13 Colonies
The first permanent English settlement in the English colonies?
Jamestown
The number of branches of government in the U.S.
Three
The number of rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
10
The author
Thomas Jefferson
Name the peninsula farthest to the east in the United States.
Florida
Colony known for its practice of direct democracy in town meetings?
Massachusetts
The branch of government responsible for creating law.
Legislative
The amendment which provides for free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press.
First Amendment
The Declaration was a "break up letter" with this country.
England/Britain
The body of water that separates much of the southern United States from Mexico.
Gulf of Mexico.
William Penn establish the colony of Pennsylvania for this purpose.
Religious freedom
The branch of government responsible for enforcing law.
Executive
The amendment that gives the right to bear arms.
Second
The Declaration of Independence has this consequence
The War of Independence
These two oceans sandwich the United States
The two colonies formed as a result of a division of one large southern area in 1712.
North and South Carolina
The job of the judicial branch.
Interpreting law
Protection against unlawful search and seizure.
The part of the Declaration that caused many of the Founding Fathers to question the ownership of slaves.
"all men are created equal"
The natural boundary of the 13 original colonies.
Appalachian Mountains
Colony known for its strong belief in separation of church and state?
Rhode Island
The Supreme law of the United States
The right guaranteed by the eighth amendment.
Protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
Life, liberty, and property was the original list of three rights. It became life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Name the Enlightenment thinker who first proposed this.
John Locke
This mountain range span across the states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana
Rocky Mountains