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Vocabulary
Government
The American Revolution
General History
Constitution
100
A person who would fight on the American side during the Revolution.
What is patriot
100
What does the 2nd amendment state?
What is right to bear arms. (Right to own a weapon)
100
A group of Patriots who resisted British Laws.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
100
The first major act of rebellion against the British. Colonists dressed as Native Americans to avoid being identified.
What is Boston Tea Party
100
What fraction is important in the Constitution that involves slavery and population.
What is 3/5 (3/5ths compromise stated 3/5ths of the slave population could count toward representation)
200
Trade routes between Western Europe (Britain, France, Spain, Portugal), Western Africa, and North America.
What is the Trade Triangle?
200
This group of people elect the president.
What is electoral college.
200
A tax on paper goods that angered the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
The belief that Americans were destined to acquire all land from sea to sea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution is the
What is Bill of Rights.
300
This document was given to a person in order to establish a colony.
What is a charter/Mayflower compact
300
The first attempt at government by the new nation.
What is Articles of Confederation.
300
The protest during which colonists threw chests of tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
The Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison.
300
If there is a tie in the U.S Senate on the voting of a bill the ______________ breaks the tie.
What is vice president.
400
Type of government where 1 person is in charge.
What is autocracy. (2 forms of autocracy are monarchy and dictatorship)
400
Name one of the first political parties in the U.S.
What is federalist or antifederalist.
400
Name two countries who helped the colonists fight the British.
Who are France and Spain?
400
These colonies grew cash crops.
What are the Southern Colonies. (warm, temperate climate, rich fertile soil, and relatively flat land)
400
________________ is the sharing of power between the states and the national government.
What is federalism.
500
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine declaring that citizens should make laws.
What is Common Sense?
500
What document was written/signed on July 4, 1776?
What is Declartion of Independence. (Written by Thomas Jefferson)
500
What type of new warfare did the Americans use to finally defeat the British at the Battle of Yorktown?
What is guerrilla warfare?
500
In what region of the 13 colonies was farming the most difficult.
What is New England Region.
500
The 1st amendment states.
Freedom of speech, religion, the press, the right to assemble, the right to petition the government.