USA in 1789

• how many colonies first made up the US?

  13
• what lead the US to write the Declaration of Independance?

  a growing dissent over British rule in these original 13 colonies
• when was the Declaration of Independance signed?

  1776 - the country became independent from Britain
• who wrote the Declaration of Independance?

  Thomas Jefferson
• what was the name of the war between Britian and America?

  Revolutionary War
• when did the Revolutionary War end and why?

  1783 - Britain surrendered
• what three things made up the Constitution?

  Congress - passed laws

  The President - proposed / blocked laws

  Supreme Court - interpreted laws
• what gave a state its title?

  -well populated

  -had their own government and passed laws (as long as they didn't go against the Constitution)

  -had right to vote
• when could a territory become a state?

  -when it had a large enough population and the stability to become a state
• what was settler colonialism?

  settlers who sought to replace the original population with a new one (white settlers)
• what did Thomas Jefferson incapsulate?

  everything about America in 1789 - he believed Natives were a 'noble race' but America should take their land, he also owned over 600 slaves in his life
• Jefferson wrote that people of America shall experience 'life, liberty and pursuit of happiness', was life like this in 1789?

  yes - if you were white you had the freedom

  but not for Natives or African Americans - America was a country built on racist ideologies towards these individuals