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WorksheetsUnited States HistoryTest 3
Total questions: 72
Worksheet time: 36mins
In what year did the Constitutional Convention meet?
1787
1776
1791
1800
In what year was the Spanish Armada defeated?
1588
1603
1492
1620
In what year did Christopher Columbus discover the New World?
1492
1501
1485
1510
What election was the first in which the president and vice president were from different parties?
1796
1800
1788
1824
When did the First Continental Congress meet?
1774
1787
1765
1791
In what year was Jamestown founded?
1607
1620
1585
1619
When was the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded?
1630
1607
1620
1650
What year was the Louisiana Purchase made?
1803
1799
1812
1820
When did the French and Indian War begin?
1754
1763
1776
1789
When was the Treaty of Ghent?
1791
1814
1783
1800
In what year was the Bill of Rights ratified? ________
1791
1787
1801
1776
What economic system dominated Europe during the Middle Ages?
Feudalism
Capitalism
Mercantilism
Socialism
What was the first written constitution in present-day United States? ________
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Mayflower Compact
Articles of Confederation
Virginia Declaration of Rights
What church did most of the southern colonies follow?
Anglican
Catholic
Lutheran
Quaker
What plan did Benjamin Franklin propose for a union of the colonies?
Albany Plan
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut Compromise
On what date did the American War for Independence begin?
April 19, 1775
July 4, 1776
September 3, 1783
December 16, 1773
What law divided government-owned land into townships?
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Homestead Act of 1862
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Who was John Adams’s vice president?
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Jay
What was the meeting of northeastern states which claimed that states could nullify federal laws?
Hartford Convention
Albany Congress
Continental Congress
Annapolis Convention
Who invented the movable-type printing press?
Johann Gutenberg
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Leonardo da Vinci
Who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
John Winthrop
William Bradford
Roger Williams
Thomas Dudley
Who discovered the Cumberland Gap?
Daniel Boone
Meriwether Lewis
John Smith
William Clark
Who founded Log College? ________
William Tennent
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Samuel Davies
What Virginian lawyer declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death”?
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
James Madison
Which Prussian general trained the Patriot army?
Baron von Steuben
Friedrich Engels
Otto von Bismarck
Helmuth von Moltke
What Native American helped the British in the War for Independence?
Joseph Brant
Tecumseh
Sitting Bull
Geronimo
What prime minister passed the Stamp Act?
George Grenville
William Pitt the Elder
Lord North
Charles Townshend
Who authored Commentaries on the Laws of England?
William Blackstone
John Locke
Jeremy Bentham
Thomas Hobbes
Who led a rebellion during the Critical Period?
Daniel Shays
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Which American diplomat negotiated a treaty with Spain?
Thomas Pinckney
John Jay
Benjamin Franklin
James Monroe
Who explored the southern portion of the Louisiana Territory?
Zebulon Pike
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
John C. Frémont
Which Spaniard conquered the Aztecs?
Hernando Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
What major English precedent for American government came from the Magna Carta?
limited representative government
absolute monarchy
universal suffrage
separation of church and state
What was the name of John Paul Jones’s ship that captured the Serapis?
Bonhomme Richard
HMS Victory
USS Constitution
Mayflower
HMS Beagle
Which colony was founded as a haven for English Catholics?
Maryland
Virginia
Georgia
Massachusetts
What industry was uniquely important to New England?
Fishing and whaling
Cotton farming
Gold mining
Automobile manufacturing
What was the most widely used textbook in colonial America? ________
New England Primer
McGuffey Readers
Blue-Backed Speller
Hornbook
What type of school was common in the southern colonies?
Old-field schools
Boarding schools
Grammar schools
Charter schools
What economic theory did the Navigation Acts enforce?
Mercantilism
Capitalism
Socialism
Feudalism
The Administration of Justice Act was not a part of who’s programs to tax the colonies?
George Grenville
Charles Townshend
Lord North
William Pitt
What town did Washington reclaim from the Hessians on Christmas night, 1776?
Trenton
Princeton
Yorktown
Saratoga
The New Jersey Plan was similar to the Articles of Confederation.
True
False
What branch of government is checked by the president’s veto power?
Legislature
Judicial
Executive
Military
What part of Hamilton’s financial plan was not included?
Federal income tax
Assumption of state debts
Creation of a national bank
Excise tax on whiskey
Name one Native American tribe that did not ally with the French in the French and Indian War.
Iroquois
Huron
Algonquin
Ottawa
Which region opposed the War of 1812?
New England
The South
The West
The Mid-Atlantic
What effect of the Crusades helped end feudalism in Europe?
Rise of the middle class in Europe
Decline of trade in Europe
Strengthening of the feudal lords
Isolation of Europe from the rest of the world
The Great Awakening disestablished official churches in the colonies.
True
False
The British did not have a highly centralized colonial government during the French and Indian War.
True
False
How did John Locke’s believed natural law came from__________.
reason
emotion
tradition
authority
How did the Constitution fix the unstable money system under the Articles of Confederation?
Congress given power over monetary issues
Congress could sell western land to earn money for the central government
States had to agree on the value of a dollar
States lost the power to tax
What principle of constitutional government was established by Marbury v. Madison?
Supreme court had authority to strike down unconstitutional laws
The "necessary and proper" clause permits Congress's implied power
Congress can regulate interstate trade
Charters are binding contracts in whcih states cannot tamper
What was the name of the Native American alliance formed about A.D. 1400?
Iroquois Confederacy
Cherokee Nation
Sioux Federation
Algonquin League
Whom did Queen Elizabeth I send to search for the Northwest Passage?
Sir Martin Frobisher
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Walter Raleigh
John Cabot
What was the name for the trend of enclosing land to farm sheep?
Enclosure movement
Industrial Revolution
Open Field System
Agrarian League
What was the first institution of higher learning in British North America?
Harvard College
Yale University
Princeton University
King's College
What French fort did Washington fail to capture during the French and Indian War?
Fort Duquesne
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Necessity
Fort Niagara
What political principle kept colonists from accepting parliamentary taxes?
No taxation without representation
Popular sovereignty
Manifest destiny
Checks and balances
What law virtually expelled the American colonies from the British Empire?
Prohibitory Act
Stamp Act
Townshend Acts
Tea Act
Which constitutional compromise resolved the issue of counting slave populations?
3/5ths Compromise
Great Compromise
Commerce Compromise
Missouri Compromise
What interpretation of the Constitution did not allow for a national bank?
Strict construction
Loose construction
Judicial review
Implied powers
What legislation allowed Napoleon to manipulate the U.S. into war with Britain?
Macon Bill
Embargo Act
Non-Intercourse Act
Jay Treaty
Who said, “We have met the enemy, and they are ours,” after the Battle of Lake Erie?
Oliver Hazard Perry
Andrew Jackson
William Henry Harrison
Thomas Macdonough
64. Hernando Cortés conquered the _________
Aztecs
Incas
Mayans
Olmecs
The German printer/editor tried for criticizing New York’s governor was _________?
John Peter Zenger
Benjamin Franklin
William Bradford
James Alexander
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was preached by _______.
Jonathan Edwards
Cotton Mather
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
67. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania was written by _______.
John Dickinson
Thomas Paine
Samuel Adams
Alexander Hamilton
The British general who captured New York was _______.
Sir William Howe
Charles Cornwallis
John Burgoyne
Henry Clinton
The American general at Saratoga was _______.
Horatio Gates
Benedict Arnold
George Washington
Charles Cornwallis
The author of the first American dictionary was _______.
Noah Webster
Samuel Johnson
Benjamin Franklin
Merriam Webster
The first secretary of the treasury was _______.
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
John Adams
The first chief justice of the Supreme Court was _______.
John Jay
John Marshall
Oliver Ellsworth
Roger B. Taney
