Founding Fathers
He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
This U.S. holiday honors those who have died in military service.
What is Memorial Day?
This Founding Father famously said, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Who is Patrick Henry?
The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by this abolitionist author.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This branch of government interprets laws and includes the Supreme Court.
What is the Judicial Branch?
These structures in cells are responsible for producing energy.
What are mitochondria?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
He was the first Secretary of the Treasury and helped create the national bank.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
He led a failed raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 to incite a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
The number of U.S. Senators per state.
What is 2?
This molecule carries genetic information.
What is DNA?
This author wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This document established America’s first national government before the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This law required citizens to return runaway slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This principle means that no one is above the law—not even the president.
What is the rule of law?
These organisms make their own food using photosynthesis.
What are plants?
This U.S. state is known as the “Sunshine State.”
What is Florida?
He defended the British soldiers in court after the Boston Massacre, later becoming the 2nd U.S. president.
Who is John Adams?
This Supreme Court decision declared that enslaved people were not citizens and could not sue in court.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This is the process by which the Constitution can be changed.
What is the amendment process?
This term describes how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
This element has the chemical symbol 'O'.
What is oxygen?