Articles of the Constitution
Its powers are outlined in Article 1 of the Constitution
What is the Legislative Branch?
These are the first three words of the Constitution
What is "We the People"
It was a main slogan of the American Revolution that demonstrated the colonists' attitude towards the fees imposed on them by the British crown.
What is "No taxation without representation"
A source written at the time of the history being studied.
What is a Primary Source?
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Who was the unanimous choice to be the President of the Constitutional Convention?
Who is George Washington?
The right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This branch has the power to interpret Laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This compromise resulted in a Bicameral Legislature.
What is the Great or Connecticut Compromise?
The Revolution started as a war against the Empire, but it quickly became a war for the Empire as the newly formed United States of America rapidly started to oppress this group of people.
Who are the Native Americans?
Analyzing what is going on in the world at that time, and how circumstances might affect the content of the document.
What is contextualization?
The Declaration of Independence was a legendary breakup letter between the American colonists and this colonial country.
Who is Great Britain?
This famous Civil Rights leaders once declared that the government had defaulted on its "promissory note" written in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal".
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The right to remain silent and have due process under the law.
What is the 5th Amendment?
The power to veto laws is found in this Article of the Constitution.
What is Article 2? Executive Branch
This represents the original sin of America, as it counted enslaved people as a fraction to decide how many representatives each state would get in the House.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
The words of the Declaration and the American Revolution helped to drive forward this movement that would finally see its goals achieved in 1865.
What is the anti-slavery movement?
Gordon Wood's book written in 2002 titled "The American Revolution: A History" is a great example of this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What are Natural Rights?
This former enslaved person escaped captivity and went on to become one of the most influential leaders in American history. He famously asked the American people "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July"?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The rights to have a Jury trial in a civil case in anything over $20.
What is the 7th Amendment?
In Article 5 of the Constitition it lays out that for an Amendment to Ratify it must get this amount of the states to pass it, after it got a 2/3rds majority in Congress.
What is 3/4ths?
This Farmers' Revolt demonstrated the need for a strong federal government that was not provided by the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The idea that a country should not grant titles of nobility to any citizen, and that there is legal equality throughout.
What is an egalitarian society?
Comparing and contrasting what other evidence demonstrates.
What is Corroboration?
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
What is popular sovereignty?
She famously wrote to her husband before the Constitutional Convention, urging him to "remember the ladies."
Who is Abigail Adams?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, house, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
Its how many members of Congress there are. It includes both the House and the Senate
What is 535?
This is the method in which America Elects a President.
The American Revolution inspired this global revolution, which is one of the only countrywide successful Slave Revolts that won their freedom from the French colonialists.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Examining who created the document to understand their perspective and analyze reliability.
What is Sourcing?
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"
What is the Social Contract?
A signer of the Declaration of Independence who was shot and killed in a duel shortly after the signing. His last known signature sold for $722,500 at auction.
Who is Button Gwinett?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
What is the 10th Amendment?