Exploration and Settlement
He formulated a plan he called the “Enterprise of the Indies,” in which he would reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. He presented the plan to both Portugal and Spain and eventually was given funding by Isabel and Fernando of Spain.
Who is Columbus
Brilliant orator, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and major figure of the American Revolution.
Who is Patrick Henry
Document approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced the separation of the American colonies from Great Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence
The final state to ratify the Constitution in 1790
What is Rhode Island
An act of the American legislature that made it a crime to say or write anything critical of the president or government or the United States.
What is the Sedition Act.
Approved by the Massachusetts Bay colony, it ensured free elections; trial by jury; the right not to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; among other things
What is Body of Liberties
The first internal tax (i.e. a tax on trade within the colonies) ever placed on the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act
Made up from 20 to 30 percent of the colonial population.
Who are the Loyalists
New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention and one of three authors of the Federalist, written in defense of the Constitution.
Who is Alexander Hamilton
An act of the Kentucky legislature, authored by Thomas Jefferson, that said the federal government is not the final judge of the extent of its own powers under the Constitution and asserted a state’s right to nullify a federal law it deems unconstitutional.
What is the Kentucky Resolves
A man to whom the Dutch government granted land if he could fund the passage of 50 colonists to New Netherlands
Who is a Patroon
Centers of revolutionary activity founded at Samuel Adams's bidding.
What are Committees of Correspondence
Major American land victory by forces led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold in New York, September 1777.
What is the Battle of Saratoga
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What is the 1st Amendment
The original constitution of the United States introduced by John Dickenson, which gave the national government the powers to declare war, to conclude treaties, to regulate money, and to decide disputes between states, with all other powers allocated to the states. These limits favored state sovereignty and independence.
What is the Articles of Confederation
Complimentary land grants given to Spanish colonists in which the Indians were not slaves but were forced to labor for the colonists, who were required to civilize and evangelize them
What are Encomiendas
18th cntury American theologian and preacher who gave the sermon "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God" and helped spread the First Great Awakening
Who is Jonathan Edwards
Scottish sailor who commanded the American vessel Bonhomme Richard and famously said "I have not yet begun to fight" when asked to surrender.
Who is John Paul Jones
A Virginian influential in the planning, writing, and ratification of the Constitution and sponsor of the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights
Who was James Madison
Who is Sacagawea
The legend on the coat of arm of Elcano, who assumed command from Magellan and completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.
What is “Primus circumdedisti me”
A meeting of English colonial representatives including Ben Franklin, that proposed, but never implemented, a plan for union. It was motivated by the hostilities between the English and French colonies in the New World.
What is the Albany Congress
Former Jacobite and later supporter of King George III, her Highlander clansmen met defeat in South Carolina at Moore's Creek Bridge in 1776
Who is Flora MacDonald
That the federal government has the authority to act on any measure that bears an obvious relation to a power given by the Constitution to the federal government.
What is the Loose Construction of the Constitution
First secretary of state, the leader of the Republican faction, who died on July 4th, 1826.
Who is Thomas Jefferson