American History DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT Test - Study Guide
Congress adopted the:
Olive Branch Petition, asking Parliament not to break from the colonies until a compromise could be worked out
The Intolerable Acts were passed to:
punish Boston
result of Stamp Act
Virginia Resolves
According to the Land Ordinance of 1787, when could a territory be admitted to the Union?
when its population was large enough
surrendered at Yorktown
Charles Cornwallis
allowed Parliament to pass any laws
Declaratory Law
Under the system of checks and balances, the Supreme Court can check the President by vetoing legislation. True/False
False
favored Constitution
Federalists
stated that ships had to be English
First Navigation Act
One weakness of the British army was fighting on________.
Foreign soil
Why was the American victory in the Battle of Saratoga a turning point in the Revolutionary War?
It dashed any hopes the British had of isolating New England from the rest of the colonies.
During the post-Revolutionary period, most of the states passed laws forbidding the further importation of slaves. True/False
True
What government branch consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate?
Legislative
England began to tax the colonies heavily to help pay for the French and Indian War. True/False
True
Which was NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
National government was given too much power.
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers who were enraged over economic discontent and heavy taxation. True/False
True
prohibited settlers from moving west
Proclamation Act of 1763
The last state to ratify the Constitution was:
Rhode Island in 1790
The Federalist Papers of 1787 and 1788 were a series of newspaper articles written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay in support of the Constitution. True/False
True
The Declaration of Independence was drawn up by:
Thomas Jefferson
Another name for a Loyalist was:
Tory
established Fort Necessity
Washington
allowed British to search colonists' homes
Writs of Assistance
Passage of the Townshend Acts caused the colonists to:
boycott English goods
Strengths of the Continental army included:
fighting for a common cause making use of British mistakes
Congress didn't provide the army with enough equipment because:
it didn't have enough money
Weaknesses of the Continental army were:
little organization lack of equipment untrained soldiers
Thomas Paine wrote:
pamphlets like Common Sense and The Crisis to encourage American independence and resolve.
Which man did General Washington make the chief inspector of the colonial troops?
von Steuben
