GED - Social Studies (U.S. History) 46 Questions with Verified Answers,100% CORRECT

GED - Social Studies (U.S. History) 46 Questions with Verified Answers Christopher Columbus - CORRECT ANSWER Italian explorer, sailing on behalf of Spain Virginia - CORRECT ANSWER Where Jamestown was established Massachusetts - CORRECT ANSWER Where the pilgrims landed Mayflower Compact - CORRECT ANSWER Established a set of basic laws for the Pilgrims Rhode Island - CORRECT ANSWER Founded by Roger Williams (law dealings and religion kept separate) Connecticut - CORRECT ANSWER Founded by Thomas Hooker (where men could vote regardless of church membership) New Hampshire - CORRECT ANSWER Established when colonists from Massachusetts moved farther North. Maryland - CORRECT ANSWER Founded by Cecilius Calvert (so Catholics could escape persecution) North Carolina and South Carolina - CORRECT ANSWER Settled because of it's quality farmland New York - CORRECT ANSWER Given by the king to his brother, the Duke of York New Jersey - CORRECT ANSWER Given by the Duke of York to his friends Pennsylvania - CORRECT ANSWER Founded by William Penn, for Quakers Delaware - CORRECT ANSWER Once part of Pennsylvania, then became a new colony Georgia - CORRECT ANSWER A colony started to keep French and Spanish out of South Carolina. Named in honor of the king. Sugar Act of 1764 - CORRECT ANSWER Taxed sugar as well as coffee and cloth Stamp Act of 1765 - CORRECT ANSWER Required colonists to pay for British stamps on any official document. Townshend Act - CORRECT ANSWER Taxed imported items from Britain to the colonies. Boston Massacre - CORRECT ANSWER An argument between a group of colonists and a British soldier grew to include several soldiers. Killed five colonists. Tea Act - CORRECT ANSWER Gave British company the right to sell low-priced tea to the colonists with tax. Boston Tea Party - CORRECT ANSWER Group of colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. Intolerable Act - CORRECT ANSWER In response to the Boston Tea Party intended to punish the colonists by closing the port of Boston. First Continental Congress - CORRECT ANSWER In September 1774, to demand that the Intolerable Acts be repealed Patriots - CORRECT ANSWER colonists who opposed the British Second Continental Congress - CORRECT ANSWER May of 1775, decision to create the Continental Army Continental Army - CORRECT ANSWER American soldiers well trained to fight the British George Washington - CORRECT ANSWER Chosen commander of the Continental Army Magna Carta - CORRECT ANSWER Document signed by English King John in 1215, inspired the colonists Thomas Jefferson - CORRECT ANSWER Delegates from Virginia wrote the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 Loyalists - CORRECT ANSWER 20% of the people who were loyal to King George III after the writing of the Declaration of Independence Revolutionary War - CORRECT ANSWER Forced colonists to decide which side they would support. Britain or American Treaty of Paris - CORRECT ANSWER Revolutionary War ended with the signing of this document Articles of Confederation - CORRECT ANSWER First government of the 13 colonies of the U.S. Constitution of the United States - CORRECT ANSWER Created when the Articles of the Confederation failed. The oldest document currently in effect in the world today. Federalists - CORRECT ANSWER Those who wanted the federal government to have control over the states. Anti-Federalists - CORRECT ANSWER Those who thought the states would not have enough freedom if the federal government was too strong. Bill of rights - CORRECT ANSWER The first ten amendments to the Constitution. Monroe Doctorine - CORRECT ANSWER James Menroe's new foreign policy after the War of 1812. Andrew Jackson - CORRECT ANSWER Defeated a group of Creek Native Americans. Emancipation Proclamation - CORRECT ANSWER Lincoln's decree that slaves in the states at war with the Union were henceforth free. sectionalism - CORRECT ANSWER Problems coused by regional differences. Thirteenth Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER Abolished slavery in the United States peace conference - CORRECT ANSWER First time in history a non-European nation played a major role in the peace settlement of a European world. League of Nations - CORRECT ANSWER An international organization to settle differences over a conference table, taking up arms only at last resort. (After WW I) Stock market crashed - CORRECT ANSWER October 1929 New Deal - CORRECT ANSWER Roosevelt's program to create millions of jobs and restore the nation's banks. Marshall Plan - CORRECT ANSWER Helped restore productivity in the areas of agricultural and industry, preventing famine, and helping the nations of Europe avoid political chaos.