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Quotes
100
What was the first written document outlining the government of the United States?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
What was Columbus looking for when he stumbled upon the New World?
What is a direct route to Asia?
100
What was the main purpose of the Continental Congress?
What is to urge Americans to refuse obedience to the British laws and taxes?
100
Who were Puritans and Pilgrims?
Who are those that want to purify the church and change the world (Puritans) and those that want to separate from the English church (Pilgrims/Separatists)?
100
"There is properly no history; only biography"
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
200
What is the difference between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan? What kind of government do we have today?
What is Virginia Plan is based upon population and New Jersey Plan is equal representation? and What is a bicameral legislature?
200
Who was the leader of the colony that settled on Roanoke?
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
200
What year did the colonies declare independence?
What is 1776?
200
What was the Sugar Act?
What is a taxation on sugar in New England?
200
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Who is Francis Bacon
300
What precedent was set by the court case Marbury v. Madison?
What is judicial review?
300
Who had a monopoly on the trade industry in the early colonial time period?
Who is Spain?
300
What was the Declaratory Act?
What is Britain telling the Americans that they had the power to tax them?
300
Why did the British want to enforce the Navigation Acts?
What is to control the trade between New England and other countries?
300
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast."
Who is Alexander Pope
400
What was the main concern when Jefferson bought the Louisiana purchase from France?
What is the ability of the President to purchase land from a foreign entity?
400
What was the first successful English colony in the New World?
What is Jamestown?
400
Who was the French and Indian War primarily between and what was its impact on the colonies?
Who are the French and British and what is the quartering act?
400
What is the Stamp Act?
What is a tax on all printed materials?
400
"O my America! My new-found land."
Who is John Donne"
500
What was "Thoughts on Government?"
What is an article published by John Adams which insisted that the new constitutions should create balanced governments whose structure would reflect the division of society between the wealthy and ordinary men?
500
According to mercantilism, what is the primary purpose of colonies?
What is to support the mother country?
500
Who was the Pequot war between?
Who are the Pequot Indians and the inhabitants of New England?
500
What was the main reason that people from England came to the New World?
What is the availability of land?
500
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of good example."
Who is Mark Twain
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