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lists the rights or freedoms the Constitution gives to Americans; written in the form of ten amendments
What is the Bill of Rights?
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Second Continental Congress in 1775
Who made the decision to organize the Continental Army?
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patriots
Who wanted America to be free from Britain’s control?
100
Inauguration Day
What is the day the president takes his oath in office?
100
Betsy Ross
Who is lady who is said to have stitched the first United States flag.
200
Document signed by England giving up the American colonies and making them officially free and independent
What is the Treaty of Paris?
200
Yorktown
Where Washington’s army spent the harsh winter of 1777-1778?
200
the commander of all British forces in North America during the French and Indian War
Who is General Edward Braddock?
200
constitutional republic
What is the form of government in which the people and their elected representatives are limited by a constitution?
200
said “Give me liberty or give me death!”
Who is Patrick Henry?
300
Document written by Jefferson declaring the independence of the colonies from England
What is The Declaration of Independence?
300
Battle of Bunker Hill
What was the first major battle in the War for Independence?
300
Massachusetts patriots who said they would be ready to fight
Who are minutemen?
300
judicial branch
What is the branch of government that interprets the law?
300
colonists dressed as Indians throw tea into Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
gives Americans the following freedoms: religion, speech, press, and assembly
What is the First Amendment?
400
captain of the Bonhomme Richard
Who is John Paul Jones?
400
our first president, General of Continental Army, known for being brave and strong
Who is George Washington?
400
branch of government that enforces the law
What is the executive branch?
400
the war between the British and French for control of land along the Ohio River
What is the French and Indian War?
500
Plan of government our country still follows today
What is the Constitution?
500
first shot fired at Lexington in the American War for Independence (or as Schoolhouse Rock says, "the start of the revolution")
What is "the shot heard 'round the world"?
500
German soldiers hired by King George the III to fight
Who are Hessians?
500
branch of government that makes the law
What is the legislative branch?
500
the first black American to write a scientific book, helped with Washington D.C. plans
Who is Benjamin Banneker?