Question 1

Name the three branches of government.

Accepted Answer

Judicial, Executive, Legislative

Question 2

Requirements to be president

Accepted Answer

<35 years old, no felonies, born an American citizen

Question 3

Senate

Accepted Answer

100 members, 2 members per state, must be 30 years old or older, six year terms

Question 4

Two parts of Congress

Accepted Answer

House of Representatives and Senate

Question 5

Congress belongs to which branch?

Accepted Answer

Legislative

Answer

Executive

Answer

Presidential

Answer

Judicial

Question 6

President belongs to which branch?

Accepted Answer

Executive

Answer

Judicial

Answer

Legislative

Answer

Presidential

Question 7

House of Representatives

Accepted Answer

must be 25 or older, 435 members, number per state varies depending on population, two year term

Question 8

True or False: The President can declare war

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Answer

TRUE

Question 9

Supreme Court belongs to which branch?

Accepted Answer

Judicial

Question 10

Supreme Court

Accepted Answer

must be at least 18 (voting age), appointed by president/approved by Congress, no length of term, 9 members

Question 11

Renaissance

Accepted Answer

Rebirth in Europe of Science, Math, Art, Literature, Religion, and Architecture. 1300s-1500s

Question 12

Spain's reasons for exploring:

Accepted Answer

gold, God, and glory

Question 13

France's reasons for exploring:

Accepted Answer

resources, land

Question 14

England's reasons for exploring:

Accepted Answer

land, resources, religious freedom, products

Question 15

Portugal's only claim to fame:

Accepted Answer

BRAZIL

Question 16

First successful English colony:

Accepted Answer

Jamestown, Virginia

Question 17

Three firsts in the New World in 1619:

Accepted Answer

Slaves, government (House of Burgesses), and women (excluding the women of Roanoke Island Colony thirty years earlier)

Question 18

Which story did Mr. Hawley use to explain the colonies' frustration with England around 1760?

Accepted Answer

The coming-home-from-college-to-rule-making-parents story

Answer

The motto story

Answer

His brother, the other Mr. Hawley, and the paper turkey

Answer

Friends University football team

Question 19

Which English king caused all these problems?

Accepted Answer

King George III

Answer

King Louis XVI

Answer

King Marie Antoinette

Answer

King Henry VI

Question 20

How did King George III cause all these problems?

Accepted Answer

TAXES

Question 21

Which war came as a result of King George III's pushing the colonists into war?

Accepted Answer

American Revolution

Answer

Spanish-American War

Answer

American Civil War

Answer

World War I

Question 22

Independence Day:

Accepted Answer

July 4, 1776: the day colonists declared independence

Answer

July 4, 1766: the day the colonists won the war

Answer

July 4, 1776: the day the colonists won the war

Answer

July 5, 1976: bicentennial

Question 23

American advantages in the Revolutionary War:

Accepted Answer

George Washington, didn't have to win but had to avoid losing, had a cause, home court/country advantage, French showed up later to help because of how much they just hated England

Question 24

English advantages in the Revolutionary War:

Accepted Answer

bigger and more powerful army, best navy in the world (at the time), $$$ and materials, skilled leadership

Question 25

Obstacles for America:

Accepted Answer

Army was not trained, Washington was the only good leader, no $$$

Question 26

Obstacles for England:

Accepted Answer

Soldiers didn't care about winning since nothing was on the line

Question 27

Battle of Saratoga:

Accepted Answer

1777. Colonies win this battle and the French decided to join

Question 28

Louisiana Purchase

Accepted Answer

1803. Napoleon needed $$$, so even though it went against what he believed, TJ went with his gut to increase the country and paid $15 million.

Question 29

Number of slaves in the New World by 1860

Accepted Answer

3.5 million

Question 30

Rationalizations about slavery:

Accepted Answer

Bible never condemns it; all over the world

Question 31

Inventor of the cotton gin

Accepted Answer

Eli Whitney

Question 32

Abolitionists

Accepted Answer

Northern people fought against slavery because they thought it was wrong

Question 33

Causes of the Civil War

Accepted Answer

States' rights vs national rights; Farm society vs urban society; SLAVERY

Question 34

Early Union obstacles

Accepted Answer

Not as much $$$, outnumbered

Question 35

Early Union advantages

Accepted Answer

Better soldiers, didn't have to win but had to avoid losing, had a cause

Question 36

Lincoln offered --- a job as Union general

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee, but he turned it down because he was a" Virginian before he was an American"

Question 37

Battle of ironclad ships

Accepted Answer

USS Monitor vs CSA Merrimack; both ships were destroyed; England begins to think their navy is obsolete

Question 38

Ulysses S. Grant 1862

Accepted Answer

Notices the Union had unlimited manpower and decided to push at the South until they were overwhelmed

Question 39

Emancipation Proclamation

Accepted Answer

January 1, 1863; Lincoln's idea; frees slaves in any place where the Union takes from the South

Question 40

Battle of Gettysburg

Accepted Answer

3-day battle (July 1st-3rd); last time the South goes north; Union wins; beginning of the end

Question 41

Taking of Vicksburg

Accepted Answer

Union takes over the Mississippi when they take over this Mississippi town

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