Early US History
This was the first permanent British settlement in North America (1607)
What is Jamestown?
He was considered the Father of the Constitution
Who was James Madison?
This man's signature is featured prominently as he was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence
Who was John Hancock?
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
What is the Bill of Rights?
These two Presidents are the only ones known for being elected to two non-consecutive terms.
Both names to get credit.
Who are Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump?
This landmark case established the critical concept of Judicial Review, paving the way for how the Supreme Court would hear and rule on cases
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
What are New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
This man's pamphlet advocating independence from Great Britain sold 120,000 copies within the first three months and 500,000 by the end of the Revolution
Who was Thomas Paine?
In writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson laid out these three unalienable rights
What is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
These are the five freedoms listed in the First Amendment
What is Press, Speech, Religion, Assembly, and Petition?
He was the Supreme Court Chief Justice known for strengthening the power of the government through the concept of Judicial Review
Who was John Marshall?
This landmark case ruled that a slave, while a descendent and born in America, could not obtain the rights, protections, or status of an American citizen
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
This event started as a snowball fight and led to the death of 5 colonists including the first casualty of the American Revolution, Crispus Attucks.
What was the Boston Massacre?
The argument between these two men resulted in the creation of the Federalist and Anti-Federalists
Who were Jefferson and Hamilton?
One year prior to the Declaration of Independence, John Adams sent this over to King George III asking him to end the quarrel between England and the Colonists
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
These three men authored 85 essays under the pseudonym "Publius" articulating their support of and promotion for the ratification of the Constitution
Who were John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton?
This President is the only one to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
In a stunning rebuke to state segregation laws, this landmark case ruled that segregation in public schools was indeed held unconstitutional as it violated the Fourteenth Amendment
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)?
This economic principle states that the colonies were meant to create wealth for the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
This Founding Father believed strongly in staying away from foreign affairs and partisan politics if a new nation was to be preserved
While Thomas Jefferson is known as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, he in fact worked on the document in a committee with four other men. Name 2 of the others he worked with.
Who were: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman?
When the Constitutional Convention took place, 12 states sent delegates. This state was the only one to not have a representative in Philadelphia
What is Rhode Island?
What is my name? I'm the woman who was the second first lady of the United States. During the American Revolution, I told my husband to "Remember the Ladies"
Who was Abigail Adams?
This landmark case established that segregation laws did not violate the US Constitution, providing us with the "Separate, but Equal" Doctrine
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
Before the Constitution, this was the governing document of the United States
What were the Articles of Confederation?
These two men, Founding Fathers, good friends, and bitter political rivals, both died on the same day 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence
Who were John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
What are:
1) Magna Carta
2) English Bill of Rights
3) John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government"
4) Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
5) Virginia Declaration of Rights
This amendment, ratified following the Civil War, ensured that states had to provide Equal Protection of the Laws, serving as an extension to the Federal rights laid out by the Bill of Rights
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This man served as chief attorney for the Plaintiffs in Brown v. Board and later became the first African-American Justice on the Supreme Court
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
This landmark case established that a Texas law imposed an undue burden on a woman's right to choose
What is Roe v. Wade (1973)?
This was the geographical boundary that the Proclamation of 1763 ran along
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Famously, he said "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death" at a declaration to the Second Virginia Convention
Who was Patrick Henry?
According to the Declaration, the government's power to rule comes from this
"The Consent of the Governed" or "the People"
The process of Amending the Constitution involves these 2 steps, each with a specific process:
Name both for credit
What is Passage by 2/3 of both houses of Congress and Ratification by 3/4 of all state legislatures
While the Second Continental Congress was held at Independence Hall, the First Continental Congress was convened at this nearby location
What is Carpenter's Hall?
This landmark case upheld that a student protest of the Vietnam War, whereby students wore black armbands was protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution
What is Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)?