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US History 7 Final Exam
GRADED A+ (ACTUAL EXAM ) Questions and Answers (Solved)
- Who were the Native Americans that settled in NY state?
Answer: Iroquois (people of the longhouse)- NY lived (settlers) in the woods- long houses (geography impacted them).
- What was the name of the League they created? what was significant about their
government?
Answer: the Iroquois confederacy (League of 5 Nations)- earliest form of
representative government
- What were two important results of the French and Indian war?
Answer: The British win- France lost all its land in the Americans and the British were in debt (which led to taxing the colonists)
- What were some of the jobs that people who settled in New England did for
work?Answer: New England - rocky soil, cold long winters, Worked in timber, shipping, whaling and fishing.
- British policies which angered the colonists
Answer:
-taxation without representa tion -intolerable acts -quartering act -navigation acts
- Different ways that colonists showed they disliked British policies
Answer:
-protest -boycott -petition (formal written complaint) -violence/riot 1 / 2
-tarring and feathering -effigy
- What economic policy existed between England and her colonies? who did it
benefit?Answer: mercantilism- an economic policy that stated that colonies exist to benefit the mother country. colonies were not supposed to trade w other nations. sell their raw materials to mother country
- Why did the 13 colonies resent British taxes?
Answer: they had no representative in parliament (British government)
- What are the three parts of the Declaration of Independence?
Answer:
-preamble -grievances (complaints) -declaring independence
- What was the name of the war America fought for independence from Great
Britain?
Answer: American Revolution or Revolutionary War
- What was the name of first plan of government for the U.S.? was it effective?
Answer: articles of confederation and it was not effective. they gave too much
power to state governments. there was only one branch of government-congress.congress couldn't collect taxes and could not raise an army the only good part of the articles of confederation was the land ordinance and the northwest ordinance
- What is federalism?
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Answer: giving some power to the states. some power to the federal government and some shared powers
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