History words Chapter 1

Question 1

What Is Power?

Answer 1

The ability to control someone or something.

Question 2

What is Authority?

Answer 2

Power the right to control power

Question 3

Christopher Columbus?

Answer 3

Landed in Bahamas and sailed ocean blue on 1492

Question 4

Stamp Act?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

King George The lll?

Answer 5

He created the proclamation line(Appalachian Mountains) that limited colonial expansion in North America

Question 6

Articles of Confederation?

Answer 6

The plan,ratified by the state in 1771,that esablished a nation congress with limited powers(It couldn’t tax and raise $$$) It was replaced by 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

Parllament?

Answer 8

The assembly of Representatives who make laws in England

Question 9

Boycott?

Answer 9

A refusal to buy

Question 10

American Revolution

Answer 10

1773 protest against the British trade polices in which Patriots boaded vessels of the East India Continental Army. 25,000 Americans & 10,00 British lost their 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 1773 protest against British trade policies in which Patriots boarded vessels of the east India company and threw the tea cargo into Boston Harbor

Question 13

Executive branch

Answer 13

Concerning the branch of government(president and vice President) that enforces aka Mr.President and Mr.VicePresident

Question 14

Judicial branch

Answer 14

Concerning the branch of government ( Supreme Court/federal courts) that interprets laws and lawbreakrs

Question 15

Boston massacre

Answer 15

A shooting of the red couts

Question 16

Amendment 1

Answer 16

Freedom of religion speech press and pe titian 1791

Question 17

Amendments 2

Answer 17

Right to bear arms

Question 18

Amendments 3

Answer 18

Qurating of soldier

Question 19

Amendments 4

Answer 19

Search and seizure

Question 20

Declaration of independence

Answer 20

The document Adopted by the Continental congress

Question 21

Treaty of Paris

Answer 21

The treaty the ended the American resolution war

Question 22

Issue

Answer 22

Is something we can do about

Question 23

Uprising

Answer 23

An act or instance of uprising

Question 24

Roanoke

Answer 24

Site of the first colony in the Americans starts in 1585

Question 25

Colony

Answer 25

A settlement ruled by a distent parent country

Question 26

Constitution

Answer 26

Our current framework of government

Question 27

Bill of rights

Answer 27

The first ten amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing the basic right of American citizens

Question 28

John Cabot

Answer 28

Sailer for England trying to find northwest passage to china

Question 29

Frontier line

Answer 29

The land between civilization and wilderness

Question 30

Northwest territory

Answer 30

He land north of he Ohio river and was created into 5 states