Main author or "Father" of the DOI?
Thomas Jefferson
Document used prior to the US Constitution to run the U.S.?
Articles of Confederation
Number of Articles
7
What do you call big questions that could have many open-ended answers, leads to inquiry, and require higher-order thinking skills to answer.
Essential Questions
First Amendment Rights
Religion, Assembly, Petition, Press, Speech
War before the DOI and was closely related to the writing of the DOI. (King's M&Ms)
French and Indian War (aka "7 Year War")
President over the meeting that created the U.S. Constitution?
George Washington
Number of Amendments
27
Three parts of an argument.
Claim, evidence, and reasoning.
Amendment that deals with search and seizures of private property?
4th Amendment
The war between the British and the American Colonists?
American Revolutionary War
First President of the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation.
John Hanson
Article 1 deals with this branch...
Legislative Branch
Any tool or service that uses the internet to facilitate conversations.
Social Media
Amendment that cancelled another Amendment
24th cancelled the 21st (Alcohol)
King of Britain at the time of the writing of the DOI?
King Louis III
the Preamble.
Executive
skeptical
Amendment that abolished slavery
13th Amendment
The DOI was written using this English Enlightenment philosopher's ideas (Life, Liberty, and ...)?
John Locke
First three words of the U.S. Constitution
"We the People"
2 Houses of Congress
Senate and House of Reps
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Political cartoons are an example.
satire
The last Amendment is this number and deals with what topic?
27th, Congressional Pay