Revolutionary War
The King of Britain during the American Revolution
Who was King George III?
First lady to live in the White House
Who was Abigail Adams?
The city where the constitution was written and signed.
Where is Philadelphia?
The three branches of government
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
Construction of the Erie Canal began in this city
What is Rome, NY?
The cause of the Revolutionary War
What were colonists angered by: British control, taxes & laws without representation?
Started the first library
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
A change to the constitution
What is an amendment?
The proposal for a new law
What is a bill?
The Great Lakes
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
The General that led the American army to victory
Who was George Washington?
The name of the land Thomas Jefferson bought from France that nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The first 10 amendments to the constitution
What are the Bill of Rights?
When the president rejects a bill.
What is a veto?
The theory that the landmasses on Earth move
What is continental drift?
A protest against tax in 1773 led by the Sons of Liberty
What was the Boston Tea Party?
The only two presidents that also signed the Declaration of Independence
Who was John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
The reason a new constitution was written.
The parts of Congress
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The six nations of the Haudenosaunee?
Who are the Seneca, Onondaga, Mohawk, Cayuga, and Oneida, and Tuscarora?
The name of the American army
George Washington's right hand man in the war. He also started the Bank of the United States.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
Recite the preamble to the constitution
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America
Interprets laws and decides if they violate the constitution
What is the judicial branch or Supreme Court?
What are convection currents?