What was the piece of land that allowed the Paleo-Indians to travel into North America?

What was the 1st form of writing?

Where is the cradle of democracy?

What are the 3 major world religions and their holy book?

What were the Spanish Conquistadors in search of?

Who was the Spanish Conquistador that defeated the Aztec?

Who was the Spanish Conquistador that defeated the Inca?

Who invented the Printing Press?

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

What is a piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides called?

What was the 1st set of laws?

What river is the source of life for Egypt?

What are the two rivers of Mesopotamia?

What was the 1st civilization?

Who created an interest in exploration by writing of his travels to Asia?

What was the 1st attempted English settlement in the New World?

What was the 1st permanent English settlement in the New World?

Who was the 1st english child born in the New World?

What document limited the power of the King and became a symbol of freedom from oppression?

What document created a separation of powers, limits the powers of the king and queen, enhances the democratic election and promoted freedom of speech?

What was the first democratically elected legislative body in the British American colonies?

What was the 1st governing document of the New World?

What basic freedom did the John Peter Zenger trial introduce?

Who introduced tobacco in the English colonies?

What was the 1st plan of government for the US?

What is a bicameral congress?

What rights are listed in the Declaration of Natural Rights?

What is a change to the Constitution called?

Who ensured the survival of the Jamestown colony during the “Starving Time”. He told the colonists, “He who doesn’t work, doesn’t eat”.

Who was the Governor of Roanoke who returned to find the colony had vanished?

Who was the Commander of the Continental Army & first President of the US?

Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?

Who was the Federalist that created the National Bank through the DC compromise?

Who introduced the Social Contract Theory during the Enlightenment?

What is it called when a government is divided into different tiers/levels?

What are the 3 levels of government in the US?

How did the 1st Great Awakening impact colonial America?

Someone who wanted a strong Federal Government and weak State Government.

Someone who wanted a strong State Government and weak Federal Government.

What is the governing document of the US today?

Who was the tyrant King of England who taxed the colonists without giving them voting representation in Parliament?

Who was the King of England during the Protestant Reformation, had 8 wives because he wanted a male heir, the Pope would not annul his marriage so he created the Church of England and changed the national religion from Catholicism to Protestantism?

Who was the German monk who wrote the 95 thesis which outlined the many problems he had with the Catholic church including the selling of indulgences?

What is a tax placed on imported goods called?

What is a tax placed on goods made within a country?

What document ended the French & Indian War?

What was the imaginary boundary that said the colonists could not settle West of the Appalachian Mountains?

What type of government translates as: "Rule by the People"?

What type of originated in Rome?

What is the form of government where there is a monarch but the power rests with in a parliament elected by the people?

What is the form of government where a monarch has absolute power?

What form of government means that no one is in charge?

What form of government means that every citizen gathered in one place to discuss and vote on issues?

What form of government do citizens elect others to represent them in government?

What freedoms are guaranteed by the 1st Amendment?

What amendment give Americans the right to bear arms?

Which amendment protects you from having to house soldiers in your home?

Which amendment protects you from unreasonable searches & seizures?

Which amendment guarantees your the right to your life, liberty, and property? (This amendment also prevents you from being tried for the same crime twice (double jeopardy) and gives you the right not to testify against yourself)

Which amendment gives you the right to a speedy and public trial?

Which amendment guarantees your right to a trial by jury?

Which amendment protects you from unreasonable bail and cruel and unusual punishments?

Which amendments protects your rights that are not mentioned in the US Constitution?

Which amendment limits the powers of the federal government to those given to it by the Constitution?

Which amendment abolished slavery?

Which amendment outlines the rights of citizenship?

Which amendment gave voting rights to all races?

Which amendment prohibited (made it illegal) the sale of alcohol?

Which amendment granted women suffrage (voting rights)?

Which amendment repealed the Volstead Act?

Which amendment set the two-term limit for the office of President of the USA?

A person without a permanent settlement is known as a...

What did the Aztec name their Capital city?

What farming inventions were important in the Aztec empire?

The weather over a long period of time is called...

What is the largest mountain range in the Western US is called?

Which landform would describe the Midwest region of the United States ?

What type of map shows borders of states or countries?

Which region of the United States is made up of several deserts and used irrigation techniques to bring water in?

What is the oldest city in America that was settled by the Spanish in 1565?

What is used to show directions on a map?

What is the largest continent in the world?

What type of map shows landforms and bodies of water?

Why are rivers important to civilizations?

Captured Africans, travelling across the Atlantic to the New World, would travel in this section of the journey...

What was the secret organization made up of merchants and journalists formed to protest unfair taxes?

Who wrote "Common Sense" that challenged the colonists to fight for independence?

This type of American Colonist was in support of the British parliament....

Where is the lowest and hottest area in the United States?

Who wrote "Common Sense" that challenged the colonists to fight for independence?

This type of American Colonist was in support of the British parliament.

What was the name of the colonists that supported the colonies breaking away from Britain and becoming an independent country?

The first shots of the Revolutionary War occurred when the Massachusetts Minutemen fired on British troops at...

Which compromise is made up of ideas from the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan?

What territory did the United States purchase from France that doubled the size of the nation?

What is the belief that the government gets its power from the people?

What is the opening paragraph of the Constitution?

Which branch of government makes laws?

Which branch of government enforces laws?

Which branch of government interprets laws?

To refuse to buy goods from someone as a form of protest . . .

Which civilization did Hinduism come from?

Which civilization did Confucianism come from?

A basic understanding of this faith can be found in reading the "Vedas."

There was no one founder of this religion....

The rigid social organization of India that separates people into classes at birth is called:

Asoka, a Mauryan ruler, became a follower of what faith?

What is Dharma?

Sections of Hinduism believe in one supreme deity (god). What is this deity referred to?

What were the three social classes in ancient China?

In ancient China, nobles had great wealth and power from the land they owned. What is another name for these nobles?

What is the worship of many gods?

What is the worship of one god?

Which of the following beliefs was central to Egyptian religion?

What is a dynasty?

Rome's most important legislative or lawmaking body of 300 Patrician men was called the...

What were the two top officials in the Roman government chosen to serve one year?

What commoners such as artisans shopkeepers, and owners of small farms were called...

What were wealthy landowners called who made up Rome's ruling class?

In 509 BC, the Romans rebelled against what people and monarchy and set up a new type of government?

In what sea was Rome a peninsula, which allowed it to prosper in trade and interact with and conquer other lands?