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The first US President and the commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
The war that won America its independence.
What is the Revolutionary War?
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
The President runs this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
American Colonists threw tea into the harbor in protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
This war climaxed at the Battle of New Orleans.
What is the War of 1812?
The beginning of the Constitution; it explains the purpose of the document.
What is the Preamble?
This house of legislature has two delegates from each state.
What is the Senate?
This was the first public violent event between American colonists and British soldiers.
What was the Boston Massacre?
He helped obtain supplies from his homeland of France and fought in many battle of the Revolutionary war.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
The last major battle of the Revolutionary War, it sealed victory for America.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
What is impeachment?
This is called the "lower house" of the Legislative Branch.
What is the House of Representatives?
What is the XYZ Affair?
The second U.S. President.
Who is John Adams?
This prominent American landmark was burned down during the War of 1812?
What is the White House?
They demanded the Bill of Rights be added to the Constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This process can be started by a vote in Congress or by an assembly of the states.
What is the amendment process?
The location of the "shot heard round the world".
What was Lexington and Concord?
The only president to serve three terms in office.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
America won access to the Ohio River Valley after this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
This amendment protects Americans from illegal search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
The leader of the House of Representatives.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
The first American killed by British troops.
Who was Crispus Attucks?