Domain 1 Colonization-Constitution Test

the purpose of colonies was to economically benefit the mother country.

a government could tax without consent of the taxpayers for the purpose of regulating trade.

the English colonies would lose their legal rights and elected assemblies.

colonists would henceforth be required to pay taxes to the crown to fund their own protection.

The economy of Southern colonies sought non-wage labor.

Northern colonial governments considered slavery immoral.

Southern colonies refused to use Native Americans as forced labor.

Industrial factories in the north did not need slave labor.

level of the education of their citizens.

geographic conditions there.

differences in their colonial governments.

customs of the immigrants.

the Southern colonies

the Mid-Western colonies

the New England colonies

the Mid-Atlantic colonies

were widely scattered on small farms, seldom in contact with one another.

developed a society and culture of their own.

formed their own schools and universities.

were rigidly separated from whites.

Lewis and Clark's expedition into the Louisiana Territory.

the creation of the Panama Canal in Central America.

the best route over the Rocky Mountains to get to California.

the transportation of slaves from Africa to the New World.

the treatment of slaves by rich landowners.

George III’s taxation of Massachusetts politically active merchant class.

economic hardship and distrust of Virginia colonists who were unable to acquire land.

conflicts between Spanish and English colonists on the Georgia frontier.

Columbian Exchange

representative government

religious tolerance

capitalist theory

American colonists stopped sending raw materials to England.

Colonial governors became more powerful than assemblies.

Parliament increased its military supervision of the colonies.

The colonies developed an aptitude for self-governing.

were a phrase used to justify the institution of slavery as being beneficial to African-Americans. separated from whites.

a series of religious revivals that swept across the American colonies in the middle of the 18th Century.

the spreading of the abolitionist movement in response to the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

the movement to educate women in early colonial America for more active roles in raising children.

King Philips War.

the American Revolution.

the French and Indian War.

Pontiac's Rebellion.

The British were able to defeat the French in North America, Asia, and at sea.

The British need to create a French/Indian alliance in order to gain support from the Spanish.

The high cost of the war meant Parliament had to create new taxes in the American colonies.

The Indians believed the colonists would return seized lands to them.

The French were never truly expelled and played a large role in stirring-up colonial discontent.

American colonies to unite in their efforts.

States to ratify the new Constitution.

Confederate states to organize a government.

Britain to establish more American Colonies.

Rocky Mountains.

Sierra Nevadas

Appalachian Mountains.

Mississippi River.

rounding up suspected participants and sending them to Australia.

"tarring and feathering" the colonial leaders of Boston.

enacting a new set of taxes known as the Townshend Acts.

enacting a series of restrictive measures known as the Intolerable Acts.

by ignoring American representatives in Parliament on issues of taxes levied in the American colonies

by increasing conflict between the colonists and neighboring Indian tribes.

by revealing the British plan to expand the American colonies farther west on the continent

by raising taxes in the American colonies without granting the colonies any representation in Parliament

show that the group that would become the Federalists were already very powerful.

kept Parliament informed as to what colonists were planning.

were a series of governmental groups to maintain communication throughout the colonies.

provided a record of the negotiations in the Continental Congress.

The Boston Massacre

The New York Draft Riots

The Boston Tea Party

The Plymouth Rocks

"Remember the Alamo!"

"Remember the Maine!"

"No taxation without representation!"

"Fifty-four forty or fight!"

listing specific grievances against King George III and the British government.

appealing to the colonists' sense of natural rights and desire for freedom.

blaming the British for starting the "peculiar institution" of slavery.

reminding Americans that colonies fighting for independence rarely resulted in success.

the Declaration of Independence

the Mayflower Compact

the Preamble to the Constitution

the Bill of Rights

Articles of the Confederation.

Preamble to the Constitution.

Gettysburg Address.

Declaration of Independence.

serving as the head of the Second Continental Congress

preventing the destruction of Philadelphia

serving as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence

convincing France to assist the United States in the war

They all are examples of people or groups who stayed neutral.

They all assisted the British.

They all are examples of foreign involvement in the war.

They all assisted the Americans.

James Madison

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Robert E. Lee

It led to victory in the South.

It won the Americans a foreign ally.

It was the first major victory for the colonists.

It marked the end of British in the North.

the emergence of political division and the eventual creation of the "two-party" system in American government.

the ineffectiveness and weakness of American government under the Articles of Confederation.

the factors behind the unrest and violence that occurred in Shay's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion.

the reasons for the Anti-federalists' demand for the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution.

The need for a new US Constitution

Battle of Yorktown

Treaty of Paris 1783

Bill of Rights

forbade states to enter into treaties without approval from Congress.

named the country "The United States of America."

held the country together prior to the implementation of the Constitution.

protected the rights and liberties of American citizens.

Indian warfare

industrialization

slavery

British colonization

creating Limited government

creating a unicameral legislature

creating an executive branch

adding new laws

direct the Revolutionary War effort against England.

declare independence from England.

establish the Treaty of Paris to end the French and Indian war.

revise the Articles of Confederation.

Churches

Post Offices

Roads

Public Schools

Northern factory workers revolted against the government in protest against immigration policies that led to high unemployment.

African-American slaves in Virginia led an armed uprising against their masters in protest against cruel treatment and harsh living conditions.

Farmers, many of whom were Revolutionary War veterans, rebelled against the Massachusetts government because of heavy debts and high taxes.

As Massachusetts settlers along the frontier moved further west, the Wampanoag Indians began attacking frontier settlements.

the states were not free to trade among themselves under the Articles.

Shay's Rebellion revealed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

small states were underrepresented under the Articles of Confederation.

the Articles gave too much power to the national government.

settle issues regarding the power of states in the national government.

create a procedure for adding new states to the Union.

create a compromise on the issue of slavery.

draft a peace treaty with the British.

the creation of three separate branches of government- executive, legislative, and judicial.

the respective powers of the House and Senate and representation in the Senate and the House.

determining whether sovereignty rested with the states of the federal government.

ending the slave trade after twenty years.

the representation of states in Congress.

the territorial expansion of slavery.

the regulation of interstate commerce.

the admission of new western states.

Alexander Hamilton.

George Washington.

Benjamin Franklin.

James Madison.

Abolitionists.

Republicans

Democrats

Federalists

the adoption of the Bill of Rights.

the ratification of the Constitution.

the average American to support the war effort against the British.

delegates in Philadelphia to write a new constitution.

all free males would be able to vote.

a Bill of Rights would be established.

citizens would not be required to pay taxes.

the President would be from the South.

George Washington favored it.

The Bill of Rights was added.

They wanted to have a better relationship with the Federalists.

They feared a civil war would break out if the dispute continued.

Direct trade with foreign nations.

Equal trade benefits for colonists.

Increased local manufacturing capabilities.

The Mother Country depending on the colonies for raw materials.

Outrage and unity among colonists.

Indifference towards conflict

Fear of Native Americans

Support for British rule

in blockading British ships from the American coast.

planning where to engage British forces in battle.

in training their armies to fight the British.

Recruiting large amounts of soldiers.