WAR and Other Stuff
RIGHTS AND LAWS
Presidents and Powers
Important Documents in U.S. History
Variety of History
100
Is the Right to Bear arms a freedom included in the first amendment?
What is NO.
100
What best explains how the British responded to the Boston Tea Party?
Britain passed the intolerable acts.
200
The main purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to
Announce why the colonies were separating from Britain.
200
The foreign policy of the United States is planned and carried out by the
Secretary of State
300

What was the main purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?

To keep settlers from migrating beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

300
. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States..." Which amendment is expressed in the passage above?
Thirteenth Amendment
400
After both houses of Congress approve a bill, what step must take place before the bill can become a law?
The president Must Sign It.
400
In the system of checks and balances, what responsibility does the president have regarding laws?
What is To Veto Bills that Congress Approves
400
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..." In which document can the above passage be found?
The Constitution.
400
. If the president and the vice-president are unable to finish a term, the ____________ is next in line to the presidency.
Speaker of the House
500
Indian Removal Act of 1830: "An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi." Which president was responsible for signing this document into law?
Who is Andrew Jackson
500
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State...shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..." This passage comes from which document?
Emancipation Proclamation.
500
The main purpose of Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, was to encourage colonists to
Join the Patriot cause and declare independence from Britain.