphia began to grow. Which region is being described?
Northeast /New England Colonies
Middle / Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Southern Colonies
Western Colonies
Which colonial region developed economies in the coastal lowlands and largely based on plantation farming growing cash crops (tobacco, rice, and indigo?
Northeast / New England Colonies
Middle / Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Southern Colonies
Western Colonies
Everywhere in the colonies, there was a strong belief in private ownership of property and what other principle?
free enterprise
privateering
cooperation
religious tolerance
Which religious group grew increasingly intolerant of dissenters who challenged their ways from New England? Rhode Island was founded by dissenters.
Puritans
Catholics
Presbyterians
Quakers
In the middle colonies, which tolerant religious group settled in Pennsylvania?
Puritans
Catholics
Presbyterians
Quakers
The Huguenots and Jews settled in which colony?
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Virginia
Which religious group mainly settled in New Jersey?
Huguenots
Jews
Catholics
Presbyterians
Large landowners in the Southern colonies pledged allegiance to which church? They kept stronger ties with Great Britain.
Society of Friends / Quakers
Presbyterian
Church of England / Anglicans
Catholic Church
Which religious movement swept through the colonies during the mid-1700s?
The Enlightenment
The Great Awakening
The Great Migration
The New Light
Which colonial region had town meetings based on the Athenian direct democracy model?
Northeast / New England Colonies
Mid-Atlantic / Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Western Colonies
What were workers from Europe called who worked for a period of years to pay for their passage to the New World?
slaves
immigrants
indentured servants
birds of passage
Enslaved Africans were forcibly brought to the Southern colonies by the
Virginia Company of London
Middle Passage
Transcontinental Railroad
French
This document acted as a road map for the new republic as it extended the franchise, provided equality of opportunity, and guaranteed “unalienable rights.”
Declaration of Independence
the Constitution
the Bill of Rights
the Mayflower Compact
Who negotiated a Treaty of Alliance with France during the American Revolution?
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
King George III
Ben Franklin
Who was the American general of the army during the American Revolution?
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
George Washington
Which army and navy provided assistance at the Battle of Yorktown which ended the war with an American victory?
Spain's
Germany's
France's
England's
Which group advocated the importance of a strong central government, especially to promote economic development and public improvements?
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Democrats
Republicans
Which group feared an overly powerful central government?
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Whigs
Democrats
Who were the two opponents of ratification of the Constitution?
Patrick Henry & George Mason
Thomas Jefferson & John Adams
Ben Franklin & George Washington
James Madison & Thomas Nelson
Which were the two leading VA proponents of ratification?
Patrick Henry & George Mason
John Adams & Thomas Jefferson
George Washington & James Madison
Ben Franklin & Roger Williams
Which opposition party emerged over the Bank issue and Jay's Treaty led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Democratic-Republicans
Loyalists
Which presidential election was the first in which power was transferred peacefully from one political party to another?
Election of 1800
Election of 1796
Adams' Election
Monroe's Election
The Federalists were led by which two men who wanted a strong national government?
Thomas Jefferson & James Madison
John Adams & Alexander Hamilton
Patrick Henry & George Mason
George Washington & Ben Franklin
Which party believed in a weak national government and an agricultural economy?
Democratic-Republicans
Federalists
Whigs
Anti-Federalists
Which president in 1803 bought the LA Purchase?
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Who explored the LA Purchase?
Zebulon Pike
Charles Fremont
Burr & Hamilton
Lewis & Clark
Name the Indian woman who served as a guide and translator on the expedition.
Powhatan
Pocahontas
Sacajawea
Shawnee
Which territory was acquired from Spain in a treaty?
Florida & Oregon
the Mexican Cession
Missouri
the Northwest Territory
The War of 1812 produced an American claim to which Pacific NW territory?
Ohio Territory
Oregon Territory
Alaska
the Mexican Cession
Which 1823 document stated that Europe should not interfere in the Western Hemisphere?
Roosevelt Corollary
Declaration of Independence
Adams-Onis Treaty
Monroe Doctrine
Which invention by Eli Whitney led to the spread of slavery-based “cotton kingdom” in the Deep South?
steel plow
mechanical reaper
cotton gin
grist mill
Which war was fought that led to the U.S. gaining CA, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of Colorado, and New Mexico?
Spanish-American War
American Revolution
War of 1812
Mexican War
Which famous armed revolt took place between the Mexican army and Texans? “Remember the… ?”
Maine
Alamo
Harbor
Homeland
Which belief stated that it was America’s destiny to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
Containment
Manifest Destiny
What was the forced movement of the Indian tribes from the coastal states to Oklahoma called?
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Black Hawk Wars
Seminole Wars
Trail of Tears
Western expansion and what other major factor led to the War of 1812? Also, called Madison’s war.
British interference with American shipping
British invasion of New Orleans
British take over of Canada
British attack on the Alamo
Which party opposed Madison’s war resolution and talked of secession and proposed constitutional amendments?
Federalists
Democratic-Republicans
Whigs
Loyalists
Madison v Marbury granted the court the power to determine Constitutionality of the actions of the other governmental branches, also known as
separate but equal
clear and present danger
veto power
judicial review
Which Supreme Court Chief Justice upheld Federal power over the states in a series of Supreme Court cases in the 1800's?
John Jay
John Marshall
Earl Warren
Roger B. Taney
Which Supreme Court case established Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce?
McCulloch v Maryland
Marbury v Madison
Gibbons v Ogden
Plessy v Ferguson
What Supreme Court case set forth the principal of implied powers and denied states' the right to tax the federal government? "The power to tax is the power to destroy."
Gibbons v Ogden
McCulloch v Maryland
Marbury v Madison
Roe v Wade
