| Question |
Answer |
| What is one theory about how early peoples migrated to the americas? | Land Bridge Theory |
| This animal was important to the people of the Plains for meat, clothing, blankets, and utensils. | buffalo |
| What effect did European ocean trade routes have? | Lasting contact between the Eastern and Western hemisphers |
| Why did the Pilgrims choose to leave their homeland to come to America? | to practice their religious beliefs |
| Why did many of the colonists want to leave Europe? | to escape religious persecution |
| Which of the following describes most slavery in the South? | slaves worked on plantations |
| Why did Britain impose the Stamp Act and the Townshend acts on the colonists? | Britain needed money due to the French and Indian War |
| Who was the first to speak out against the Stamp Act? | Patrick Henry |
| Who organized the Sons of Liberty? | Samuel Adams |
| The Boston Tea Party caused... | the Intolerable Acts |
| What was a Patriot? | a colonist opposed to British rule |
| Which battle began with "the shot heard round the world'? | Lexington |
| What does the Declaration of Independence say about Britain? | the king abused his power |
| Which two European groups fought against the British with the Americans? | the French and the Spanish |
| The arrival of the French navy | helped Washington defear the British at Yorktown |
| The Northwest Ordinance of 1797 | divided the territoty into smaller territories |
| The outcome of the Constitutional Convention... | the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation |
| The Federalists | wanted a strong national government |
| Hamilton and Jefferson's difference of opinion led to.. | the forming of two political parties |
| The US wanted to buy ____ when the Louisiania Purchase was made. | New Orleans |
| The Louisiana Purchase.. | doubled the size of the United States |
| Thomas Jefferson wanted to find out about the West so... | Lewis and Clark were sent on an expedition |
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