The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was...
Thomas Jefferson
The colonists' rebellion against Britain became a full-scale revolution when...
opening shots were fired on the Lexington village green
On December 25, 1776, Washington and 2,400 Patriot soldiers surprised the enemy at Trenton by...
crossing the Delaware River at night.
Mary Ludwig Hays earned the nickname Molly Pitcher by...
loading cannons after her husband was killed in battle.
Thomas Paine reached a wider audience than most other pamphlet writers of his day because he...
wrote as a common man to common people
The national borders of the United States were laid out in...
the Treaty of Paris of 1783
The shot heard around the world" was fired at...
Lexington
The Battle of Saratoga marked the...
greatest victory up to that point for the American forces.
The final major battle of the American Revolution was...
Yorktown
Supporters of the Constitution called themselves...
Federalists
The Three-Fifths Compromise resolved the problem of how slaves would be counted...
as a part of each state's population when allotting representatives to the lower house
The Articles of Confederation...
created a central government with limited powers and no president
The Three-Fifths Compromise was designed to resolve remaining regional disagreements over...
the Great Compromise
The sharing of governmental power between a central authority and the states or provinces that make up a country is known as...
federalism
A type of government in which representatives are elected by the people is a...
republic
Delegates from the smaller states strongly objected to the Virginia Plan because...
small states would have very few representatives in Congress while large states would have many
A system that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful is defined as...
checks and balances
The original purpose of the 1787 Constitutional Convention was to...
discuss revising the Articles of Confederation
James Madison agreed to...
adding a bill of rights to the Constitution
Powers retained by the state governments or by citizens are...
a. reserved powers
Voters in the United States must be...
at least 18 years old
The branch responsible for enforcing the laws approved by Congress is the...
executive branch
The duties of American citizens include...
obeying laws, paying taxes, protecting the nation, and serving on juries
The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States are known as the...
Bill of Rights
The term that refers to voting rights is...
suffrage
The leader who supported strict construction, meaning that the federal government should do only what the Constitution specifically says it can do, was...
Thomas Jefferson
The leader who supported loose construction, meaning that the federal government can take actions that the Constitution does not specifically forbid, was...
Alexander Hamilton
The Whiskey Rebellion was a protest led by small farmers against...
taxes on whiskey.