WAR and Other Stuff
RIGHTS AND LAWS
Presidents and Powers
Important Documents in U.S. History
Variety of History
100
What is a legal duty of a United States citizen?
Obeying Laws
100
Is the Right to Bear arms a freedom included in the first amendment?
What is NO.
100
What best explains the message of the popular political cartoon with an African American ripping a poster of North and South United States?
The issue of slavery was dividing the Northern and Southern states.
100
What best explains how the British responded to the Boston Tea Party?
Britain passed the intolerable acts.
200
What power is held by both the federal and state governments?
Raise Taxes
200
The main function of government in a democracy is to
Enforce laws to protect the rights of citizens.
200
The only President of the Confederate States of America was
Jefferson Davis
200
The main purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to
Announce why the colonies were separating from Britain.
200
The foreign policy of the United States is planned and carried out by the
Secretary of State
300
What was an advantage for the Patriots during the American Revolution?
They were fighting for a cause.
300
The main purpose of the Proclamation of 1763 was to?
What is to Keep colonists from migrating beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
300
When President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, what message was he sending to other countries?
The United States would isolate itself from other countries' problems.
300
What reflects the main argument of the Anti-Federalists
The Constitution did not have a Bill of Rights.
300
. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States..." Which amendment is expressed in the passage above?
Thirteenth Amendment
400
How did Marquis de Lafayette most contribute to the Patriot cause during the American Revolution?
What is He persuaded the French to help the Patriots.
400
After both houses of Congress approve a bill, what step must take place before the bill can become a law?
The president Must Sign It.
400
In the system of checks and balances, what responsibility does the president have regarding laws?
What is To Veto Bills that Congress Approves
400
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..." In which document can the above passage be found?
The Constitution.
400
. If the president and the vice-president are unable to finish a term, the ____________ is next in line to the presidency.
Speaker of the House
500
16. A member of the American Know-Nothing Party would most likely agree that
Neither Catholics nor foreigners should hold public office.
500
If Christina Angelo was elected to the House of Representatives in 2014, when would her seat next be up for election?
2016
500
Indian Removal Act of 1830: "An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi." Which president was responsible for signing this document into law?
Who is Andrew Jackson
500
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State...shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..." This passage comes from which document?
Emancipation Proclamation.
500
The main purpose of Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, was to encourage colonists to
Join the Patriot cause and declare independence from Britain.
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