People
Writer of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Location of meeting of Second Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention
What is Philadelphia?
Forbade British Colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
Freedom of speech, press, religion
What is the first amendment?
Called the upper house of the Legislature
What is the senate?
President of the Constitutional Convention
Who is George Washington?
Was the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown?
A movement began in the 1500's in opposition to some practices of the Roman Catholic Church
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The supreme law of the land
What is the Constitution?
This is an act by the executive to refuse to approve a bill passed by the legislature
What is a veto?
English enlightenment thinker and proposer of natural rights
Who is John Locke?
The region of American colonies dominated by commerce around the sea
What is New England?
A movement that included a reliance on reason and science to guide thought about the world
What is the Enlightenment?
This direct tax, required to be paid in silver, caused much colonial unrest
What is the Stamp Act?
The Congress can check on the power the executive and judicial by charging and removing from office
What is impeachment?
Known as Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
Buffalo was the major resource of Indians living in this region
What is the Great Plains?
The transfer of living things between the eastern and western hemispheres
What is the Columbian Exchange?
1919 passed an amendment giving women the right to vote
19th amendment
The combining of original Virginia and New Jersey Plans for the Constitution
What is the Great Compromise or the Connecticut Plan?
German leader of the Protestant Reformation
Who is Martin Luther?
Area of interest to both British and French Empires to control access to the river and region of the Ohio country
What is the forks of the Ohio or Pittsburgh?
July 4th, 1776
When is Independence Day for U.S.?
A series of laws that made trade profitable in New England with the parent country of Great Britain
What are the Navigation Acts?
One of the groups who worked hard to ratify the Constitution
What are the federalists?