Key Documents And Speeches In US History

Question 0

Who was issued the Magna Carta? In what year?

Answer 0

King John of England in 1215

** we will tell you how to rule

Question 1

What was the Magna Carta?

Answer 1

The 1st document forced upon a king by his subjects which limited his powers under the law

Question 2

The Magna Carta has heavily influenced modern concepts of what?

Answer 2

Government

Question 3

The Magna Carta has helped to form what today?

Answer 3

Great deal of the foundation of

The Bill of Rights
The Founding Fathers
The Constitution

Question 4

The Magna Carta influenced what kind of thinkers?

Answer 4

Enlightenment thinkers

• John Locke

Question 5

Explain the “Divine Right of Kings” & where did it come from?

Answer 5

Was the document before the Magna Carta

Came about from a writing called “The True Law of Free Monarchy”

Question 6

What did the “Divine Right of Kings” state?

Answer 6

“Im the king b/c God made me the king, thats why I get to rule you”

Question 7

The people did not like the way that King John was running things, so they said that we needed a what?

Answer 7

Representative government

** big moment for any democracy or representative government **

Question 8

Life Liberty & Property (inherent rights) started with what?

Answer 8

The Magna Carta

Question 9

Where was due process introduced?

Cant be convicted without evidence or trial

Answer 9

Magna Carta

• also “habeus corpus” stemmed from the Magna Carta

Question 10

Who said, “Give me Liberty or Give me Death!”

Answer 10

Patrick Henry

Question 11

When did Patrick Henry say, “Give me Liberty or Give me Death!”

Where? What did it do?

Answer 11

1775

Virginia Convention

• credited with swinging Virginia House of Burgesses with putting the Virginian troops into the Revolutionary War *

Question 12

With the addition of the Virginia Army in the Revolutionary War, what happened?

Answer 12

Presented a good defense against the British

Question 13

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

Answer 13

July 4th, 1776

Question 14

Who authored the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 14

Thomas Jefferson & others

Question 15

What did the Declaration of Independence (1776) state?

Answer 15

We are independent states, free from the British

Question 16

When was The Constitution ratify?

What did it set up?

Answer 16

1778

Federal Government
3 branches
Balance of power
Wanted a united nation
States rights

Question 17

When did the Bill of Rights come about?

Answer 17

1791

Question 18

What were the Bill of Rights and what were they designed for?

Answer 18

The first ten amendments

Designed to protect individual freedoms and right

*** freedom of press, assembly, bear arms, speech

Question 19

Who introduced the Monroe Doctrine and when?

Answer 19

James Monroe

1823

Question 20

What did the Monroe Doctrine state?

Answer 20

Americas were off-limits by European powers to colonize and intervention

*if they continued — seen as threat

“This is our land!!!”
“Stay away”

Question 21

When was the Emancipation Proclamation? Who signed it and put it into place?

Answer 21

1863

Abraham Lincoln

Question 22

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Answer 22

Free the slaves

North & South

2 years into Civil War 1861-1865

*** done for effect / was not followed

*** north has no right to tell us what to do because we are the confederate states of America — not in the Union

Question 23

The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) helped to state this was a war to battle what?

Answer 23

Battle slavery

Question 24

When was the Gettysburg address and what document was it built from?

Answer 24

1863

Built from the Emancipation Proclamation

Question 25

What did the Gettysburg Address state? (Abraham Lincoln)

Answer 25

Everyone in the Americas has a right to equality

*** found from the Constitution and the Founding Fathers

Question 26

What kind of moved did the Gettysburg Address make?

Answer 26

Ideological moves
Political moves
Strategic moves

*** everyone has freedom and equality

Question 27

How did the Gettysburg Address
(1863)
Alienate the South?

Answer 27

1. B.c. Lincoln made the War about battling slavery here
2. Countries like France and England (morally opposed) slavery
3. They would not come to the South’s aid

Question 28

When was the “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, but What you can do for your Country” speech

Answer 28

1961

Question 29

Who said “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, but What you can do for your Country” ?

Answer 29

John F. Kennedy during his Inaugural Address in 1961

*** asking Americans to give back, step and contribute to growth and prosperity of the country

Question 30

When was the “I Have A Dream” speech? By whom?

Answer 30

1963

Martin Luther King

Question 31

Where was the “I Have A Dream” Speech given?

How many people were there?

Answer 31

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

Over 200,000 thousand Civil Rights supporters / to rally in Washington

Question 32

What was MLK laying out with his “I Have A Dream” speech?

Answer 32

Idea of his dream

1. Everyone treated equally / opportunities regardless of skin
2. Important speech for Civil Rights Movement