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Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 1hrs 17mins
Which of the following best describes what the Continental Congresses were?
a series of meetings planned to respond to England
a provisional government designed to negotiate peace
a local Pennsylvania legislature debating England's taxes
What was the first battle of the American Revolution?
Guilford Courthouse
Trenton
Yorktown
Lexington & Concord
What did the Stamp Act tax?
mail brought into America
legal documents and newspapers
sugar and molasses
tea
How did the colonists protest the Stamp Act?
They burned the stamped paper in the streets.
They boycotted (refused to buy) British goods.
They refused to pay the tax
All of the above.
Why did King George want to tax the colonists?
to pay for repairing British forts in America
to pay for his new palace
to punish them for losing the French and Indian War
to pay his debts for the French and Indian War
What group took to the streets to protest the Stamp Act?
The Patriots
The Minutemen
The Boston Boys
The Sons of Liberty
Which state entered the Union as a free state as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
California
Maine
Missouri
Texas
Which state entered the Union as a free state as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
California
Maine
Missouri
Texas
Which politician from Kentucky was instrumental in creating the Compromise of 1850? Hint: He also was key in passing the Missouri Compromise in 1820,
Henry Clay
John Quincy Adams
John C. Calhoun
Abraham Lincoln
The idea that political power belongs to the people is called_____________________, and allows the people to make decisions about who will represent them in government and what laws will be established.
Popular Sovereignty
Checks and Balances
Federalism
Separation of Powers
The number of slave states and free states was balanced when California wanted to become a state in 1850. How many of each kind of state were there?
11
13
15
25
What term means to formally withdraw from something? Like when slave states wanted to leave the United States.
cede
secede
repeal
annex
After the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850, some 343 fugitive slave cases were heard over the next 10 years. How many of those cases resulted in accused fugitive slaves being declared free?
11
249
131
36
Where was the safest place for a runaway slaves to go after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850?
Virginia
Canada
California
Pennsylvania
According to the Compromise of 1850, which two territories were allowed to decide for themselves on the issue of allowing or banning slavery by popular sovereignty?
Utah and New Mexico
California and Oregon
Oklahoma and Texas
Michigan and Ohio
Which part of the nation would be most in favor of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
The Northern free states
The Southern slave states
California
The states in New England
Sectionalism occurs when people favor the interests of one section of the country over the interests of the entire country. The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act that followed ____________________________________.
increased sectional tensions in the United States
decreased sectional tensions in the United States
kept sectional tensions between the north and the south about the same
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Tubman
Mary Todd
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Eliza Harris
In which year was Uncle Tom's Cabin published?
1846
1852
1859
1861
After reading Uncle Tom's Cabin most Americans wanted to
End Slavery
Help Slaveholders
Fight a war
forget about the South's problems
What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin convince the North of?
That it was ok to own a slave
That you shouldn’t have more than two slaves
That Uncle Tom had a nice cabin
That slavery was wrong
1. One important element that led to the War for Independence was a growing sense of __________ among the thirteen colonies.
DIVISION
UNITY
3. The ________________ had just begun, and many argued that the Albany Union was justified to coordinate an alliance of the American colonies.
War of the Grand Alliance
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
What is the Albany Plan of Union
1754; the first formal proposal to unite the American colonies, put forth by Benjamin Franklin
A group of citizens that come together and join the battle efforts.
controversial land that led to the French and Indian War;
Ben Franklin's Plan to Unite the French and British
Why was the Albany Plan rejected?
It gave too much land to the French.
The British thought it gave the colonies too much power.
It gave the colonist no control over their government.
The colonist did not want to work with the Native Americans.
