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US HISTORY REGENTS REVIEW Questionswith Correct Solutions (Latest Update
2024)
Proclamation Line of 1763 - Correct Answer✅Stated that no colonists could
settle in lands to the west of the Appalachian mountains-- made the colonists
very upset
Declaration of Independence - Correct Answer✅* Document adopted on July
4, 1776.
* Established the 13 American colonies as independent states, free from rule
by Great Britain.
* Thomas Jefferson wrote most of it.
* Explained to the world why we wanted our freedom.
Agriculture - Correct Answer✅Farming.
Articles of Confederation - Correct Answer✅1st Constitution of the U.S.
1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power
to regulate trade)
Anti-Federalist - Correct Answer✅a person apposed to the ratification of the
US constitution, and wanted a bill of rights to be added.
Federalist - Correct Answer✅supporters of the constitution during the debate
over its ratification; favored a strong national government
Amendment - Correct Answer✅a change to the Constitution
Bill of Rights - Correct Answer✅The first ten amendments of the U.S.
Constitution, containing a list of individual rights and liberties, such as
freedom of speech, religion, and the press.
, US HISTORY REGENTS REVIEW Questions
with Correct Solutions (Latest Update
2024)
Constitution - Correct Answer✅The document which established the present
federal government of the United States and outlined its powers. It can be
changed through amendments. Supreme law of the land.
Bicameral - Correct Answer✅a legislature consisting of two "houses"
Cabinet - Correct Answer✅people that advise the president and help set
policy for the nation--an example of the unwritten Constitution
Unwritten Constitution - Correct Answer✅customs, traditions, practices not
written in constitution that are part of our system of government--ie. the
cabinet and two term limit.
Census - Correct Answer✅population count every 10 years, to determine the
number of representatives in Congress for each of the states.
Checks and Balances - Correct Answer✅The power of the legislative,
executive, and judicial branches of government to block some acts by the
other two branches--ie. the veto, declaring a law unconstitutional, or
impeaching a president.
Electoral College - Correct Answer✅the body of electors who formally elect
the United States president and vice-president
Compromise of 1850 - Correct Answer✅it abolished the slave trade in the
District of Columbia, admitted California as a free state and opened much of
the Mexican Cession to popular sovereignty
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