Eras & Events
This treaty, signed in 1763, ended the French and Indian War.
The Treaty of Paris
Thomas Hooker founded this colony.
What is Connecticut?
It is against the law to discriminate against Catholics, according to this amendment to the US Constitution.
What is the 1st amendment?
This solution was to count three out of every five slaves as a person for this purpose.
What is the three-fifths compromise?
This commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) and served two terms as the first U.S. president, from 1789 to 1797.
Who was George Washington?
This court case established judicial review. The Supreme Court can declare laws passed by Congress or action by the President unconstitutional. (Hint: Midnight Judges)
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Roger Williams founded this colony.
What is Rhode Island?
The 4th amendment states you must have one of these before entering someone's home.
What is a search warrant?
This was the agreement made during the Constitutional Convention between big and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
He was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This 'crisis' saw South Carolina, led by John C Calhoun, threatening to secede from the US because it felt tariffs were unfairly hurting their state.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
What is Massachusetts?
This amendment freed all former slaves.
What is the 13th amendment?
This fundamental question was asked regarding statehood in the following acts.
* The Missouri Compromise
*The Kansas-Nebraska Act
*The Compromise of 1850
What is allowing slavery?
He was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.
Who was John Adams?
This was a Christian revivalist movement that featured large revival meetings where zealous preachers expressed their ideas to the American public which sparked social reformation such as the Temperance Movement, Women's suffrage and the Anti-Slavery Abolitionist Movement.
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
The Quakers, who were tolerant of all religions, settled in this colony.
What is Pennsylvania?
He is known as the Father of the US Constitution.
Who was James Madison?
This was bought from France for 15 million dollars.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
In a duel held in Weehawken, New Jersey, Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shot this former Secretary of Treasury.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
This event saw French agents attempting to bribe US negotiators who came to talk about French attacks on US Ships.
What is the XYZ Affair?
This colony was home to criminals and individuals who were in debt.
What is Georgia?
This document preceded the US Constitution. It was the first written constitution on the soil of North America.
What was the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
The 'system' refers to the process whereby elected officials reward political supporters with government jobs. It dates back to President Andrew Jackson
What was the Spoils System?
She was the wife and political advocate of the second president of the United States.
Who was Abigail Adams?