1. What was the main reason for the founding of the colony of Georgia?

2. Who was the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and wanted Boston to be the “beacon on the hill”?

3. What was the first written constitution of the American colonies?

4. What was the first representative assembly in the colonies?

5. Who was was banished from Massachusetts Bay and founded Rhode Island colony?

6. Who founded Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers?

7. Who was described as a “self-made man” and a symbol of social mobility?

8. What was the Native American war in New England (1675-1676) led by Metacom?

9. What was the British economic system that established colonies for raw materials and as markets to sell their goods?

10. What was the religious revival period that stressed an individual relationship with God?

11. What was the horrible leg of the Trans-Atlantic Trade network that involved African slaves?

12. What was the uprising in 1676 in the frontier area of Virginia between poor colonists and the rich Jamestown colonists?

14. Due to repeated Native American attacks, what British policy passed to restrict colonists from settling past the Appalachian Mountains?

15. What was Parliament’s tax on paper products (books, newspapers, and documents) called?

16. What was the channel of communications between the colonies to unite them against British policies that were unfair?

17. In reaction to the Boston Tea Party, what series of acts did Parliament pass?

18. What famous American document included Enlightenment ideals like natural rights and consent of the governed?

19. Thomas Jefferson was inspired most by which Enlightenment thinker?

20. Which group was founded by Samuel Adams to resist and protest unfair British policies?

21. Who wrote the pamphlet, “Common Sense,” which convinced Americans that it was time for independence from Britain?

22. What event saw the British fire into an unarmed crowd of American colonists?

23. What impressive victory boosted morale for General George Washington’s Continental troops on Christmas Day of 1776?

25. What critical battle is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War?

27. What is considered the first United States government? It set up a very weak national government.

28. What law set up a system of surveying new western lands and addressed public education?

29. What 1787 ordinance set up a system for governing the territories and for admitting new states?

30. What was the uprising in Massachusetts over high taxes that is considered the final reason to revise the Articles of Confederation?

33. What compromise at the Constitutional Convention addressed slavery by allowing slaves to be counted for representation and taxation?

34. What were the supporters of the new Constitution called?

35. What were the opponents of ratification of the new Constitution called?

36. What are the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution more commonly known as?

40. What incident angered Americans when the French demanded a bribe just to talk during the presidency of John Adams?

41. What 1803 Supreme Court decision established “judicial review”?

42. Who was the inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts for rifles?

46. What caused New York City to rise to prominence as a center for trade?

47. What was the warning to European nations not to interfere with the affairs of the Western Hemisphere?

51. What women’s rights convention was held in New York in 1848? Who was the main speaker and author of the “Declaration of Sentiments?

52. What violent slave uprising in Virginia in 1831 led slaves to kill whites and caused plantation owners to tighten control over their slaves?

53. What issue was at the center of The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833?

54. What U.S. state and former Vice-President led the Nullification Crisis?

56. Who was the educated former slave who became an abolitionist and published “The North Star”?

60. Who was the white abolitionist who led a failed violent attack on Harpers Ferry in an attempt to lead a slave revolt?

62. What was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book about slavery called?

63. Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?

64. The first shots of the Civil War were fired by the Confederates at which battle?

65. What was the primary goal of President Lincoln when the war began?

67. What Constitutional right did Lincoln use his executive powers to revoke to ensure Border States did not secede?

76. Sherman changed the style of fighting by destroying the Southern economy and transportation systems and breaking the will of the people to continue fighting. What was this new strategy called?

77. Which Union victory led to Lincoln’s re-election in 1864?

79. What was the final battle of the Civil War, which saw General Robert E. Lee surrender the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant?

82. John D. Rockefeller is most associated with which company?

83. Andrew Carnegie is most associated with which company?

84. What ethnic groups played a central role in the construction of the transcontinental railroad?

85. What form of transportation caused industry to boom in post-Civil War America?

89. What law was passed to stop Chinese immigration?

94. What event involved the U.S. Army’s massacre of hundreds of unarmed Native Americans?