The first governing document of the United States.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
100
The three branches of government that are created by the Constitution
What are the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch?
100
The beginning paragraph of the constitution's name.
What is the preamble?
100
The King of England at the time of the Revolution.
Who was King George III?
100
The number of original colonies.
What is 13?
200
The articles of confederation had only one of these.
What is a branch?
200
Create Laws, Interpret Laws, and Enforce Laws
What do the branches of government do?
200
The article that gives the president their power.
What is Article II?
200
The problems that were listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What is a grievance?
200
The smallest original colony.
What is Rhode Island?
300
The person whose office was created under the constitution, but did not exist under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the President?
300
The document that created the branches of government
What is the Constitution?
300
The amount of articles in the Constitution.
What is 7?
300
One of the "Intolerable Acts" that has to do with taxes that was referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
What is the: Sugar Act, Stamp Act, etc.
300
The largest original colony.
What is Virginia.
400
Three problems that the Articles of Confederation created.
What were: the Articles did not create any courts, the Articles gave equal power to large and small states, the government created by the Articles could not collect taxes.
400
Three powers that the President has.
What are: act as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, maintain a cabinet of advisors, grant presidential pardons, negotiate treaties with other countries, appoint ambassadors, appoint Supreme Court Justices, appoint federal judges, appoint cabinet members, make a state of the union address, represent the USA when dealing with other countries, make sure that laws are carried out.
400
The article of the Constitution that describes how states should interact with each other.
What is Article IV?
400
Your three inalienable rights
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
400
The names of 10 of the 13 original colonies.
What are New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.
500
The amount of time that the Articles of Confederation were in effect. (yrs)
What is 8?
500
Five powers that congress has.
What are: collect taxes, make rules for how to become a citizen, pay debts and borrow money, regulate commerce with other nations and between the states, coin money and punish counterfeiters, establish post offices, give out patents, create courts, punish pirates, declare war, make any other laws that are necessary.
500
The unalienable right that changed from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution and is listed in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
What is the pursuit of happiness? (To property)
500
Four of the members of the committee who drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Who were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston?
500
The amount of days between when Congress voted to declare independence from Britain, and the day that congress voted to ratify the Declaration of Independence.