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Famous Dates and People Points Question In what year was the Declaration of Independence signed?

Famous Dates and People Points Question Who was commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution?

Famous Dates and People Points Question In what year was the U.S. Constitution written?

Famous Dates and People Points Question Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

Famous Dates and People Points Question What were the years that the American Civil War was fought?

Famous Documents Points Question What was the document that declared that the United States was a sovereign nation?

Famous Documents Points Question What was the document passed by Parliament in 1689 that guaranteed Englishmen certain individual rights?

Famous Documents Points Question What was the document signed by King John in 1215 that granted Englishmen basic human rights?

Famous Documents Points Question What was the document adopted in 1781 that was the first national constitution for the United States?

Famous Documents Points Question What were the newspaper articles published in New York that supported the adoption of the U.S. Constitution?

Frame of Government Points Question What was the document adopted in 1791 that guaranteed individual rights to Americans?

Frame of Government Points Question What was the document written in 1787 that established the American system of government?

Frame of Government Points Question What was the amendment adopted in 1865 that abolished slavery in the United States?

Frame of Government Points Question What was the amendment adopted in 1870 that extended the right to vote to African American males?

Frame of Government Points Question What was the amendment adopted in 1868 that defined U.S. citizenship and provided equal protection under the law?

Principles of Government Points Question What principle divides government into the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?

Principles of Government Points Question What is the principle where power is held by the people and exercised through elected representatives?

Principles of Government Points Question What principle distributes the powers of government between the national and state governments?

Principles of Government Points Question What principle gives each branch of government powers over the other two branches so that no branch becomes too powerful?

Principles of Government Points Question What principle says that all powers of government belong to the people who can change or abolish their government?

Key Events Points Question What was the war fought by the colonies to win their independence from Great Britain?

Key Events Points Question What was the conflict between the North and the South over social, economic, and political differences?

Key Events Points Question What was the meeting of state delegates where the U.S. Constitution was written?

Key Events Points Question What was the period after the Civil War when the Southern states were brought back into the Union?

Key Events Points Question What was the event in 1832 when South Carolina attempted to nullify the federal tariff?

Government Terms Points Question What, according to the Declaration of Independence, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

Government Terms Points Question What were the objections of the American colonists that were listed in the Declaration of Independence?

Government Terms Points Question What is principle that places restrictions on the powers of government and requires everyone to obey the laws?

Government Terms Points Question What is the belief that that states are sovereign and have rights independent of the national government?

Government Terms Points Question What are the rights of the people protected by the amendments in the Bill of Rights?