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