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US History SOL 1-100
U.S. History SOL 1-100
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name of the people who settled in New England | Puritans |
| Reason why Puritans came to New England | economic opportunity |
| Name of the government Puritans formed in Massachusetts | Mayflower Compact |
| Type of democracy the Puritans practiced with their town meetings | Direct Democracy |
| Main reason why people came to Virginia and the other southern colonies | To make money |
| Name given to those wealthy people who were given land to settle in Virginia | Cavs |
| Big Valley in Virginia where the poor people settled | Shenandoah |
| What was the cash crop of Virginia | Tabacco |
| The first permanent English settlement in North America | Jamestown |
| The year Jamestown was settled | 1607 |
| Name of the first elected assembly in the New World | House of Burgesses |
| Name of the House of Burgesses governing body today | Virginia General Assembly |
| Year when the first aficans (slaves) were brought to Jamestown | 1619 |
| Name the 4 New England colonies | Massachusetts, New Hamsphire, Rhode Island & Connecticut |
| Name the Middle Colonies | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut |
| Name the 4 southern colonies | Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| The 2 most important cities in the middle colonies | Baltimore, Philadelphia |
| 2 other cash crops grown in the south | rice and indigo |
| Reason why some people left Massachusetts for Rhode island | Too strict |
| Religious group that settled in Pennsylvania | Quakers |
| Name the 2 religious groups to settle in New York | Jews and Catholics |
| Presbyterians found a home in the colony of | New Jersey |
| Type of People who lived in the mountains and valleys of colonial American | Small farmers and hunters |
| Church the wealthy landowners attended in Virginia | Church of England (Anglican) |
| Were the wealthy landowners closer to Britain then the other colonists | yes, closer to Britain |
| Religious revival that swept through the colonies in the 1740s and laid the foundation for the revolution | Great Awakening |
| 2 churches that formed as a result of the "Great Awaking" | Baptist and Methodist |
| What class of people in Virginia were the wealthiest | Plantation owners |
| The people who provided the labor on the large plantations | Slaves |
| Poor white slaves who agreed to work for 7 years were called | Indentured servants |
| Shipping route that brought the slaves from Africa to Virginia | Middle Passage |
| Enlightenment Philosopher who influenced American belief in self- Government | John Locke |
| Locke argued that the people should do this to government that had become abusive | over throw it |
| He wrote Common sense | Thomas Paine |
| What was his main point in the book "Common Sense" | It's Time for revolution |
| He authored the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| Year when colonies declared their independence from England | 1776 |
| The first 7 words to the Declaration of Independence read | We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident |
| Document also said that " all men are created _____________" | Equal |
| Name of the war that saw France battle England For control of North American | French and Indian war |
| Winner of French and Indian war | Britain and the Colonists |
| Why did the Proclamation of 1763 anger the colonists | won't let us move beyond the Appalachian Mountains |
| Name a few of the things that were taxed by the British | Tea and Stamps |
| Famous event where the colonist dumped British tea into the Harbor | Boston tea party |
| The first meeting of all the colonies were called the | First Continental Congress |
| The event British soldiers shot into a group of protesters and killed killed 4 was called the | Boston massacre |
| Name for the soldiers who fought the British in Lexington and Concord in 1775(had to be quickly) | Minute Men |
| The colonist who wanted total independence (freedom) from England were called | Patriots |
| Who said " give me liberty or give me death" | Patrick Henry |
| Those who still sided with the British were known as | Tories or Loyalists |
| Those who didn't take a side during the Revolutionary War were labeled as | neutrals |
| He was the commander of the American army | George washington |
| This nation gave us military aid in the Revolutionary war | France |
| This founding father negotiated a treaty with France | Ben Franklin |
| Was the Revolutionary war popular back in Britain | No |
| Battle that ended the Revolutionary war in 1781 | The Battle of Yorktown |
| Name of the first government we created after the winning our independence | Articles of Confederation |
| Did we have a president at this time the Articles of Confederation | No |
| How many votes did each state get in congress under the Articles of confederation | 1 vote |
| Was there a judicial branch under the Articles | No |
| Name the 2 houses of congress that were created by the Constituion | Senate, House of Representative |
| In which house does each state get 2 representatives regardless of size | Senate |
| Which one is based of population | House of Representatives |
| What fraction of slaves were the Southern states allowed to count towards representative | 3/5 |
| Name the 3 branches of government created by the constiution | Judical, Executive and Legislative |
| He presided over the Constitution convention | George Washington |
| This man is known as the " father of the Constitution' and author of the bill of rights | James Madison |
| Name of the plan that created the 3 branches of he federal government | Virginia plan |
| He wrote the Virginia Declaration of rights | George Mason |
| He authored the statue for religious freedom | Thomas Jefferson |
| Name the first 2 political parties in American history | Federalist and The anti-feds |
| Which party wanted a strong National Government | Federalist |
| These 2 virginians were opposed to the Constitution | Patrick Henry and George Mason |
| The leading proponents of the Constitution for virginia were James Madison and | George washington |
| Supreme court case that Established the doctrine of "Judicial | Mabury Vs. Madison |
| This man's election in 1880 was the first time which power was peacefully transferred from one party to another | Jefferson |
| What party had won the the previous 2 presidential elections | Federalist |
| What party was Jefferson in | Dem-rep |
| What did Jefferson buy in 1803 | Louisiana |
| These 2 men were the first to explore the Louisiana purchase | Lewis and Clark |
| Indian women who helped Lewis and Clark on their trip | Sacajawea |
| War that saw Americans lay claim to the Oregon territory | Mexican-American War |
| Nation from which we acquired Florida in 1819 | Spain |
| This president told Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere in 1823 | Monroe |
| Texans fought a Heroic battle here in 1936 | The Alamo |
| Texans were fighting to gain Independence from what nation | Mexico |
| what years was Texan was an independent republic | 1836-1845 |
| Name 5 states the U.S. gained with its victory in the war with Mexico in 1848 | California, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Utah |
| What did th U.S. government do with the Indians in the east | Put them on reservations out west |
| The Indian path taken to Oklahoma became known as | The Trail of Tears |
| As President, he made government more available for the "common man" | Andrew Jackson |
| Jackson also put many of his campaign supporters in office | . This became known as the Spoils System |
| The big issues when adding new states to the U.S. before the Civil War was whether or not they would be ____________ or _________ | Free or Slave owners |
| This Compromise in 1820 drew a line between the North and the south and only allowed which state to have slavery above the line | Missouri Compromise, Missouri |
| The Compromise of 1850 made what state a free state (no slavery) | California |
| Giving a state the option to choose whether or not to be a slave or free state was called | Popular Sovereignty |
| Congress repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed these two territories to vote on slavery | Kansas and Nebraska |
| What party was born in 1885 to oppose the spread of slavery | Republican |
| What southern state believed it had the right to 'Nullify" acts of Congress abd secede from the Union | South Carolina |
| The belief that America was supposed to spread from coast to coast | The Manifest Destiny |
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