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TAKS REVIEW 1. First President and Commander in Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution _______________________________________ 2. Third president of the United States, a founding father, author of the Declaration of Independence and approved the Louisiana Purchase ___________________________ 3. Addressed in the Declaration of Independence as “He” and king of Great Britain during the American Revolution ______________________________________ 4. President of the United States, “Father of the Constitution”, and one of the authors of The Federalist Papers __________________________________________ 5. Wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac and negotiated the alliance with France during the American Revolution _______________________________________ 6. Document that established the 13 colonies as free independent states free from Great Britain, listed 32 grievances against Great Britain and King George III, adopted on July 4, 1776 _________________________________________ 7. The first ten amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing American citizens individual rights _______________________________________________ 8. A document that outlines the powers of the American government, written at the Philadelphia Convention and ratified in 1787 ____________________________ 9. The United States first constitution adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1781, it created a weak federal government unable to tax, regulate trade or control coinage _________________________________________________ 10. A series of 85 essays that explained the new US Constitution and the division of power within the government, written by three leading Federalist in order to ratify the newly written US Constitution _____________________________________ 11. Individuals that played a major role in declaring the U.S. independent, fighting the Revolutionary War, or writing and adopting the U.S. Constitution ____________________________________________________ 12. An agreement written by the Pilgrims in 1620, the first written form of self government in the Americas _____________________________________ 13. English document signed in 1215 by King John, contained the ideas of due process law and the right to a fair and speedy trial, influenced the Bill of Rights ________________________________________ 14. Meeting of the founding fathers where they scrapped the Articles of Confederation and created the U.S. Constitution __________________________________ 15. English document signed in 1689 by King William and Queen Mary, created a limited monarchy and guaranteed rights to the English people, influenced the Bill of Rights and U.S. Constitution _______________________________________ 16. Fundamental rights or natural rights guaranteed to people naturally; “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” ________________________________________ 17. Each branch of government shares its powers with the other branches and check their activities and power ___________________________________________ 18. Separating the government into three branches of government between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches ____________________________ 19. A person who is against slavery _____________________________________ 20. The distribution of the power between a federal government and the states within a union __________________________________________________________ 21. Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition ___________________________________________ 22. Searches and Seizures _________________________________________ 23. Right to Bear Arms ___________________________________________ 24. No Double Jeopardy, Right to remain silent, and Eminent Domain __________________________________________ 25. Right to a Fair and Speedy Trial _______________________________________ 26. Declared that all slaves in the Confederate states would be free, Issued by Abraham Lincoln _______________________________________________ 27. Gave Black men the right to vote, passed during Reconstruction _______________________________________ 28. Freed all slaves, passed during Reconstruction _________________________________________ 29. Declared all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. were citizens and were entitled to equal rights, passed during Reconstruction _________________________________________ 30. Supreme Court case that confirmed the status of slaves as property rather than citizens ________________________________________________________ 31. President of the United States of America during the Civil War, passed the Emancipation Proclamation and gave the Gettysburg Address ________________________________________________ 32. The Confederate general during the Civil War, surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse ___________________________________________________ 33. The Union general during the Civil War, became president of the U.S. in 1868 _____________________________________________ 34. President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War ________________________________________________ 35. A leading African American abolitionist, purchased his own freedom ________________________________________________ 36. One cause of the Civil War, divided the U.S. before the war, started in the South to provide labor for the plantations ____________________________________ 37. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln to dedicate a national cemetery at the site of a major Civil War battle ______________________________________________ 38. One of the main causes of the Civil War, the South believed the states should have more power than the federal government __________________________ 39. Rebuilding the South after the Civil War from 1867 – 1877 ___________________________________________________ 40. South Carolina and Senator John C. Calhoun declared a federal tariff null and void within its borders, the federal government reduced the tariff but passed a law in which the president can use the army and navy to collect duties _____________________________________________________ 41. Where General Lee surrendered to General Grant in 1865 to end the Civil War ___________________________________________________________ 42. The confederate troops fired upon this military building in 1861 starting the Civil War ____________________________________________________________ 43. The “Shot Heard Around the world”, started the American Revolution ______________________________________________________ 44. The British surrendered and ended the American Revolution ______________________________________________________ 45. Battle won by the colonists against the British, convinced the French to give aid to the American colonists____________________________________ 46. The month, day and year the U.S. declared independence from Great Britain ______________________________________________________ 47. The Years of the Civil War _________________________________ 48. The year the U.S. Constitution was written by James Madison ______________ 49. The year the Louisiana Purchase was bought from the French doubling the size of America ___________________________________________ 50. The year of the first permanent English settlement in North America __________