key terms research

By bhill1
  • benjamin rush

    was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator as well as the founder of Dickson college
  • john peter muhlenberg

    John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was an American clergyman, Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War, and political figure in the newly independent United States.
  • declaration of independence

    gave us the rights to ur own country and let us grow and love still today that we come together and celebrate no matter who you are
  • E Pluribus Unum

    its the great seal of the United States that has are mottos of the nation This motto he believed, captured the principle that “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.
  • john jay

    American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, negotiator and signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783,
  • John Trumbull Sr

    the only man who served as governor in both an English colony and an American state, and he was the only governor at the start of the American Revolutionary War to take up the Patriot cause
  • john hancock

    He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • U.S. Constitution

    Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
  • charles carroll

    a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and one of the Founding Fathers of the of the United States of America. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress
  • bill of rights

    The first 10 amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. James Madison wrote the amendments, which list specific prohibitions on governmental power, in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties.
  • Eminent domain

    procedures within their respective territories. ... Its use was limited by the Takings Clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1791, which reads, "... nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation
  • fifth amendment

    The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and, among other things, protects individuals from being compelled to be witnesses against themselves in criminal cases
  • john Witherspoon

    He was one of the founding fathers of the united states and was a Scottish-American Presbyterian
  • Alex de tocqueville and his five principles

    He was a political scientist, historian, and politician, best known for Democracy in America a perceptive analysis of the political and social system of the United States in the early 19th century
  • In God We Trust

    the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.The 84th Congress passed a joint resolution "declaring IN GOD WE TRUST the national motto of the United States".