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US History
Branches of Government
Question: What Branch of Government makes the laws?
Answer: Legislative Branch
Question: What branch of government is the president in?
Answer: Executive
Question: How many US senators are there?
Answer: 100- 2 per state
Question: What branch has the power to impeach the president?
Answer: Legislative- House of Representatives
Question: What is the branch of government that can declare war?
Answer: Legislative Branch
Bill of Rights
Question: What right does the first amendment protect.
Answer: speech, petition, assembly, religion, press
Question: What amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms.
Answer: 2
Question: What does eminent domain mean?
Answer: power to take personal property to benefit the public.
Question: What does double jeopardy mean and what amendment protects against it?
Answer: you cannot be tried for the same crime twice
5th
Question: List the 10 amendments
Answer: 1. Freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, assembly
2. right to bear arms
3. no quartering soldiers
4. no unreasonable search and seizures
5. cannot be forced to testify against yourself, eminent domain, double jeopardy
6. speedy trial
7. juries can decide civil cases
8. right to bail, no cruel and unusual punishments
9. rights listed are not the only rights people have
10. rights not given to the federal government belong to the states.
Vocabulary
Question: What does suffrage mean?
Answer: right to vote
Question: Patriot
Answer: supported separating from Britain
Question: circumnavigate
Answer: go all the way around
Question: charter
Answer: document giving permission to start a colony
Question: middle passage
Answer: voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure.
American Revolution
Question: Why did some colonists want to separate from Great Britain?
Answer: unfair taxes, too far away, quartering of soldiers
Question: What was the Boston Tea Party?
Answer: When the colonists were upset with the tax on tea. They dumped it in the Boston Harbor.
Question: Who was the leader of the Continental Army?
Answer: George Washington
Question: What were the main points of the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Everyone is born with certain rights- life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
King violated the rights of colonists by passing unfair taxes
Colonists had the right to break free from Britain, because king violated the social contract
Question: What was the last battle of the American Revolution.
Answer: Battle of Yorktown
Presidents
Question: Who was the first President of the US?
Answer: Washington
Question: This person authorized the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Question: What President passed the Indian Removal Act
Answer: Andrew Jackson
Question: What did Washington warn about in his farewell address?
Answer: dangers of political parties, stay clear of alliances with foreign countries, too much debt
Question: Who passed the Monroe Doctrine and what does it say?
Answer: James Monroe- US will not interfere in the affairs of Europe
US will recognize and not interfere with European colonies that already exist
Western Hemisphere is off limits to future colonization
any violation will be seen as an hostile act