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Early Settlement
The 13 Colonies
Road to Revolution
The Constitution
The New Nation
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4. Created by the Virginia Company, this was the first representative government in the colonies.

5. What is the House of Burgesses?

6. This was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

7. What is Jamestown?
A 200

8. This was the main reason for the French settlement of Quebec (in modern day Canada).

9. What is fur or fur trapping?

10. Indian chief who taught settlers at Jamestown basic survival skills.

11. Who is Powhatan?
A 400

12. The main purpose of these events in colonial New England was for a community to address and debate local issues.
A 500

13. What are town meetings?
A 500

14. This “Mid-Atlantic” colony was founded by William Penn and home to many Quakers.

15. What is Pennsylvania?
B 100

16. This concept stated that the economic responsibility of a colony is to financially benefit the mother country.
B 200

17. What is mercantilism?
B 200

18. Name given to the trans-Atlantic shipment of African slaves to the Americas.
B 300

19. What is the “Middle Passage”?
B 300

20. Period of religious resurgence in America that further weaken control of the Church of England on the colonies
B 400

21. What is the Great Awakening?
B 400

22. Name given to the idea that individuals could rise in society from poor to rich as embodied in the life of Benjamin Franklin.
B 500

23. What is the social mobility?

24. This decree by the King of England forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

25. What is the Proclamation of 1763?

26. This British law placed taxes on anything paper; from newspapers to deeds and playing cards.

27. What is the Stamp Act?
C 200

28. This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine laid out many reasons the colonies should break away from English rule.
C 300

29. What is “Common Sense”?
C 300

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C 400

31. To the colonists, the enforcement of the Quartering Act and the closing of Boston Harbor to trade was called this.
C 400

32. What are the Intolerable Acts?

33. This war ( ) was an example of imperial competition for the rights to the lands of North America.
C 500

34. What is the French and Indian War?

35. He is the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.

36. Who is Thomas Jefferson?
D 100

37. This was the final battle of the Revolutionary War.
D 200

38. What is the Battle of Yorktown?
D 200

39. He surrendered to George Washington after the Battle of Yorktown.

40. Who is General Cornwallis?
D 300

41. French commander who provided military expertise and assisted the American armed forces against the British in the Revolutionary War.
D 400

42. Who is Marquis de Lafayette?

43. Samuel Adams founded these organizations that helped keep communication lines active between and among the colonies.
D 500

44. What are committees of correspondence?

45. The Constitutional Convention was called originally to revise this document.

46. What are the Articles of Confederation?
Recall: Under the Articles, states held the power!
E 100

47. Proposed plan that would base representation in the House and Senate on POPULATION.

48. What is the Virginia Plan?
Recall: The New Jersey Plan wanted EQUAL representation
The Great Compromise would settle this dispute between large and small states!
E 200

49. Rebellion of farmers against the state of Massachusetts to protest farm foreclosures and imprisonment.
E 300

50. What is Daniel Shays’ Rebellion?
Note: This event led to a call for a stronger central government!
E 300

51. This collection of essays (written by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton) were written to convince people that a strong central government was best for the new nation.
E 400

52. What are the Federalist Papers?

53. The Constitutional Convention addressed the North-South controversy over slavery through this compromise.
E 500

54. What is the three-fifths compromise?
Which states would want the slaves counted? Why?
Recall: This debate was not about letting slaves VOTE, but COUNTING slaves towards total population!
E 500

55. Adopted in 1789, these first ten amendments to the Constitution were intended to protect individual liberties from the potential tyranny of a strong central government.
F 100

56. What is the Bill of Rights?
Recall: Anti-Federalists refused to ratify the Constitution if the Bill of Rights was not included.
F 100

57. This rebellion in Pennsylvania highlighted George Washington’s determination to enforce the laws under the new Constitution.
F 200

58. What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
F 200

59. These laws (passed in 1787) laid out the guidelines for how new territories would be admitted as states.
F 300

60. What are the Northwest Ordinances of 1787?

61. John Adams’ Presidency is best remembered for his refusal to go to war with which European nations in the 1790s?
F 400

62. Note: Your standard refers to this as non-intervention in Europe.
What is France?
Note: Your standard refers to this as non-intervention in Europe.
F 400

63. Political parties were formed in the 1790’s by the debate between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson over the creation of this institution.
F 500

64. What is a National Bank?
Recall: Jefferson felt that giving the National Bank too much power could lead to economic tyranny!
F 500

65. The Final Jeopardy Category is: The Revolutionary War!
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This American diplomat and inventor was heavily responsible for securing much needed assistance from the French during the Revolutionary War.
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67. Who is Benjamin Franklin?
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