Revolutionary Vocabulary!
A planter, lawyer, architect, founding father, third president of the United States, and was so down with revolutions he invented the swivel chair.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The first attempt at government failed to accomplish a working and prosperous government. So a "Constitutional Convention" was called in this city on May of 1787.
What is Philadelphia?
Different ethnic groups immigrated and migrated to America for opportunities. The Irish settled, to a large degree, in this American city.
What is Boston?
The first captured black Africans brought to America were technically categorized as this.
What are indentured servants?
This was the first state to officially ban slavery. It is also the state where Ben & Jerry's (ice cream) comes from.
What is Vermont?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This part of the legislature would be based on equality, or that each state would have the same number of representatives. It appealed to smaller states that wanted to protect themselves from larger states.
What is the Senate?
Missionaries spreading the gospel went to all parts of the country to spread the Word of God. When they went to rural areas in the back country of the South, it was observed that sexual promiscuity was a serious problem. They found that this fraction of women were pregnant on their wedding day.
What is 9/10 or 90%?
In attempt to satisfy large slave holding states, this compromise was made in the constitution. It allowed slaves to be counted towards representation in the legislative body for a tax imposed on the number of sslaves.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This Knicks home state was one of the last to ban slavery at the end of the 18th century (1700s).
What is New York?
The lower chamber of the United States Congress and part of the legislative branch.
What is the House of Representatives?
This court case had to do with the judicial branch staying in its lane. It had to do with President John Adams appointing judges before he left office and those appointments being delivered. The next Secretary of State was supposed to deliver those appointments but refused, and was sued.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This President nearly doubled the size of the United States with this purchase from France.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
This American leader freed his slaves after he and his wife passed away. Those that were too old were provided a pension and those that were young were taught a skill to earn a living with.
Who is George Washington?
Lebron would be happy to know that his home state banned slavery well before the Civil War in 1787.
What is Ohio?
This 19th century belief that American settlers were destined to expand all across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Declaring war was next to impossible for the first attempt at government because they lacked the power to do these two necessary actions that would allow them to fight and pay for a war.
What is draft soldiers or tax any state?
As populations grew,so did the number of poor people. In particular adult males who either had to rent a room or sleep in the back of a bar or tavern, and owned no property. The percentage increased by this amount between the yeas of 1687 to 1770 in Boston.
What is 100% or doubled?
This American leader had a 3/4 white mistress that was still technically a slave. He had six children with his mistress/slave Sally Hemmings and only freed some of them at adulthood.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
At the beginning of the 19th century (1800s), there were sixteen states. This was the number of free states.
What is eight?
An English Privateer, or pirate ship, that brought the first Africans to the English colony of Virginia in 1619.
What is the White Lion?
The very first attempt at government wasn't what we have today in our federal system, but had each colony/state sovereign and independent. It was considered a "League of ....."
What is "Friendship"?
This treaty forced an exchange of 17 million acres of Cherokee ancestral land for $5 million dollars and land in a reservation, which they were again forced to give up later.
What is the "Treaty of Echota"?
The revolution in this island country near the southern portion of the United States brought the idea of a race war as a serious repercussion if all the slaves were to be freed at once.
What is Haiti?
There had been a balance in the government as free and slave states were being added throughout the early 19th century until the 1850s when four states entered the United States as free. Name those four.
What is California, Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska?