2nd Treatise on Government "life, liberty, and property" - 17th century who heavily influenced Jefferson and others
Locke
Franklin
Arristotle
Paine
2. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
"If any form government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter it or abolish it" - 1776 - Declaration of Independence - What 17th century Enlightenment idea does this show?
natural rights
primo genitor
social contract
femme covert
3. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
International governing body post World War I - failed - United States did not join
United Nations
League of Nations
Concert of Vienna
Articles of Confederation
4. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
First permanent English colony (1607) - introduces House of Burgesses (democracy) and slavery both in 1619
Plymouth
Massachusetts Bay
Jamestown
Roanoke
5. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Jon Winthrop's "City on a Hill", a Puritan colony, religiously inteolerant
Plymouth
Massachusetts Bay
Roanoke
Jamestown
6. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Executive Order 9066 from FDR - All Japanese Americans living on the west coast during Wrold War II
Internment
Impeachment
neutrality
nullification
7. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Break-in at Democratic Headquarters which led to a cover up and the eventual resignation of President Nixon.
Trail of Tears
My Lai
Kent State
Watergate
8. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Site of 4 anti Vietnam War protesters being killed by National Guard troops.
Chicago
Cal Berkely
Kent State
New Orleans
9. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
judicial review - the Supreme Court can declare federal laws unconstitutional
McCulloch v. Maryland
Marbury v. Madison
Roe v. Wade
Brown v. Board of Education
10. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
"separate but equal" - Supreme Court decision that declared segregation Constitutional as long as the facilites were equal
Brown v. Board of Education
Marbury v. Madison
Plessy v. Ferguson
McCulloch v. Maryland
11. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Proposals by Jefferson and Madison that states could nullify federal laws (1798-1799)
Alien and Sedition Acts
Bill of Rights
Hartford Convention
Virginia and Kentucky Reslutions
12. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
These laws, pushed through Congress by John Adams, casued Madison and Jefferson to propose the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions (1798-1799).
Alien and Sediton Acts
Wabash Cases
Nullification Acts
the Whiskey Acts
13. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Progressive Era
1820-1860
1853-1875
1870-1900
1900-1920
14. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Gilded Age
1820-1860
1863-1875
1870-1900
1900-1920
15. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Reconstruction
1820-1860
1863-1875
1870-1900
1900-1920
16. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Antebellum Era
1820-1860
1863-1875
1870-1900
1900-1920
17. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
New Deal (FDR)
1933-1945
1960s
1900-1920
1607-1639
18. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
South Carolina rejected a set of tariffs that protected northern industry bu not southern agriculture (1832)
slave rebellion
Hartford Convention
nullification crisis
secession
19. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
author of the South Carolina Exposition on Nullification
George Wallace
Henry Wallace
Lester Maddux
John Calhoun
20. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
36-30 - all slave states to the north, all free states to the south, states come into the union in pairs
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
popular sovereignty
21. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
World War I era Supreme Court Case that limited free speech. Speech is not protected if it causes a "clear and present danger"
Marbury v. Madison
Schenck v. United States
Roe v. Wade
US v. Debs
22. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
if one country "falls" to Communism all countries near them will follow
brinksmanship
domino theory
containment
game theory
23. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Meeting where it was decide that the Soviets could liberate Eastern Europe, after the Soviets promised to allow free and fair elections.
Potsdam
Tehran
Boca
Yalta
24. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
"life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" - Declaration of Independence - 1776