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TRUE OR FALSE: The goal of the United States Constitution is to make the job of President VERY POWERFUL!
QUESTION
• What is: ARE YOU KIDDING? NO WAY! The goal of the U.S. Constitution is to make certain there is no one person in complete power!
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• TRUE OR FALSE: The Bill of Rights states that peoples’ rights are limited to ONLY THOSE written in the Constitution.
QUESTION
• What is: NO, NO, NO! This is very FALSE! The Bill of Rights DOES NOT LIMIT RIGHTS! The Bill of Rights lists the RIGHTS of the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE, and by the PEOPLE!
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• TRUE OR FALSE: According to the Bill of Rights, people have freedom of religion. In other words, in the United States people have the right to choose and practice any religion of their choice.
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• What is: NOT POSSIBLE! Everyone knows George Washington was the first President of the U.S. That makes John Jay, a famous lawyer, the first Chief Justice on the Supreme court of the U.S.
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• One of three New Yorkers (go NY!) at the Constitutional Convention who also became Secretary of the Treasury
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• TRUE OR FALSE: Red Jacket and other Seneca leaders met with business leaders at Big Tree in 1797 because people wanted to buy Seneca land in western New York.
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• The name of an important New York town that was the starting point of the Genesee Road, the road which led to New York’s western frontier
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• The name of an important New York town that is on Lake Erie. This town became an important trading center
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• TRUE OR FALSE: During the war between Britain and France, the British navy stopped American ships from trading with France
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• What is: TERRIFICALLY TRUE! How strategically cunning and smart of the British to make this move—stopping American ships from trading with France! That hurt France bad! ME BAD!
QUESTION
• What is: The British were kidnapping American sailors and interrupting trade with other nations
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The United States fought Britain (NOT AGAIN!) in a war in the early 1800’s. This was the name of this War
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• The city where representatives met at the Constitutional Convention to improve the nation’s government