Vocabulary

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 the Bahamas and sailed ocean blue on 1492

Question 3

John Cabot

Answer 3

English sailor trying to find northwest passage to china

Question 4

Stamp act

Answer 4

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

Question 5

King George the third

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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

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

Parliament

Answer 8

The assembly of representatives who make laws in England

Question 9

Boycot

Answer 9

A refusal to buy

Question 10

American revaluation

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Acquit

Answer 11

To declare innocent of crime or wrong doing

Question 12

Boston tea party

Answer 12

The answer 1775 protest against British trade polices in which patriots boarded the vessels of the east India company and threw the tea cargo into Boston harbor

Question 13

Executive branch

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Judicial branch

Answer 14

concerning the branch of government (supreme court/federal courts) that enforce laws

Question 15

Boston massacre

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Amendment 1

Answer 16

Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition (1791). Congress shall not 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 of grievances

Question 17

Amendment2

Answer 17

Right to bare arms (1791). A well regulated milia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of people to keep bare arms shall not be infringed

Question 18

Amendment3

Answer 18

Quartering of soldier (1791). No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, or in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law

Question 19

Amendment4

Answer 19

Search and seizure (1791).

Question 20

Declaration of Independence

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Treaty of pares 1783

Answer 21

The treaty of ending the revolutionary war

Question 22

Issue

Answer 22

Not an event-is on going- has long term affects - is something we can do something about - has two or more sides. If a policy can solve it - it’s a problem not a solution

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 Americans’ 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 - executive branch ( president) - legislative branch (congress) - judicial branch (Supreme Court) established in 1787

Question 27

Bill of rights

Answer 27

The first ten amendments to the constitution, guaranteeing the basic rights of America

Question 28

Frontier line

Answer 28

The land between civilization and the wilderness

Question 29

Northwest territory

Answer 29

The land north of the Ohio river and was created into five states