Indigenous Americans
This nation was indigenous to Virginia & met with John Smith.
Who were the Powhattan?
The European nation that colonized where we live today... They have lots of windmills and canals and flowers...
Who are the Dutch?
Commander and Chief of the US Army in the American Revolution...
Who was George Washington?
The theory outlined in the Constitution that involves a sharing of powers and responsibilities between the federal government and state governments...
What is Federalism?
Practices, mostly started by George Washington, repeated by future presidents...
What are precedents?
This language group dominated New England and Canada, bitter rivals of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee).
Who are the Algonquian?
Europeans who settled in Quebec, Canada and Louisiana...
Who are the French?
This event marked the beginning of armed hostilities between Americans and British forces in the colonies, and also involved a high profile court case...
What was the Boston Massacre?
The process the Supreme Court undertakes to determine if a law or action from the government is Constitutional...
What is Judicial Review?
John Adams nominated this candidate to the Supreme Court before the end of his Presidency... He made many groundbreaking decisions for the next few decades in the Supreme Court...
Who was John Marshall?
The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) are unique in that their government was a...
What is a Confederacy?
A democratically elected governing body in Virginia, founded in the 1600s...
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The turning point of the American Revolution... You live nearby!
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
These were the first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution...
What is the Bill of Rights?
This doubled the size of the US when Thomas Jefferson purchased it... Although technically Congress should have been the ones to purchase it...
What is the Louisiana Territory?
This nation was forcibly removed by federal forces under Andrew Jackson's orders during the Trail of Tears...
Who are the Cherokee?
This nation was almost conquered by the US in the American Revolution and again in the War of 1812...
What is Canada?
This literary work sparked Revolutionary sentiment and declared our separation from Britain as a natural and righteous cause...
What is Common Sense?
The Constitutional principle that allows the Federal government to overrule state governments.
What is Federal Supremacy?
This declaration demands that Europeans should stay OUT of the Americas, as the Western Hemisphere belongs to the United States...
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This nation, part of the Iroquois Confederacy, was allied with the US during the American Revolution...
Who are the Oneida?
This Compact set the standard for self-governing documents in the American colonies for centuries to follow...
What was the Mayflower Compact?
This American secured diplomatic recognition for the US during the War, and also helped author the Declaration of Independence with Thomas Jefferson...
Who is John Adams? OR Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This was not expressly permitted by the Constitution, but the 9th, 10th, and 14th Amendments allow it to exist as powers not expressly listed in the Constitution can still be Constitutional...
What is the National Bank?
Dolly Madison rescued a portrait of this man as she and her husband fled the burning White House during the War of 1812...
Who was George Washington?