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Who was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys?
Ethan Allen
Patrick Henry
Gorge Greenville
Jessica
What act provided that British troops be housed not only in taverns and deserted buildings but also in occupies dwellings?
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
Declaratory Act
Intolerable Acts
Who became the prime minister of Britain in 1763 and was determined to help bring the colonies into subjection?
William Pitt
Charles Townshend
George Grenville
Lord North
Name one who rode on horses to spread the word that the British were marching to Lexington.
(a)
When did George III became king of England?
1763
1755
1777
1760
Who was the president of the Second Continental Congress?
Jessica Chen
Hawn Hancock
John Winthrop
John Hancock
What act canceled colonial America's western land claims?
Quebec Act
Quartering Act
Navigation Act
Boston Act
What was a fort captured by the Green Mountain Boys just days after they captured Ticonderoga?
(a)
Who wrote " The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved."
Paul Revere
James Otis
New York
Thomas Gage
What is the name of the event in which a British ship was burned by the colonists in 1772?
New York Stamp Party
Gaspee Incident
Boston Massacre
Quartering Crisis
Thomas Jefferson's presidency is called "Nordenian Era"
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False
The military academy is called Hogwarts
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The president sent James Magnum to purchase Lousiana
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The Shoshone woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark was Sakurasama
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The best known hero of Tripolitan War was Stephen Decatur
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British forcing American seamen into the Royal Navy is called impressment
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Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun are War Hulks
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Shawnee chief who tried to drive settlers from their land was Tecumseh
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Oliver Harry Potter fought the Battle of Lake Erie
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Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812
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Martin Luther nailed ninety-five theses in 1517.
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By 1588, Philip II sent the Invincible Armada to invade England.
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The French claimed Canada, the Great Lakes region, and the Mississippi Valley as New France.
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The oldest road in U.S. was El Camino Real.
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Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal founded a navigation school.
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Serfs were the peasants who farmed the land and shared their produce with the lord of the manor.
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The German printer Johann Gutenberg introduced the movable-type printing press in Europe around 1440.
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The Crusades were to drive the Muslims from the Holy Land.
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The most advanced civilizations in Western Hemisphere were the empires of Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas.
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In 1500, Pedro Cabral landed on the coast of Brazil and claimed that land for Portugal.
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Richard Henry Lee prepared the most important human statementpolitical principals in history?
American Independence was virually won at Jamestown?
Marquis de Lafayette helped Wathington drill his troops into disciplined his troops.
Sir William Howe attacked Hessian troops at Trenton.
Those who opposed to independence were called Patriots (or Whigs).
Commentaries on the Laws of England provides the best-known history of English Law.
Those who favored independence called themselves Loyalists ( or Tories).
Declaration of Independence on 7/6/1776/.
Thomas Paine published a pamphlet entitled Common Sense.
George III issued a Proclamation of Rebellion declaring that the Americans were in "Open and avowed Rebellion" and calling upon all military and civil officers and subjects to aid and assist "in the Suppression of such Rebellion."
William Tyndale gave England forst printed English New Teatament.
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Sir Francis Drake founded “New-found-Land".
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divine right of kings is the theory taht kings have the right to vote
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virginia is for elizabeth 1
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jamestown is the first permanent european settlement in the new world.
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john smith saith,".......to live without eating"which save the economy situation in jamestown
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strangers is name for separatists in mayflower
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maryland is named by charles1 to honor his queen henrietta maria
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company would grant large tracts of land along a navigable river to individuals called patroons
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city of savannah is found by year 1734
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The trade routes which ships sailing from New England colonies to Africa and stopped at two distinct ports is called Triangular Trade Routes.
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Cotton Mather is perhaps the best known American scientist of the colonial era.
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Investor is a group of businessmen, professionals and plantation owners who were noted not for noble blood but for wealth
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Quitrent is a small fixed annual fee
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true
The Philadelphia Academy later became the University of Pennsylvania
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false
public libraries are for those who contributed to their support could borrow books
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false
The first privately published American newspaper was the New-England Courant
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false
The Quartering Act was the act which required all towns of at least 50 families to hire a teacher
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The Blue-Back Speller is a paddle-shaped board to which was attached a printed sheet containing the alphabet.
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James Boone helped connect the Wilderness Road.
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The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided the entire Northwest Territory into townships.
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False
Alexander Hamilton is the Father of Constitution.
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False
William Paterson present the New Jersey Plan.
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False
James Madison presented the Virginia Plan.
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upper house is the House of Representative.
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False
unicameral is one-house
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tariff are taxes on imported goods
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False
Virginia is the first state ratified Constitution.
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elastic clause is the unnecessary and appropriate
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Isaac Backus influenced the Puritan for religious freedom.
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The absolute monarchy of King Louis XIV was overthrown in 1789
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In 1798, it created the Apartment of the Navy to build up American sea power.
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The Republicans chose Aaron Burr to be Jefferson's running mate
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False
Tennessee became the sixteenth state in 1794
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False
Alexander Hamilton stood for loose construction of the Constitution.
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Samuel Osgood was appointed postmaster general
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The nation had incurred a debt of nearly $12 million to foreign creditors. Hamilton proposed that this debt be paid immediately to restore America's credit abroad.
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New York City, the nation's temporary capital in early 1789.
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Edwards Randolph was appointed attorney general
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True
In August of 1794, forces under the command of General Anthony Wane decisively defeated the Native Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill
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True
Halfway Covenant provided that unconverted descendants of church members could be admitted as members with full privileges.
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False
The Methodist Revival after the Methodist denomination are founded by Jude and Charles Wesley.
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False
The Great Awakening was especially prevalent during the 1730s and 1740s.
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Jonathan Edwards preached what has become the most famous sermon in American history :"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
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False
George Whitefield is remembered as the most powerful voice of the Great Awakening.
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False
The best-known missionary to the Native Americans was Daniel Brainerd.
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False
Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan.
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False
In the French and Indian War, the British advantages were: (1) superior manpower, (2) agriculture, trade, and industry, (3) control of the high seas
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False
In the British and French War, the French advantages were the following: (1) a centralized colonial government, (2) the well-fortified city of Quebec, enabling them to defend the strategic St. Lawrence River, (3) an alliance with most of the Native American tribes
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False
The French and Indian War was officially concluded by the Treaty of France of 1763
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False
The Father of American Music is Stephen Foster.
Form notes was a system that made learning new songs easier for church choirs and musicians.
Thomas Cole painted The Peaceable Kingdom.
George Bancroft was the Father of American History.
Moby Dick, considered America's only great epic, was written by Herman Melville.
The most popular American poet of the 19th century was John Greenleaf Whittier.
Romantic era literature emphasized man's emotions, ideals, and appreciation for beauty.
The Germans immigrated to America because of economic problems at home and to escape persecution after the failure of a revolutionary uprising.
The Scots immigrated to America because of a potato famine in their home country.
A corporation is a company that is mutually owned by investors who buy stock in the company.
Matthew Maury laid the transatlantic telegraph wire.
Matthew Maury is called the Pathfinder of the Seas.
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph.
America's greatest contribution to the history of sailing vessels was the packet ship.
Much credit for the Erie Canal goes to Governor William Henry Harrison.
Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont traveled 150 miles upstream in 30 hours, showcasing the practicality of the steamboat.
Macadam roads were designed by John Loudon McAdam.
The Cumberland Road connected Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia, eventually running all the way to Vandalia, Illinois.
James Watt became the first American to develop a high-pressure steam engine.
James Watt invented the first practical steam engine.
Elias Howe invented the power loom.
Samuel Slater is remembered as the Father of the American Factory System.
Francis Cabot improved the sewing machine, making it a practical tool for the home.
After the Industrial Revolution, the dominant manufacturing system in America was the domestic system.
Cotton was the only crop grown in the South.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
John Deere invented the steel plow.
Cyrus McCormick invented the thresher.
The Erie Canal played a major role in connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, boosting trade and transportation.
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False
Henry Clay was known for his contributions to American poetry during the 19th century.
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True
The first newspaper to gain a national readership was the New York Tribune.
Josiah Holbrook founded the first lyceum in Millbury, Massachusetts.
Colleges were organizations that conducted discussions and established libraries and public schools.
The rapid growth of public education was largely the work of Horace Mann.
American schoolchildren used the Eclectic Readers written by Noah Webster.
Noah Webster wrote the first American English dictionary.
Progressive education is concerned with passing on to new generations the knowledge and traditions of the past.
Robert Owen founded a utopian community in Indiana called New Harmony.
Nathaniel Hawthorne praised the experiment at Brook Farm.
One of the most outspoken proponents of Darwinism and religious unbelief in the 19th century was Robert Green Ingersoll.
Henry David Thoreau wrote a collection of poems entitled Leaves of Grass, which portrayed his attempts to commune with nature.
Henry David Thoreau wrote a book Walden on his experiences living in a small cabin at Walden Pond.
Henry David Thoreau created the philosophy of transcendentalism.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony were all proponents of women's suffrage.
YMCA stands for Young Men's Catholic Association.
Phoebe Palmer founded the Five Points Mission settlement house.
Phoebe Palmer worked to promote more humane treatment of the mentally ill after investigating several asylums.
The abolition movement supported slavery.
King Kamehameha II united all but two of the Hawaiian islands under his rule.
One of the first missionaries to Japan was Jonathan Goble.
Townsend Harris was the first American ambassador to Japan and negotiated the Treaty of Amity and Commerce.
Commodore Matthew Maury was sent to Japan with a fleet of warships to secure a trade agreement with the Japanese emperor.
The two missionaries to Liberia were Lott Carey and Colin Teague.
Samuel J. Mills was the Father of American Missions.
Adoniram Judson was a missionary to the country of Siam.
The first American foreign missions board is the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
One of the American Sunday School Union's greatest Sunday school missionaries was Stephen Paxson.
Phoebe Palmer founded the first Sunday school in New York to educate poor women and children regardless of color.
The American Bible Society sent out hundreds of missionary-salesmen called colporteurs.
The greatest American contribution to music was the Negro spiritual.
John Chavis founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The best-known evangelist of the Second Great Awakening was Charles G. Finney.
The most notable camp-revival meeting took place in 1801 at Lexington, Kentucky.
The Presbyterian denomination experienced rapid growth through the preaching of circuit riders.
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled the disputed territory between Maine and Canada.
All of John Tyler's Cabinet resigned except for Noah Webster.
John Tyler was the first president to die in office.
Andrew Jackson introduced the spoils system to federal politics.
Martin Van Buren's policies caused the Panic of 1837 and the subsequent depression.
The party formed from a coalition of anti-Jacksonians was the Tory Party.
Andrew Jackson issued the Specie Circular in an attempt to stop the extension of credit and speculation using paper money of little value.
Andrew Jackson instructed his secretary of the treasury, Nicholas Biddle, to deposit incoming government funds to specially chosen state banks.
The Cherokee's journey to Indian Territory was known as the Trail of Happiness.
The Indian Removal Act gaveJackson the funding and authority to force Native American tribes to move west.
Robert Hayne delivered what is generally regarded as the greatest oration heard in Congress in the 19th century.
Jackson used his Living Room Cabinet for advice on political matters.
The most important Southern voice against the increasing power of the federal government under Jackson was John C. Calhoun.
The Tariff of 1828 was called the Tariff of Abominations in the South.
Andrew Jackson won the "favorite sons election" of 1824.
The Missouri Compromise brought Missouri into the Union as a free state.
The Monroe Doctrine pledged that the United States will stay out of European affairs as long as Europeans stayed out of American affairs.
The Adams-Onis Treaty saw Spain cede Florida to the United States.
The Rush-Bagot Agreement by Great Britain and the United States saw the two powers agree to disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
Chief Justice John Marshall upheld the doctrine of implied powers in the court case McCulloch v. Maryland.
James Monroe's presidency is known as the "Era of Poor Feelings."
The Treaty of Paris ended the War of 1812.
The most important naval engagement of the War of 1812 was the Battle of Baltimore.
The Battle of Tippecanoe was won by William Henry Harrison.
One of the reasons the United States went to war with Britain is impressment of sailors to the Royal Navy.
