Unit 1 Throwback Thursday

1. Unit 1 Throwback Thursday Colonization through Constitution

2. Which statement BEST explains the growth of representative government in Massachusetts Bay Colony? • a. • The Puritans wanted to establish order within their societies. • c. • Religious tolerance depended on the growth of elected legislatures • b. • England encouraged self-rule among the colonies • d. • Each newly chartered colony patterned itself on other colonies.

3. a. • The Puritans wanted to establish order within their societies.

4. What did the Mayflower Compact establish?

5. the possibility of self-government

6. What was the House of Burgesses?

7. an elected governing body in Virginia

8. Which phrase BEST describes the American colonies? • a. • religious purpose • c. • successful from the start • b. • peace and stability • d. • social equality

9. a. • religious purpose

10. Which phrase BEST describes the 13 colonies? • a. • socially and politically alike • c. • politically and economically diverse • b. • relatively similar geographically • d. • economically independent of Britain

11. c. • politically and economically diverse

12. What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?

13. b. • to control the trans-Atlantic trade

14. What effect did the 1808 ban on the Atlantic slave trade have on slavery in America?

15. c. • It had little effect

16. What was part of the Enlightenment? • a. • government as a social contract • c. • a distrust of science • b. • restrictions on freedom • d. • religious equality

17. a. • government as a social contract

18. How did the colonists respond to the Townshend Acts?

19. c. • They boycotted English goods as a way to protest the taxes

20. What did “no taxation without representation” mean to the colonists?

21. d. • The colonies should not be taxed without representation in Parliament.

22. What followed the Boston Tea Party?

23. harsh restrictions on colonial liberties and trade

24. How did the First Continental Congress respond to the Coercive Acts?

25. Of what significance were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?

26. They were the first battles in America’s fight for independence.

27. William Franklin, the royal governor of New Jersey, was a loyalist. His father, Benjamin Franklin, signed the Declaration of Independence. What does this example indicate about colonial sentiment?

28. The cause of liberty resulted in great division among the colonists.

29. How did the Treaty of Paris of 1783 change the political map iof North America?

30. The United States claimed land that had been under British control

31. Of what importantce were men such as the Marquis de Lafayette and Baron von Steuben to the American cause?

32. they provided expertise

33. James Madison commented that, “A government composed of such extensive powers should be well organized and balanced.” Which of the following helped to balance power between the large and small states? • a. • the slave trade • c. • the three-fifths compromise • b. • the Great Compromise • d. • the Bill of Rights

34. b. • the Great Compromise

35. What contributed to the demise of the Articles of Confederation?

36. the inability of Congress to regulate the economy

37. Why did the Framers believe freedom of the press to be an essential right?

38. It helps to balance the power of government

39. What was added to the Constitution in order to ensure its ratification?

40. Bill of Rights

41. Use the information to answer the question • -Plymouth • -Massachusetts • -Pennsylvania • The above are all examples of colonies • a. • whose primary business was plantation farming • c. • each formed by a single religious group • b. • that signed the Mayflower Compact • d. • formed for mostly economic reasons

42. c. • each formed by a single religious group

43. Which phrase from the Declaration of Independence does not show the influence of the Enlightenment on the thoughts of Thomas Jefferson and others? • a. • “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed....” • c. • “we mutually pledge to each other our lives...” • b. • “for the people to dissolve the political bands that have connected them...” • d. • “He has obstructed the Administration of Justice...”

44. d. • “He has obstructed the Administration of Justice...”

45. Why did colonists participate in the Boston Tea Party?

46. They used the opportunity to protest Britain’s control over the colonies

47. All of the following descriptions provide examples of triangular trade EXCEPT • a. • the Dutch settling in Japan • c. • European merchants bringing manufactured goods to trade for Africans • b. • Africans being transported on ships to the Americas • d. • tobacco and otehr products being transported to Europe

48. a. • the Dutch settling in Japan

49. Which of these was a major domestic problem faced by the government under the Articles of Confederation? • a. • maintaining national security • c. • regulating the slave trade • b. • counting population for voting purposes • d. • establishing strong state governments

50. a. • maintaining national security