Declaration of Independence
Fill in the blanks: "We hold these ______ to be ______ ____________, that ______ _______ are __________ equal."
What are: truths, self-evident, all men, created
This was the entire central government under the Articles of Confederation.
What was a single-house legislature?
This is the process for approving the Constitution.
What is ratification?
The Bill of Rights is what we call the _______________ to the Constitution.
What are the First 10 Amendments?
This is the human body's largest organ.
What is skin?
This is the capital of India.
What is New Delhi?
This founding father wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This was the name of the group that came together to revise the Articles of Confederation in 1787 (they eventually decided to just make a new govt.).
What was the Constitutional Convention?
Which two groups emerged as part of the debate around switching to the Constitution? What did they represent?
Who were the Federalists (strong central govt) and Ant-Federalists (strong state govt)?
These are the names of the two parts of "Freedom of Religion".
What are the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause?
This is where the hottest-ever temperature on Earth was recorded.
Where is Death Valley? (it hit 134 degrees Fahrenheit in July 1913)
These two countries have the longest shared international border.
What are Canada and the United States?
John Locke's idea of ______________ is referenced in this excerpt from the Declaration, "certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What is Natural Rights to life, liberty, and property?
This state refused to change the Articles in order to give congress the power to tax and then later refused to send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
What was Rhode Island?
These were the 3 elements of the 3/5ths Compromise.
What were counting enslaved people as 3/5th of a person, postponing the end of the slave trade until 1808, and the Fugitive Slave Clause?
This type of right requires/enables government action. It includes the right of individuals to receive certain services from their government.
What is a positive right?
This is the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
This is the highest grossing Broadway show of all time.
What is the Lion King?
These were four reasons for the American Revolution.
What were: taxation without representation, land, the king dissolving colonial governments, the king ignored colonists' petitions for change?
These were four problems with the Articles of Confederation.
What were: Couldn’t tax states or people, No ability to raise an army, no ability to regulate currency, No chief executive or court, Gave ALL the power to the states, all states had to agree to make any changes, etc.?
This is the building and location of where the Declaration and Constitution were both signed.
What is Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA?
If a law isn't neutral & applied to all people, then we must ask whether there is a ________ ________ ________ for making that law AND if it was written with the ________ ___________ means.
What is a compelling state interest and with the least restrictive means?
This is the animal that has killed the most humans.
What is the mosquito?
In 1903, this was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
This person is quoted as saying, "I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.”
This rebellion in Massachusetts highlighted the central government's inability to maintain order.
What was Shay's Rebellion? (accepted: farmers protesting that the govt. wouldn't get rid of their debts after fighting in the Revolution)
These were 5 delegates at the Constitutional Convention.
Who were... https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/founding-fathers ?
This is what we call a principle or rule established in a previous legal case, which becomes the way they view future similar cases.
What is a precedent?
This is the national animal of Scotland.
What is the unicorn?
In this year, Netflix, previously a DVD rental business, introduce streaming services.
What is 2007?