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Bill of rights
Question: What are the bill of rights
Answer: first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Question: How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights
Answer: 10
Question: Who is the primary author of the Bill of Rights?
Answer: James Madison
Question: If a person is accused of a crime, what rights is he given by the 6th Amendment?
Answer: speedy trial
Question: Where did the Congress meet in 1789 when it proposed the Bill of Rights to the states?
Answer: New York City
3 Branches of Government
Question: What are the three branches of government?
Answer: Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Question: What is the total number of US Senators?
Answer: 100
Question: What 2 groups make up Congress?
Answer: 1. House of representative
2. Senate
Question: What do the 3 branches of government do?
Answer: Legislative - creates the laws
Executive - enacts/carries out the laws
Judicial - interpret & enforce the laws
Question: Which branch of government is responsible for explaining/interpreting our laws?
Answer: Judicial Branch
Battles of the Revolutionary War
Question: Where did the first battle of the Revolutionary War take place?
Answer: Lexington and Concord
Question: How did the French and Indian War help the colonists in the war with England?
Answer: American men had learned how to be soldiers.
Question: Who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?
Answer: Virginia Patriots
Question: Who surrendered in the last major battle of the Revolutionary War?
Answer: England
Question: What phrase describes the Revolutionary War?
Answer: "Shot heard around the world" because shots were fired.
The original 13 colonies
Question: Jamestown
Answer: 1607
Question:
Plymouth
Answer: The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, England, in September 1620
Question: how many colonies are there
Answer: 13
Question: what is the capital of new york
Answer: Albany
Question: where were the 13 colonies located
Answer: along the Atlantic Ocean
Vocabulary
Question: what dose suffrage mean
Answer: the right to vote in political elections
Question: what dose popular sovereignty mean
Answer: the source of all political power.
Question: what dose check&balances mean
Answer: A fundamental principle of American government, guaranteed by the Constitution, whereby each branch of the government (executive, judicial, and legislative) has some measure of influence over the other branches and may choose to block procedures of the other branches.
Question: what dose federalism mean
Answer: the federal principle or system of government.
Question: Individual rights are the
Answer: Bill of rights