Unit One Key Terms

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  • John Trumbull Sr.

    one of the few Americans who served as governor in both a pre-Revolutionary colony and a post-Revolutionary state.

  • John Witherspoon

    Scots Presbyterian minister and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey.

  • John Hancock

    a merchant, smuggler, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.

  • Charles Carroll

    a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

  • John Jay

    American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States,

  • John Peter Muhlenberg

    John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was an American clergyman, Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War

  • Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain

  • “In God We Trust”

    official motto of the United States

  • E Pluribus Unum

    out of many, one

  • U.S. Constitution

    A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed.

  • Fifth Amendment

    protects a person against being compelled to be a witness against himself or herself in a criminal case.

  • Eminent Domain

    the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation.

  • Bill Of Rights

    the first ten amendments to the US Constitution,