This will be Matching
Rule by the people
What is democracy?
This mountain range marks the borders of North Carolina and Tennessee and the two Virginias
Where is the Appalachian Mountains?
This branch has the senate and house of representatives. It is where our leaders most directly represent their people. (The official name of the branch)
What is the legislative branch?
People with this first name wrote most of the primary sources we have read in this class.
The Declaration of Independence and Common Sense
Who is Thomas?
Who sings the original song Landslide?
Who is Fleetwood Mac?
What is the slope of a line passing through the points (2, 4) and (4, 6)?
What is the number one?
This state's entire southern border the Rio Grande River and the Gulf of Mexico.
Most commonly practiced religion in America. (No credit for partial answers)
What is Protestantism?
The grandson of Genghis Khan
Rule by representatives chosen by the people
What is a republic?
This river carves the Grand Canyon and holds what was once called the Boulder Dam.
Where is the Colorado River?
If a bill passes through congress, the President (executive branch) can sign or _____ it and it goes back to Congress.
What is Veto?
The commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the revolution
Who is George Washington?
"At Yorktown the British could not retreat,
Bottled up by Washington and the French _________,
Cornwallis surrendered and finally we had won!"
What is fleet?
According to Native American literature, what animal is used in their creation story of the world?
What is a tortoise?
This state has the Crazy Horse monument and Mount Rushmore
Where is South Dakota
This was the main killer of Native Americans
What are diseases?
The war fought over the Ohio River valley between France and England?
What is the Seven Years War or The French and Indian War?
The belief that objects, plants, and forces of nature have souls/spirits
What is animism?
This is where the British general Cornwallis surrendered ending the American Revolution after being surrounded by the French Fleet.
Where is Yorktown?
This is the name of the first ten amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is The House of Representatives?
Now, at famous ________________,
Even though we lost, it was quite a thrill,
The rebel Colonel Prescott proved he was wise;
Outnumbered and low on ammunition
As the British stormed his position
He said, "Hold your fire till you see the whites of their eyes!"
Where is Bunker Hill?
This term is used to describe a quantity that has both magnitude and direction.
What is a vector?
This state has more people than Wyoming and less than Washington DC. Also the home of Ben and Jerry's.
Where is Vermont?
A model that sets the standard for how to deal with future issues of a similar problem?
What is a precedent?
The name of the explorer who's ship was the first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
Gave reasons for American independence and attacked King George III
What is Common Sense?
The name of the tallest mountain in all of North America
Where is Mt. McKinley or Mt. Denali?
The responsibility of the Judicial branch (Supreme Court) of the United States government is to make sure laws are __________.
What is Constitutional?
The British General whose surrender essentially ended the American Revolution
Who is Charles Cornwallis?
"Well, now I'm stuck in committee And I'll sit here and wait While a few key Congressmen discuss and _____________ "
What is debate?
The atomic number of this element is 11, the symbols has the Latin "natrium," and used in MSG - Commonly used to enhance Chinese food.
Sodium
This state contains the highest point in the United States outside of Alaska and Hawaii
Where is California?
This half of the colonies had more free people than the other half.
What is the Northern half?
The Roman emperor that cut Rome in half?
Beneficial ignorance for the American Colonies
What is salutary neglect?
This Great Lake makes up Ohio's Northern border
Where is Lake Erie?
This was the original constitution but we scrapped it since it didn't contain the people's written rights and it made the government too weak
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is the Silver Smith who engraved the Boston Massacre scene and rode through town shouting “The regulars (British) are coming, the regulars (British) are coming”
Who is Paul Revere?
Who wrote the song "Good Riddance, (Time of Your Life)" and "Macy's Day Parade"?
Who is Green Day?
You lose 500 points.
Loser.
One night they crossed the ______________,
Surprised the Hessians in their lair,
And at Valley Forge they just bundled up their feet!
Where is the Delaware?
Where the “first shots heard ‘round the world” were fired beginning the American Revolution
Where is Lexington & Concord?
The name of the cruel program of "separateness" in South Africa that persisted until 1994
What is Apartheid?
The British response to the Boston Tea Party
What are the intolerable acts?
This Northwestern national park holds the "death strip" where theoretically (but not legitimately likely), one could get away with a crime
Where is Yellowstone?
If you draw a straight line going South of the White House and a line going West of the Capital building, they intersect at/closest to this landmark.
What is the Washington Monument?
This native American tribe made a Constitution older than ours but has similar ideas to our Constitution.
Who are the Iroquois
Here. Have 600 points.
What can I say except "You're welcome?"
This term is used to describe how far something has traveled "as the crow flies".
What is displacement?
This state is the fifth largest state by land size
Where is New Mexico?
In the electoral college, it doesn't matter how much of a states votes a candidate wins. If they win the majority of votes, they get all of the states' electoral vote. This is called ________________.
What is "Winner take all" ?
The __________________, in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.
It contains the Rosetta Stone, and an Easter Island head.
Where is the British Museum?