US History Midterm Review: Fill in the blanks!!!
1. __________________ was founded for economic opportunity?
2.
_______________ came to Plymouth seeking religious freedom/?
3. The _________________ ____________________ established majority rule to the citizens in Plymouth called?
4. __________________ was the first permanent English settlement.
5. The _____________ ___ _________________ was the first elected governing body in the New World?
6. ______________, not guns, was responsible for the death of most Native Americans?
7.
8. The farming or cultivation of __________________ caused Jamestown to finally be a successful business venture?
9. Colonies in the colonial region of ______ ________________ were religiously intolerant?
10. Rum could be traded for __________ in the triangular trade?
11. Quakers could be found in ________________________?
12. ________________ could be found in Maryland?
13. In the _____________ colonies you would find a great deal of trade & a large middle class?
14. Men of English nobility who were given land grants in Virginia were called ____________?
15. The _______________________ believed land could not be owned?
SOL VUS4A
16. In ____________ _________ the author said George III was the cause of the colonies’ problems and urged
Americans to declare their independence.
17. __________ ____________wrote Common Sense?
18. ____________ _______________________ wrote the Declaration of Independence?
19. Governments are founded on the consent of the governed is one of the basic ideas of the
___________________________________________________.
20. On _______________ the Declaration of Independence signed by members of the Continental Congress?
21. The Declaration of Independence was based on the writings of Thomas Paine &
_______________________:
22. Settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains was banned by the British in the Proclamation of
___________:
23. During the ______________ Acts the British angered colonist by placing taxes on legal documents.
24. ______________________________ was the commander of the Colonial Army during the American
Revolution?
25. ___________________ were the supporters of independence called during the Revolution?
26. __________ or loyalists were colonial supporters of England called during the Revolution?
27. The ________________ _______________ was used by many patriots to provoke more colonial reaction
against the British?
28. The colonies were able to gain victory since Benjamin _________________ negotiated a treaty of alliance
with ________________.
29. The French army and navy helped insure American victory in the war at the Battle of ________________.
30. The first shots fired in the Revolution occurred at _______________ & _____________________.
31. ___________________ was the turning point in the Revolutionary War?
32. The battle of _____________________ pretty much ended the war in favor of the colonists:
33. France joined the side of the colonists after the battle of _____________________.
34. The __________________________________________ lacked the power to tax and regulates interstate
commerce, had no executive branch, no judicial branch and no unified currency.
35. ___________________________________presided over the Constitution Convention?
36. The Great or ____________________ compromise created a bicameral legislature with equal representation in
one house and representation based on population in the other house?
37. The Constitutional provision of ________________________________ allows other branches to limit the power of
other branches:
38. The Three-Fifths and Commerce & Slave trade Compromises were incorporated into the Constitution to placate
(satisfy) the worries of delegates from the ___________________ states.
39. _______________ were the supporters of a strong central or federal government.
40. Because they realized 0 a Bill of rights was necessary in order to convince a sufficient number of state
conventions to ratify the Constitution the ________________ agreed to add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution?
41. The essays written by supporters of the Constitution to ensure ratification became known as the
________________________________.
42. The Virginia Declaration of _______________ written by George Mason established the premise of basic human
rights, which cannot be violated by government?
43. In 1786, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, authored by ___________________________, was passed
Virginia General Assembly:
44. In his farewell address, _________________warned his friends to stay out of alliances and political parties?
45. _________________________authorized the Louisiana Purchase?
46. The Louisiana Purchase ______________ size of the United States?
47. The ________________ ________________ warned that, “The new nations in the American Hemisphere are no
longer territorial objectives for European nations.”
48. The cotton gin increased the South’s need for ____________ and ______________.
49. The belief that the U. S. was preordained by God to extend from one coast to the other was known as
_________________________________.
50. The removal of Indians such as the Creek and Cherokee from their native land to Oklahoma is known as the
__________________________________________
51. President _________________________ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling in Worcester v. Georgia and caused the
“Trail of Tears” to occur?
52. __________________________ was known for his “kitchen cabinet” & employing the spoils system?
(VUS.6c)
53. Immediate and uncompensated emancipation of slaves was the solution to the issue of slavery called for
by William Lloyd Garrison’s publication The _____________________.
54. The publication of ______________________ by Harriet Beecher Stowe stimulated anti-slavery feeling in
the North?
55. The __________________ Compromise preserved the balance between slave and free states by admitting
Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state
56. California was admitted to the Union as a free state and a new tougher Fugitive Slave Act was established
in the Compromise of __________.
57. The Supreme Court ruled that slavery could not be limited by the federal government and this slave was
property, not a person in the case of ________________________________.
58. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the battle of _________________?
59. The battle of _________________ is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
60. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to General Grant at
____________________________ in Virginia.
61. ____________________________ was the leader of the Confederate Army during most of the war.
(VUS.7b)
62. Before the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation, the North’s main case for War against
the South was to preserve the ____________.
63. The _________________ Act offered free land in the west to anyone that would live on and cultivate the land for five
years?
64. After the __________________ most immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe or Asia.
65. Immigrants on the east coast were processed at _________ Island, while immigrants on the west coast were processed
at _________ Island?
66. _______________________ controlled the steel Industry during the Gilded Age?
67. _______________________ controlled the oil industry during the Gilded Age?
69. Low pay, long hours, dangerous working conditions, and no benefit were normal during the __________ Age.
70. The United States Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” did not violate the 14th amendment in the Supreme
Court case of ____________________________________.
71. _________________________ was willing to accept racial separation for the short term and believed that the path to
equality was through vocational education and economic success?
72. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution allowed for women to have the right to ___________
73. _______________ or muckrakers wanted to improve the political, social and economic problems of the Gilded Age:
74. The book The ____________ dealt with the horrors of the meat packing industry, while The _____________ dealt
with the corruption in the railroad industry.
75. A __________________ allows citizens the chance to remove a corrupt or unproductive elected official.