Inspirations
The first mention of democracy occurred in this place.
Athens, Greece
I wrote and edited the Declaration of Independence with the help of many others.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What is one document?
First president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This is the accepted term to call a person who was forced into slavery. This term shows respect to the person by acknowledging they are human.
What is an enslaved person?
The current number of states in the U.S.
What is 50?
These 3 countries made up the Axis Powers in WWII
Who are Germany, Japan, and Italy?
The youngest voting age in MA.
What is 18?
This is the first place to invent a representative democracy.
What is Rome?
This act allowed British soldiers the right to stay in colonists' homes while occupying colonies. Many colonists did not like this act.
The Quartering Act
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights
President during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Brookline, MA, northern states, and southern states all had this in common in early U.S. history?
What is enslavement?
What does the D.C. stand for in Washington D.C.?
What is the District of Columbia?
This is the name given to the genocide that the Nazis Committed against the Jewish people and many others.
What is the Holocaust?
This is the Democrats animal symbol.
This is the Republicans animal symbol.
Dems: Who is the donkey?
Repubs: Who is the elephant?
The Declaration of Independence was heavily influenced by this philosopher and his idea of natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This person led the Continental Army for the new United States in the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
We believed in a weak central/national government.
Who are the anti-federalists?
I was the president of the U.S. throughout most of WWII.
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
A law that stated that an enslaved person who ran away to the north had to be returned to their enslaver.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
The last state to join the United States.
What is Hawaii?
This is the name of the failed German democracy government that led to the rise of the Nazis.
What is the Weimar Republic?
Number of electoral college votes it takes to win the office of President.
What is 270?
This was a document that limited the powers of the British King and enforced the "Rule of Law"
What is the Magna Carta?
This war put the British government so far in debt that they began to tax the colonists unfairly to pay back for the war.
What is the French and Indian War?
This document preceded the Constitution and was the U.S. first form of government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
I was the president when the Great Depression started in the U.S.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This enslaved person ran away on the underground railroad and helped many other people do the same.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The largest mountain range on the east coast of the United States.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
The situation when the U.S. took people's rights away during WWII and put them in prisons.
What is Japanese Internment?
2 of the requirements to become president.
What is Natural-born citizen, 35 years old, US resident for 14 years?
This was the first governmental document written by British citizens when they arrived in America to prevent a state of nature.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
During what major event did 5 colonists die after being shot by the British?
What is the Boston Massacre?
This amendment made enslavement illegal.
This amendment gave Women the right to vote.
a. What is the 13th Amendment?
b. What is the 19th Amendment?
I was the president who ordered the National Guard to protect the Little Rock Nine, the nine students who helped desegregate a high school.
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This is the executive order passed during the Civil War that freed enslaved people in southern states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The U.S. flag has 13 stripes for this reason
What are the original 13 colonies?
The U.S. used Atomic bombs in these two cities at the end of WWII.
The number of electoral votes for each state are determined based on this.
What is the # of representatives in the HOR for that state + 2 Senators?