AP US History – Unit 1 Review Sheet
Objective 1
1. Immigrants to the colonies who signed on to work for a set number of years in
exchange for their passage:
2. Colonies founded by one person or family:
3. A colony ruled by a royal governor:
4. The first document of majority rule in the New World:
5. The first written Constitution in the New World:
6. The first example of guaranteed religious freedom in the New World:
7. A nasty little affair in Virginia that symbolized the conflict between the Back
Country and the Tidewater regions:
8. The first colony wide religious movement:
9. The first attempt to unite the colonies in a plan of defense:
10. The British policy of ignoring the Navigation Acts because it was good for the
economy to do so:
11. His case helped establish freedom of the press:
12. The City Upon the Hill refers to which city and colony:
13. Two who founded Rhode Island:
14. Led the Great Awakening:
Objective 2
1. The first successful organization of the colonies to protest British actions:
2. The Stamp Act and Quartering Act were this type of tax:
3. The Townshend Acts and Tea Act were this type of tax:
4. The first British attempt to tax the colonies:
5. The second attempt, an internal tax, that really angered the colonists:
6. Lowered the price of the good but angered the colonists:
7. Passed in response to the Boston Tea Party:
8. Met in 1774 and voted to send a petition to the King to urge him to repeal the
Intolerable Acts, and also voted to set up committees so the colonies could
communicate with each other:
9. Met from spring 1775 until the summer of 1776. Passed the Declaration of
Independence, created an Army and put GW in charge:
10. Persuaded many colonists to support revolution:
11. Part of the Intolerable Acts that extended the Catholic province of Quebec into the
Ohio Valley:
Objective 3
1. The term used by historian John Fiske to describe the 1780s:
2. Created a system for admitting new states:
3. Created a system for surveying and dividing up the land in the west for sale to
settlers:
4. A farmers’ revolt that lasted for a year and symbolized the weaknesses of the Articles
of Confederation:
5. Gave freedom of religion and outlawed slavery in the Old Northwest:
6. Set aside land for schools and churches in the ‘west’:
Objective 4
1. Supported the ratification of the new Constitution:
2. Opposed the ratification of the new Constitution:
3. The system of dividing power between states and the federal government:
4. The agreement that settled the issue of how states would be represented in Congress:
5. Settled the issue of how citizens would be counted for representation in the House:
6. Demanded by AntiFederalists, before they would ratify the Constitution, to protect
individual liberties:
7. Allows the Federal government to expand its power and make any laws necessary
and proper:
8. The Supreme Courts power to declare laws unconstitutional:
9. Provides for an indirect election of the President:
10. The small state plan for Congress:
11. The large state plan for Congress:
12. The series of essays written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay to persuade people to
support the new Constitution: