Unit 2 Review

What were the main motivations for colonization in the Americas?

• Gold, Glory, and Governance

• Trade, Taxes, and Tea

• Gold, Glory, and God

• Land, Liberty, and Laws

Which law prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains?

• Intolerable Acts

• Proclamation of 1763

• Stamp Act

• Navigation Act

What was the slogan colonists used to protest taxation without representation?

• No laws, no liberty!

• United we stand!

• No taxation without representation!

• Liberty or death!

What are examples of unalienable rights?

• Education, Equality, Employment

• Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness

• Freedom, Fairness, Safety

• Rights, Representation, Responsibility

What did the Great Compromise establish?

• Three branches of government

• Equal representation in the House of Representatives

• A two-house legislature: Senate and House of Representatives

Which principle of the Constitution ensures that no branch becomes too powerful?

• Federalism

• Popular sovereignty

• Checks and balances

• Republicanism

Who opposed the Constitution, fearing too much power for the federal government?

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

• Loyalists

• Patriots

What does the First Amendment protect?

• Voting rights

• Rights to speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition

• Rights to a trial by jury

• Protection from unreasonable searches

What was one major problem faced by leaders of the new republic?

• Expansion of slavery

• Creating a stable economic system

• Building a navy

• Ending British rule

What caused the War of 1812?

• British impressment of American sailors

• Conflicts over the Louisiana Purchase

• The XYZ Affair

• The French Revolution