US History Exam

Who was the first European to discover America? (not Colombus)

Who was the conquistador of the Aztecs and the Incas? What Indian ruler did he conquer?

What were the "three G's" of Spanish exploration?

How were the British and the French different in their approach to colonization & the native Americans?

While the Spanish were motivated by solely by gold, what else were the French and later English looking for?

What is the difference between being English and being British?

What is the British flag?

What is the English flag?

How did England make up for its naval inferiority?

What were the Sea Dogges

What event led to the beginning of the English overtaking the Spanish as a world power?

While Spain came for gold and France set up trading companies, why did England want to start colonies?

Why did their people want to leave England? (choose the best answer)

Under which female monarch did England really start to grow its colonies?

Where was the first English colony? Where was the first successful English colony?

What were some of the ways the English citizens used to finance their passage? What about groups of businessmen?

In terms of government What were the 3 types of colonies started by the English?

Who led the Protestant Reformation in England?

Why?

What was a blueblood? (not needed to know)

What was Mercantilism?

A cash crop?

An apprentice?

What were the three regions of the English Colonies?

When did the Salem Witch Trials start?

Who led the Salem Witch Trials?

How did it end?

What was spectral evidence and what role did it play in the Salem trials?

How is mass hysteria involved today?

Why should we admire Giles Corey?

Who was Massasoit?

What was Masssasoit's tribe’s role in the first New England Thanksgiving?

What is historically special about Metacomet (King Philip’s) war?

Tell of Bacon’s Rebellion and how it led to a rise in African slavery.

Talk of John Peter Zenger and his trial and its role in the First Amendment and of jury nullification

What was the Albany Plan?

Who thought of it?

What animal’s pelt helped to cause the war? What region populated by these animals was a major reason that the French and Indian War was fought?

How did the French and Indian War help the colonists?

How did the results of the war hurt the relationship between England and the American colonists?

What was Salutary Neglect?

This ended because the British were in debt after the French and Indian War, and so they needed to stop having people not follow the rules.

What truly happened at the Boston Massacre?

How were both the Adams cousins involved?

John Adams was the intense brother.

Sam Adams was the intense brother.

How did the Americans feel about their representation within the English government?

What was the British response to the Americans’ complaints of their lack of representation in Parliament?

Talk of British enforcement of mercantilism and the series of British actions that led to war (Proclamation of 1763, The Sugar Act, The Tea Act, etc).

Who were some of the leaders of colonial resistance? Give some ways that they protested the English.

How did the 1st Continental Congress deal with the growing turmoil between England and the colonists?

What did the Second Continental Congress do?

How did Thomas Paine inspire rebels?

Talk of the Declaration of Independence - Why did we need it? What does it state? Who wrote it? Why?

What were the American advantages in the war?

What were the British advantages in the war?

Who were the 3 major foreign countries that came to America’s aid in terms of national support?

Explain the terms: “Pyrrhic Victory” “War of Attrition” “Hubris”

What were the key points of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

Tell of the major differences between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution

What were the problems & successes of the Articles of Confederation. Tell of Shays’ Rebellion.

3/5ths Compromise

Great Compromise

Commerce Compromise

Which of these is NOT part of the 7 basic principles of the constitution.

What was the necessary & proper clause (“elastic clause”)?

A strict constructionist is someone who enforces the law and doesn’t use the “elastic clause” as often.

A loose constructionist is someone who uses their rights so if no one says that they can’t do something, then they believe that they can, and will, do it.

What determined the number of representatives that each state gets in the House? The Senate?

What was the Electoral College? How did it filter the power of the people?

What were Washington’s precedents? (Hint: there's 4)

Who were Washington’s cabinet members?

Tell of the Whiskey Rebellion and how Washington handled it.

This is Hamilton's financial plan, study it: Hamilton’s Financial Plan – what would it pay for? Assume all debts Assumption of foreign debt (like what we owed the Dutch and French) - Paying this debt would make countries respect us and be more likely to work with us in the future. Assumption of state debt (Agreeing to pay off all remaining state debts) – Paying this debt would set the example that we are one country and the states would look to the federal (central) government for help. Assumption of private bond debt (Agreeing to pay off all the private bonds) – Paying this debt would make the private citizens have respect for the new government Hamilton’s Financial Plan – How would it pay Create Bank of U.S. With the elastic clause Issue new bonds Tariff on foreign goods (North liked/South disliked) Tax on Whiskey (Whiskey rebellion)

Explain Hamilton's financial plan

What was speculation? How did this have an effect Hamilton’s plan (paying off bonds)?

€�If I can be but the instrument of preserving one life, his blessing or tears of transport shall be sufficient consolation to me, for the contempt of all mankind”

"I may not be a lion, but I am a lion's cub, and I have a lion's heart.”

More weight

€�We have always governed ourselves.”

€�They stand no longer in need of her protection. She will call on them to contribute towards supporting the burdens they have helped bring on to her, and they will answer by striking off all dependence.”

I would have been content to bring France to her knees, now I will not rest until I have laid her on her back.”

€�These are the times that try men’s souls...Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.”

€�We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”

To say that America, with some French aid, defeated England is like saying ‘Daddy and I killed the bear.”

€�Anyone who does not agree with me is both a traitor and a scoundrel.”

€�The die is now cast, the colonists must either submit or triumph.”

Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes”

€�We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.”