AP US History: Unit 2 Review
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Basic economic theory that requires a country to export more than it imports. | Mercantilism |
| Set of Parliamentary laws that restricted colonial trade and directed it to the benefit of Britain. | The Navigation Acts |
| A term for products, such as tobacco, that could be shipped only to England and not to other foreign countries. | Enumerated goods |
| British government theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote. | Virtual Representation |
| Area of land that saw some fierce competition between the French and the English colonists. | The Ohio River Valley |
| The larger European struggle that the French and Indian War was a part of. | The Seven Years' War |
| The treaty that ended the French and Indian War. | The Treaty of Paris |
| The year in which the treaty (of Paris) was signed | 1763 |
| He led the American troops in the French and Indian War. | George Washington |
| The Native American Confederacy that banded with the French during the French and Indian War. | Iroquois Confederacy |
| This act stated that no settlers could move past the Appalachian mountains. | Proclamation of 1763 |
| Product taxed, under the Townshend Acts, that generated the greatest colonial resistance | Tea. |
| Underground network of communication and propaganda organized by the colonies | The committees of correspondence |
| Legislation that required a tax on printed documents | The Stamp Act |
| The group led by John Adams that issued a declaration of rights and led a boycott of British goods. | The Continental Congress |
| Legislation that required colonists to house and feed British troops. | Quartering Act |
| Passed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, it included the Boston Port Act | Intolerable/Coercive Acts |
| The event organized by disguised Mohawks to protest a tax | The Boston Tea Party |
| Male and female organizations that encouraged the boycott of British goods | The Sons and Daughters of Liberty |
| The first African American to die for the cause of independence | Crispus Attucks |
| An inflammatory pamphlet that demanded independence and heaped scorn on the brute of Great Britain | Common Sense |
| The document that provided an explanation and justification for independence | The Declaration of Independence. |
| Called for a firm league of friendship between the 13 states | The Articles of Confederation |
| Called for representation in the legislative branch to be based on a state's population | The Virginia Plan/Large State Plan |
| The first ten amendments to the Constitution | The Bill of Rights |
| Called for representation in the legislative branch to be equal for all states | New Jersey/Small States Plan |
| Offered to the King before the Declaration of Independence | The Olive Branch Petition |
| A series of articles written in favor of the Constitution | Federalist papers |
| This called for freedom of the press, speech, religion, petition, and assembly | The First Amendment |
| This set up a new plan for the orderly admittance of new territories into the US | Northwest Ordinance |
| The Navigation Acts passed between 1660 and 1696 | Defined the role colonies would play within the future British Empire. |
| Religious revivalism appealed to many in New England in the 1730s because | Young people from poorer families were unhappy with the economic future they faced. |
| William Pitt's policies leading to the ultimate British victory in the Seven Years' War included all of the following EXCEPT | Drafting of large amounts of colonists who became the core of British forces in North America. |
| The Indian people of the Ohio Valley | Hoped for a stalemate in the Seven Years' War. |
| In the treaty of Paris ending the French and Indian War | The French lost their North American empire to the British. |
| The Royal Proclamation of 1763 | Set aside an area west of the Appalachians as "Indian Country". |
| The primary weapons that colonial opponents of the various revenue acts used to force their repeal was | Nonimportation and non consumption. |
| The law that provoked the Boston Tea Party | Actually lowered the price of tea. |
| The Declaration and Resolves passed at the Continental Congress in 1774 committed the colonies to | Economic sanctions prohibiting importation and consumption of British goods and export of colonial goods to other parts of the empire. |
| The Quebec Act covered an area that extended as far south as | British West Florida. |
| Which of the following is NOT true of American men who fought in the Revolution? | Patriot militia were the most important group in winning battles |
| Which of the following is not one of provisions of the Treaty of Paris in 1783? | Loyalists would not be compensated for their loss of land |
| The Congress under the Articles of Confederation did not have the authority to: | Tax citizens directly |
| The type of state governments established in New York, MD, and Penn after the Revolution indicated | Balance of political power between conservative and democratic elements. |
| Approval of the Great Compromise at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention guaranteed | representation based on population in the House and by state in the Senate. |
| Under the provisions of the Virginia Plan | a bicameral legislature would be organized according to state population. |
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