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The first permanent British settlement on the American continent was ...
Roanoke
Plimouth colony
Philadelphia
Jamestown
Pocahontas was married to…
George Washington
William Bradford
John Rolfe
Powhatan
The Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod in ...
1620
1607
1619
1602
The first constitution of the United States was ...
the Declaration of Independence
the Bill of Rights
the Articles of Confederation
the Mayflower Compact
Under the Articles of Confederation, what or who could not force the collection of taxes?
Congress
States
Virginia
Massachusetts
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was not given power to …
pass laws
regulate interstate and foreign commerce
requisition taxes
requisition men into the armed forces
Which state refused to ratify the Articles of Confederation until all the larger states like Virginia relinquished their claims to western lands across the Appalachians?
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Maryland
Delaware
The Constitution was completed in …
1777
1987
1791
1787
What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution usually called?
the Rights of Bill
Bill's Rights
the Bills of Right
the Bill of Rights
Who had strongly supported the Constitution and the strong central government it established?
Federalists led by Hamilton
Antifederalists with Thomas Jefferson
Quakers and abolitionists
Pocahontas
Who wrote the first American dictionary?
Daniel Webster
Pocahontas
Noah Webster
Benjamin Franklin
The Missouri Compromise was passed in …
1820
1840
1850
1854
The Missouri Compromise said that north of the parallel 36°30' …
no underground railroad was to be built
a transcontinental railroad was to be built
slavery was legal
slavery would be excluded
What states were created after the passage of the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri and Maine
California and Nevada
Rhode island and Maryland
Pennsylvania and Louisiana
The Missouri Compromise followed one basic antebellum principle of American politics which was …
sectional balance
popular sovereignty
nullification
manumission
The secret author of the nullification theory of 1838 was …
Bill Clinton
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Thomas Jefferson
The nullification theory is associated with one state. Which one is it?
Missouri
Texas
Louisiana
South Carolina
Roughly put, the nullification theory said that …
a State has the right to declare an Act of Congress null and void within the limits of the States
a State has the right to declare an Act of Congress null and void within the limits of the State
a State has no right to declare that an Act of Congress is null and void within the limits of the State
a State has the right to declare an Act of Congress null but not void within the limits of the State
In its 1857 Dred Scott Decision the Supreme Court declared that …
Congress had no power to exclude slavery from the territories in the West
Congress had power to exclude slavery from the territories in the West