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US History Q1 Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Understanding foundations; Learning from past mistakes & successes; gaining diverse perspectives; becoming engaged citizens; making current connections | Reasons to study U.S. History |
| Based on fact | Objective |
| Based on feelings & opinion | Subjective |
| When you favor one idea over another | Bias |
| Examples include newspapers, diaries and photographs | Primary Sources |
| Firsthand accounts | Primary Sources |
| Examples include textbooks, Netflix Documentaries and magazine articles | Secondary Sources |
| Accounts of people who did not witness an event | Secondary Sources |
| Stealing someone's ideas as your own | Plagiarism |
| Because where something happens can be as important as what happens | The importance of knowing Geography |
| The main motivations for English settlement in North America | Gold, Glory, God |
| Long months at sea, little food, disease, storms | Challenges on the journey to North America for early English colonists |
| Planting native crops | How the Native Americans helped early settlers to survive |
| Hostile natives, impenetrable forests, high mountains | Reasons early English colonists stayed close to the Atlantic coast |
| Jamestown is significant as... | The first permanent English colony in America |
| The year Jamestown was founded | 1607 |
| John Smith saved the colony by telling the people... | "if you don't work, you don't eat." |
| Jamestown almost failed because the first colonists lacked what? | basic survival skills |
| The Powhatan tribe allied with the colonists at Jamestown because of who? | Pocahontas |
| Who brought tobacco to Jamestown? | John Rolfe |
| The six "roots" of the Liberty Tree | Popular Sovereignty; Consent of the Governed; Compact; Social Contract; Self-Determination; Civil Body Politic |
| What two civilizations do American Liberties trace back to? | Greece and Rome |
| Ancient Document of early rights | Magna Carta |
| Established in 1619 as the first elected (representative) assembly in the American colonies. | The House of Burgesses |
| What is "republicanism"? | when citizens elect representatives |
| Term for everyone receiving what is right | justice |
| This colony was founded in 1620 by Pilgrims | Plymouth |
| Founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony | Puritans |
| New England Colonies were founded for this reason | religious freedom |
| Agreement made by the Separatists and Strangers | The Mayflower Compact (1620) |
| Government of/by/for all the people | Civil Body Politic |
| The right of people to decide their own government | Popular Sovereignty |
| Fought between New England Colonists in Connecticut in the 1630's | The Pequot War |
| English name of Metacom | "King Philip" |
| The costliest & bloodiest in American history | King Philip's War |
| Most of the fighting in King Philip's War was in which colony? | Massachusetts |
| Founded by Thomas Hooker | Connecticut |
| First constitution in the colonies; gave all "freemen" voting rights | The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) |
| Founded by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson for religious toleration | Rhode Island (1636) |
| Ideas of freedom in Massachusetts | General Court (1630); Body of Liberties (1641) |
| Slavery began for what reason? | economic |
| Large cash crop farm | plantation |
| Part of the Triangular Trade Route from Africa to the New World | Middle Passage |
| The first Africans arrived in which English Colony? | Jamestown |
| New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island | the New England Colonies |
| New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware | the Middle Colonies |
| Maryland, Virginia, North & South Carolina, Georgia | the Southern colonies |
| Economy: Subsistence farming due to rocky soil and harsh climate; fishing, shipbuilding, and trade industries developed. | the New England Colonies |
| Religion: Strong influence of Puritanism; towns centered around congregational churches; emphasis on education and literacy. | the New England Colonies |
| Social Structure: Communities were tightly knit, emphasizing communal activities and mutual assistance. Political Structure: Town meetings as a form of early representative government and self-governance in local affairs. | the New England Colonies |
| Political Structure: Town meetings as a form of early representative government and self-governance in local affairs. | the New England Colonies |
| 1735 case that ruled against censoring the press when it rightly criticizes the government | Zenger trial |
| The Pennsylvania “Frame of Government” proposed this type of system of government | A three part structure |
| "workers" who served a contract and then could become free | indentured servants |
| laws which controlled behavior of enslaved blacks and identified them as property | Slave Codes |
| European Wars Create Conflict in the American Colonies; The British Need for Expansion; Competition for Strategic Territory | Major causes of the French and Indian War |
| George Washington's troops fired the first shots of the French and Indian War here | The Battle of Jumonvillle Glen |
| French controlled the interior by building these | Forts |
| The location of the first conflict in the French and Indian War | The "Forks" of the Ohio |
| Benjamin Franklin's proposal for self government in the colonies | The Albany Plan of Union |
| This prohibited any colonial settlement to the west | Proclamation Line of 1763 |
| Britain put these into place to pay for the French and Indian War, angering many colonists | taxes |
| Ended the French and Indian War | Treaty of Paris (1763) |
| The people give the government permission to rule | Consent of the Governed |
| French Fort at the Forks | Fort Dusquesne |
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