These sources are the records and artifacts made by people who saw or took part in the event.
What are primary sources?
100
The 13 British Colonies used this document to "break-up" or sever their relationship with Great Britain using this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence
100
This one amendment actually contains for "freedoms."
What is the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
100
This amendment protects citizens against "double jeopardy," "self incrimination," and guarantees a citizen's right to an attorney if arrested for a crime.
What is the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
100
The President of the United States serves as the head of this branch of government.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
These sources are records and artifacts made by someone, such as an historian, who was not there at the time the event took place.
What are secondary sources?
200
The document adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
The four freedoms promised in the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What are the freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom to petition the government?
200
This amendment guarantees a citizen's right to a "speedy trial" and the right to be "tried by an impartial jury of one's peers."
What is the 6th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
200
This branch of the federal government responsible for creating the laws which govern our nation.
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
The coin found at Jamestown, Virginia minted (created) in 1602.
What is a primary source?
300
This document proclaimed that "all men are created equal" and have the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
This amendment guarantees citizens the right to "bear arms."
What is the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
300
This amendment protects citizens against "cruel and unusual punishment" and "excessive bail."
What is the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
300
The branch of government with 9 justices who decide on the Constitutionality of laws created by the Legislative Branch.
What is the Judicial Branch?
400
A textbook used in a social studies class.
What is a secondary source?
400
This document established the 3 branches of government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
400
This amendment protects citizens against unreasonable "searches and seizures" and requires that law enforcement possess a "warrant" in order to search a citizen's private property?
What is the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
400
This amendment gives power to the states in cases in which the powers of the Federal Government have not been explicitly written into the U.S. Constitution.
What is the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
400
The Department of Defense as well as the entire federal bureaucracy falls under this branch of government.
What is the Executive Branch?
500
The Constitution of the United States
What is a primary source?
500
The year when the U.S. Constitution went into effect.
What is 1789?
500
This amendment prevents the government from "quartering," or housing, soldiers with the consent of the home owner or law enacted by Congress.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
500
Another, or different, way of describing the Bill of Rights.
What are the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution?
500
Only this branch of government can formally declare war.