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Signed in 1776, this document granted the colonists freedom from King George and British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In this section of Congress, there are two representatives for every state.
The Constitution separated the federal government into these three branches.
What is the legislative, executive, and judicial?
Though it was unpopular, John Adams defended British soldiers after this deadly event in 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
What is North Korea?
This document is the guideline for how United States government operates.
What is the Constitution?
In this section of Congress, representatives are determined by a state's population.
What is the House of Representatives?
Math: The number of the Article in the Constitution with the most sections, plus the number of the Article in the Constitution that discusses the judicial branch.
What is 4? (Article I, plus Article III)
Adams once said, "we are a nation of this, not men."
What are laws?
This is the philosophical term for what happens when there is zero government, and the strongest people with the most guns are in charge.
What is the State of Nature?
This author of the Declaration of Independence fathered six children with his slave, Sally Hemings.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
We use this state to describe the compromise between the New Jersey plan and the Virginia plan regarding representation in Congress.
What is Connecticut?
The Tenth Amendment gave power to this part of government.
What are the states?
This author of the Declaration of Independence is on the $2 bill.
Who is Jefferson?
This is what George Washington said when he heard that Daniel Shays and other farmers - veterans of the American Revolution - held a rebellion in Massachusetts because state taxes were too high.
What is "Good God!"
After the Declaration of Independence, we formed our first government, the Articles of Confederation. About 10 years later, after Shays’ Rebellion, the Founders scrapped it, and we made the Constitution. What were two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation that were exposed by Shays’ Rebellion and were addressed in the Constitution?
What is in ability to tax and to form a national military? (No money, no army.)
This Constitutional clause gave states with enslaved people more power in the House of Representatives, even though enslaved people had zero rights.
What is the 3/5th clause?
In 1791, Alexander Hamilton felt that the federal government did have the power through Article I, Section 8 to establish this for the United States. Thomas Jefferson disagreed.
What is a bank, or a national bank?
This figure on the $10 bill helped create the Constitution, and was the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Hamilton?
This is the government concept name for when the federal government and state governments share power.
What is federalism?
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are ___________, _____________ and the _______________ of _________________.
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
At the end of the Constitutional Convention, this person on the $100 bill emphasized how important citizen involvement is when he said of our new government: "We have a Republic, if we can keep it." (Need first and last names.)
Who is Ben Franklin?
The Supreme Court determined that this 1990 law was unconstitutional because education and police are overseen by states and towns, not the federal government.
What is the Gun Free School Zones Act?
This former president on the $50 bill was a general in the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Place these in order by putting a number next to them:
Shays’ Rebellion ___
Constitution ___
Declaration of Independence ___
Articles of Confederation ___
Shays’ Rebellion, 3
Constitution, 4
Declaration of Independence, 1
Articles of Confederation, 2