US History

Question 0

What is Authority?

Answer 0

Power with the right to control power.

Question 1

What is power?

Answer 1

The ability to control someone or something.

Question 2

Christopher Columbus?

Answer 2

Landed in Bahamas and sailed ocean blue on 1492.

Question 3

Stamp Act?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

King George the lll?

Answer 4

He created the proclamation Line(Appalachian Mountains)that limited colonial expansion in North America. He enforced many tax laws on the colonists who thought in unfair without representation in parliament. This tension started the American revulsion.

Question 5

Articles of Confederation?

Answer 5

The plan, ratified by the state in 1787, thats established a nation congress with limited powers(it couldn’t tax and raise $$$). It was replaced by the constitution in 1787.

Question 6

Legislative Branch

Answer 6

Concerning the branch of government (Congress) that makes laws. Congress is made up of the senate and the house representative.

Question 7

Parliament?

Answer 7

The assembly of representatives who make laws ok England.

Question 8

Boycott

Answer 8

A refusal to buy.

Question 9

What is amendment?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Whats amendment 5?

Answer 10

Amendment 5: Prohibits trial for a crime except on indictment of a Grand Jury and double jeopardy.

Question 11

What amendment 6?

Answer 11

Amendment 6: Right to a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury

Question 12

What amendment 7

Answer 12

Amendment 7: Right to trial by a jury in civil cases.

Question 13

What amendment 8?

Answer 13

Amendment 8: Prohibits imposing cruel, unusual punishments and fines, prohibits granting excessive bails.

Question 14

What amendment 9?

Answer 14

Amendment 9: Assures the recognition of those rights that people may have but are not listed here.

Question 15

What amendment 10?

Answer 15

Amendment 10: 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 16

What Constitutional Convention?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What is New Jersey Plan?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What is Virginia Plan?

Answer 18

Virginia Plan – a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.

Question 19

What is Federalist?

Answer 19

Federalist- A person who favored the plan of government created by the Constitution.

Question 20

What is Anti-Federalist?

Answer 20

Anti-Federalist- A person who opposed ratification of the Constitution.

Question 21

What is Frontier Line?

Answer 21

***Frontier Line- The land between civilization and wilderness.