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| 10773904065 | In the _________ of the declaration of independence Thomas Jefferson declared the natural rights of man to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. | preamble | 0 | |
| 10773940165 | According to __________ the gov't derives its authority from the people | Jhon Locke | 1 | |
| 10773955042 | ___________ was the first chief justice of the United States supreme court | John Jay | 2 | |
| 10773975777 | What do we call the delegates from the colonies who declared their independence from Britain | founding fathers | 3 | |
| 10773980149 | How many articles are in the Constitution | seven | 4 | |
| 10773994928 | the bill of rights are the first ___________ amendments | ten | 5 | |
| 10774015666 | The united states senate and house of representatives were created by Article _____________ of the U.S. Constitution | one | 6 | |
| 10774034303 | According to the constitution, the vice president of the United States only job is _____________ | the president of the senate | 7 | |
| 10774055447 | One qualification of a member of the house of representatives is that they be at least ___________ years of age | 25 | 8 | |
| 10774074708 | One qualification of a senator of the united states is that he/she must have been a U.S. citizen for __________ years | nine | 9 | |
| 10774080905 | Article II of the U.S. constitution creates the ________ branch of the gov't | executive | 10 | |
| 10774100806 | According to the U.S. Constitution, how many requirements are there in order to be eligible to be the president | three | 11 | |
| 10774125040 | The judicial power of the United states shall be vested in one _______________ | supreme court | 12 | |
| 10774138059 | What article of the US Constitution creates an avenue to amend the constitution | Article V | 13 | |
| 10774165462 | How many states are required to vote for a proposed amendment in order to ratify a constitutional amendment | 3/4 | 14 | |
| 10774192146 | The U.S. Congress can propose a Constitutional amendment but a _________ is another way to propose an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution | Convention of States | 15 | |
| 10774204717 | How many times has Article VII of the constitution been used | one | 16 | |
| 10774216052 | How many of the first 13 states needed to ratify the U.S. constitution | Nine | 17 | |
| 10774224583 | The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution as a compromise between the Federalists and the _____________ so that an agreement could be reached in order to ratify the original constitution | anti-federalsts | 18 | |
| 10774256707 | Right to peacefully assemble is listed in the ____________ amendment to the U.S. Constitution | first | 19 | |
| 10774283639 | The right to trial by jury in a federal civil case is recognized by the _____________ Amendment | seventh | 20 | |
| 10774309892 | what amendment states that listing specific rights in the constitution does NOT mean that people do not have other rights that have not been spelled out | ninth | 21 | |
| 10774334687 | the protection we have against unreasonable search and seizures is spelled out in the _____________ amendment of the U.S. constitution | fourth | 22 | |
| 10774341030 | the second amendment insures our right to _______________ | keep and bear arms | 23 | |
| 10774381152 | which amendment to the U.S. constitution states that the powers NOT delegated to the united states by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the states respectively or to the people | tenth | 24 | |
| 10774394563 | The Great Ice Age accounted for the origins of North America's human history because | it exposed a land bridge connecting eurasia with north america | 25 | |
| 10774410423 | most likely the first americans were | people who crossed the land bridge from Eurasia to North America | 26 | |
| 10774443099 | what permitted bands of original americans to make their way southward and eastward across the americas,eventually reaching the far tip of south america thousands of years before the first europeans arrived in the americas | the same climatic warming that melted the ice and drowned the bridge to eurasia about 10,000 years ago | 27 | |
| 10774467290 | Some of the more advanced Native American cultures did all of the following except | engage in significant ocean voyages of discovery | 28 | |
| 10774484003 | The size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be attributed to | the development of agriculture | 29 | |
| 10774502946 | all of the following are true of the inca, mayan, and aztec civilizations except they | had the use of large draft animals such as the horse and oxen | 30 | |
| 10774516548 | The crop that became the staple of life in Mexico and South America was | corn | 31 | |
| 10774525436 | native american civilization was least highly developed in | north america | 32 | |
| 10774531545 | The Iroquois Confederacy was able to menace its Native American and European neighbors because of | its military alliances, sustained by political and organizational skills | 33 | |
| 10774562610 | Men in the more settled agricultural groups in North America performed all of the following tasks except | tending crops | 34 | |
| 10774570180 | The early voyages of the Scandinavian seafarers did not result in permanent settlement in North America because | no nation-state supported these ventures | 35 | |
| 10774582570 | Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to | break the hold that muslim merchants had on trade with asia, reduce the prices of goods from asia, and gain more profits for themselves | 36 | |
| 10774605142 | Before the middle of the fifteenth century, sub-Saharan Africa had remained remote and mysterious to Europeans because: | sea travel down the african coast had been virtually impossible | 37 | |
| 10774626358 | which group was responsible for slave trade in africa long before the europeans had arrived | the arbs and africans | 38 | |
| 10774635578 | In the last half of the fifteenth century, some forty thousand Africans were forced into slavery by Portugal and Spain to | work on plantations on the atlantic sugar islands | 39 | |
| 10774646449 | The stage was set for a cataclysmic shift in the course of history when | europeans increasingly demanded less expensive goods from asia, africa was established as a source of slave labor, and the portuguese demonstrated the feasibility of long-range ocean navigation | 40 | |
| 10774707238 | all of the following contributed to the emergence of a new independent global economic system except | european's desire to create new cultures | 41 | |
| 10774718320 | The introduction of American plants around the world resulted in | rapid population growth in europe | 42 | |
| 10774730102 | European contact with Native Americans led to | the deaths of millions of Native Americans, who had little resistance to European diseases | 43 | |
| 10774734292 | The adoption of horses by Native American tribes such as the Sioux, Apaches and Blackfeet | transformed their cultures into wide-ranging, hunter-gather societies that roamed the great plains | 44 | |
| 10774760271 | european explorers introduced ______________into the New World | smallpox | 45 | |
| 10774766672 | The Aztec chief Moctezuma allowed Cortes to enter the capital of Tenochtitlan because: | Montezuma believed that Cortes was the god Quetzalcoatl | 46 | |
| 10774791355 | Spain began to fortify and settle its North American border lands in order to | protect its domain from encroachments by england and france | 47 | |
| 10774829594 | which of the following is the false concept, which held that the Spanish conquerors merely tortured and butchered the indians, stole their gold, infected them with smallpox, and left little but misery behind | Black Legend | 48 | |
| 10774837275 | The institution of encomienda allowed the | European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to Christianize them | 49 | |
| 10774849726 | The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most consequential for the future United States was the | english at jamestown in 1607 | 50 | |
| 10774868578 | which word best describes england's efforts in the 1500s to compete with the spanish empire | indifferent | 51 | |
| 10774873722 | Identify the statement that is false | Spain and England were long-time and bitter enemies in the first half of the 16th century | 52 | |
| 10774880439 | Francis Drake | "sea dog" who plundered the treasure ships of the Spanish Main | 53 | |
| 10774884312 | Walter Raleigh | courtier whose colony at Roanoke Island was mysteriously abandoned in the 1580s | 54 | |
| 10774890149 | Humphrey Gilbert | adventurer who tried but failed to establish a colony in Newfoundland | 55 | |
| 10774895305 | Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the | Defeat of the Spanish Armada | 56 | |
| 10774902422 | The first English attempt at colonization in 1585 was in | Roanoke Island | 57 | |
| 10774910062 | England's defeat of the Spanish Armada | helped to ensure England's naval dominance in the North Atlantic | 58 | |
| 10774923459 | all of the following were true of england as the 17th century opened up except | desolate cities with a decreasing population | 59 | |
| 10774934825 | The ____ decreed that only eldest sons were eligible to inherit landed estates. | laws of primogeniture | 60 | |
| 10774945417 | The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by | a joint-stock company | 61 | |
| 10774947968 | The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by | starvation, disease, and frequent indian raids | 62 | |
| 10774963187 | Despite an abundance of fish and game, early Jamestown settlers continued to starve because | they were unaccustomed to fending for themselves and wasted time looking for gold | 63 | |
| 10774984265 | Captain John Smith's role at Jamestown can best be described as | saving the colony from collapse | 64 | |
| 10774994380 | Of the four hundred settlers who managed to make it to Virginia, only sixty survived the "starving time" winter of | 1609-1610 | 65 | |
| 10775002357 | The introduction of horses brought about significant change in the lives of the Lakotas, from this they | became nomadic hunters | 66 | |
| 10775009022 | The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown resulted in all of the following except | diversification of the colony's economy | 67 | |
| 10775018276 | A major reason for the founding of the Maryland colony in 1634 was to | be financially profitable and create a refuge for the catholics | 68 | |
| 10775031054 | Despite its problems, Maryland prospered, and like Virginia it | depended for labor in its early years mainly on white indentured servents | 69 | |
| 10775044022 | At the outset, Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in the Maryland colony because he | hoped to secure freedom of worship for his fellow catholics | 70 | |
| 10775060470 | in 1629, maryland's act of toleration | guaranteed toleration to all christians | 71 | |
| 10775068572 | Tobacco was considered a poor man's crop because | it could be produced easily and quickly | 72 | |
| 10775074641 | Sugar was called a rich man's crop for all of the following reasons except that it | its commercial version could be purchased only by the wealthy | 73 | |
| 10775083587 | The colony of South Carolina prospered | by developing close economic ties with the British West Indies | 74 | |
| 10775086941 | Some Africans became especially valuable as slaves in the Carolinas because they | were experienced in rice cultivation | 75 | |
| 10775094504 | The busiest seaport in the southern colonies was | Charleston | 76 | |
| 10775098198 | The inhabitants of North Carolina were regarded by their neighbors as | outcasts and irreligous | 77 | |
| 10775105073 | The colony of Georgia was founded | as a defensive buffer against Spain for the valuable Carolinas | 78 | |
| 10775112469 | Georgia's founders were determined to | create a haven for people imprisoned for debt | 79 | |
| 10775117391 | By 1750, all the southern plantation colonies | based their economies on the production of staple crops for export, practiced slavery, had few large cities | 80 | |
| 10775126928 | Arrange the following events in chronological order: the founding of (A) georgia, (B) the Carolinas, (C) virginia, and (D) Maryland | C,D,B,A | 81 | |
| 10781789496 | all of the following are true of Martin Luther except | there was little notice of his reforms in europe | 82 | |
| 10781801549 | John Calvin profoundly affected the thought of all of the following except | spanish armenians | 83 | |
| 10781812525 | Henry VIII aided the entrance of Protestant beliefs into England when he | broke england's ties with the roman catholic church | 84 | |
| 10781822762 | King James I opposed the Separatists who wanted to break away entirely from the Church of England because he | realized that if his subjects could defy him as there spiritual leader,they could defy him as their political leader | 85 | |
| 10781857173 | The Separatists migrated from Holland to the New World in order to | avoid the dutchification of their children | 86 | |
| 10782070403 | all of the following were true of the pilgrims except they | arrived at their original destination with no casualties | 87 | |
| 10782231643 | The Mayflower Compact can be best described as a(n) | promising step toward genuine self-gov't | 88 | |
| 10782247244 | The leader that helped the Pilgrims survive was | William Bradford | 89 | |
| 10782253853 | The historical significance of the Pilgrims of Plymouth Bay lies in their | moral and spiritual qualities | 90 | |
| 10782260199 | Unlike Separatists, the Puritans | remained members of the Church of England | 91 | |
| 10782268671 | Puritan doctrine included acceptance of | the idea of a covenant with God | 92 | |
| 10782289137 | in the massachusetts "Bible Commonwealth", clergymen | were barred from holding political office | 93 | |
| 10782299340 | Puritan religious beliefs allowed all of the following except | challenging religious authority | 94 | |
| 10782311611 | People who flouted the authority of the Puritan clergy in Massachusetts Bay were subject to which of the following punishments? | fines, floggings, and banishment | 95 | |
| 10782321839 | According to Anne Hutchinson, a dissenter in Massachusetts Bay | the truly saved need not bother to obey the laws of God or man | 96 | |
| 10782342231 | which of these is NOT a true statement about the fate of Anne Hutchinson | she preached to fellow residents of salem | 97 | |
| 10782360057 | All of the following were true of Roger Williams except | he was not a separatist and advocated reconciliation with the church of england | 98 | |
| 10782394347 | Roger Williams' beliefs included all of the following except | denying Catholics and Jews complete religious freedom in Rhode Island | 99 | |
| 10782415659 | Settlers of the Connecticut River colony developed a document known as the Fundamental Orders, which | is considered the first constitution in colonial america | 100 | |
| 10782429543 | The New England Indians' only hope for resisting English encroachment lay in | intertribal unity against the english | 101 | |
| 10782455824 | King Philip's war resulted in all of the following except | the immediate westward march of english settlement in New England | 102 | |
| 10782479367 | During the early years of colonization in the New World, England | paid little attention to its colonies | 103 | |
| 10782491519 | The Dutch colony of New Netherland (later New York) | was established for its quick profit of fur trading | 104 | |
| 10782507158 | One of the traits that made Quakers unpopular in England was | their refusal to do military service | 105 | |
| 10782517405 | pennsylvania was the | best advertised | 106 | |
| 10782522113 | Indian policy in early Pennsylvania can be best described as | fair | 107 | |
| 10782533001 | the middle colonies were notable for their | unusual degree of democratic control | 108 | |
| 10782537079 | Separtists | were radical Puritans, were also known as Pilgrims, authored the mayflower compact | 109 | |
| 10782567774 | Factors leading to the first major European migration include | a population explosion, economic depression, and religious repression | 110 |
