Colonial Times
Revolution Calling
American Government
Individual Liberty
Presidential Talk
100
This early southern colony grew tobacco.
What is Jamestown?
100
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet to gather support for the colonists to declare independence from England.
What is Common Sense?
100
This first form of government in the United States failed because it gave the states too much independence and lacked a unifying central government.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
100
These delegates at the Constitutional Convention would not ratify the Constitution without a promise that the Bill of Rights be added.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
100
George Washington's farewell address set the tone for this long standing American foreign policy.
What is neutrality?
200
This early colonial document was written on the journey from England to the Plymouth Colony setting rules for self-governance while still pledging loyalty to their king.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
200
This slogan, along with an image of a snake divided up by colony, became the slogan for the Continental Congress.
200
Baron de Montesquieu influenced this Constitutional principle that would create a system of checks and balances by establishing a government with three branches: Executive, Judicial and Legislative?
What is separation of powers?
200
The Sedition Act of 1918 was challenged in this court case when a man believed his freedom of speech was being violated as he protested the draft during WWI.
What was Schenk v. the United States?
200
What President suggested that "A house divided can not stand?" and as a result a war was fought.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
This law established by the British government led to colonists boycotting the purchase of newspapers.
What was the Stamp Act?
300
This event showed colonists that the threat posed by their mother country was real.
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
This law-making body in the American legislature has two representatives per state.
What is the Senate?
300
This Japanese American fought the order to be interned during WWII on the basis that his right to a trial and his property rights had been taken away.
Who was Korematsu?
300
This doctrine of this president warned that European powers would be viewed as a threat if they interfered with Americans westward expansion/manifest destiny.
Who was James Monroe?
400
The New England Town Meetings and The Virginia House of Burgesses were similar because both influenced this important foundation for the future of American Government.
What is Self Government/Representative Democracy?
400
This colonial slogan of highlighted one of the main complaints colonists had regarding their unfair treatment by the British government.
What was "No Taxation Without Representation"?
400
The representation in this legislative body is based upon the number of citizens who live in the state.
What is the House of Representatives?
400
These amendments to the Constitution were added during Reconstruction to abolish slavery, guarantee equal protection under the law, and to give African American males voting rights.
What were the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments?
400
The main points of Woodrow Wilson's 14 point speech after WWI suggested that all nations around the world should avoid these in order to prevent another World War.
What were militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
500
The French and Indian War ended with British colonists agreeing not to settle anywhere west of this boundary.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
500
Inspired by John Locke and written by Thomas Jefferson, this document spoke about natural rights, the consent of the governed, and the grievances the colonists had with their mother country.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
In order to ensure fair representation in southern states with small populations, this compromise allowed a percentage of slaves to be included in the states citizen counts.
What is the 3/5 compromise?
500
This phrase refers to times in American history when security risks are so great that the government can enact laws to limit individual freedoms.
What is "clear and present danger"?
500
This Great Depression president remarked that giving relief directly to citizens would stifle individual incentive to find work and fix the economy.
Who was Herbert Hoover?