Constitution
What is the Constitution?
BONUS: What year was it written?
The plan/framework for the U.S. government
1787
Who was the first president of the United States?
BONUS: Name one way he impacted the US.
George Washington
What document officially separated the 13 colonies from Great Britain?
BONUS: What day and year was it signed?
Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Which war was fought for independence from Great Britain?
BONUS: Name the turning point battle of that war
The American Revolution
The Battle of Saratoga
What was the main cause of the American Revolution?
High taxes from Britain; taxation without representation
What principle divides power between state and national governments?
Federalism
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
BONUS: Name one way he impacted the US.
Thomas Jefferson
What document begins with “We the People”?
BONUS: Which principle does that quote represent?
The Constitution
Popular Sovereignty
What event involved protest against British taxes by dumping tea?
BONUS: What group organized the event?
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty
What was an effect of the Louisiana Purchase?
Doubled the size of the land/westward expansion began/Lewis & Clark Expedition
What system prevents one branch from becoming too powerful?
BONUS: Give an example
Checks and balances
Who was the US president during the Civil War?
BONUS: Who was the Confederate president?
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
What document protects individual freedoms?
The Bill of Rights
What 1848 event ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. new western lands?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What was an effect of the Proclamation of 1763 on the American colonies?
Colonists were angry because they were limited from moving west
What are the first 10 amendments called?
BONUS: Which group wouldn't sign the Constitution without it?
Bill of Rights
Anti-Federalists
Who was a leader of the abolitionist movement and a formerly enslaved person?
BONUS: What was the name of the anti-slavery newspaper he wrote?
Frederick Douglass
What document created the first U.S. government but was weak?
BONUS: What was a strength of it?
Articles of Confederation
Northwest Ordinance
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
BONUS: Why was it founded?
Jamestown
Founded for economic reasons
What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?
Temporarily maintained balance between free and slave states
What are the three branches of government?
BONUS: What is the main role of each branch
Legislative: Makes laws
Executive: Enforces laws
Judicial: Interprets laws
Who was the abolitionist who led the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
John Brown
What document freed enslaved people in Confederate territories?
BONUS: After which battle was it issued?
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Antietam
What expansion doubled the size of the US?
BONUS: What other important event took place in that year?
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
Marbury v. Madison
What was an effect of Marbury v. Madison?
BONUS: What were the names of the other two landmark Supreme Court cases from that era?
Established judicial review
Gibbons v. Ogden, McCullough v. Maryland