Unit 1 Key Terms

  • John Hancock

    John Hancock

    Was an American Merchant, Statesman, and Prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.Also served as president of the Second Continental Congress and first and third governor of Massachusetts
  • Benjamin Rush

    Benjamin Rush

    Was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.He was a civic leader in Philadelphia where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and the founder of Dickinson College
  • John Witherspoon

    John Witherspoon

    Was a Scottish American Presbyterian Minister and Founding Father of The United States.He was also a delegate of New Jersey and a signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • John Jay

    John Jay

    Was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, and a Founding Father.Also a negotiator and signer of The Treaty of Paris, Second Governor of New York, and First Chief Justice of the United States
  • Charles Carroll

    A wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of Independence from Great Britain.He was also a founding father and served as a Senator of Maryland and was the last founding father to die.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Created and signed on July 4th, 1776.Written by Thomas Jefferson.Has four main section which discusses the problems without this and the problems that will be solved with it.
  • E Pluribus Unum

    E Pluribus Unum

    The Motto of the US.Latin for "Out of many, one."Adopted by an Act of congress in 1782.
  • John Trumbull Sr.

    John Trumbull Sr.

    The only man to serve as a governor in an English Colony and an American State.He was the only governor at the start of The American Revolutionary War to take up the patriotic cause.
  • Fifth Amendment

    Fifth Amendment

    An amendment that keeps the government from charging for the same thing twice.You cannot be charged for the same thing twice that is double jeopardy
  • US Constitution

    US Constitution

    We the People.All legislative powers shall consist a Senate and House of Representatives.No state shall create a treaty or alliance.Executive power shall be held by the president.
  • Eminent Domain

    The governments ability to take private property for public use with compensation of payment.
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights

    Gave us our most important ten amendments.This gives many of the rights we have to today like freedom of speech and right to speedy trial.
  • John Peter Mulenburg

    John Peter Mulenburg

    An American Clergyman and Continental army soldier during the American Revolution.He was a very political figure in the newly Independent United States.
  • "In God We Trust"

    The official motto of the United States and of the state of Florida
  • Alex de Tocqueville

    Alex de Tocqueville

    Was a French Sociologist and Political Theorist and he came to the United States to study it's prisons.He was best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution.