Us History Semester Exam

Front 1

Current scientific evidence suggests that people arrived in America between ___________ years ago.

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15,000-30,000 years ago

Front 2

What major advantage did Hernan Cortes have over the Native Americans in the Yucatan Penninsula?

Back 2

Horses

Front 3

The Puritans immigrated to America to escape religious persecution, but they also wanted to get away from?

Back 3

Social injustice and the King, who would not purify the Anglican Church.

Puritans wanted to “purify” the Anglican Church of any remaining Catholic elements. They also disapproved of the monarch having the power to appoint bishops to run the church. In their view, each congregation should elect its own leaders.

Front 4

In the early colonial era, New England merchants established a triangular trade because

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they needed goods from other continents. They produced few goods England wanted in return.

Front 5

The cash crop that allowed Virginia to become profitable was

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Tobacco

Front 6

John Locke wrote Two Treatises of Government to justify Parliament's decision to put William and Mary on the throne and require them to accept the

Back 6

The English Bill of Rights

Front 7

Philosopher John Locke argued that a monarch's right to rule came from

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the people

Front 8

The American continent is named after the Italian explorer

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Amerigo Vespucci

Front 9

What did the Native American Squanto do to help pilgrim settlers?

Back 9

Interpreter

Helped make weapons

Front 10

American forces suffered their greatest defeat of the Revolutionary War at

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Charles Town, South Carolina

Front 11

When the Stamp Act went into effect in 1765, the colonists protested it by

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Boycotting all British goods, signed a "nonimportant agreement" that pledged not to buy any British goods until Parliament repeated the Stamp Act

Front 12

What battle was an important turning point in the Revolutionary War that led Southern farmers to organize their own forces?

Back 12

Battle of Camden

Front 13

Local militias during the Revolutionary War engaged in guerrilla warfare, a style of fighting that

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involved small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes

Front 14

France entered the Revolutionary War after the Battle of Saratoga because

Back 14

of the American victory. France didn't want to enter a war until they were convinced that they would win.

Front 15

Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766, after colonists

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signed the nonimportant agreement.

Front 16

During the American Revolution, Patriots tarred and feathered __________ who believed that British law should be upheld.

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Loyalists

Front 17

Shay's Rebellion, which many Americans saw as evidence of the Articles of Confederation Congress's weakness, began when

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the government of Massachusetts raised taxes

Front 18

News of unrest in states, and especially of Shay's Rebellion, convinced Congress to form a stronger

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central government

Front 19

Which influential nationalist was a member of the Virginia Assembly, the head of its commerce committee, and the primary author of the Virginia Plan?

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James Madison

Front 20

The Virginia Plan proposed a two-house Congress that would benefit

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equal representation and population