US History Quarter Exam (Test 3) Review

Which colony was intended to be a haven for English Catholics?

when was Jamestown founded

Hernando Cortes conquered this empire

Who wrote "The Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania"?

What was the Southern colonies official church?

What town did George Washington reclaim from the Hessians on Christmas night in 1776?

The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided government-owned land into townships

What Fort did George Washington attempt to capture?

The date of the election in which the president and vp were from different parties

When was the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony?

What date was the Bill of Rights signed?

Who was the Spaniard that conquered the Aztecs?

Prussian general for the Patriot army

Explored the Southern portion of the Louisiana Territory

Christopher Columbus discovered the 'New World' in what year?

The first written constitution in the present-day United States was the

Inventor of the printing press with movable type

Which legislation allowed Napoleon to manipulate the United States into War with Great Britain?

On what date was the Treaty of Ghent signed?

American diplomat who negotiated a treaty with Spain for lands east of the Mississippi

Who was John Adams's VP?

Who was the founder of Log College?

When did the French and Indian War begin?

What was the name for the Alliance of Native American Tribes formed about AD 1400?

Who preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

What major English precedent for American government emerged from the Magna Carta?

What was the name of John Paul Jones's ship which captured the British Serapis?

Which region opposed the War of 1812?

Which of these was NOT a British advantage in the French and Indian War?

Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury?

What meeting of the northeastern states could nullify federal laws?

When was the first continental congress?

The American forces a the Battle of Saratoga were commanded by General

What was the most widely used textbook in colonial America?

Which effect of the crusades helped end feudalism in Europe?

Which plan was most similar to the Articles of Confederation?

What was the name of the trend of raising fences or hedges to farm sheep?

The German printer and editor put on trial for criticizing the governor of New York was

What date did the American War for Independence begin?

Native American who helped the British in the War for Independence

Which part of the government is checked by the president's veto power?

What economic theory were the Navigation Acts intended to implement?

Date for the Defeat of the Spanish Armada

What was the first institution of higher learning in British North America?

First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Which of these was NOT an effect of the Great Awakening?

Which constitutional compromise resolved the issue of states' slave populations?

Who was the Prime Minister who passed the Sugar Act?

To quell uprisings, King George III appointed who to be the military governor of Massachusetts?

What was the economic system of Europe in the Middle Ages?

leader of a rebellion during the Critical Period

What interpretation of the Constitution did not allow for a national bank?

What was the date of the constitutional convention

What law virtually expelled the American colonies from the British Empire?

Which of the following was NOT part of Hamilton's financial plan to repay America's debt?

Which Native American tribes did not ally with the French in the French and Indian War?

Which explorer and pioneer discovered the Cumberland Gap?

Which of the following was not part of George Grenville's program?

Young Virginian lawyer who famously said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Which of the following was a method of education common to the southern colonies?

Date of the Louisiana Purchase.

Who was the first chief justice of the supreme court?

Who wrote the first American dictionary?

After winning the Battle of Lake Erie, who told General Harrison, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours"?

Which colonial industry was uniquely important to New England?

What did Ben Franklin propose for a union of the colonies to defend against the French?

What political principle prevented the colonists from accepting any parliamentary taxes even if they were external?

Whom did Queen Elizabeth I send to search for the Northwest Passage?

How did the Constitution resolve the problem of the unstable money system under the Articles of Confederation?

The case of Marbury v. Madison (1803)established the principle that

Author of Commentaries on the Laws of England.

How did William Blackstone's political theory differ from John Locke's?