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Bingo Board #1 Flashcards

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What is Boycott?

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To refuse to buy

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What is Lexington/Concord

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The two places where there was a fight between the rebels and the British soldiers, and that’s what started the Revolutionary War.

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Boston Massacre

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The clash in 1770 between British troops and a group of Bostonians in which 5 colonists were killed.

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What is authority

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To have the power behind them, to control someone with the right to do so.

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Who was king George the third?

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King George was the king of Great Britain during the American Revolution. He passed many harsh and unfair laws taking away the rights of the colonists that eventually led to the Revolution.

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What is the Proclamation of 1763

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The British Decree prohibiting colonial settlement west of the Appalachians.

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What is Jamestown?

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First successful colony in the new world, in Jamestown, Virginia.

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What is the Stamp act?

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The 1765 British degree taxing all legal papers issued in the colonies.

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What is the Declaration of Independence?

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The document adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States as a nation independent of Great Britain.

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What is the Plymouth Colony?

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In 1620 a small group of English settlers landed in Massachusetts they were looking for religious freedom and no taxes.

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What is Roanoke?

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Site of first English colony in the Americas, starting in 1585.

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What is the Quartering Act

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1765 It required the colonies to quarter (provide housing and supplies for the soldiers).

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What is the Boston tea party?

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The 1773 protest against British trade policies in which patriots boarded vessels of the East India Company and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor.

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What is Manifest Destiny?

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The belief that it was the destiny of the United States to expand to its natural borders.

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What is the Treaty of Paris?

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The treaty ending the revolutionary war. 1783

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What is the bill of rights?

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The first ten amendments to the constitution, guaranteeing the basic rights of American citizens. (i.e freedom of speech)

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What is parliament?

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The assembly of representatives who make laws in England.

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What is constitution?

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A framework of government. Created in 1787 and includes the legislative, Judicial, and Executive Branches. It’s our current framework of government.

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What is 3/5 Compromise

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A clause to allow a slave to be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of representation in the Congress. It was proposed in July 1787 during the drafting of the U.S. Constitution at the Constitutional Convention. It was put down by the 13th amendment

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What is Articles of Confederation?

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The plan ratified by the states in 1781, that established a national congress with limited power. It was replaced with the Constitution.

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What is power?

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Is the ability to control or direct something or someone

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What does customs mean?

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Traditions

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What is principles of morality?

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Basic ideas about right and wrong

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What are amendments?

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Changes or additions to a legal document

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What is a compromise?

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A solution that satisfies not sides

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What is congress?

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A body of elected officials who meet to debate and pass laws

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What is the Constitution?

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A document that describes the basic laws and organizations

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What is amendment 1

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Congress cannot make a law that affects the establishment of religion, restricts a person’s right or the press’s right to free speech, or restricts the right of people to gather together in a peaceful manner.

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What is amendment 2

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Citizens have the right to own guns.

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What is amendment 3?

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During times of peace soldiers cannot take up residence in someone else’s house without that owner’s permission.

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What is amendment 4

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A person, his house and belongings cannot be searched or taken, and he cannot be given a warrant without good reason.

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What is amendment 5

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You cannot be tried for a serious crime without a Grand Jury deciding there is enough evidence for a trial.

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What is amendment 6

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A person should be given a speedy and public trial by a jury of his peers in the state and district where he committed the crime.

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What is amendment 7

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A person has the right to a jury in a civil case where more than $20 is being disputed.

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What is amendment 8

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Excessive bail and/or fines shall not be ordered, and cruel and unusual punishments can’t be imposed

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What is amendment 9

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You have rights beyond those listed in the Constitution.

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What is amendment 10?

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Areas and laws that aren’t governed or prohibited directly by the Constitution may be made by individual states

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Amendment

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Amendment – A change or a addition to a legal document. This is why the constitution is called “Living Document”. Constitution has 27 amendments

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Amendment 1

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Rights of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of press

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Amendment 2

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Right to possess arms

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Amendment 3

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Quartering of soldiers prohibited during peacetime

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Amendment 4

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Freedom from seizure of property, arrests and searches without a specific warrant. People use this in court to not incriminate themselves on the witness stand.

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Amendment 5

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Prohibits trial for a crime except on indictment of a Grand Jury and double jeopardy.

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Amendment 6

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Right to a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury

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Amendment 7

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Right to trial by a jury in civil cases.

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Amendment 8

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Prohibits imposing cruel, unusual punishments and fines, prohibits granting excessive bails.

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Amendment 9

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Assures the recognition of those rights that people may have but are not listed here.

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Who is Sacajawea/Shoshoni Indians-

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She was a teenage Indian who helped navigate Lewis and Clark as they explored the Louisiana Purchase. This nomadic tribe gave horses to the expedition that was invaluable to the success of the journey to the Pacific Ocean.

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What is he Missouri River

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To start the expedition it was the river which Lewis and Clark and other men traveled up in flat bottomed river boats called pirogues.

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Andrew Jackson

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Our 7th president elected in 1829. Elected as a man of the frontier. He wrote Indian Removal Act. Nicknamed “Old Hickory”

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Mormonism

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A religion founded by Joseph Smith in 1820. After Smith’s death, followers followed Brigham Young to the Rocky Mountains as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The term Mormon comes from the Book of Mormon.

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Indian Removal Act

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The 1830 law that authorized the president to move Eastern Indians to public lands west of the Mississippi.

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Relocate

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To move to another location.

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Trail of Tears

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The forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from their homes in Georgia to the lands in the West in 1838-1839.

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South Pass

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A low lying area through the Rocky Mountains in that is now Wyoming. Many trails west used this pass to get through the Rocky Mtns. (i.e. Mormon and Oregon Trail)

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Oregon Country

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The vast region of the Northwest surrounding the Columbia, Snake, and Fraser Rivers claimed by the British.

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What are amendments?

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Changes or additions to a legal document

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What is a compromise?

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A solution that satisfies not sides

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What is congress?

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A body of elected officials who meet to debate and pass laws

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What is the Constitution?

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A document that describes the basic laws and organizations

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What is amendment 1

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Congress cannot make a law that affects the establishment of religion, restricts a person’s right or the press’s right to free speech, or restricts the right of people to gather together in a peaceful manner.

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What is amendment 2

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Citizens have the right to own guns.

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What is amendment 3?

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During times of peace soldiers cannot take up residence in someone else’s house without that owner’s permission.

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What is amendment 4

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A person, his house and belongings cannot be searched or taken, and he cannot be given a warrant without good reason.

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What is amendment 5

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You cannot be tried for a serious crime without a Grand Jury deciding there is enough evidence for a trial.

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What is amendment 6

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A person should be given a speedy and public trial by a jury of his peers in the state and district where he committed the crime.

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What is amendment 7

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A person has the right to a jury in a civil case where more than $20 is being disputed.

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What is amendment 8

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Excessive bail and/or fines shall not be ordered, and cruel and unusual punishments can’t be imposed

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What is amendment 9

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You have rights beyond those listed in the Constitution.

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What is amendment 10?

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Areas and laws that aren’t governed or prohibited directly by the Constitution may be made by individual states

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Amendment

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Amendment – A change or a addition to a legal document. This is why the constitution is called “Living Document”. Constitution has 27 amendments

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Amendment 1

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Rights of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of press

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Amendment 2

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Right to possess arms

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Amendment 3

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Quartering of soldiers prohibited during peacetime

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Amendment 4

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Freedom from seizure of property, arrests and searches without a specific warrant. People use this in court to not incriminate themselves on the witness stand.

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Amendment 5

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Prohibits trial for a crime except on indictment of a Grand Jury and double jeopardy.

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Amendment 6

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Right to a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury

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Amendment 7

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Right to trial by a jury in civil cases.

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Amendment 8

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Prohibits imposing cruel, unusual punishments and fines, prohibits granting excessive bails.

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Amendment 9

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Assures the recognition of those rights that people may have but are not listed here.

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