Unit 1 key terms Foundations of American Government

  • john  trumbell sr

    john trumbell sr

    only man who served as governor in both an English colony and an American state
    the only governor at the start of the American Revolutionary War to take up the Patriot cause
  • John Witherspoon

    John Witherspoon

    Minister ,
    founding father,
    Delegate signer of d of c,
    signed articles of confederation and constitution
  • John Jay

    John Jay

    was a founding father
    became a lawyer
    Leader of federalist party
  • john handcock

    john handcock

    merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution
    president of the Second Continental Congress
  • Charles Carroll

    Charles Carroll

    Representing Maryland at the Continental Congress
    one of the founding fathers
  • John Peter Muhlnberg

    John Peter Muhlnberg

    Continental army soldier
    pastor and preacher
    senator.
    was elected to the first congree
  • Benjamin Rush

    Benjamin Rush

    Signer of the D of C
    physician, political figure, educator
    supporter of the revolution
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Declared us free from
    England.
    Written by Tomas Jefferson
    The others didn't do much
  • E Pluribus Unum

    E Pluribus Unum

    is a motto
    great seal along the annuit coeptis
    adopted by an Act of Congress
  • fifth amendment

    fifth amendment

    restrictions on governments prosecution of persons accused of crime
  • us constitution

    us constitution

    supreme law of the us
    originally 7 articles
    frame of government
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights

    First ten amendments.
    James Maddison wrote them.
    prohibitions of government.
  • Alex De Tocqueville

    Alex De Tocqueville

    French Diplomat
    1. Liberty
    2. Egalitarianism
    3. Individualism
    4. Populism
    5. Laissez-Faire
  • Eminent Domain

    Eminent Domain

    is the power of a state, provincial, or national government to take private property for public use.
  • in god we trust

    in god we trust

    adopted as the nations motto
    first appeared on the two cent piece