The most important accomplishment of the 2nd Continental Congress.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
100
This branch can strike down any law or action.
What is the power of the judicial branch?
100
Document King John was forced to sign in 1215?
What is the Magna Carter or Great Charter?
100
This war (1754- 1763) changed relations between the colonists and Great Britain.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
This state provided a solution known as the Great Compromise.
What is Conneticutt?
200
The name of our 1st constitution that failed.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
The tool or means used to strike down a law or action.
What is judicial review?
200
The 1620 document considered one of the first attempts at self-government in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
He became the king of Great Britain in 1760.
Who is King George?
200
This is also known as the Three-Fifths Compromise.
What is the delegates agreement that every fifth enslaved person would count as three free persons. And, thus three-fifths of the slave population in each state would be used in determining representation in Congress.
300
The city in which the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was held.
What is Philadelphia?
300
This branch creates or makes U.S. laws.
What is the legislative branch or Congress?
300
The philosopher who wrote of natural right & protection of those rights.
Who is John Locke?
300
The acts imposed after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
This state represented the large states at the Constitutional Convention.
What is Virginia?
400
Federalism
What is power divided between the national & state levels?
400
This branch is the law-enforcing branch of government. It has the power to carry out or enforce the law.
What is the executive branch?
400
The system of law upon which our laws are based.
What is English common law?
400
At least two of the reasons, the colonists opposed the Stamp Act.
What is "No taxation without Representation," double taxation and unfairly singled out?
400
"To give up some of your ideas and accept others to reach an agreement."
What is a compromise?
500
The three authors of "The Federalist" Papers.
Who were Jay, Madison, and Hamilton?
500
Article VII, required this specific "number" of states must ratify the Constitution before it took effect.
What is nine (9)?
500
This document restricted the monarch's power and guaranteed free elections to Parliament, the right to a fair trial, and the elimination of cruel and unusual punishments.
What is the English Bill of Rights in 1689?
500
The first battle of the American Revolution, made famous in Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous line, "And fired the shot heard round the world."
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts?