What guarantees us a speedy, public, and jury trail?
What is 6th (speedy & public) & 7th (jury) amendments.
100
How does the judicial branch check the executive branch and the legislative branch in our federal government?
What is using judicial review to declare decisions or laws unconstitutional.
100
The invention of machines to do the work previously done by hand at a much larger and faster scale was known as what?
What is industrialization
100
This war started in 1861 over southern state secession and slavery, ended in 1865 with Lee surrendering to Grant in 1865, and caused Lincoln to be assassinated in 1865.
What is American Civil War
200
What was the document that created a weak central government and needed to be repalced?
What is Articles of Confederation
200
The Anti-federalists demanded this in the U.S. Constitution before they would ratify it.
What is Bill of Rights.
200
The U.S. amendment process has two steps, what are they?
What is Congress votes for it by 2/3's, then the states vote for it by 3/4's.
200
The economic philosophy that allows citizens to own their own businesses and keep the profits with little to no government interference is known as what?
What is free enterprise.
200
This man wrote a popular pamphlet in the 1770's encouraging American colonist to break away from England, the pamphlet was called "Commom Sense".
What is Thomas Payne
300
Guarantees free spech, free press, freedom of religion
What is 1st amendment
300
The Federalist Papers were written to promote this.
What is U.S. Constitution
300
What branch makes the laws - gives the branch name and office title?
What is legislative branch who is filled by Congressmen (Senators and Representatives).
300
This war was fought against the British, the American leading General was George Washington, and it ended with Cornwallis surrending in Yorktown in 1783.
What is American Revolutionary War
300
This deadly and forced movement of the Chrokee Indians from southeast U.S. to west of the Mississippi River started by Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act was known as what?
What is The Trail of Tears
400
What protects us from unreasonable searches & seizures?
What is 4th amendment
400
This constitutional principle says the people rule and can change their government through amendments.
What is popular sovereignty
400
This constitutional principle is described as the people electing a representative to vote for them on all the issues.
What is republicanism.
400
This war was against the British, started because of American ship seizing and sailor impressment, made Andrew Jackson an American war hero, and ended in a vitual tie in 1814.
What is War of 1812.
400
Washington warned the young American Republic in his farewell adress what two things?
What is entanglement in foreign affairs and political parties.
500
What gave us a two-house (bicameral) legislature in our U.S. Constitution?
What is The Great Compromise
500
This government branch carries out the laws - give branch name and office title.
What is executive branch filled by a president.
500
The U.S. Constitution answered the grievance held by American colonists of British troop quartering in their homes by this.
What is 3rd amenment - "no soldier shall be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner."
500
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence and presided over the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from the French for $15 million in 1803.
What is Thomas Jefferson
500
These two battles were the turning points of the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War, respectively.