American History: Unit 2

Congress adopted the:

Olive Branch Petition, asking Parliament not to break from the colonies until a compromise could be worked out

What was an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers who were enraged over economic discontent and heavy taxation?

Shays' Rebellion

During the post-Revolutionary period, most of the states passed laws forbidding the further importation of _________________.

slaves

Strengths of the Continental army included:

-fighting for a common cause -making use of British mistakes

Weaknesses of the Continental army were:

-little organization -lack of equipment -untrained soldiers

TRUE/FALSE: Under the system of checks and balances, the Supreme Court can check the President by vetoing legislation.

FALSE

England began to tax the colonies heavily to help pay for the ______________________________________.

French and Indian War

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.

What was NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

National government was given too much power.

The Intolerable Acts were passed to:

Punish Boston

The last state to ratify the Constitution was:

Rhode Island

The Committees of Correspondence were organized by:

Samuel Adams

The Declaration of Independence was drawn up by:

Thomas Jefferson

Who wrote Common Sense?

Thomas Paine

Another name for a Loyalist was:

Tory

According to the Land Ordinance of 1787, when could a territory be admitted to the Union?

When its population was large enough

Passage of the Townshend Acts caused the colonists to:

boycott English goods

One weakness of the British army was fighting on ______________________.

foreign soil

Congress didn't provide the army with enough equipment because:

it didn't have enough money

What government branch consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate?

legislative

The Federalist Papers of 1787 and 1788 were a series of newspaper articles written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay in support of _______________________.

the Constitution

Which man did General Washington make the chief inspector of the colonial troops?

von Steuben