US History 1
This document was adopted on July 4th, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This man was the First President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
These are the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
The colony of Jamestown can be found in this state
What is Virginia?
These are the 3 regions of original colonial settlement in the Americas
What are the New England, Middle and Southern Colonies?
This legal-eyed branch of government interprets the laws
What is the Judicial Branch?
George Washington was general in this war.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This is the branch of government responsible for enforcing the laws, with the President at its helm
What is the Executive Branch?
This is the idea that the power to rule comes from the people
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This man was the Second President of the United States
Who is John Adams?
This is a tax on imported goods
What is a tariff?
This chief author of the Federalist Papers was also the founder of the Bank of New York
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This strict religious group were some of the first people to settle in New England. This group did not allow women to vote, only male members of their church.
Who are the Puritans?
This form of labor was not slavery, but it featured contracts signed by workers where they would give up many of their rights in the hope that they would work off their contracts after 7 years and receive land
What is Indentured Servitude?
The Anti-Federalists insisted that this be included before signing the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
According to the US Constitution, power ultimately resides with...
Who are the people?
This is the idea that power is divided and shared between the national government and state governments
What is Federalism?
These were the two plans for congressional representation at the Constitutional Convention (2 state names)
What are the Virginia and New Jersey Plans?
This document states, "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal." This document was written by Thomas Jefferson
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This amendment guarantees the right to protest
What is the 1st Amendment?
This branch is responsible for writing/making laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
This cash crop was a big source of wealth for the South along with indigo, cotton, and rice; this cash crop led to the increase in slavery on a massive scale
What is tobacco?
This is the aptly named gathering of founding fathers who met to draft a document that would replace the Articles of Confederation
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This is the length of a Supreme Court Justice's term on the Supreme Court
What is life?
This was the first "constitution" the United States had after independence. This document proved to be very weak in terms of federal power
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is the name of the event wherein colonial protestors were shot at in a city in Massachusetts in 1770
What is the Boston Massacre?
This man was an early settler in Jamestown who gave a conflicting narrative of his encounter with the daughter of Chief Powhatan named Pocahontas
Who is John Smith?
This electric inventor arranged for the colonies to create a single army featuring his political cartoon of a snake with the phrase "Join or Die" as his motto.
Who is Benjamin Franklin
This political party supported the common man, and was led by Thomas Jefferson.
Who are the Anti-Federalists (democratic-republicans)?
What is Massachusetts?
The argument between these two men resulted in the creation of the Federalist and Anti-Federalists
Who are Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton?
The French and Indian War was won by this country
What is Great Britain?
What event proved that the Articles of Confederation was a weak document that needed to be changed?
Shays' Rebellion
This is the act passed during John Adams' presidency that said anyone critical of the government could be fined or imprisoned
What is the Sedition Act?
This man is considered the "father" of the Constitution and authored some of the Federalist Papers
Who is James Madison?
This group of people supported a strong national government and creating a new Constitution
Who are the Federalists?
This economic policy emphasized having large reserves of gold and silver. This economic policy was used by Great Britain to extract wealth from their colonies
What is mercantilism?
The Virginia Plan wanted representation in Congress to be based on this
What is Population?
This treaty named for a European capital city formally ended the Revolutionary War
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
These are the two houses that make up Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?