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Instructions:
Read through the
text carefully.
Then, answer the
accompanying
questions for each
section.
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The Mayflower Compact, 1620
1. Why did William Brewster and the Separatists want to break apart from King James I?
2. Who else joined the Separatists, or Pilgrims, on the Mayflower as they journeyed to America?
3. The Mayflower Compact set an important precedent: Democracy is based on the ____________ of the
______________.
Why did the Mayflower Compact need to be written?
Think It Through
A Model of Christian Charity, 1630
4. Why did John Winthrop and other wealthy Puritan merchants want to colonize New England?
5. What happened to Anne Hutchinson and her family after she disagreed with the Puritan and government
officials?
6. Read Matthew 5:13-16. How can you be a “city on a hill” today?
Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
7. Why did George Calvert, Lord Baltimore feel the need to leave England?
8. What is “hate speech”? Use a dictionary to define it.
Is religious freedom important to a healthy and functioning democracy?
Why or why not?
Think It Through
Virginia Slave Codes, 1705
9. What was the difference between an indentured servant and a slave?
10. What impact did Robert “King” Carter have on the slave trade in Virginia?
11. What kinds of cruelty did slaves experience as a result of the Virginia Slave Codes?
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Think It Through
What do Galatians 3:28 and I Timothy 1:10 tell us about the value of all
human life before God?
Albany Plan of Union, 1754
12. Which three countries controlled North America in the mid-1700s?
13. Why did seven of the early colonies feel the need to strengthen their alliance among each other?
14. Why did the British and the colonial legislatures ultimately reject the Albany Plan?
The Virginia Resolves, 1765
15. Why was Britain in so much debt?
16. How did Patrick Henry and many of the other colonists respond to Britain’s stamp tax?
17. A key outcome of this dispute was the colonists’ firm resolve that there must be “no taxation without
__________________.”
Common Sense, 1776
18. Why did the British Parliament pass the Coercive Acts in 1774?
19. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense called for colonists to completely break away from Great Britain. What
were two reasons he gave for his cause?
Think It Through
In a republican government, why is it important that “the law is king” and
not the other way around?
The Declaration of Independence, 1776
20. The declaration defined natural human rights as _________, ________, and
the pursuit of ____________.
21. Despite this declaration, not all individuals in 18th century America had the
same rights. What four groups of people did not have the same rights as white
men with property?
22. The longest section of the declaration listed 27 charges against the king. What
were three of these charges?
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23. As part of the declaration, this newly formed United States of America claimed all the powers of an
independent country, including the ability to ________ _______, make ____________, and conduct
________.
The Crisis, 1776
24. What was the impact of Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis on the Continental army?
Think It Through
In The American Crisis, Paine writes, “What we obtain too cheap, we
esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” What
did he mean by this statement?
The Constitution, 1787
25. Why did the Articles of Confederation in 1777 create a deliberately weak central government?
26. Name two of the problems that resulted from the Articles of Confederation for the American people.
27. In an early draft of a new constitution, the Virginia Plan proposed three branches: the legislative, to
________ laws; the executive, to __________ ______ laws; and the judicial, to ____________ laws.
28. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise? Were all the states in agreement with it?
29. List the different powers that were given to the national government and to the states in the Constitution.
National Government
State Government
1. Regulate interstate and foreign trade
1. Establish schools
2.
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3.
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5.
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Powers Given to Both the National and State Governments
1. Collect taxes
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30. Why does the Constitution need a system of “checks and balances”?
31. Read the Preamble to the Constitution in your book, found on pgs. 70-71. Then, draw a picture
illustrating one of the reasons given for ordaining and establishing “this Constitution for the United
States of America” in the box below.
Think It Through
32. What do Article I, Article II, and Article III of the Constitution each outline?
33. What does the word “federalism” mean?
34. How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments impact the institution of slavery?
The Federalist Papers, 1787
35. Why did James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay feel the need to write The Federalist Papers?
36. What did the Anti-Federalists require to be added to the Constitution before they capitulated, or gave in,
to the Federalists?
The Bill of Rights, 1789
37. List the liberties protected in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.
1st Amendment:
6th Amendment:
2nd Amendment:
7th Amendment:
3rd Amendment:
8th Amendment:
4th Amendment:
9th Amendment:
5th Amendment:
10th Amendment:
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Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796
38. What were the contributions of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton to the newly established
United States?
39. What were two warnings that President Washington gave the American people in his Farewell Address?
Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address, 1801
40. What four democratic principles did Jefferson articulate in his Inaugural Address?
Think It Through
Why do you believe that Jefferson placed so much value upon the freedom
of religion, press, and “of person”? What could happen in a country if
those things did not exist?
Marbury v. Madison, 1803
41. This court case set an important precedent for “judicial review.” What is judicial review?
42. Marbury v. Madison helped ensure that the Supreme Court can act as a check on both the ____________
and _____________ branches of government.
The Louisiana Purchase, 1803
43. Why was French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte so badly in debt?
44. How much did the United States end up paying for the Louisiana territory?
45. Why did President Jefferson feel so torn about purchasing the territory?
46. Why can the Louisiana Purchase be considered both a “stroke of luck and a triumph of international
diplomacy”?
“The Star-Spangled Banner,” 1814
47. What inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that would eventually become the American national
anthem?
Think of the America you know today. If you could add two more lines to
the national anthem, what would they be?
Think It Through
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The Missouri Compromise, 1820
48. Why did the slave population grow so dramatically in the lower South?
49. What were two of the arguments that the free states gave in response to the states that supported slavery?
50. What standard did the Missouri Compromise set? That is, how did the law attempt to solve the growing
divide between states that supported slavery and states that did not?
The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
51. A series of conflicts were occurring in Latin America in the 1800s, causing great alarm for Spain and
several other European countries. What were these conflicts?
52. What was the significance of the Adams-Onis Treaty?
53. What did the Monroe Doctrine proclaim?
The Indian Removal Act, 1830
54. How did Cherokee Indians try to make peace with the white man?
55. What was the verdict when Chief John Ross took the state of Georgia to court for its refusal to recognize
Cherokee Nation? How did President Jackson respond?
56. What were two devastating consequences of the Trail of Tears?
Think It Through
Read Matthew 25:31-46. What should the Christian’s response be when he
or she witnesses injustice, comes across someone in need, or sees
someone hurting?
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