US History - Jones	Chapter One		      Name:__________________

1. List the how and where of the two ways scientists believe that Native Americans arrived in the New World (4)

2. List and describe two major similarities of Native American culture (5)

3. Where and when do Native Americans begin to develop agriculture (5)

4. What three crops did Native Americans first cultivate (5)

5. What two major regions do non-agricultural societies develop (5)

6. What new trade items from Africa and Asia appeared after the Renaissance in Europe (6)

7. What two main groups controlled the bulk of this trade (6)

8. List two early European explorers (6)

9. What nation first expanded the slave trade, leading to the "middle passage" (6)

10. What was Columbus' major flaw in how he saw the globe (6,8)

11. List three conquistadors and the regions they explored (8)

12. What name was given to the trade of goods and ideas during this time (8)

13. What areas do the Spanish and the French colonize (9)

14. List four sources in history that have all been used as guides for the founding fathers to set up America's republican democracy (10)

15. Where does England colonize first and what was the name of the first legislature set up here (11)

16. What three industries do the New England Colonies use to supplement a short faming season (11)

17. What states made up the Middle Colonies and what crop was their economy based on (11)

18. What states made up the Southern Colonies and what two crops/industries were the basis of their economy (11)

19. What two English traditions led the American colonists to believe that they were all entitled to the same rights as "Free Englishmen" (11)

20. What movement believed that all problems could be solved by human reason and appealed to intellectuals of the time, such as Montesquieu and Locke (11)

21. What movement in the 1740's, led by Edwards and Whitfield inspired the common man to demand self-government (12)

22. What war (1754-1763), which doubled the national debt of England, caused England under George III, to increase taxes on the colonists (12)

23. What did colonists begin to do to protest these new English taxes (12)

24. Define: Loyalist

25. What was the goal of the First Continental Congress of 1774 (14)

26. When and where does the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) begin (14)

27. What three truths did Locke and Jefferson regard as "self-evident" (14)

28. What battle does George Washington win in 1781, thanks to help from the French, which all but ends the Revolutionary War (14)

29. Besides Concord and the battle listed in #28...list any three other American victories in the Revolutionary War (13)

30. Define: Articles of Confederation of 1781 (16)

31. What were some of the weaknesses of the Article of Confederation (16)

32. Which law was the first to ban slavery and provide for public education in the US and to where did it apply (16)

33. Causes of Shay's Rebellion (16)

34. Effect of Shay's Rebellion (16)

35. Structure of the legislature under the New Jersey Plan (17)

36. Structure of the legislature under the Virginia Plan (17)

37. Terms of the Great /Connecticut Compromise (17)

38. How did the Three-Fifths Compromise please both Northern and Southern states (17)

39. Who were the main authors of the Federalist Papers and why were they important (17,18)

40. What brought the Federalists and Anti-Federalists together to agree to ratify The Constitution?  What is this another example of? (18)