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Early Colonies

American Revolution

Creating the

Constitution

U.S. Constitution Grab Bag

This was a religions revival that occurred a few decades

before the American Revolution.

A 100

What is the Great Awakening?

A 100

This was a social movement that stressed science as the

path of knowledge.

A 200

What is the Enlightenment?

A 200

These are the three colonial regions.

A 300

What are the New England, Middle, and Southern

Colonies.

A 300

This region’s economy depended mostly on the labor

of enslaved persons.

A 400

What are the Southern Colonies?

A 400

This was the first example of representative government in

the USA.

A 500

What is the Mayflower Compact?

A 500

The colonists’ top complaint against the English government is best

summarized by this phrase.

B 100

What is “no taxation without representation?”

B 100

The Son’s of Liberty destroyed over 342 chests of

tea during this protest.

B 200

What is the Boston Tea Party?

B 200

According to the Declaration of Independence, people

should do this is the government doesn’t protect

their rights.

B 300

What is separate from their government and create a new

one?

B 300

According to the Declaration of Independence these are

your three unalienable rights.

B 400

What are the rights to life, liberty, and property?

B 400

The following excerpt by writer James Fenimore Cooper describe life

in the…

“It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that

the toils and dangerous the wilderness were to be encountered

before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious

boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile

provinces…”B 500

What is Fenimore’s quote describes life on the

American Frontier (west)?

B 500

The Articles of Confederation failed for this reason.

C 100

What is they gave too much power to the states and not

enough power to the federal government?

C 100

Charles Pickney opposed limiting the slave trade for

these two reasons.

C 200

What is his state (South Carolina) had the highest percent of slaves and was depended on Slavery to survive economically?

C 200

This failed farmer’s protest (rebellion) made people call

for a stronger central government.

C 300

What is Shay’s Rebellion?

C 300

DAILY DOUBLE

C 400

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This compromise determined that only three out of every enslaved persons would be

counted in order to determine each state’s taxation and

representation in the Legislative Branch.

C 400

What is the three-fifths Compromise?

C 400

This compromise determine that there would be a two part

Legislative Branch (Congress).

C 500

What is the Great Compromise?

C 500

This is the main job of the Legislative Branch.

D 100

What is make laws?

D 100

This principle of the constitution allows each

branch to monitor and adjust the power of the other

branches.

D 200

What are checks and balances?

D 200

The Antifederalists insisted that this be added to the Constitution before they would ratify (approve) it.

D 300

What is the Bill of Rights?

D 300

Federalism describes a system of government where power is shared between…

D 400

What is the state (local) and federal (national or central)

government?

D 400

Name the steps that bills go through before they become

laws.

D 500

What are:

1)House Committee

2)House of Representatives

3)Senate Committee

4)Senate

5)Joint Committee

6)PresidentD 500

This is the name for changes and additions to the

Constitution.

E 100

What are amendments?

E 100

He was the General of the Continental Army and the

first president.

E 200

Who is George Washington?

E 200

When Washington left office, his Farewell Address warned Americans to avoid these two

things.

E 300

What are foreign entanglements (meddling in the affairs of other nations)

and forming political parties?

E 300

Disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and

Thomas Jefferson led to the creation of two opposing

groups called this.

E 400

What are political parties?

E 400

This right is protected by the First Amendment.

E 500

What is freedom of speech?

E 500

The Final Jeopardy Category is:

THE U.S. CONSTITUTION and The SLAVE TRADE

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Name two reasons that the founders of the Constitution

allowed the slave trade to continue.

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1) They were afraid that the South would separate from the Union if slavery was limited.

2) The South needed slavery to survive economically.

3) The South threatened not to ratify (sign) the Constitution if it limited Slavery.

4) Northerners thought slavery would fade away on its own.

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