United States History8th

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United States History8th

• Events
• Dates
• Documents
• Other Terms
• Part I

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What ? Year

• Representatives of the Virginia Company of
• London established the first permanent
• settlement in North America
• Jamestown was the name of the first
• settlement in Virginia

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1607
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What Year?

• The Declaration of Independence was
• written
• Thomas Jefferson was the primary author
• of this document
• In this same year Thomas Paine wrote
• Common Sense

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1776
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What Year?

• Delegates met in Philadelphia and wrote the
• Constitution of the United States

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1787
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What Am I?

• The nations first constitution
• Adopted in 1781 during the American
• Revolution
• Lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, or
• control coinage

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Articles of Confederation
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What Am I?

• The first ten amendments to the
• Constitution
• Ratified in 1791

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Bill of Rights
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What Am I?

• The U.S. Constitution authorizes each
• branch (executive legislative, judicial)
• of government to share its powers and
• thereby check their activities

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Checks and Balances
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What Am I?

• The term that relates to involvement in
• the community
• Going a step beyond obligations by taking
• an active role in improving the community

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Civic Virtue
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What Am I?

• The process of defying codes of conduct
• within a community or ignoring the policies
• and laws of a state or nation when the
• civil laws are considered unjust

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Civil Disobedience
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What Am I?

• A document adopted in 1776
• It established the 13 colonies as
• independent states, free from rule by
• Great Britain
• Written by Thomas Jefferson

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Declaration of Independence
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What Am I?

• A landmark Supreme Court case in 1857
• which confirmed the status of slaves as
• property rather than citizens
• A slave could not be heard in federal courts
• because he was not a citizen and had no
• protection under the Constitution

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Dred Scott v. Sandford
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What Am I?

• In 1689 King William and Queen Mary of
• England accepted the __________which
• guaranteed certain rights to English citizens
• and declared that elections would be held
• frequently

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English Bill of Rights
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What Am I?

• Series of papers written by James Madison
• Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in
• support of ratification of the Constitution

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Federalist Papers
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What Am I?

• People who opposed ratification of the
• Constitution because they feared the power
• of the national government
• Patrick Henry and George Mason were
• leading _________
• _______wanted a Bill of Rights before
• the Constitution was approved

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Anti-Federalist
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What Am I?

• The term that applies to those individuals
• who played a major role in declaring U.S.
• Independence, fighting the Revolutionary
• War, and/or writing and adopting the
• Constitution

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Founding Fathers
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What Am I?

• An economic system in which individuals
• rely on supply and demand to determine--
• what to produce
• how much to produce
• how to produce
• for whom to produce

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Free Enterprise System
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What Am I?

• A struggle between the British and the
• French in the colonies of North America
• Sometimes called the Seven Years War
• (1756-1763)

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French and Indian War