Multiple Choice 1
What was the main subject of debate among delegates in the Constitutional Convention?
How legislature should be structured.
The first 10 Amendments added to the United States constitution are called...
The Bill of Rights
Delegates who signed the Declaration of Independence could be hanged as ________ to their country
traitors
The first French colonists in North America were mostly interested in...
fishing, trapping, and trading
Early European explorers searched the coast for a shorter route for...
ships to reach Asia
Some delegates refused to sign the Constitution because....
they thought it gave too much power to the national government
According to the Declaration of Independence, a government should...
protect the rights and liberties of its citizens
Congress privatized much of the Northwest by...
selling pieces of land to settlers
What was the original purpose of colleges in the colonial Americas?
To educate ministers
The increase in the number of enslaved Africans arriving in America was largely due to the development of...
the plantation system.
Supreme Court has the ability to determine if a law passed by Congress is unconstitutional called...
judicial review
The Spanish defeated the Incan empire because...
the Spanish had better horses, better equipment, and they were tired from their civil war
The Boston Tea Party was an act of...
civil disobedience
Most of the colonies _____ with Massachusetts against the Intolerable Acts passed after the Boston Tea Party
united
The main reason that several New England cities became major ship building centers is because the cities were located...
on the coast and had plenty of wood
Montesquieu’s idea of _________________ kept one person or group of people from gaining too much power by separating powers between the central and state governments
separation of powers
The colonists’ main argument for the Stamp Act was that the colonists...
had no representatives in Parliament
What was he purpose of the Articles of Confederation?
to unite the colonies under one national government
How did the Boston Massacre influence colonists’ feelings towards Great Britain?
by increasing the resentment that colonists felt toward Britain
The Mayflower Compact showed that Pilgrims were aware that...
they needed to make their own government
The effect that the Three-Fifths Compromise had on southern states was that...
it gave those states more representation in Congress
The development of the magnetic compass helped improve...
navigation and ships could travel further
How did Benjamin Franklin influence daily life in the colonies?
By using reason to improve the world around him
The most significant difference between the northern and southern Carolinas was that....
the southern settlements grew rich on rice, while poorer farmers in the north grew tobacco
The three main reasons Spanish explorers established colonies in the Americas is because they wanted...
wealth (gold), to spread Christianity (God), and adventure (glory)