Jamestown
In ____Jamestown becomes the first English settlement in North America.
"When was 1607?"
The action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.
"What is ratification?"
The president occupies this branch of government.
"What is the executive branch?"
The ___ is the supreme law of the land
"What is the Constitution?"
There are ___ branches of government
"What are three?"
Enslaved Africans arrive in the colony to work on tobacco plantations.
"When was 1619?"
This often accompanies the idea of a rebellion and overthrown tyrannical leadership and represents how U.S was established.
"What is revolution?"
"What are amendments I - X?"
The Constitution consist of ___ amendments.
*total amendments
"What is 27?"
This armed uprising in colonial Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkeley is known as...
"What is Bacon's Rebellion?"
This king of England granted the Virginia Company a charter to establish colonies in Virginia.
"Who is King James I?"
By definition, and war tactical use; the people of Palestine are experiencing an ethnic cleansing known as a____.
"What is a genocide?"
This amendment is used to establish one's right to free speech, freedom of religion, right to assembly, freedom of press, and the right to petition the government.
"What is the first amendment?'
The first government document established the to help unify the 13- colonies, referred to as the ____ of ____
"What are the Article of the Confederacy?"
In Colonial America women were allowed to own land under which settlers?
"Who were the Dutch?"
This person was inaccurately represented in the film Pocahontas and was the first seven members of the governing body in Virginia appointed by the Virginia Company.
"Who is John Smith?"
The First Amendment grants all people the right and freedom to worship or not worship in metaphysical deities.
"What is freedom of religion?"
"What is religion?"
Congress is comprised of the ____ and the___ of ____
"What is the senate and the house of representatives?"
These first three words of the Constitution are used to establish the concept of democracy and self-government/
"What is, We the People?"
This uprising took place in Boston, Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787, in which farmers protested against high taxes and aggressive debt collection practices after the Revolutionary War
"What is Shay's Rebellion?"
This tribe of indigenous peoples inhabited Virginia and consisted of approximately 32 Algonquian-speaking tribes who lived in the Virginia coastal plain.
"Who were the Powhatan Indians?'
The early Dutch settlers were considered this because they came to this land in the pursuit of religious rights.
"Who are the Pilgrams?"
This amendment of the Constitution protects the states rights to create self governing laws.
"What is the 10th amendment?"
This amendment was established during the 1787 Constitutional Convention- determining a means of counting enslaved people towards a state's population for the purposes of both congressional representation in the House of Representatives and for taxation.
"What is the 3/5th compromise?'
These three prominent trade exports were used to build the wealth in the new British colonies.
"What is tobacco, cotton, and fish?"
"What is tobacco, fish, and lumber?"