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This country was one of the most important foreign allies for the colonists.
What is France?
What happened in France as a result of the colonists’ Declaration of Independence?
The French Revolution.

3. MISC. 1 for 200
This is the term used for citizens who come to fight as soldiers.
What are militia?

4. MISC. 1 for 300
This is the place where the Sons of Liberty planned the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Old South Meeting House?

5. MISC. 1 for 400
This Act put a tax on all imports (goods brought in from other countries).
What are the Townshend Acts?

6. What is the First Continental Congress
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The Intolerable Acts resulted in the first one of these.
What is the First Continental Congress
What is one thing the Congress decided to do?
Boycott British goods.

7. Misc. 1 for 600
List one grievance included in the Declaration of Independence.
Violated rights (Writs of Assistance)
Unfair taxes
Requirement to house British soldiers
No representation in Parliament

8. Two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
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Two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
What are:
Central government can’t tax
No federal court system (so no way to resolve arguments between states)
9 states need to agree for a law to pass

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Two ways trade was discouraged between states under the Articles
What are:
Different currencies in each state
Tariffs on goods from other states
Define tariff?
Tax on imports

10. Two requirements of states made from Northwest Territory.
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Two requirements of states made from Northwest Territory.
What are:
Equal rights for all settlers
Slavery banned

11. Name a position in EACH of the 3 branches of government.
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Name a position in EACH of the 3 branches of government.
Executive: President, Vice-President, Cabinet
Judicial: Supreme Court Justices, Chief Justice, other court justices
Legislative: Senator, Representative

12. Steps for a justice to be appointed to the Supreme Court
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Steps for a justice to be appointed to the Supreme Court
What are:
President nominates
Senate holds hearings
Senate confirms (or rejects) nominee?
For which branch does the President NOT have the power to nominate someone?
Legislative.

13. An example of a check/balance from EACH branch.
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An example of a check/balance from EACH branch.
Judicial: find law/executive action unconstitutional
Legislative: ratify treaty; override veto; declare war
Executive: pardons

14. What is a Manifest Destiny?
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This term reflects an expectation that the United States should spread from coast to coast.
What is a Manifest Destiny?

15. Florida was acquired by this treaty.
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Florida was acquired by this treaty.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?

16. What is the Guadalupe - Hidalgo Treaty?
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This treaty cost the United States $15million, but added the Mexican Cession.
What is the Guadalupe - Hidalgo Treaty?

17. This President authorized the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.
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This President authorized the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The two leaders of this expedition?
Lewis & Clark.

18. This land was acquired to allow a railroad to be completed.
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This land was acquired to allow a railroad to be completed.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?

19. This territory was a republic before being added to the United States
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This territory was a republic before being added to the United States
What is Texas?
What is a republic?
A country.

20. Misc. 4 for 100
These groups fought over barb wire fences.
Who are the homesteaders (farmers) and the cowboys?

21. Misc. 4 for 200
This invention allowed farmers to bring water up from deep wells.
What is a windlass?

22. Which western trail only went as far as Utah?
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Which western trail only went as far as Utah?
What is the Mormon Trail?
Why were the Mormons moving West?
For religious freedom.

23. Misc. 4 for 400
The term “Trail of Tears” refers to this.
What is the march the Cherokee were forced to take past the Mississippi River to Oklahoma?

24. Misc. 4 for 500
“Forty-niners” were mostly unsuccessful looking for this.
What is gold?

25. Misc. 4 for 600
Five motivations for people to move West in the early 19th century.
What are farming, gold, cattle, religious freedom and work on the railroads?