Important Historical Documents

What is the main purpose of the historical documents of the United States?

• To use paper

• to put criminals in jail

• to protect the rights of citizens

• to keep in a museum

What is a charter?

• the law of the land

• something that the president needs to sign

• a bill

• it outlines agreements and grants certain rights

What is a treaty?

• the president's code of conduct

• a document that is created to end conflict

• a document that declares war

• the rules of the White House

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Alexander Hamilton

Which country did the Declaration of Independence free?

• Great Brittain

• Africa

• United States of America

• Canada

What are inalienable rights?

• rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• rights to own property

• rights to own aliens

• rights to have parties

What are amendments?

• the Constitution, upside down

• a glitch in the matrix

• to make someone feel better

• additions to the Constitution to make it better

The Mayflower Compact is...

• a document from before the ice age

• a document that gave every man a share in the leadership in the colony

• a charter

• a treaty

The Constitution is

• a document that does not exist anymore

• nothing we need to worry about

• the supreme law of the land

• the laws that were written after 1970

The Constitution creates a system to prevent government from becoming too powerful. What is this known as?

• the Declaration of Independence

• checks and balances

• Charters

• a bill that needs to be vetoed