Week 7 U.S. History: Creating Republican Governments 1776-1790

 

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U.S. History Week 7

Creating Republican Governments, 1776-1790

I designed a quiz related to chapter 7 at the bottom of this article.

Directions for the quiz:

1. Scroll down & click on the first thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
2. Choose an answer for each question.
3. Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
4. The correct answer is on the screen following the question.
5. Compare your answers with those provided.
6. If you cannot easily see the correct answer, check the captions.

Review the following Chapter 7 pages:

• Introduction
• Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
• How Much Revolutionary Change?
• Debating Democracy
• The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
• Key Terms
• Summary
• The Constitution of the United States

Practice learning Chapter 7 Key Terms on Quizlet.

Week 7 Videos:

• Democracy vs. Republic (4:09)
• Crash Course: Phillis Wheatley (11:55)
• History of Brief: Treaty of Paris (3:35)
• Crash Course: The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies (11:37)
• Crash Course: Separation of Powers and Checks & Balances (8:30)
• The Northwest Ordinance (2:21)
• Shays’ Rebellion (4:32)
• Articles of Confederation vs. Constitution (4:50)
• Crash Course: The Constitution, the Articles, & Federalism (13:03)

Review the following information featuring the U.S.:

• Georgia (7:08)
• Hawaii (7:16)
• John Tyler (1:22)
• President John Tyler Elopes!
• History Channel: Letitia Christian Tyler
• James K. Polk (1:29)
• James Knox Polk’s Delicate Operation
• Historical Marker about JKP Homestead near Cleveland, NC
• Sarah Childress Polk: Gas Lighting

Additional Resources:

• Chapter 7 Review Questions
• Chapter 7 Critical Thinking Questions
• Chapter 7 Partial Answer Key

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U.S. History Week 7 Creating Republican Governments 1776-1790  

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Before 1776, under what type of governmental system
had most English colonists lived?
Answer choices include:
Monarchy, Democracy, Republic, Communism

The correct answer is Monarchy.

Which governmental system focuses on majority rule?
Answer choices include:
Democracy, Monarchy, Socialism, Oligarchy

The correct answer is Democracy.

According to political theory, citizens in a republic
must be virtuous in order for the society to survive.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

Many founders of the new nation wanted to give
political power to those who were wealthy.
Answer choices include: true false

The correct answer is true.

A married woman’s status & economic ability was tied to
her husband via ___ during this time in American history.
Answer choices include:
Indentured Servitude, Coverture, Human Trafficking, Emancipation

The correct answer is Coverture.

Who wrote to her husband that
“all men would be tyrants if they could?”
Answer choices include:
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Betsy Ross,
Martha Washington, Abigail Adams

The correct answer is Abigail Adams.

Who published published ideas about
educational equality for girls and women?
Answer choices include:
John Adams, Thomas Paine,
Judith Sargent Murray, Mercy Otis Warren

The correct answer is Judith Sargent Murray.

___, an African American, was one of the
best-known poets of the 1700s in America.
Answer choices include:
Dolley Madison, Ona Judge,
Phyllis Wheatley, Harriet Tubman

The correct answer is Phyllis Wheatley.

Who suggested sending all enslaved people out of
the newly formed country, even if it destroyed the slaveholders’ wealth?
Answer choices include:
Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine,
Benjamin Franklin, A southern planter

The correct answer is Thomas Jefferson.

Some slaveholders freed the people whom
they had enslaved, called ___.
Answer choices include:
decommissions, manumissions, omissions, transmissions

The correct answer is manumissions.

What did the 1783 Treaty of Paris say about land in the
new nation under control of Native people ?
Answer choices include:
It specified its worth & gave bargaining tips.
It provided detailed maps indicating where Native land was.
It said to take the land by force.
It ignored the issue.

The correct answer is: It ignored the issue.

In 1776, there were ___ independent colonies
in the newly formed nation.
Answer choices include: 13, 27, 39, 50

The correct answer is 13.

John Adams suggested three separate government branches,
including all of the following EXCEPT:
Answer choices include:
judicial, executive, customary, legislative

The correct answer is customary.

New Jersey and ___ both had constitutions with
democratic tendencies in the late 1700s.
Answer choices include:
Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, Massachusetts

The correct answer is Pennsylvania.

How long did it take the 13 colonies
to approve the Articles of Confederation?
Answer choices include:
4 days, 4 weeks, 4 months, 4 years

The correct answer is 4 years.

During this time, a minimum of ___ states had to agree to
pass a new law under the Articles of Confederation.
Answer choices include: 5, 9, 11, 13

The correct answer is 9.

Amending the Articles of the Confederation
required the consensus of ___ states.
Answer choices include: 3, 8, 10, all

The correct answer is all.

Soldiers who fought in the Continental Army were
paid in full for their service within 3 years.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is false.

The ____ gave specific directions for dividing land
in unincorporated territories.
Answer choices include:
Land Trust Deals, Northwest Ordinances,
Preambles, Tract Treaties

The correct answer is Northwest Ordinances.

The 1787 draft of the Constitution included
all of the following EXCEPT:
Answer choices include:
The President would be elected by popular vote.
The ⅗ Compromise gave advantage to slaveholders.
The House of Representatives was based on a state’s population.
Each state’s two Senators were chosen by the state legislatures.

The correct answer is:
The President would be elected by popular vote.

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Week 4 U.S. History: Rule the Brittania! The English Empire 1660-1763

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U.S. History Chapter 4

Rule the Brittania! The English Empire, 1660-1763

I designed a quiz related to chapter 4 at the bottom of this article.

Directions for the quiz:

1. Scroll down & click on the first thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
2. Choose an answer for each question.
3. Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
4. The correct answer is on the screen following the question.
5. Compare your answers with those provided.
6. If you cannot easily see the correct answer, check the captions.

Review the following Chapter 4 pages:

• Introduction
• Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
• The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
• An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
• Great Awakening and Enlightenment
• Wars for Empire
• Key Terms
• Summary

Week 4 Videos:

• Crash Course: English Civil War (14:36)
• Pennsylvania Colony (7:13)
• Quakers (2:26)
• English Bill of Rights (3:14)
• Glorious Revolution (3:55)
• The Colony of Georgia Founded (6:56)
• Crash Course: The Stono Rebellion (12:00)
• Burning of the City of New York (4:30)
• America’s First Great Awakening (4:53)
• Benjamin Franklin’s Life Lessons (9:52)
• Crash Course: The Seven Years’ War (12:19)
• Treaty of Paris (3:35)

Practice learning Chapter 4 Key Terms on Quizlet.

Review the following information featuring the U.S.:

• California (8:05)
• PBS John Quincy Adams (1:31)
• John Quincy Adams: When the People Cheered
• JQ Adams and the Honeymoon Disappointment (Louisa Catherine Adams)

Additional Resources:

• Chapter 4 Review Questions
• Chapter 4 Critical Thinking Questions
• Chapter 4 Partial Answer Key

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U.S. History Week 4 Rule the Brittania! The English Empire 1660-1763 

Created by Katrena All rights reserved. 

Who became King of England in 1660, starting the Restoration
& ending a decade without a king?
Answer choices include:
William IV, Edward VI, George VIII, Charles II

The correct answer is Charles II.

What was/were the primary export/s of North Carolina
and Virginia in the 1700s?
Answer choices include:
rice & indigo, turpentine & tar, tobacco, sugar

The correct answer is tobacco.

The ___ War began after the English expanded fields
& took Native women as debt payment.
Answer choices include:
French & Indian, Apache, Yamasee, Cherokee

The correct answer is Yamasee.

In the late 1600s, which region was
associated with religious tolerance,
fair relations with Natives, & indentured servitude?
Answer choices include:
New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina

The correct answer is Pennsylvania.

In the 1600s, the ___ added restrictions & taxes
to benefit British mercantilism.
Answer choices include:
Navigation Acts, Mercantile Reformation,
Crusades, Treaty with the Delawares

The correct answer is Navigation Acts.

In 1688, the Whigs succeeded in
overthrowing James II, called the ___.
Answer choices include:
Dominion of New England, Great Awakening,
Emancipation Proclamation, Glorious Revolution

The correct answer is Glorious Revolution.

Certain rights were established, such as the requirement
to demonstrate cause of imprisonment, called ___.
Answer choices include:
esse quam videri, habeas corpus, vita patris, prima facie

The correct answer is habeas corpus.

Who returned to England after exile in Holland and
advocated for government to protect “life, liberty, & property?”
Answer choices include:
Sir Edmund Andros, William & Mary, John Locke, Jacob Leisler

The correct answer is John Locke.

The English Toleration Act of 1689 permitted greater ____.
Answer choices include:
women's rights, religious diversity,
freedom of slaves, respect of native people

The correct answer is religious diversity.

How many Africans were enslaved by the Royal African
company between 1672 & 1713?
Answer choices include: 15,000; 50,000; 100,000; 125,000

The correct answer is 125,000.

In 1739, ___ led the Stono Rebellion in which a
large group of enslaved people rebelled.
Answer choices include: Jemmy, Kauchee, Bet, Sena

The correct answer is Jemmy.

South Carolina’s Negro Act of 1740 prevented
people of color from ___.
Answer choices include:
growing their own food,
assembling & traveling freely,
learning to write,
all of these

The correct answer is all of these.

The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741 exemplifies
how white hysteria sparked violence among enslaved populations.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

___, such as as Robinson Crusoe, first appeared in the 17th century.
Answer choices include: Essays, Mysteries, Novels, Epic poems

The correct answer is Novels.

Who was NOT a New Light who spread evangelical
messages in the First Great Awakening?
Answer choices include:
Theodorus Frelinghuysen, George Whitefield,
John Calvin, James Davenport

The correct answer is John Calvin.

The idea that knowledge comes from worldly
experiences & observations is called ___.
Answer choices include:
empiricism, progressivism, cosmopolitanism, rationalism

The correct answer is empiricism.

Who was a Freemason who utilized Enlightenment principles
to study how to protect wooden homes from fires?
Answer choices include: Jonathan Edwards, William Byrd,
James Oglethorpe, Benjamin Franklin

The correct answer is Benjamin Franklin.

What was the only government-funded colonial project?
Answer choices include: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida

The correct answer is Georgia.

The Oglethorpe Plan for Georgia envisioned a utopia with a ban on ____.
Answer choices include:
alcohol & slavery, segregation & religion,
Natives & Migrants, tobacco & taxes

The correct answer is alcohol & slavery.

A popular Parliament member, ___, helped turn the tide
of the French and Indian War in favor of Britain.
Answer choices include:
George Washington, William Pitt,
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Robert Rogers

The correct answer is William Pitt.

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