This was the enormously widespread transfer of agricultural goods between the Eastern and Western

Hemispheres that occurred after 1492. 1. Manhattan

Transfer2. Atlantic Transfer3. Columbian

Exchange4. Panamanian

Exchange

Spanish explorers who conquered native American cultures

1. Mujeriegos2. Liberators3. Banditos4. Conquistadors

System by which the Spanish government rewarded its governors in the Americas with title to land and permission to enslave any natives living on that land

1. Escuela2. Encomienda3. Retribución4. Abuso

The oldest continually occupied European settlement in North America. It was founded on August 28, 1565, by the Spanish.

1. Jamestown2. Roanoke3. St. Augustine4. Plymouth

The first permanent English colony in the New World (founded in 1607)

1. Jamestown2. Roanoke3. St. Augustine4. Plymouth

An English soldier and sailor remembered for helping to establish Jamestown

1. John Smith2. John Rolfe3. John Winthrop4. George

Thompson

The system sponsored by English colonies to grant land to people who purchased passage to the colony from Europe

1. The Merger System

2. The Land Grant System

3. The Headright System

4. The Fief System

The name for people who were forced into labor for a certain period of time in return for their paid passage to North America

1. Slaves2. Peasants3. Immigrants4. Indentured

Servants

The first governing document of Plymouth Colony, signed by the Pilgrims in November of 1620.

1. Justinian’s Code2. Mayflower

Compact3. Law of

Burgesses4. Emancipation

Proclamation

An economic philosophy that control of imports was the key to enhancing the health of a nation and that colonies existed to serve the home country as a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured goods.

1. Mercantilism2. Imperialism3. Colonialism4. Commercialism

The first representative government in North America, which was located in Virginia

1. Jamestown City Council

2. The Mayflower Compact

3. The Supreme Court

4. House of Burgesses

Battles between France and England in the new world resulting in the loss of all French possessions

1. The Hundred Years’ War

2. The War of 18123. The French &

British War4. The French &

Indian War

Written by Thomas Paine in early 1776, it said that continued American loyalty to Britain would be absurd, and independence was the only rational thing for colonists to do.

1. Common Decency

2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

3. The Jungle4. Common Sense

A political protest by Boston, Massachusetts residents against the British parliament partly in response to the 1765 stamp act.

1. The Boston Massacre

2. The Boston Tea Party

3. The Boston Sit-ins4. The Boston

Redsox

A group of Patriots formed in 1765 who urged colonial resistance to the Stamp Act using any means available… even violence.

1. The New England Patriots

2. The Tories3. The Sons of

Liberty4. The Loyalists

An American revolutionary who led the Sons of Liberty at the Boston Tea Party

1. Thomas Jefferson

2. Alexander Hamilton

3. John Adams4. Samuel Adams

An event that occurred on Monday, March 5, 1770 that resulted in the deaths of five Americans and helped spark the American Revolution

1. The Boston Tea Party

2. The Boston Massacre

3. The Boston Shooting

4. The Boston Redsox

Convened in May of 1775, drafted the “Olive Branch Petition” 2 months later, and eventually drafted the Declaration of Independence over a year later.

1. 1st Continental Congress

2. 2nd Continental Congress

3. 3rd Continental Congress

4. 4th Continental Congress

An American silversmith who warned of the advance of the British on Lexington and Concord

1. William Dawes2. Samuel Prescott3. Paul Revere4. John Hancock

Battle(s) where first shots of American Revolution were fired.

1. Valley Forge2. Yorktown 3. Lexington and

Concord4. Saratoga

The site of the headquarters of the Continental Army under George Washington during the American Revolution.

1. Valley Forge2. Yorktown3. Lexington and

Concord4. Saratoga

Battle after which the French joined on the side of the Americans, marking the turning point in the American Revolution

1. Bunker Hill2. Yorktown3. Trenton4. Saratoga

A document which formally ended the American Revolutionary War.

1. Treaty of Paris2. Treaty of

Versailles3. The Articles of

Confederation4. The Constitution

This was a British philosopher who argued that governments only purpose was to protect man’s natural rights.

1. John Locke2. John Marshall3. Baron von

Montesquieu4. Thomas Hobbes

The first government of the United States was based

on this, which was created in 1777.

1. The Mayflower Compact

2. The Declaration of Independence

3. The Articles of Confederation

4. The Constitution

This was a printer, scientist and inventor who helped write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

1. Henry Clay2. Thomas

Jefferson3. John Adams4. Benjamin

Franklin

This was a 1786 uprising of Massachusetts farmers concerned about the loss of their land.

1. Shay’s Rebellion

2. Whiskey Rebellion

3. Stono Uprising4. Nat Turner

Rebellion

This was an author of the Virginia plan and considered to be the “Father of the Constitution.”.

1. John Adams2. Thomas

Jefferson3. James Monroe4. James Madison

At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, this deal used parts of the “Virginia” plan and the “New Jersey” plan to create a Congress with 2 houses, one with representation based population and one with representation being equal.

1. The New Deal2. The Great

Compromise3. The Square

Deal4. The Final

Solution

This is the first ten amendments to the constitution, generally directed at protecting the individual from abuse of power by the national government.

1. The Bill of Rights

2. The Articles of Confederation

3. The Constitution

4. The Federalist Papers

“Founding father,” author of Federalist Papers, the 1st Secretary of the Treasury, and the architect of the 1st fiscal plan for the U.S. after the ratification of the Constitution. He is most popular for losing a duel with Aaron Burr that eventually cost him his life.

1. Benjamin Franklin

2. Thomas Paine3. Alexander

Hamilton4. Thomas

Jefferson

This is a form of government run by elected leaders.

1. Democracy (pure)

2. Republic3. Dictatorship4. Oligarchy

Passed in 1798, these laws were supposed to “protect” the U.S. from foreign people looking to spread the chaos of the French Revolution and from subversive or terroristic acts.

1. The Patriot Acts2. The Alien and

Sedition Acts3. The Sugar Acts4. The Kansas

Nebraska Act