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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- Which landmark Supreme Court case in 1803 established judicial review?
- Which event in 1770 involved British soldiers killing colonists?
- What was the ban on trade with foreign countries imposed by the United States in 1807 called?
- What was the protest in 1773 where colonists dumped tea into the harbor called?
- What was the peaceful transfer of power from Adams to Jefferson in 1800 called?
- When was the United States Constitution ratified?
- What was the protest in 1791 by farmers against a tax on whiskey called?
- What document adopted in 1776 declared the colonies' independence from Britain?
- What was the uprising in 1786-1787 by farmers in Massachusetts against high taxes and debt called?
- What was the diplomatic incident in 1798 between the United States and France called?
- During which years did the Revolutionary War take place?
- What were the laws passed in 1798 to restrict immigration and limit free speech called?
- What was the first constitution of the United States, in effect from 1781 to 1783, called?
- Union General Winfield Scott's Plan to defeat the confederacy?
- Each state had three branches of gov: Legislative, executive, judicialAll but Penn had two houses
- Each of the Newly independent states was asked to draft their own written constitution
- Skirmish between British soldiers and colonial protestors. Colonists pelted soldiers with snowballs and rocks (they had been disarmed).
- Showed distrust of monarch. Limited to power of legislative bodies. Governor's power kept weak.
- It was a representative body appointed by the legislatures of several British N. American colonies.
- The Social Contract - "powers are derived from the consent of the governed" and "Right to Revolution"