Vocabulary

Question 1

What is power

Answer 1

Power is the ability to control or direct something or someone.

Question 2

What is authority

Answer 2

Authority is power combined with the right to use that power.

Question 3

What is customs

Answer 3

Traditions

Question 4

What is principles of mortality

Answer 4

Basic ideas about right and wrong

Question 5

Lexington/concord

Answer 5

The two places where there was a fight between the rebels and the British soldiers, and that’s what started the Revolutionary War.

Question 6

Boycott

Answer 6

To refuse to buy.

Question 7

Boston massacre

Answer 7

The clash in 1770 between British troops and a group of Bostonians in which 5 colonists were killed.

Question 8

King george III

Answer 8

King George was the king of Great Britain during the American Revolution. He passed many harsh and unfair laws taking away the rights of the colonists that eventually led to the Revolution.

Question 9

H

Answer 9

A change or a addition to a legal document. This is why the constitution is called “Living Document”. Constitution has 27 amendments

Question 10

J

Answer 10

Rights of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of press.

Question 11

D

Answer 11

Right to possess arms.

Question 12

W

Answer 12

Quartering of soldiers prohibited during peacetime. Quartering only with the owners permission.

Question 13

D

Answer 13

Freedom from seizure of property, arrests and searches without a specific warrant. People use this in court to not incriminate themselves on the witness stand.

Question 14

C

Answer 14

Prohibits trial for a crime except on indictment of a Grand Jury and double jeopardy

Question 15

V

Answer 15

Right to a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury

Question 16

F

Answer 16

Right to trial by a jury in civil cases.

Question 17

F

Answer 17

Prohibits imposing cruel, unusual punishments and fines, prohibits granting excessive bails.

Question 18

X

Answer 18

Assures the recognition of those rights that people may have but are not listed here.

Question 19

B

Answer 19

Provides that the powers that are not given to the United States nor prohibited by the constitution are reserved to the states respectively or to the people.

Question 20

D

Answer 20

The plan ratified by the states in 1781, that established a national congress with limited power. It was replaced with the Constitution

Question 21

U

Answer 21

The meeting of state delegates in Philadelphia in 1787 that resulted in the writing of the Constitution.

Question 22

A

Answer 22

a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.

Question 23

U

Answer 23

a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.

Question 24

O

Answer 24

A person who favored the plan of government created by the Constitution.

Question 25

mOn

Answer 25

A person who opposed ratification of the Constitution

Question 26

N

Answer 26

The branch of the government that makes laws.

Question 27

R

Answer 27

The branch of government that interprets laws and punishes lawbreakers.

Question 28

K

Answer 28

The branch of government that enforces laws

Question 29

j

Answer 29

The land between civilization and wilderness

Question 30

T

Answer 30

The land north of the Ohio River & was created into 5 states

Question 31

C

Answer 31

To measure land to determine the exact boundaries of a given area. Used for townships

Question 32

J

Answer 32

The 1787 law that set forth a plan of government for the townships 36 sq miles at one dollar an acre in the Northwest Territory. Created by Thomas Jefferson. The law banned slavery, gave freedom of religion and trial by jury. 60,000 citizens in territory to apply for statehood.

Question 33

E

Answer 33

For the country to thrive its citizens need certain virtues. These include a sense of equality, simplicity, and to sacrifice for the public good.

Question 34

G

Answer 34

The United States’ purchase from France (Napoleon) in 1803 of land west of the Mississippi. Jefferson purchased all 800,000 square miles for $15 million

Question 35

D

Answer 35

The expeditions from 1804-1806 that explored the Louisiana Territory.

Question 36

Rendezvous

Answer 36

25)Rendezvous- A meeting or get together agreed on in advance with mountain men in the early 1800’s to support the fur trade.

Question 37

Oregon Treaty

Answer 37

Oregon Treaty- Polk used the slogan “Fifty-four Forty or Fight” to seal this agreement making the 49th parallel dividing British North America and the United States in 1846.

Question 38

James K. Polk

Answer 38

the 11th president

Question 39

John C. Fremont –

Answer 39

3) John C. Fremont – A newcomer to the California region he rebelled against Mexican authority in 1846. His followers made a flag showing a grizzly bear and a single star and declared California the Bear Flag Republic.

Question 40

Adams-Onis Treaty

Answer 40

Signed in 1819, Spain sold Florida to the United States for $5 million.

Question 41

Mexican Cession

Answer 41

The land that Mexico Ceded to the US in 1848 under the terms of the treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Question 42

Gadsen Purchase

Answer 42

The deal from Mexico that got New Mexico and Arizona for $10 million.

Question 43

California Gold Rush

Answer 43

The mass migration in California following the discovery of gold in 1849.

Question 44

Forty-Niner-

Answer 44

-A person who took part in the California Gold Rush

Question 45

Boom Town

Answer 45

Town that grows rapidly in population as a result of sudden prosperity. (i.e. San Francisco)

Question 46

Cede

Answer 46

To give up.

Question 47

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo-

Answer 47

The treaty that ended the Mexican/American war and made the Rio Grande boundary to Texas.

Question 48

Chapultepec

Answer 48

A Mexican military academy in Mexico City that was defended by young Mexicans in the Mexican-American war. Captured by US forces 1847. Last battle in the Mexican American War.