The Constitution
A document that describes how a government will work.
What is the Constitution?
The country the colonies were fighting against.
What is Britain?
The document that announced that the American colonies were breaking away from Great Britain and explained why.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Where majority of the slaves were from.
What is Africa?
This continent was called "The New World" in the 1400s
What is North America?
The number of branches the Constitution has.
What is three?
The person leading the Continental army.
Who is George Washington?
The young man who was largely responsible for writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The country that controlled most of the American colonies.
What is Britain?
He was was the first explorer to claim part of the New World for his country?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The city where the Constitutional Convention was held in 1787.
What is Philadelphia?
A person who performs a service for free.
What is a volunteer?
This is what Jefferson wanted to end with the Declaration of Independence, but nobody agreed with him.
What is slave trade?
This is how slaves kept hope alive.
What is music/spiritual songs?
The country Christopher Columbus was an explorer for.
What is Spain?
The first document that set up the first government of the United States; the government had limited power.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
A soldier hired to fight for a foreign country.
What is a mercenary?
The group of leaders who helped form the new American nation.
Who are founding fathers?
This is where most of the slaves ended up working in the colonies.
What are plantations?
The country/region Christopher Columbus was actually looking for when he found the Americas.
What is China./What is East Indies./What is Asia?
The document set up in 1215 by English Barons, later used as inspiration for the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Magna Carta?
The city where the peace treaty was signed to end the war between Great Britain and America.
What is Paris?
The pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in simple language to convince colonists to support independence.
What is Common Sense?
The exchange of slaves and goods between Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
What is triangular trade?
The year Columbus landed on the first island in the New World.
What is 1492?