American Studies/Modern History
American Studies/Modern History
American Studies/Modern History
American Studies/Modern History
American Studies/Modern History
100
No French monarch more embodied Absolutism than...
Who is King Louis XIV (the 14th)
100
You can have a peaceful meeting with a group of people. You may choose your religion or have no religion at all. You can write a complaint letter to the government. The government does not control the media. You have the right to say what you want.
What is The 1st amendment: right to assemble, freedom of religion, freedom to petition the government, freedom of the press, freedom of speech
100
The Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison
100
Two signers of The Declaration of Independence went on to become Presidents, TRUE or False?
What is True
100
Certain laws common in the American South from 1877 until the 1960s that required African Americans to use separate schools and other public facilities, prevented them from exercising the right to vote, and discriminated against them in public life.
What is Jim Crow laws
200
What was the goal of the American Revolution?
What is The thirteen American colonies wanted to be free from rule by the British.
200
The intellectuals who professed the ideas of The Enlightenment were known as...
Who are Philisophes
200
You do not have to be a witness against yourself.
What is the 5th amendment
200
Which philosopher said that life without a strong government would be "nasty, brutish, and short"?
Who is Thomas Hobbes
200
Which idea, taken from Montesquieu, became an integral part of the American system of government?
What is checks and balances
300
What are the names of the two houses of Congress?
What is The Senate and The House of Representatives
300
A written plan of government
What is a written Constitution
300
ideas, beliefs, and practices that have their historical roots in Judaism and Christianity
What is Judeo-Christian
300
What was the Boston Tea Party a protest against?
What is The protest was against taxes without representation.
300
Who was the most well known author of Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson
400
In order to avoid testifying against oneself in a court of law, a person can do what?
What is 'Take the fifth'
400
True or False: To change the Articles of Confederation all states had to agree
What is TRUE
400
When did the the Enlightenment take place?
What is mid-seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries (1650s-late 1800s)
400
Strong advocate for freedom of religion and freedom of speech during the Enlightenment.
Who is Voltaire
400
Two signers of The Declaration of Independence went on to become Presidents? Name one.
Who are John Adams-Masachusetts, Thomas Jefferson-Virginia
500
authorizes the president to deport any resident alien "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States"
What is The Alien Act (1798)
500
How much were slaves counted for representation purposes?
What is three-fifths
500
Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post-Civil War issues.
What is the 14th amendment
500
The President of the Constitutional Convention
Who is George Washington
500
What cause did Mary Wollstonecraft fight for most ardently?
What is Rights for women
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