Question | Answer |
date of Declaration of Independence | 1776 |
date of the ratification of the Constitution | 1787 |
date of the founding of Jamestown | 1607 |
date of the signing of the Mayflower compact | 1620 |
date of the Louisiana Purchase | 1803 |
leader of the Sons of Liberty | Sam Adams |
Author of Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
Author of the Declaration odf Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
Commander and chief of the American Revolution army | George washington |
first Secretary of the Treasury | Alexander Hamilton |
leader of the Democratic/Republican Party | Thomas Jefferson |
leader of the Quakers | William Penn |
reason for the Louisiana Purchase | access to Port of New Orleans |
group of poeple who settled in Georgia | debtors |
group of people who settled in Pennsylvania | Quakers |
group of people who settled in Massachusetts | Puritans |
Which document included the idea of self-rule? | Mayflower Compact |
Which document was a list of greivances against Great Britain? | Declaration of Independence |
Which document was the first constitution? | Articles of Confederation |
What very early document, written in 1215 was a foundation for our constiution? | Magna Carta |
Who bought the Louisiana Purchase? | Thomas Jefferson |
What did George Washington warn against in his farewell address? | political parties and getting involved in European problems |
Which battle began the Revolutionary war? | Lexington and Concord |
Which battle was the turning point of the Revolutionary War? | Saratoga |
After which battle did Cornwallis surrendar to Washington? | Yorktown |
What treaty ended the revolutionary War? | Treaty of Paris |
How was the slave issue resolved in the Constitution? | 3/5 compromise |
How was the issue of representation resolved in the Consitution? | Great compromise----two houses--Senate and House of Representatives |
What principle did the Marbury verses Madison case introduce? | Judicial review |
mercantilism | a mother country's attempt to control the trade of her colonies |
Federalsits | supported the Cosntitution |
Anti-federalists | would not support the Constitution without a Bill of Rights |
impressment | a major cause of the War of 1812 |
Proclamation of 1763 | forbid colonists to cross the Appalachian Mountains |
second amendment | the right to bare arms |
5th amendment | due process |
first amendment | freedom of speech, religion,press, assembly, and petition |
tenth amendment | states' rights |
8th amendment | no cruel and unusual punishment |
3rd amendment | abolish the quartering Act |
separation of powers | each branch of government has separate and equal powers |
checks and balances | each branch of government "checks" over the others to assure no one branch becomes too powerful |
federalism | sharing power between Federal and state governments |
limited government | the government has "limits" ---they may not take away anyone's Constitutional rights |
republicanism | we choose a representative to make our decisions in Congress |
1861-65 | Civil War |
Westward Expansion | Manifest Destiny |
cotton gin inventor | Eli Whitney |
interchangeable parts inventor | Eli whitney |
bloodles revolution | industrial revolution |
Abraham Lincoln | president during Civil War |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union general |
Robert E. Lee | Confederate general |
Jefferson Davis | Confederate president |
Dorothea Dix | reformed mental health institutions |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | organized Senecca Falls Convention |
Frederick Douglas | African American abolitionist |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Harriet Tubman | conductor of Underground Railroad |
William Lloyd Garisson | wrote the Liberator |
Horrace Mann | reformed public education |
13th amendment | abolished slavery |
14th amendment | gave citizenship to African Americans |
15th amendment | gave voting rights to African Americans |
Dred Scott Case | repealed the Missouri Compromise |