Colonies
This region was known for shipbuilding, fishing, and small farms.
What is New England?
He was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This term means a loose alliance of states, like the first U.S. government created after the Revolution.
What is a confederation?
This document, written in 1776, declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This region was called the “breadbasket colonies” for growing wheat and grains.
What is the Middle Colonies?
He was the second President of the United States
Who is John Adams?
This amendment says soldiers cannot be housed in private homes without the owner’s consent.
What is the Third Amendment?
This movement encouraged new ideas about government, rights, and reason, and influenced the Founding Fathers.
What is the Enlightenment?
The U.S. flag has this many stripes.
What is 13?
This region relied heavily on plantation farming and enslaved labor.
What is the Southern Colonies?
He was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These were people who supported the new Constitution.
Who were the Federalists?
What is an amendment?
what arethe Freedoms or powers guaranteed to people?
This document begins with the words “We the People.”
The U.S. Constitution
This colony, founded in 1607, was the very first permanent English settlement in America.
What is Virginia (Jamestown)?
He was known as the “Father of the Constitution.”
Who is James Madison?
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
Clue (Amendment 2): This amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms.
Answer: What is the First Amendment?
Answer: What is the Second Amendment?
Freedom from control or restriction.
What is liberty?
Money people must pay to the government
What is taxation?
This colony, founded in 1732, was the last of the original 13 colonies.
What is Georgia?
These men were leaders in the American Revolution and helped shape the new nation. Name three Founding Fathers.
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Adams, etc.?
This amendment guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial by jury.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
The state of being free and self-governing.
What is independence?
This state was the first to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
What is Delaware?