Declaration of Independence
Fill in the blanks: "We hold these ______ to be ______ ____________, that ______ _______ are __________ equal."
What are: truths, self-evident, all men, created
This was the entire central government under the Articles of Confederation.
What was a single-house legislature?
This is the building and/or location of where the Declaration and Constitution were both signed.
** Daily Double if you can name both **
What is Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA?
This is the human body's largest organ.
What is skin?
This is the capital of India.
What is New Delhi?
This founding father wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This was the name of the group that came together to revise the Articles of Confederation in 1787 (they eventually decided to just make a new govt.).
What was the Constitutional Convention?
This is the process for approving the Constitution.
What is ratification?
This is where the hottest-ever temperature on Earth was recorded.
Where is Death Valley? (it hit 134 degrees Fahrenheit in July 1913)
These two countries have the longest shared international border.
What are Canada and the United States?
John Locke's idea of ______________ is referenced in this excerpt from the Declaration, "certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What is Natural Rights to life, liberty, and property?
This state refused to change the Articles in order to give congress the power to tax and then later refused to send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
What was Rhode Island?
These were the 3 elements of the 3/5ths Compromise.
What were counting enslaved people as 3/5th of a person, postponing the end of the slave trade until 1808, and the Fugitive Slave Clause?
This is the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
This is the highest grossing Broadway show of all time.
What is the Lion King?
These were four reasons for the American Revolution.
What were: taxation without representation, land, the king dissolving colonial governments, the king ignored colonists' petitions for change?
These were four problems with the Articles of Confederation.
What were: Couldn’t tax states or people, No ability to raise an army, no ability to regulate currency, No chief executive or court, Gave ALL the power to the states, all states had to agree to make any changes, etc.?
These are four powers of the Executive Branch.
What are veto/sign bills, issuing executive orders, granting pardons, negotiating treaties, and the primary duty of executing the laws passed by Congress.
This is the animal that has killed the most humans.
What is the mosquito?
In 1903, this was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
This person is quoted as saying, "I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.”
This rebellion in Massachusetts highlighted the central government's inability to maintain order.
What was Shay's Rebellion? (accepted: farmers protesting that the govt. wouldn't get rid of their debts after fighting in the Revolution)
These are three checks and balances between different branches of government.
What are: the president can veto legislation, the legislature can impeach the president, congress can impeach judges, the Supreme Court can declare laws unconstitutional, the Supreme Court can declare Ex. Orders or actions unconstitutional, the president appoints Supreme Court judges.
This is the national animal of Scotland.
What is the unicorn?
In this year, Netflix, previously a DVD rental business, introduce streaming services.
What is 2007?