This person rode through the Massachusetts countryside warning that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
100
The first document our government was based on, which turned out to be too weak and was eventually replaced with the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
The number of amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
200
Three hardships of early settlers.
What is disease, hunger, conflict with Natives, unclean water, harsh weather, lack of supplies, etc.?
200
This act required colonists to house soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
200
The general of the Continental Army.
Who George Washington?
200
The three branches of our government.
What are the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branch?
200
This amendment limits the power of police to search people and their property.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
300
The three colonial regions.
What are New England, Middle, and Southern?
300
These acts were passed by Parliment to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
The final battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
300
This branch has the power to interpret the laws, and decide whether or not they are Constitutional.
What is the Judicial branch?
300
According to this amendment, the punishment must fit the crime.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
400
The location of the New York colony made it ideal for this type of business.
What is shipping and trade?
400
This document, written by Thomas Jefferson and signed on July 4th 1776, was a letter to King George stating the colonies intent to rule themselves.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
The Continental Army won the war with help from this Nation.
What is France?
400
This person has the power to Veto a law passed by Congress.
Who is the President?
400
The Tenth Amendment limits the power of the national government by giving power to...
What are the states or the people?
500
The major cash crop of the Southern Colonies.
What is tobacco?
500
This pamphlet argued that people should rule themselves, rather than be ruled by a King, eventually causing many colonists to support the Patriots in their fight for independence.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
500
This side fired the first shot of the war, known as the "shot heard around the world."
What is no one knows who actually fired the first shot?
500
The system that allows each branch to monitor the actions of the others, so they don't get too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
500
The five rights given to you by the First Amendment?
What are speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition?