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History
Mid-term exam study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is NC's state beverage? | milk |
| What is NC's state mammal? | gray squirrel |
| What is NC's state bird? | cardinal |
| What is NC's state flower? | dogwood |
| What is NC's state song? | Old North State |
| What is NC's state major crop? | tobacco |
| What are NC's Capes | Fear, Hatterus, Look Out |
| What is NC's state climate? | humid, sub-tropical |
| What is NC's state gem? | emerald |
| What does Piedmont mean? | foot of a mountain |
| Where does the Appalachian Mountains start and end? | Quebec to Georgia |
| What is NC's Sandhills? | golf |
| What is NC's size? | as big as England |
| What does the tidewater do? | rises and falls |
| What is the Virginia House of Burgesses? | 1st house of representative |
| Who is John Smith? | Helped Jamestown survived and leader of Jamestown |
| What does royal colony mean? | colonies that is directly ruled by the king |
| What does charter colony mean? | found from a joint-stock company businessmen |
| What does propriety colony mean? | given to individuals or groups by the king |
| Who is William Bradford? | Founded Plymouth |
| Who is the separatists? | people who wanted to separate from the Church of England |
| Who is John Winthrop? | governor of Massachusetts Bay |
| What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut? | 1st written constitution in America |
| Who is William Penn? | a Quaker; founded Pennsylvania |
| What is indigo? | popular blue dye; southern cash crop |
| What does frontier mean? | an undeveloped area near a civilized area |
| What are subsistence farmers? | farmers who raise enough for their families |
| Who is called the bread colonies? | Middle colonies; they grow a lot of grain |
| What is a poll tax? | paid in order to vote |
| What is a hornbook? | 1st text book |
| What does "Melting Pot" means? | people from all over (the middle colonies) |
| What does the militia mean? | town (local) army |
| What is an apprentice? | someone who learns a trade |
| What is an aristocrat? | another name from the upper class |
| Who is Jonathan Edwards? | lead revival in England; wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon |
| Who is George Whitefield? | came to America and lead revival |
| Who is Edward Braddock? | British general who tried to take Fort Duquesne |
| What is the quartering act? | housing troops |
| What is the stamp act? | tax on legal documents |
| What is the townshend act? | new tax on glass, lead, paper, and tea |
| Who is Samuel Adams? | main leader of the rebellion against England |
| Who is Patrick Henry? | famous saying "Give me liberty or give me death!" |
| Where was the 1st battle of the Revolutionary War? | Lexington |
| Who took Fort Ticonderoga? | Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold |
| What is a hessian? | German soldiers that were hired to fight |
| Who was Thomas Maine? | wrote "Common Sense" |
| Who was Thomas Jefferson? | mostly wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Where did Washington capture the hessians? | Trenton |
| Who is Baron von Steuben? | trained the troops at Valley Forge |
| Who is George Rogers Clark? | defeated Hamilton and claimed the west (Indiana) |
| Who won the battle at Kings Mountain? | the rebels; mostly made of over mountain men |
| What is a loyalist? | people who is loyal to the king |
| Who is General Cornwallis? | surrendered to Washington at Yorktown |
| What is a confederation? | a loose association of states |
| What is the Articles of Confederation? | a document that outlined our forms of government |
| What does ratify mean? | to approve |
| What does right of deposit mean? | freedom to stock pile goods |
| What does the Northwest Ordinance 1787 do? | governing land |
| Who is George Washington? | chairman of Philadelphia Convention |
| Who is James Madison? | "Father of the Constitution" |
| Who is Benjamin Franklin? | oldest delegate |
| Who is Alexander Hamilton? | favored a strong, central government |
| Who is Montesquieu? | French philosopher who outlined the 3 branches government |
| What is a republic? | elected representative govern the people |
| What is the Virginia Plan? | large state plan - called for two houses - based in population |
| What is the New Jersey Plan? | small state plan - called for one house - all states with the same number of representatives (2) |
| What is the Great Compromise? | combining both the Virginia and New Jersey plans |
| What does census mean? | count of population (people) |
| What is the 3/5 Compromise? | how to count slaves - count them as 3/5 of a person |
| What are the three branches of government? | Legislative, Judicial, and Executive |
| What are the four principles contained in the Constitution? | written law, separation of powers, checks and balances, and the federal systems |
| What does impeachment mean? | any charges against a major official |
| What does veto mean? | when the president opposes a bill |
| What is naturalization? | processed by which a foreign-born person gains citizenship |
| What is the order of succession to presidency? | Vice President -> Speaker of the House -> President pro tempro -> cabinet members |
| What is the 1st Amendment? | Five Freedoms |
| What is the 2nd Amendment? | Right the bear arms |
| What is the 3rd Amendment? | No quartering troops |
| What is the 4th Amendment? | No unreasonable searches |
| What is the 5th Amendment? | Rights of the accused |
| What is the 13th Amendment? | Slavery prohibited |
| What is the 15th Amendment? | Black voting rights |
| What is the 16th Amendments? | Income tax |
| What is the 19th Amendment? | Women's suffrage |
| What is the 20th Amendment? | Lame duck amendment |
| What is the 26th Amendment? | Eighteen-year-old vote |
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