Constitution
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
the Bill of Rights
First President of the United States
George Washington
This amendment guarantees the right to assembly (protest), freedom of speech, and freedom of religion
1st Amendment
3 regions of original colonies
New England, Middle and Southern Colonies
Manifest Destiny
The year WWI began
1914
Group of department heads who advise the president
cabinet
What were the people called who supported the American Revolution?
Patriots
The idea that the power to rule comes from the people is known as
Popular Sovereignty
The French and Indian War was won by this country
Britain
America gained this territory as a result of the Spanish-American War
Philippines
This brought the United States into WWI
Germany's Declaration of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
The New Jersey Plan wanted representation in Congress to be determined by . . .
statehood (2 per state)
When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
July, 4th. 1776
What document states, "All men are created equal" and people have "unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Declaration of Independence
This was the first permanent British settlement in North America (1607)
Jamestown
Monroe Doctrine
The common tactic of fighting in WWI
Trench Warfare
This branch is responsible for writing laws
Legislative Branch
What was the name of the meeting where the Constitution was drafted?
Constitutional Convention
The American concept of representative democracy was highly informed by this feature of early colonial American culture
Congregationalism (Calvinist organization of church leadership)
A period of religious revival that occurred just before the American Revolution
The Great Awakening
Amendment to the Monroe Doctrine that stated America has the obligation to intervene militarily as a policing force in South America to preserve stability in the Western Hemisphere.
Roosevelt Corollary
Who was the President of the United States during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
What event proved that the Articles of Confederation was a weak document that needed to be changed?
Shays' Rebellion
The act that placed taxes on paper products in 1765.
Stamp Act
What was the religion of the Plymouth settlers?
Puritan Separatists
This colony was known as a Quaker colony
Pennsylvania
Foreign Policy Amendment that gave the US the right to intervene militarily in Cuba if Cuban independence was threatened.
Platt Amendment
Which were two of Wilson's aims for the end of WWI?
*make the world safe for democracy
*free trade
*self-determination of nations
*peace without victory
*end all wars through a League of Nations
*no territorial gains for belligerent nations