US History 10 1st Semester Exam

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Topic 1 – 10 Points

QUESTION: This law was an attempt by the British government to cut down on smuggling by the colonists

ANSWER:

• Navigation Acts

Topic 1 – 20 Points

QUESTION:

• This law was a tax on imports that was particularly hated by South Carolina and led to the Nullification Crisis

ANSWER:

• Tariff of Abominations

Topic 1 – 30 Points

QUESTION:

• Law passed by Federalists to punish people for being critical of President Adams. Included limitations on freedom of the press.

ANSWER:

• Alien & Sedition Acts

Topic 1 – 40 Points

QUESTION:

• Law that admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state; maintained the balance of power between North & South in Congress

ANSWER:

• Missouri Compromise

Topic 1 – 50 Points

QUESTION:

• Law passed by the British that prevented settlement west of the Appalachian mountains. Angered colonists after the French & Indian War.

ANSWER:

• Proclamation of 1763

Topic 2 – 10 Points

QUESTION:

• Chief justice of the Supreme Court who worked to strengthen the power of the federal government in key cases

ANSWER:

• John Marshall

Topic 2 – 20 Points

QUESTION:

• Woman who worked for prison reform and to improve treatment of the mentally ill

ANSWER:

• Dorothea Dix

Topic 2 – 30 Points

QUESTION:

• Founder of the Sons of Liberty

ANSWER:

• Isaac Sears

Topic 2 – 40 Points

QUESTION:

• Said “Give me liberty or give me death!”

ANSWER:

• Patrick Henry

Topic 2 – 50 Points

QUESTION:

• Wrote the “Star Spangled Banner”

ANSWER:

• Francis Scott Key

Topic 3 – 10 Points

QUESTION:

• This treaty ended the war with Mexico

ANSWER:

• Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo

Topic 3 – 20 Points

QUESTION:

• This treaty ended the War of 1812 with the British

ANSWER:

• Treaty of Ghent

Topic 3 – 30 Points

QUESTION:

• This treaty ended the Revolutionary War

ANSWER:

• Treaty of Paris (1783)

Topic 3 – 40 Points

QUESTION:

• This treaty ended the French & Indian War

ANSWER:

• Treaty of Paris (1763)

Topic 3 – 50 Points

QUESTION:

• Treaty made with Spain in which the US kept the ability to use the port at New Orleans

ANSWER:

• Pickney’s Treaty

Topic 4 – 10 Points

QUESTION:

• Third president of the United States

ANSWER:

• Thomas Jefferson

Topic 4 – 20 Points

QUESTION:

• Son of a previous president

ANSWER:

• John Quincy Adams

Topic 4 – 30 Points

QUESTION:

• President during the “Era of Good Feelings”

ANSWER:

• James Monroe

Topic 4 – 40 Points

QUESTION:

• President who declared war on the British in the War of 1812

ANSWER:

• James Madison

Topic 4 – 50 Points

QUESTION:

• President because someone else died

ANSWER:

• John Tyler

Topic 5 – 10 Points

QUESTION:

• Place where Washington’s troops camped for the winter

ANSWER:

• Valley Forge

Topic 5 – 20 Points

QUESTION:

• First permanent European settlement in North America

ANSWER:

• St. Augustine

Topic 5 – 30 Points

QUESTION:

• Key battle in the Revolutionary War that is considered a major turning point

ANSWER:

• Saratoga

Topic 5 – 40 Points

QUESTION:

• Where the first fighting took place in the Revolutionary War

ANSWER:

• Lexington & Concord

Topic 5 – 50 Points

QUESTION:

• Place Columbus thought he was going when he reached the Americas

ANSWER:

• India