| 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 |
Biology Lab Midterm
