US Constitution/Government
Articles of Confederation.
What is the first form of American Government?
Two positions held by George Washington.
Who is the Commander of the Continental Army and first President of the United States?
Cash Crops
What are rice, tobacco, indigo, and cotton?
The repetition of similar initial consonant sounds in order to create a rhythmic effect. Sue sells shells near her summer home.
What is alliteration?
A phrase which means something different from what it says, for example, "hit the hay".
What is an idiom?
Names of the 3 branches and their collective purpose.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial in order to maintain an equal balance of power?
First Battle of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The growing seasons of the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies.
What are a short and a long gowing season?
A character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
First person point of view.
What is the events are told by a character in the story?
The number of terms and the length of a term that a President may serve.
What are 2 terms with each term lasting 4 years?
Four things that the North possessed and were responsible for their victory in the American Civil War.
What are manufacturing, railroads, food production, and population?
Nickname of the Middle Colonies.
What is breadbasket?
The story of a person's life narrated by that same person.
What is an autobiography?
A word that imitates or suggests the sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
The guarantee of the first ten amendments of the Constitution and 2 examples.
What is to guarantee certain individual rights, for example, freedoms of speech, of religion, of the press, to assemble, to petition, to bear arms, to have a Jury Trial, Rights against unusual punishment, to be given due process, ....?
Date of the Treaty of Paris and its purpose.
What is it ended the American Revolution in 1783?
Things that the Southern Colonies relied on for their long growing season, producing the 'cash crops".
What are plantations and slave labor?
The difference between a third person limited point of view and a third person omniscient point of view.
What is knowing only the thoughts and feeling of a single character, but other characters are presented externally compared to knowing the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
The difference between a dynamic character and a static character.
Who is the character that changes over the course of the story and the character who does not undergo a change?
Task given to Lewis and Clark by this President.
Who is Jefferson? What is to explore the new territory (Louisana Purchase) and to determine if their was an all water route across the USA?
Purpose of the 3/5th compromise.
What is that each slave would count for 3/5ths of every white person to be counted towards population and taxation?
The New England Colonies were best known for having 'this' so that everyone could read 'this'.
What is the best educational system and to read the bible?
The Exposition's purpose.
What is to give background for the story, introduce characters, to describe the setting, and to set the tone?
Foreshadowing and Flashback.
What are hints and clues the author uses to give the reader an idea of what may happen next, and an author interrupts the sequence of events in order to relate an earlier incident or set of events?