U.S 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

What did Christopher Columbus do?

Answer 2

Landed in the Bahamas and sailed the ocean blue in 1492.

Question 3

Who was John Cabot?

Answer 3

An english sailor trying to find a Northwest passage to China.

Question 4

What is the stamp act?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Who was King George the III?

Answer 5

He created the proclamation line (appalachian moutains) that limited colonial expansion in North America. He enforced many tax laws on the colonists who thought it unfair without representation in parliment. This tension started the American revolution.

Question 6

What are the articles of confederation?

Answer 6

The plan, ratified by the states in 1771, that established a national congress with limited powers (it couldn’t tax and raise $$$). It was replaced by the constitution in 1787.

Question 7

What is the legislative branch?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is parliament?

Answer 8

The assembly of representatives who make laws in England.

Question 9

What is boycott?

Answer 9

A refusal to buy.

Question 10

What was the American Revolution?

Answer 10

1775-1783 and eight year war between the 13 colonies and England. George Washington was the leader of the Continental army. 25,000 Americans & 10,000 British lost their lives in the war.

Question 11

What is acquit?

Answer 11

It is to declare innocent of a crime or wrong doing.

Question 12

What was the Boston tea party?

Answer 12

The 1773 protest against British trade policies in which patriots boarded vessels of the East Indian compony and threw the tea cargo into the Boston harbour.

Question 13

What is the executive branch?

Answer 13

concerning the branch of government (president and Vice President) that enforces laws.

Question 14

What is the judicial branch?

Answer 14

concerning the branch of government (Supreme Court/federal courts) that interprets laws and punishes lawbreakers.

Question 15

What was the Boston massacre?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What is Amendment 1?

Answer 16

The freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition (1791) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress to griviance.

Question 17

What is amendment 2?

Answer 17

The right to bear arms.

Question 18

What is amendment 3?

Answer 18

The quartering of soldier.

Question 19

What is amendment 4?

Answer 19

It is search and seizuer.

Question 20

What is the Deceleration of Independence?

Answer 20

It is the document adopted by the continental congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States as a nation independent of Great Britain.

Question 21

What is the treaty of Paris?

Answer 21

The treaty ending the revolutionary war.

Question 22

What is issue?

Answer 22

It is not an event, has long term effects, something we can do something about, and if a policy can solve it its a problem not an issue.

Question 23

What is uprising?

Answer 23

It is an act or instance of rising up. Rebellion.

Question 24

What is Roanoke?

Answer 24

The site of first English colony in the America's started in 1585.

Question 25

What is colony?

Answer 25

A settlement ruled by a distant parent country.

Question 26

What is Constitution?

Answer 26

Our current framework of Government, Executive branch, legislative braanch, and judicial branch, established in 1787.

Question 27

What is the bill of rights?

Answer 27

The first ten amendments to the constitution, guaranteeing the basic rights of American citizens.

Question 28

What is Frontier Line?

Answer 28

The land between civilisation and wilderness.

Question 29

What is the Northwest Territory?

Answer 29

The land North of the Ohio River and was created into 5 states.

Question 30

Amendment

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Amendment 5

Answer 31

Prohibits trial for a crime except on indictment of a Grand Jury and double jeopardy.Imitate domain,Government can take property if they compinsate.

Question 32

Amendment 6

Answer 32

Right to a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury

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Amendment 7

Answer 33

Right to trial by a jury in civil cases.

Question 34

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.

Question 36

Amendment 10

Answer 36

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 37

Constitutional Convention

Answer 37

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

Question 38

New Jersey Plan

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Virginia Plan

Answer 39

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 40

Federalist

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Anti-Federalist

Answer 41

A person who opposed ratification of the Constitution.

Question 42

Indian Removal Act-

Answer 42

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

Question 43

Relocate-

Answer 43

To move to another location.

Question 44

Trail of Tears-

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Andrew Jackson-

Answer 45

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

Question 46

Dawes Act -

Answer 46

A federal law that intended to turn turn Native american into farmers and land owners.

Question 47

Carlisle School -

Answer 47

Indian boarding school in Penn. 1879- 1918 - Used to assimilate Indians toward the white European culture.

Question 48

Chief Justice John Marshall -

Answer 48

A supreme court justice that voted in favor in letting Native Americas stay on native land in Georgia. President Jackson response was “Him and what army”- He refused to listen to the higher court.

Question 49

Zebulon Pike-

Answer 49

An army officer who lead an expedition in 1805 to the Southern half of the Louisiana purchase. He was hired to find the head waters of the Red River, but never found it. He never climbed the famous peak in Colorado that bears his name.

Question 50

Sacajawea/Shoshoni Indians-

Answer 50

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 coast.