Declaration of Independence
13 Colonies proclaiming freedom from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Congress shall make no law denying the right of the people to 'peaceably to assemble'.
What is the 1st Amendment?
(Triple Score) An act of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against an established government.
What is an insurrection?
The most infamous traitor in U.S. history.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
The first ten amendments of the United States Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
Term for an American colonists who rejected British rule during the American Revolution.
What is a Patriot?
(Double Score) The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against 'unreasonable search & seizure'.
What is the 4th Amendment?
(Double Score) On April 19, 1775 local militiamen clashed with British soldiers in the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts.
What is the shot heard around the world?
(Double Score) "Give me Liberty or give me Death."
Who is Patrick Henry?
The idea that a just and fair government must divide authority between various branches.
What is 'separation of powers'?
Americans professing loyalty to King George III and England.
What is a Royalist or Loyalist?
Congress shall make no law abridging the 'freedom of speech', 'religion' or 'of the press'.
What is the 1st Amendment?
A political protest that occurred in 1773 in Massachusetts because American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation".
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Seamstress that designed and made the first U.S. Flag.
Who is Betsy Ross?
The colonial Boston silversmith, industrialist, propagandist and patriot immortalized for his midnight horse ride warning colonists about a British attack.
Who is Paul Revere?
On July 4, 1776 they voted to adopt this, thus opening themselves up to treason against the Crown of England.
What is the Continental Congress?
The right to a fair trial.
What is the 6th Amendment?
One of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in order to bail out the floundering British East India Company in 1773.
What is the Tea Act?
Author of the Declaration of Independence & 3rd U.S. President.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
(Double Score) Representatives of the people must govern within an existing constitution. Officially America's government.
What is a Constitutional Republic?
Right to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness.
What are unalienable rights?
The right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This 1770 conflict when 5 colonists were shot and killed by British soldiers energized anti-British sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Scottish-American naval captain who was the United States first well known naval commander.
Who is John Paul Jones?
Each branch exercises certain powers that can be checked by the powers given to the other two branches.
What are 'checks and balances'?