Founding Documents
The Constitution replaced THIS earlier weak system of government used during and after the Revolution
The Articles of Confederation
Washington quite possibly saved the Revolution when he crossed the icy _____________ River on Christmas night 1777 and launched a surprise attack on the British mercenary forces on the other bank
Deleware
Alcohol, Metal, Smallpox, Firearms, Horses
This English King broke with the Roman Catholic Church in 1535, founding the Church of England
Henry VIII
This Native American civilization engaged in mass human sacrifice, a religious practice which helped the Spanish justify their conquest of this people
The Aztecs
The Founders thought it was very important to remember that rights contained within the Bill of Rights came from ________ and NOT from _______
God/Creator/Nature ..... Government
Washington signaled his desire to be given command the Continental Army by doing this in the Continental Congress
Wearing his old British military uniform each day
Native Americans originally entered the Americas by way of the
Name 2 technological inventions, economic advances or rediscoveries that ENABLED the European explorers to reach the Americas
Compass, Astrolabe, Lateen Sail
Advances in Banking
Rediscovery of Classical Knowledge (Greece/Rome)
The first permanent ENGLISH settlement in North America was the colony of ___________ founded in 1607
Jamestown, Virginia
All 3 Founding documents are heavily based in the Social Contract theory of THIS English Enlightenment philosopher
John Locke
George Washington belonged to THIS political party
NONE - he was the only partyless president.
During the French and Indian War between Britain and France, Native Americans nations who participated allied themselves to
BOTH sides
-Pursuit of wealth / spices / trade with Asia
-Religious zeal
-Pursuit of greater natural knowledge/geographic discovery
-Rise of Nation States / National competition
When Jefferson was Secretary of State under President George Washington, he bitterly opposed Hamilton's financial plans for the nations; so much so that he eventually resigned in protest. Name ONE of those policies which Jefferson hated so much...
-Create a National Bank
-Have the US Government take on the Revolutionary war debts of all 13 State Governments
It is forbidden...once you have "signed" the Social Contract, there is no going back
Foreign Wars/Alliances and Forming political parties
Monarchy / Chiefdom
Name the 4 largest nations with the LARGEST colonial empires in the Americas
England, France, Spain, Portugal
The "Shot Heard Around the World" was fired at THIS FIRST BATTLE of the American Revolution, April 19, 1775
Lexington
The two great compromises of the Constitutional Convention that saved the Constitution were:
-The Three Fifths Compromise over slavery
-The Bicameral (House/Senate) Congress
In an attempt to rise above rising factionalism, Washington appointed THESE TWO ARCHRIVALS to important cabinet posts
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
The MAJORITY of Native American nations practiced __________ style religions, which lack sophisticated priesthoods or holy books, etc... but emphasize the spiritual power of natural phenomena
Animist
This was the name of the Atlantic trade system where the flow of trade went from Europe ---> Africa ---> Americas ---> Europe; a system heavily based in the slave trade
The Triangular Trade
The Terror