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Total questions: 43
Worksheet time: 22mins
Who controlled Mercantilism?
England
The Colonies
Europe
Spain
What is Civil Disobedience?
Following the law
Protesting Violently
Agreeing with the law
Peacefully Protesting
What was the Mayflower Compact?
A band from the 1600's
A Social Contract
A group of protestors
1st Written Constitution
What is a Cash Crop?
Vegetation that looks like money
A money tree
A crop sold for profit
Northern agriculture
What is a Grievance?
A Complaint
A Social Contract
A Tariff
A Protest
Who led the boycott on Tea in Boston?
John Adams
Continental Congress
Son's of Liberty
Writs of Assistance
What system of economics was used in the South?
Industrial
Mechanical
Agricultural
Social
What is an Amendment?
A Protest
A Social Contract
A Political Party
A Change to a law
What is Unalienable Rights?
Enforced laws
God given rights
Citizenship rights
Foreign policy
What does Urban Mean?
In the Country
Foreign Policy
In the City
Over the Atlantic
What does Suffrage mean?
Protesting
Nullification
Ratification
Voting Rights
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
John Adams
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
John Hancock
When was the US Constitution written?
1787
1776
1803
1812
Who was the first victim of the Boston Massacre?
Sam Adams
Patrick Henry
Crispus Attucks
Thomas Paine
Who wrote Common Sense?
Sam Adams
Thomas Paine
Harriett Beecher Stowe
John Adams
What colony is missing from this list of the middle colonies (Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey)?
Rhode Island
Maryland
Delaware
Connecticut
What was the Declaration of Independence a list of?
Grievances
Law
Foreign Policy
Citizens Rights
What did the Proclamation of 1763 prohibit?
Alcohol
Growing Tobacco
Voting rights for women
Moving past the Appalachian Mountains
What term describes the control over trade?
Mercantilism
Free Enterprise
Embargo
Suffrage
What battle was known as the "Shot heard round the world"?
Saratoga
Yorktown
Valley Forge
Lexington and Concord
What was the name of the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War?
Treaty of Paris 1763
Treaty of Paris 1783
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Ghent
What did the Magna Carta limit?
Power of Congress
Power of the President
Power of the King
Power of Parliment
What system of government ruled over the colonies during the Revolutionary War?
US Constitution
Bill of Rights
Virginia House of Burgess
Articles of Confederation
What is the first 10 amendments called?
Bill of Rights
Congress
Principles of Government
Federalist Papers
What was the 1st Written Constitution in the colonies?
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Mayflower Compact
What doctrine prevented foreign countries from colonizing in Latin America?
Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Comprises
Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?
Colonial Sanders
Thomas Paine
Francis Scott Key
James Madison
Which group supported a loose interpretation of the Constitution?
Radical Republicans
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Democratic-Republicans
What court case established Judicial Review?
Marbury v Madison
Gibbons v Ogden
McCullough v Maryland
Brown v Board of Education
What President warned about the Spirit of the Party and to stay out of Foreign Affairs?
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
What President completed Manifest Destiny?
Lincoln
Jefferson
Maddison
Polk
What land was in question during the Mexican-American War?
Louisiana
California
Texas
Oregon
Who were the main Transcendentalist?
Anthony and Stanton
Thoreau and Emmerson
Dix and Mann
Mott and Truth
Who was a leading Abolitionist and owned the North Star newspaper?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Frederick Douglass
Horace Mann
What court case did President Jackson ignore its ruling?
Gibbons v Ogden
Worchester v Georgia
McCullough v Maryland
Madison v Marbury
What event was caused by the Indian Removal Act?
Trail of Tears
Mexican-American War
Seminole Wars
Plains Wars
What was Henry Clay's nickname?
The Great Bambino
The Great Debator
The Great Compromiser
The Great Orator
Who was the President of the Confederate State of America?
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson Davis
George Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Who started the American Red Cross?
Julia Ward Howe
Francis Key Scott
Robert E. Lee
Clara Barton
What was the single bloodiest day during the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Antietam
Appomattox Court House
Who killed Lincoln?
Mark David Chapman
Sirhan Sirhan
John Wilkes Booth
Lee Harvey Oswald
What act gave settlers free land?
Dawes Act
Merrill Act
Homestead Act
Townshend Act
What group helped the newly freed slaves find jobs, homes and work?
Freedmans Bureau
Federal Home Act
Dawes Act
Morrill Act
