Amendements
What is the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Amendment?
1st Amendment: Freedom of religion, speech, petition and assembly
2nd Amendment: Right to Bear Arms
3rd Amendment: No quartering of soldiers
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
It was a proclamation, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.
What is the first section of the Declaration of Independence called?
The Preamble
What are the three branches of the U.S. government? And what do those branches do?
Executive: which enforces the laws
Legislative: which makes the laws
Judicial: which interprets the laws
What was the Great Compromise?
The Great Compromise was a compromise that settled the disagreement between the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan, and the representation in Congress.
What is the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Amendments?
4th Amendment:Protection against illegal search and seizure
5th Amendment:Protection against self-incrimination, double jeopardy. Protection of due process and right to a grand jury.
6th Amendment:Right to speedy and public trial, impartial jury and right to counsel.
7th Amendment:Right to a trial by jury in common-law cases.
8th Amendment:Protection against cruel and unusual punishment. No excessive bail imposed.
What was the Sugar Act of 1764?
It cut the tax on molasses but raised it on other goods such as textiles, wine coffee, indigo, and sugar.
What is the second section or first part of the Declaration of Independence?
The natural rights of man
Why is the Constitution such an important document?
It is because, it can meet the changing conditions and needs of the country. Also because, each of the 3 branches of government can limit the powers of the others. This way, no one branch becomes too powerful.
What was the New Jersey Plan?
The New Jersey Plan, was a plan that a state would have equal representation in Congress.
What is the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Amendments?
8th Amendment:Protection against cruel and unusual punishment. No excessive bail imposed.
9th Amendment:The enumeration of rights in the Constitution won't be used against the people.
10th Amendment:Reserved powers to the states.
11th Amendment:States are protected from being sued by citizens of another state.
12th Amendment:Separated balloting procedures for president and vice-president (put them as a team).
What was the Stamp Act of 1765?
Taxed all documents, newspapers, and playing cards by forcing the colononists to place a special stamp on the items.
What is the third section or second part of the Declaration of Independence?
The lists of grievances to the king
What are the six goals of the U.S. Constitution?
1. Form a more perfect union
2.Establish justice
3.Insure domestic tranquility
4.Provide for the common defense
5.Promote the general welfare
6.And secure the blessings of liberty
What was the Virginia Plan?
The Virginia Plan, was a plan that a state would have representatives based on their populations in Congress.
What is the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments?
13th Amendment:Abolition of slavery.
14th Amendment:Granted former slaves citizenship and equal protection, established principle of selective incorporation.
15th Amendment:African-American men could vote.
16th Amendment:Established federal income tax.
17th Amendment:Direct election of U.S. Senators.
18th Amendment:Prohibition.
19th Amendment:Women have the right to vote.
What was the Boston Massacre of 1770?
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
What is the fourth section or third part of the Declaration of Independence?
The announcement of separation from Britain
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
The Federalists wanted a strong central government, while the Anti-Federalists wanted a Bill of Rights
What was the outcome of the Great Compromise?
What is the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th Amendments?
20th Amendment:President and vice-president's term of office begins on January 20th, and no longer in March.
21st Amendment:Repeal of Prohibition
22nd Amendment:Presidents limited to 2 terms.
23rd Amendment:D.C. given presidential electors.
24th Amendent:Poll tax is illegal.
25th Amendment:Established VP as successor if P is unable to serve. P can nominate a VP if there is a VP vacancy.
26th Amendment:18-year-olds have the right to vote.
27th Amendment:Congressional pay raises will only take effect after the next election.
What was the Boston Tea Party of 1773?
American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence and the main writer of the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence and the main writer of the Constitution is James Madison.
What is Checks and Balances? And why is it important?
The Framers created a system of checks and balances because they didn’t want one system of the government to over power and overthrow another. They also did this so that the other systems can check on and oversee what the other systems are doing.
What was the 3/5th Compromise?
⅗ of all the other persons, was what they used to measure a slave and the population that would affect the amount of representatives in Congress.