US History Test 3

Which colonial industry was uniquely important to New England?

Allowed Napoleon to manipulate the US into war with Great Britain

George Washington failed to capture Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War.

English precedent for American government emerged from the Magna Carta

inventor of the movable-type printing press

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

Founding of Jamestown

Most southern colonies followed what religion

The alliance of Native American tribes formed about AD 1400

The Iroquois allied with France during the French and Indian War.

Which plan was most similar to the Articles of Confederation?

Pioneer who discovered the Cumberland Gab

First Continental Congress

Sir Martin Frobisher searched for the Northwest Passage.

most widely used textbook in colonial America

Loose construction of the Constitution did not allow for a national bank.

In the Middle Ages, Feudalism was the economic system of Europe

"Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Colony intended to be a have for English Catholics

Whose political theory believed that the law of nature came from reason rather than God?

What economic theory were the Navigation Acts intended to implement?

Oliver Hazard Perry said "We have met the enemy, and they are ours"

American forces at the Battle of Saratoga were commanded by General

Which region opposed the War of 1812?

Was appointed by King George III to be the military governor of Massachusetts

common type of education in the southern colonies

George Grenville's program included the Administration of Justice Act.

TO defend against the French, Benjamin Franklin proposed what plan for the union of the colonies

Christopher Columbus's discovery of the New World

A meeting of northeastern states which claimed that states could nullify federal laws

Prussian general for the Patriot army

The 1st written constitution in present-day United States

John Adam's vice president was Thomas Jefferson

One of the effects of the Great Awakening was the colonies disestablished the official churches

Constitutional Convention

Election in which the president and vice president were from different parties

leader of a rebellion during the Critical Period

Prime minister who passed the Stamp Act

Wrote the first American Dictionary

Alexander Hamilton was the 1st secretary of the treasury

The 3/5 compromise resolved the issue of states' slave population.

The Constitution resolve ethe money issues found under the Articles of Confederation.

John Dickinson wrote Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania.

Explored the southern portion of the Louisiana Territory

The rise of the middle class in Europe helped end Feudalism.

American diplomat who negotiated a treaty with Spain

Marbury v Madison defined that the Supreme Court has the authority to strike down unconstitutional laws

Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony

The name of John Paul Jones's Ship

conquered the Aztecs

Hernando Cortes conquered what tribe

beginning of the French and Indian War

Author of Commentaries on the Laws of England

Preached Sinners in the Hand of a Angry God

Bill of Rights

Louisiana Purchase

Treaty of Ghent

defeat of the Spanish Armada

The trend of raising fences or hedges to farm sheep

Divided government-owned land into townships

1st governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

Founder of the Log College

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

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

What was the first institution of high learning in British North America

The first chief justice of the Supreme Court?

Native American who helped the British in the War for Independence

John Peter Zenger was brought to trial for criticizing the governor of New York.

A British advantage in the French and Indian War included highly centralized colonial government

Alexander Hamilton's financial plan included to instituting a federal income tax to repay America's debts.