Question | Answer |
100-- What is a Democracy? | A government where the citizens have the power. |
100-- What is a republic? | Where citizens choose their representatives. |
150-- what is the 3/5 compromise? | For every 5 slaves counts 3 citizens to be represented. |
75-- What was the first representative assembly (legislature) | House of Burgesses |
75-- What was the Triangular Trade? | Trade route among the Americas, Africa, and Europe. |
75-- Who were the Puritans? | Left England and founded Massachusetts to reform the Anglican Church. |
50-- Who wrote that people had "natural rights"? | John Locke |
75-- An indentured servant is... | DOUBLE THE POINTS! workers who contracted with American colonists for food and shelter in return for labor. |
175-- Where did the Revolutionary War ("the shot heard around the world") start? | Lexington and Concord |
200-- Describe some of the American Strengths during the Revolutionary War | Fighting on their home turf, soldiers were close knit, elected their own officers |
250-- What happened at the Boston Massacre? | gunfire broke out between British and Colonists soldiers and only 5 colonists died. |
150-- What document gave the idea of limited government, limiting the power of the king? | The Magna Carta |
50-- Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, stating what? | colonists need to declare their independence from the British. |
25-- Which colony wrote a constitution first | Massachusetts |
125-- What happened at the Boston Tea Party? | Colonists protested against the English trade tax and regulations, throwing boxes of tea being shipped in from England into the river. |
50-- Who was the main person that wrote the Declaration of Independence? | DOUBLE THE POINTS! Thomas Jefferson |
300-- What did the Great Compromise state | there would be 2 houses, the Senate (same # of senators in each state) and the House of representatives (Population of the state would determine # of Representatives) |
100-- What did the Anti-Federalists believe? | that the constitution did not need to be approved because it would take too much power away from the states. |
75-- What did the New Jersey Plan propose? | That each state would have equal # of representatives and therefore would have an equal # of votes. |
150-- What did the Quartering Act state | Required colonies to provide supplies, food, and shelter. |
75-- Which Act put tax on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, etc. | The stamp act |
100-- What did the Sugar Act put a tax on? | foreign products such as wine, sugar, and molasses. |
75-- Who made the rules in "common law"? | The people |
25-- Who were the largest social group in the south? | DOUBLE THE POINTS! Farmers |
50-- What is a plantation? | A large estate usually worked/farmed by slaves. |
75-- What were some states that were considered in the south? | Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. |
75-- What were some of the states in the middle colonies? | Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York |
75-- What were some of the states in New England? | Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire |
50-- What is Egalitarianism? | DOUBLE THE POINTS! The belief in human equality |
25-- Define boycott | The refusal to purchase a certain good. |
200-- What happened in the French and Indian War? | Great Brittan fought France winning French territory in North America and not allowing colonial settlers to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
100-- What did it mean for the colonists to be under salutary neglect? | Under this policy, the British did not insist on strict enforcement of laws. The colonists were more so under self-government. |
50-- what is Mercantilism? | The theory that a country's power depends on it's wealth. |
25-- What is a social contract? | DOUBLE THE POINTS! an agreement among the people in a society with a government. |
275-- What was the Mayflower Compact? | In order to set up rules to govern themselves some of the 1st settlers in America formed this contract. Town meetings were set up to address local issues and concerns. |