U.s history 2014/2015

Question 1

What is power?

Answer 1

The ability to control someone or something

Question 2

What is authority

Answer 2

Power with the right the control power

Question 3

Christopher Columbus

Answer 3

Landed in the Bahamas and sailed ocean blue in 1492

Question 4

John Cabot

Answer 4

English sailor trying to find northwest passage to china

Question 5

Stamp act

Answer 5

The 1765 British decree taxing all legal papers

Question 6

King George the third

Answer 6

He created the proclamation line

Question 7

Articles of confederation

Answer 7

A national congress with limited powers

Question 8

Legaslative branch

Answer 8

Concerning the branch of government

Question 9

Parllamentk

Answer 9

The assembly of representatives who make laws in england

Question 10

Boycott

Answer 10

A refusal buy

Question 11

American revolution

Answer 11

1775 1783 an eight year war between the thirteen colones and england

Question 12

Acquit

Answer 12

To declare innocent of a crime or wrong doing

Question 13

Boston tea party

Answer 13

The 1773 protest against British trade policies.

Question 14

Executive branch

Answer 14

Concerning the branch of government enforces law

Question 15

Judicial branch

Answer 15

Concerning the branch of government punishes people who break laws

Question 16

Boston massacre

Answer 16

The clash in 1770 between British troops

Question 17

Amendment 1

Answer 17

Freedom of religion speech press assembly and petition

Question 18

Amendment 3

Answer 18

Quartering of soldier

Question 19

Amendment 4

Answer 19

Search and seizure

Question 20

Declaration of Independence

Answer 20

The document adopted by the continental congress on July 4th 1776

Question 21

Treaty of Paris

Answer 21

The treaty of ending the revolutionary war

Question 22

Issue

Answer 22

Not an event is ongoing has long term affects

Question 23

Uprising

Answer 23

An act or instance of rising up rebellion

Question 24

Roanoke

Answer 24

Site of first English colony in the Americas started in 1585

Question 25

Colony

Answer 25

A settlement ruled by a distant parent country

Question 26

Constitution

Answer 26

Our current framework of government

Question 27

Bill of rights

Answer 27

The first ten amendments to the constitution

Question 28

Amendment

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Amendment 5

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Amendment 6

Answer 30

Right to a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury

Question 31

Amendment 7

Answer 31

Right to trial by a jury in civil cases.

Question 32

Amendment 8

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Amendment 9

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Amendment 10

Answer 34

Provides that the powers that are not given to the United States nor prohibited by the constitution are reserved to the states respectively or to the people.

Question 35

Constitutional convention

Answer 35

The meeting of state delegates in Philadelphia in 1787 that resulted in the writing of the Constitution.

Question 36

New Jersey plan

Answer 36

a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.