Benchmark Study Guide

  1. Who did the colonists believe could impose taxes on them?
  2. Colonial Assemblies
  3. What act was protested by “No taxation without representation?”
  4. Stamp Act
  5. What is created as a response to the Intolerable Acts?
  6. Continental Congress
  7. Which two acts were protested by boycotting British goods?
  8. Stamp Act and Townsend Acts
  9. Thomas Heyward, Jr., Edward Rutledge, and Arthur Middleton all attended what event?
  10. Second Continental Congress
  11. John Locke was copied by whom for what document?
  12. Declaration of Independence
  13. King George III was blamed in what document?
  14. Declaration of Independence
  15. A colonist who supported the Continental Congress and independence from Great Britain were known as what?
  16. Patriot
  17. Colonists that were loyal to King George III and Great Britain were known as what?
  18. Loyalists
  19. What people from what South Carolina region were loyalists but really just wanted to be left alone and didn’t want to join the Patriot cause?
  20. Backcountry Loyalists
  21. Who were the messengers and nurses during the war?
  22. women
  23. What did SC fear if blacks joined the American Revolution?
  24. Slave uprising
  25. The US Constitution is what level of the law?
  26. The supreme or top
  27. Define Popular Sovereignty
  28. Government gets its power from the people
  29. Define Federalism
  30. National and state governments share power
  31. Define Limited Government
  32. Powers of the government are restricted
  33. Define Representative Democracy
  34. Voters elect other people who exercise the power for them
  35. What are the 2 political parties
  36. Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
  37. South Carolina had a large debt after the American Revolution, what federal program?
  38. Federal Assumption of State Debt
  39. What party stated “the Constitution does not say Congress cannot start a bank, so they cannot?”
  40. Democratic-Republicans
  41. Define necessary and proper clause.
  42. Congress is permitted to write laws that are necessary to accomplish their tasks
  43. What was George Washington?
  44. First President
  45. Define the Virginia and Kentucky Resolution?
  46. Any state that believes a federal law is unconstitutional should be able to nullify it.
  47. What were the 3 causes of War of 1812?
  48. Impressment of American Soldiers
  49. British attack of trade ships and the Embargo Act
  50. British alliance with native tribes & US desire for Canada
  51. What were the 2 results of the War of 1812?
  52. Nationalism
  53. Foreign Respect for the US as a Nation