Thomas Jefferson
At thirty-three, I was the principal draftsman of this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
I held this cabinet position under President George Washington.
What is the Secretary of the Treasury?
Although Samuel Adams served on the drafting committee for the Massachusetts Constitution, this other Adams was its principal drafter.
Who is John Adams?
I held this office under Thomas Jefferson before becoming president myself.
What is Secretary of State?
I was a politician admired and hated. Who made the following statement about me “ Honest, intelligent, and sometimes out of his mind”?
Who is Ben Franklin?
During this event in 1794, President, Washington personally led a militia of nearly 13,000 men into western Pennsylvania to suppress an uprising against a federal excise tax.
What is the whiskey rebellion?
I founded this institution in 1819 and served as its first Rector.
What is the University of Virginia?
True or False: I am a natural-born citizen of the United States.
False. I was born on Nevis Island/West Indies.
Samuel Adams's political philosophy emphasized that government should protect these fundamental protections rather than create them.
What are natural rights?
At 5'4" and under 100 pounds, I hold this distinction among all U.S. presidents.
What is the smallest (shortest) president?
I defended this British Officer in the "Boston Massacre" trial?
Who is Captain Preston?
While the US Constitution does not explicitly established this, Washington convened Hamilton, Jefferson, Knox and Randolph to establish this in 1791.
What is his cabinet?
In this 1770 case, I argued that “under the law of nature, all men are born free,” and lost.
What is Howell v. Netherland?
I was fatally shot by this person in a duel in 1804.
Who is Aaron Burr?
This 1772 document, associated with Samuel Adams, declared that colonists possessed natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
What is "The Rights of the Colonists"?
What is the College of New Jersey?
I entered this university at age 15.
What is Harvard?
In the wake of the Whiskey Rebellion, Washington issued these to the leaders convicted of high treason against the United States as a proactive tool to stabilize the fragile union.
What are presidential pardons?
This landmark decision in 1803 was the result of my order to refuse a midnight commission.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
I have said that the judiciary has “neither force nor will, but merely ___(what?)_____.”
What is judgement?
According to Samuel Adams's political philosophy, government derived its legitimacy from this principle—the agreement or approval of the people.
What is consent of the governed?
True or false: I signed the U.S. Constitution in 1787
False — he wasn't a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
In 1776, I persuaded the Virginia Convention to replace this word, describing religious liberty, with “free exercise.”
What is toleration?
I persuaded ______ that he should write the Declaration of Independence, and, thereafter, I would review the Declaration after it was written.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Washington stepped down after serving two terms as president establishing a political tradition that was strictly followed until broken by President Roosevelt ultimately leading to the ratification of this constitutional amendment.
What is the 22nd amendment?
This is the only full-length book that I published, in 1785.
What are Notes on the State of Virginia?
On June 18, 1787, I delivered a six hour speech at the Constitutional Convention outlining my plan for government. How long did I propose the president and senators to serve?
What is lifetime service?
Samuel Adams is famous today for having a beer named after him. What was his actual occupation in the beer trade?
What is a Maltster?
This Federalist essay contains “If men were angels, no government would be necessary” and “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”
What is Federalist No. 51?
Samuel Adams and I were ____ cousins?
What is second cousins?
In 1796, the House of Representatives demanded that President Washington turn over all executive papers and correspondence regarding negotiations of the Jay Treaty. Washington refused asserting this theory.
What is executive privilege?
I helped abolish these two inheritance devices, which served to pass land to the eldest sons, while working on the Revisal of the Laws of Virginia.
What are entail and primogeniture?
In what major Revolutionary War battle did I lead an assault in 1781, helping to secure British surrender?(
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This 1780 state constitution became an important model for American constitutional government, particularly through its Declaration of Rights and separation of governmental powers.
What is the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780?
What is gout?
I succeeded Thomas Jefferson in this role at the University of Virginia in 1826.
What is Rector?
I died on the 50th anniversary of what?
What is the adoption of the Declaration of Independence?
When war broke out between France and Great Britain in 1793, Washington issued this proclamation without consulting Congress, despite Congress possessing the sole constitutional authority to declare war under the constitution.
What is a proclamation of neutrality?