Famous Quotes
"The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph." (1774)
Who is King George III?
The second U.S. president, and the only one to represent the Federalist Party.
Who is John Adams?
Using the right to not incriminate yourself is known as pleading this amendment.
What is the Fifth?
Representatives met here to sign the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War.
What is Paris?
What is cotton?
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" (1775)
Who is Patrick Henry?
This tobacco farmer famously lived at Mount Vernon.
The second amendment to the US Constitution says the right to do this "shall not be infringed".
What is bear arms?
In late 1776, the British captured this major city, which would later become the first US capital.
What is New York City?
One of the original 13 colonies, this state borders Massachusetts to the north and New York to the west.
What is Connecticut?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." (1776)
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This general became France's national hero in the 1790s, defeating a coalition that included England, Spain, the Netherlands, and the Holy Roman Empire.
Who is Napoleon?
The first amendment bars Congress from making any law "prohibiting the free exercise" of this.
What is religion?
In a crucial victory for the Americans, British general John Burgoyne's forces surrendered to Horatio Gates in this town.
What is Saratoga?
The powers of the executive, judicial and legislative branches are separated from each other by a system of these.
What are checks and balances?
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." (1776)
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
From 1766 to 1768, this man was Prime Minister of Great Britain, and was well respected by the colonists.
Who is William Pitt the Elder?
The 10th amendment says any rights not given to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved by the people, or by these.
What are the states?
Roughly half of the enslaved people sent to the United States arrived in this South Carolina port city.
What is Charleston?
This Philadelphia meeting to replace the Articles of Confederation took up the entire summer of 1787.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing." (1781)
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This New England smuggler was the president of the Second Continental Congress, and one of the US Presidents under the Articles of Confederation.
Who is John Hancock?
The Eighth Amendment prohibits these types of punishments from being inflicted.
What are cruel and unusual?
Washington took his troops across the Delaware to attack a Hessian fort at this New Jersey town.
What is Trenton?
This British general's famous surrender at Yorktown was the beginning of the end of the Revolutionary War.
Who is Charles Cornwallis?