Chapter 1
Congress approved this set of rules in November 1777 under which the colonies would be governed.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
He led the Pennsylvania delegation.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The X, Y, Z Affair Involved America's refusal to pay a bribe to this country.
What is France?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These Indians admired Captain Lewis' courage more than anything else.
Who are the Plains Indians?
The Federal Government not impose or collect these under the Articles of Confederation.
What are taxes?
He was America's first Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
He advises the president on legal matters.
Who is the Attorney General?
The president was given the power to expel any foreigner whom he thought was a threat to the peace and safety of America by this act.
What is the Alien Act?
Thomas Jefferson designed his home here.
What is Monticello?
What are the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean?
The years from 1781 to 1787 is called this.
What is the "Critical Period"?
These two men were absent from the convention discussing changes in the Articles of Confederation.
Who are Thomas Jefferson and John Adams?
Presidential advisors who head up their departments comprise the president's what?
What is the Cabinet?
Freedom of Speech and freedom of press were taken away when this act was passed by Congress.
What is the Sedition Act?
John Marshall declared that the "Supreme Law of the Land" was this.
What is the Constitution?
Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli are cities along this coast.
What is the Barbary coast?
A meeting was scheduled in this city in 1787 to discuss changes to the Articles of Confederation.
What is Philadelphia?
Most delegates incorporated the sound principles of government championed by this saint.
Who is Saint Thomas Aquinas?
Washington D.C. lies on land which belonged to these states.
What is Virginia and Maryland?
Since 1763, this country controlled all territory between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River.
What is Spain?
Pirates often demanded bribes before releasing ships, or kept the ships and sold crew members as this.
What are slaves?
The convention to discuss the changes to the Articles of Confederation was held here.
What is Independence Hall?
These are the three branches of government.
A tax added to the price of all manufactured goods coming into the U.S.
What is a tariff?
This man tried to suppress a slave revolt in Haiti for France.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
In the Legislative Branch, each state is represented by this number of Senators.
What is the population of the state?
A tax on local products
What is an excise tax?
This man led the Haitian people in an uprising against French rule.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
This branch of government is headed by the president.
What is the Executive?
He is known as the "Father of the Constitution".
Who is James Madison?
This country agreed to withdraw her troops and give up the forts around the Great Lakes in the Jay Treaty.
Who is England?
The French territory bought in 1803 for about $15 million was known as this.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This was signed on September 17, 1787 but not ratified, which divided powers between the Federal Government and the states.
What is the Constitution?
This booklet, composed of 85 letters, was published to convince various states, especially New York, to ratify the Constitution.
What is The Federalist?
This settled the disputed territory along the Florida panhandle with Spain.
What is the Pickney Treaty?
These two men explored the Louisiana Purchase territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
These are the first ten amendments in the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
He was America's First President.
Who is George Washington?
He succeeded George Washington and became America's second president.
Who is John Adams?
Sacajawea means this in the Shoshone language.
What is Bird Woman?