Text version of the Unit I Review Game
What was the first English settlement in
Why did the Puritans want to leave
religious persecution,
the Mayflower
Name 2 characteristics of the
education, small farms, harbor
cities, Puritanically based morals and religion
Name 2 characteristics of the middle colonies.
religious tolerance,
commerce, craftsmanship, heavy Dutch influence
Name 2 characteristics of the southern colonies.
loyalty, plantations
& cash crops, low population density
What religious movement was focused on getting an emotional
response from its audience?
Great Awakening
How did this movement help feed revolutionary fervor?
equality in the eyes of
God
Which enlightenment thinker pushed for a three branch
government?
Montesquieu
Which enlightenment thinker was an advocate for the
protection of “natural rights”?
Locke
Which enlightenment thinker pushed government by the general
will?
Rousseau
Why did the British begin taxing the colonists in 1763?
pay for the French &
Indian (7 yrs.) War
What was the first major tax placed on the colonists after
the Seven Years’ War?
Stamp Act
Name two ways the colonists protested this tax.
boycotts, demonstrations,
harassment of public officials
What three groups did people divide into over the question
of independence?
Radicals, Moderates, Tories
What group of colonists wanted to remain loyal to
Tories/Loyalists
Who led the mob to the Customs House to set off the Boston
Massacre?
Samuel Adams
Whose engraving of the Boston Massacre was designed to turn
sentiment against the British?
Paul Revere
How did the British respond to the Boston Tea Party?
Intolerable Acts
What group called for the Declaration of Independence?
Second Continental Congress
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of
Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What were the two main purposes of the Declaration of
Independence?
Establish ideology behind revolution and list grievances
vs. King George
Where was the first actual fighting of the Revolutionary
war?
What Colonial victory brought increased support from the
French?
What was the freezing cold low point for the Continental
Army?
Where did the British surrender to
What document set up our nation’s first government?
Articles of Confederation
Name two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
no power to tax, no power
to coin money, no executive branch, weak central government
Who appoints Justices &
Ambassadors? Who approves them?
President, Senate
How is the membership of the Senate determined?
Each state gets two Senators
How many amendments are included in the Bill of Rights? What group pushed for it?
10, Anti-Federalists
What amendment protects you from unlawful search &
seizure?
4th
Which amendment protects your right to bear arms?
2nd
What right do some people feel is violated by the Death
Penalty?
No cruel or unusual punishment (8th)
Who has the power to enforce laws?
President (Executive Branch)
Who has the power to declares
laws/acts unconstitutional?
Judicial
What is the group of the President’s advisors called?
cabinet
What determines the number of representatives that a state
gets in the House of Reps.?
its population
Who has the power to tax?
Congress
What amendment protects the rights of the accused?
6th
What amendment protects you from self-incrimination?
5th
What freedoms are guaranteed by the First Amendment?
Speech, religion, press, assembly, petition
Who has the power to declare war?
Congress
What was
A country based on manufacturing and a strong central
government
What party were John Adams and Alexander Hamilton members
of?
Federalists
What was
Agricultural society, everybody owns land
What was the name of the political party formed by
Democratic Republicans
Who did
Lewis & Clark, promote the territory
How did we get “sucked in” to the war of 1812?
GB & France were at war & we’re caught in the
middle
What was the basic message that the Monroe Doctrine sent to
stay out of our
hemisphere & we’ll stay out of yours’
Who was the first President to supposedly represent the
common man?
Andrew Jackson
What party was formed by
Democrats
Identify two things
Trail of Tears, vetoing Nat’l Bank, spoils system, using
his veto 12 times, bare knuckle politics
Why did many Americans settle in
invited by
Why did Santa Anna lay siege to the
settlers were refusing to
follow Mexican Laws
What is “Manifest Destiny”?
The belief that the
Who opposed the Mexican American War? Why?
Whigs and Abolitionists, opposed extension of slavery
What excuse did Polk use for starting the Mexican American
War?
“American blood has been shed on American soil”
What issue was hotly debated in the new territories as our
country expanded westward?
slavery
What were the three main conditions of the Missouri
Compromise?
MO is slave, ME is free, no slavery above 36’30 line
What were the three main conditions of the Compromise of
1850?
CA is free state, UT & NM are slave territories,
tougher fugitive slave law
How did the Kansas-Nebraska act go against the MO
Compromise?
they were above the 36’30
line and it allowed them to choose whether they wanted to be slave or free