The Revolutionary War
Who was George Washington?
This Constitutional principle SEPARATES the government into 3 branches and gives them all different POWERS.
What is Separation of Powers?
This amendment contains the individual freedoms that make up R.A.S.P.P. (religion, assembly, speech petition, and press).
What is the First Amendment?
Describe what happened in the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the U.S. purchasing the Louisiana territory from France for a CHEAP ($15 million) price and doubling the size of the United States?
These are the two main political parties today.
Who are the Democrats and Republicans?
These acts took away many freedoms of Colonists including their right to privacy (Quartering Act) and the right to assemble (Massachusetts Government Act).
The President vetoing a law made by Congress is an example of what Constitutional principle?
What is Checks and Balances?
This is the second amendment.
The right to bear arms. (Own a gun)
These acts were passed by President Adams and Congress to make it harder for immirgrants to become citizens and make it a crime to criticize the US government.
What are the Alien and Sedition acts?
These were the first two political parties in the United States.
What are the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans?
This was the Treaty signed at the end of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This was the first attempt at establishing a government in America AND why it failed.
What is the Articles of Confederation which failed because the states had all of the power and the federal government held little power?
This is the number of amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
They are the first three Presidents. (100 points for each).
Who are George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson?
He was the leader of the Democratic-Republicans.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This theory by John Locke claims that if a government has become destructive to its people.. "it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”.
What is Social Contract?
This principle in the Constitution divdes the power between the federal government and the states.
This common phrase can be used to prevent you from testifying against yourself in a criminal case.
What is "I plead the 5th"?
This was the precedent that was set in the Election of 1800.
What is the peaceful transfer of power?
They were the leaders of the Federalists.
Who were John Adams and Alexander Hamilton?
This was the final battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
These are the THREE branches of government AND who is in charge of the the branches.
What is the Executive Branch led by the President, the Legislative Branch led by Congress (the House of Representatives and Senate), and the Judicial Branch led by the Supreme Court?
This is protection given to people under the fourth amendment.
What is protection from unreasonable search and seizures?
What is; it started from Hamilton's economic plan to tax whiskey and it ended when Washington exercised the power of the Executive Branch by marching his militia to Pennsylvania?
Federalists: big national government, national bank/national debt, manufacturing, big business, the national government has "implied" powers
Democratic-Republicans: states rights, importance in agriculture, small national government, the Constitution should be interpreted exactly as written