Early American History and American Dream
Who are the Vikings?
Describe the Stamp Act.
A tax on all paper goods (playing cards, papers, documents, etc.)
The branches that were excluded from the Articles of Confederation.
What is the judicial and the executive branch?
The five parts of the first amendment.
What is freedom of speech, religion, press, petition, and assemby?
The closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
The land bridge humans used to cross from Asia to America roughly 30,000 years ago.
What is the Bering Strait?
The reason the Intolerable Acts were created.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
List three reasons the Articles of Confederation failed.
What is no power to tax, no common trading policy, no national military, one vote per state, unanimous vote to change, no judicial or executive branch
Name the two amendments that had to do with prohibition.
What is the 18th and the 21st?
Amount of Presidents that have died in office.
What is eight?
List the three reasons why countries colonized.
What is more power against competing nations, new trade routes for wealth, and to spread religion?
Describe the Tea Act. What company was it intended to help?
A tea imposed on all non-British tea; British East India Company
The number of states that had to agree to add amendments to the Articles of Confederation.
What is all (13 states)?
Describe the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment.
13th - Ended slavery and involuntary servitude
14th - Granted citizenship to those freed
15th - The right to vote shall not be abridged according to race
The name of a group of flamingos.
What is flamboyance.
The name used to describe the Seven Years War.
What is the French and Indian War?
The first instance of the American colonists uniting and sending representatives to meet.
What is the first Continental Congress?
Number of articles and amendments in the Constitution.
Seven articles and 27 amendments.
Name three amendments that have to do with voting rights.
What is the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th.
The country that consumes the most chocolate.
What is Switzerland?
Name five of the big colonizer nations we discussed in class.
What is Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Russia, and Denmark?
The number of colonists that were killed and injured during the Boston Massacre.
What is five killed and six injured.
The article in the constitution that describes the amendment process.
What is article five?
The five parts of the fifth amendment.
What is right to a grand jeopardy, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, due process, and eminent domain.
The President that served the shortest term (died a month early).
Who is William Henry Harrison?