A Nation's Beginnings
The document the pilgrims drafted.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The city that the Redcoats wanted to steal supplies from before the war began.
What is Concord?
He warned the colonists of the incoming British.
Who is Paul Revere?
The number of American colonies that became states.
What is 13?
The branch of government to which the president belongs.
What is executive?
The document written by John Winthrop urging the people of the new colony to exhibit love.
What is the Model of Christian Charity?
The city where the minutemen first met the British.
What is Lexington?
The name for a colonist who could be ready in a minute for war.
Who is a minuteman?
The name for a set of rules explaining how a country will work.
What is constitution?
The branch of government made up by the Supreme Court.
What is the judicial branch?
The document written by William Penn that allowed for religious diversity.
What is the Frame of the Government of Pennsylvania?
The location of the first major battle of the war.
What is Bunker Hill?
Name one person involved in the Boston Tea Party.
Who is John Hancock, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, or Benedict Arnold?
Name two of the Americans who saw that America was heading to trouble.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and/or George Washington?
The legislative branch of U.S. government is made up of these two houses.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
Congress believed the colonists came to America for these two things.
What are civil and religious freedom?
The river that Washington and his men crossed before the Battle of Trenton.
What is the Delaware?
The main British general in the South.
Who is Cornwallis?
A list of powers that the government would never use against people, advocated for by Patrick Henry and others.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Name one duty of the legislative branch of government.
What is declaring war, passing laws, and/or making treaties?
America may be considered both the youngest and oldest of all great countries because of this.
What is youngest in age, but the oldest in its type of government and the tradition from which it pulls?
The battle at this location convinced the French to join the war. Additional hint: Benedict Arnold was a main player.
What is Saratoga?
The famous Frenchman who turned American general.
Who is Lafayette?
Name one of the amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of assembly, right to bear arms, and/or right to a fair trial?
The president has this power which gives him the ability to stop any laws from being passed.
What is veto power?