American Documents
This was the first document that detailed the rights, responsibilities, and powers of the thirteen newly independent American colonies.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
A point against which motion is measured.
What is reference point?
Name the first 3 amendments.
What are freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, assembly; right to bear and keep arms; quartering of troops?
The act by which the mind acquires new knowledge by means of what it already knows.
What is reasoning?
The name of Nate Saint's sister who continued working with the Waorani people after his death.
This document officially ended the Revolutionary War.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
The distance an object travels PLUS the direction from starting point.
What is displacement?
This founding father was considered the Father of the U.S. Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
These are two types of reasoning.
What are deduction and induction?
The modern name of the Auca people.
What is the Waorani?
This famous poem was written in 1814 but set to music in 1931.
What is Defense of Fort McHenry?
The ratio of total distance traveled to total time of trip.
What is average speed?
The date the Civil War began.
What is April 12, 1861?
It states that if the antecedent is true, the consequent must also be true.
What is the Essential Law of Argumentation?
What is a feather headdress?
The name of the document that was written by Theodore Roosevelt and addressed his feelings about the media at the time.
What is "The Man with the Muck-Rake"
The science that describes how all things move.
What is physics?
Referenced in Woodrow Wilson's War Message, this was the forerunner to the United Nations.
What is the League of Nations?
This states that two terms that are identical with a third term are identical to each other.
What is the Principle of Reciprocal Identity?
This is where Jim and Elisabeth Elliot met.
What is Wheaton College?
The name of the document written by James Madison in which he refuted Patrick Henry's argument against giving additional powers to the federal government.
What is "In Favor of the Federal Constitution"?
The equation used to measure speed.
What is speed = distance/time?
This speech was given to the House of Representatives on April 14, 1906.
What is The Man with the Muck-Rake?
The Dictum de Omni and Dictum de Nullo principles state this.
What is affirmed universally of a certain term is affirmed of every term that comes under that term AND What is denied universally of a certain term is denied of every term that comes under the term?
This was Elisabeth Elliot's maiden name.
What is Howard?