Key Terms

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  • John Hancock Sr

    Hancock taught the grammar school at the Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1691. His son Thomas Hancock was merchant in Boston who built Hancock-Clarke House for his father. His son, Reverend John Hancock Jr was also a minister and was father of the politician.

  • John witherspoon

    He was a Scottish American Presbyterian Minister. he was also a founding father of the united states

  • Charles Carroll

    He was the only Catholic and the longest lived and last surviving signatory of Declaration of Independence. He die 56 years after the document was first sign

  • John jay

    John Jay was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat. One of the founding Fathers of the United States, singer of the Treaty of Paris, and first chief justice of the Unite States.

  • Benjamin Rush

    He was a Founding Father of the United States.He was a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, social reformer.

  • John Peters Muhlenberg

    Towards the end of 1775 he was authorized to rise and command.His mother and brother did not approve of him gong into the army until the British burned down its own church in front of him.

  • John Trumbull

    Both sides of his were descended from early puritan settlers in the state.He enter the 1771 junior class at Harvard College at the age fifteen graduate in 1773.Trumbull lost use of one, which may have influenced his detailed painting style due to his child accident.

  • Declaration of Independence

    It is the statement adopted by the second continental congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4 1776

  • E Pluribus Unum

    The 13-letter motto was suggested in 1776 by Pierre Eugene de Simitiere to the committee

  • Bill of Rights

    Collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.

  • U.S. Constitution

    The U.S. Constitution is located in the National Archives Washington, D.C. They are 39 of the 55 delegates on it. Since the constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended twenty-seven times.It's worlds longest surviving written charter of the government.

  • Fifth Amendment

    Protects a person a person from being compelled to be witness against himself in a criminal case.

  • "In God We Trust"

    It was adopted as the nation's motto in 1956 as alternative or replacement to the unofficial motto of e pluribus.

  • Eminent Domain

    The property may be taken either for government use or by delegation to third parties who will devote it to the public or civic use