Colonial Identities
The year that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue
What is 1492?
The event where Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor
What is the Boston Tea Pearty?
The Articles of Confederation allowed the federal government to declare war and do this, like the one in Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
What is Sign treaties?
The formal beginning section of The Constitution that states "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union..."
What is the preamble?
The incumbent (currently in office) President going into the election of 1800
Who is John Adams?
The place where Christopher Columbus landed in the Western Hemisphere
What is The Bahamas?
The General and Commander of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
Another victory for the Articles is that now the Federal government could do this, getting rid of the individual greenbacks from different colonies.
What is mint coins (print money)?
The number of times the Constitution uses the word slave or slavery
What is 0?
What is the House of Representatives?
The first colony of the British in America
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow largely attributes the quest of many revolutionaries announcing the arrival of British forces to one man in a heroic tale
What is The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere?
The articles of confederation set up a legislative body but made no provisions for these two other branches that we see in our current government.
What are Executive and Legislative?
The year that the constitution officially went into effect
What is 1789?
The man who was elected Vice President in the Election of 1800
Who is Aaron Burr? (1 extra point if you said sir)
This landmark in Massachusetts, where the "pilgrims" landed, is the site of a National Day of Mourning each year on Thanksgiving
What is Plymouth Rock?
The "symbol of peace" petition sent by the Continental Congress in 1776 asking King George to find a peaceful resolution
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
Under the AOC the Federal Government had no way to provide or raise this body, relying instead on local militias.
What is a military?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Within The Great Compromise, the Constitution states that congress would be bicameral, with this body being represented by population.
What is the House of Representatives?
The timely nickname given to the numerous judges that John Adams appointed in his last days as President
Who are the Midnight Judges?
The main economic basis in the Southern colonies
What is cash crop agriculture?
The name given to a skirmish between protesters and British soldiers famously preserved in an engraving by Paul Revere
What is the Boston Massacre?
One of the main faults, the AOC required this ratio majority to pass any legislation.
What is 2/3?
Who were Enslaved Americans?
The party that the two main candidates belonged to during the Election of 1800
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
The war that was fought in America that largely prepared colonists for the Revolutionary War
What is the French and Indian War?
When British soldiers show up and demand to stay at your house
What is Quartering?
The number of representatives each state had in congress under the AOC
What is one?
Of the 13 states, only this state failed to send delegates to the constitutional convention.
What is Rhode Island?
The fowl term used to describe a president who has been voted out but is still in power for a period of time.
What is a Lame Duck?
The year that the first enslaved africans arrived in America
What is 1619?
The punishment given to tax collectors for the British crown in the colonies
What is Tarring and Feathering?
What is Shays Rebellion?
As it was established in the Constitution, until 1913 this position was appointed, not elected.
What are senators?
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who persided over Marbury v Madison
Who is John Marshall?
The name of the translator who worked with the "pilgrims" and pawtuxet tribe at the first Thanksgiving
Who is Tisquantum (Squanto)?
The camp where the Continental Army camped during winter of 1777 resulting in over 1,700 deaths from disease and starvation
What is Valley Forge?
One of the main causes of uprisings under the AOC was that there was not way to institute this revenue generating legislation.
What are taxes?
What is the Electoral College?
What is 36?
The name for the collection of taxes and laws passed in the colonies by the British Crown that led to the Revolutionary War
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The battle site of the "shot heard round the world"
What is Lexington?
The articles of confederacy were based largely on this indigenous body, rather than European philosphy
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
After returning from retirement following Shay's Rebellion, This man presided over the Constitutional Convention
Who is George Washington?
The party of Hamilton, that ultimately began to die out in the election of 1800.
What is the Federalist Party?
The name of the indigenous group that translates as "The people of the first light"
Who are the Wampanoag?
Peter Salem, a black soldier in the Revolutionary War, is well known for killing a British commander at this battle
What is Bunker Hill?
While the Articles of Confederation were not perfect, amending them was possible, but required this type of vote
What is a unanimous vote?
The building in Philadelphia where the constitutional convention took place, and where the Liberty Bell originally was placed
What is Independence Hall?
The precedent and power that was established for the Supreme Court in Marbury v Madison.
What is Judicial Review?