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Constitution
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100
Learned diplomacy at age 10 by accompanying his father as minister to France and England
Who is John Quincy Adams?
100
The Committee of Five
Who are TJ, JA, BF, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman?
100
Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
100
Author and title of "These are the times..."
Who is Thomas Paine, Common Sense, ...that try men's souls?
100
Washington's raided British forces there in Christmas of 1776
What is Trenton?
200
He defended the British troops accused of the Boston Massacre
Who is John Adams?
200
The term for Native Americans in the Declaration
What is "merciless Indian savages"
200
The longest Article, covering Congress
What is Article 1?
200
This indebted farmer provoked a constitutional crisis
Who is Daniel Shay? Shay's Rebellion 1786-87
200
Britain extended religious tolerance to these people, but not to the American colonists
Who are citizens of Quebec, the Quebec Act 1764?
300
During the Whiskey Rebellion, this president rode with 13,000 troops against farmers in rural Pennsylvania.
Who is George Washington?
300
The Declaration begins with these words
What is "When in the course of human events...."
300
Elected offices created by the Constitution
What are the president and representatives?
300
She wished the founders would "remember the ladies"
Who is Abigail Adams?
300
In this system, commerce between a colony and mother country is a monopoly of the mother country
What is mercantilism?
400
Deceased July 4, 1826
Who are Thomas Jefferson and John Adams?
400
The reference to this "execrable commerce" was deleted
What is slavery? He has waged cruel War against human Nature itself, violating its most sacred Rights of Life and Liberty in the Persons of a distant People who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into Slavery in another Hemisphere, or to incur miserable Death, in their Transportation thither...execrable Commerce, determined to keep open a Market where Men should be bought and sold
400
These rights are guaranteed by the First Amendment
What are freedom of religion, speech, and protest? First Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petitition the Government for a redress of grievances.
400
"Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
The only time an American president led troops into battle
What is the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, George Washington?
500
Last president from the "Men of '76"
Who is Andrew Jackson?
500
This right was first claimed or initiated by the Declaration
What is "pursuit of happiness"?
500
One of three ways the Constitution addressed slavery
What are 1. Prohibited international prohibition until 1808 2. Fugitive Labor clause 3. 3/5 clause
500
She accompanied Jefferson to Paris and bore his children.
Who is Sally Hemmings?
500
The idea that the United States has a special mission politically and socially to lead the world
What is American Exceptionalism?