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50 Cards in this Set
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What is ordered government?
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Government rules help people get along.
Government is organized. There are jobs with specific responsibilities |
Comes from England
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What is Limited government?
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Government is not all powerful
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Does government have absolute power
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What is representative government?
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People can tell government what it can and cannot do.
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Representatives vote the will of the people.
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Magna Carta (1215)
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Got rid of the absolute power of the king
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King John -soft sword
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Petition of Right (1628)
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Limits king's power
Could not quarter soilders Could not use military in peace time |
limited power
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Charter Colonies
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King granted the colony a charter for self rule.
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Rhode Island and Maryland were this kind of colony
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bi-cameral
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two house legislature
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How many houses?
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proprietary colony
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King gave land to a wealthy proprietor or owneer.
He chose a governor to run the colony. |
A type of colony
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Albany Plan of Union
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A plan for unity set forth by Ben Franklin
Many ideas later used in Consitution |
A plan for unity
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Stamp Act Congress(1765)
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Organized a boycott against British Goods-
Sent Declaration of Rights and Grievances to England |
boycott
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First Continental Congress
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Every colony present except
Georgia Sent Declaration of Right Unicameral body |
12 out of 13 present
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Royal Colonies
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Under the control of the King
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A type of colony
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lst National Government
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Continental Congress
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took country through the war
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Some powers of Continental Congress
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1.built an army
2. made treaties 3.printed money |
limited power
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Committee of five
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Livingston, Sherman, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin
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wrote the constitution
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What was the first National Constitution?
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Articles of Confederation
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Who wrote most of the Declaration of Independence?
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Thomas Jefferson
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Constitution
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Basic set of laws
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What are the common ideas in the State Constitution?
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Limited government, Civil rights and liberties, separation of powers, checks and balances and popular sovereignty
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How did the states think of the articles ?
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They formed a firm league of friendship
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Under the articles was the legislative unicameral or bicameral?
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unicameral
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Under the Articles of Confederation could the national government made the states obey the Articles?
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No
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What are some weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
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One vote per state
Congress powerless to collect taxes No executive branch, No natinal Court system, Amendment only with consent of all the States, 9/13 majority required to pass laws. Articles only a firm league of friendship |
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What is the Critical Period?
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This is the period of serious problems after the war due in part to the weakness of the Articles of Confederation
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Mount Vernon Convention
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Meeting to let George Washington settle a trade dispute between Virginia and Maryland
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Annapolis Convention
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Only five states met to look at the problems of the Articles but another meeting was set in Philadelphia. This became the Constitutional Convention
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Framers
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Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
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Virginia Plan
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large state plan
written by James Madison 3 branches of government Court System representation by population and/or money |
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New Jersey Plan
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Presented by William Patterson
Government without a separation of power (unicameral) Equal representation in Congress |
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Connecticut Compromise
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Bicameral legislature; = representation in Senate; representation in the House depends on State's population
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Three-Fifths Compromise
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Slaves counted as if 3/5 of one person, both for representation and taxation.
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Commerce and Slave Trade
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Congress was forbidden to tax a State's exports or take action against the slave trade for 20 years
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Federalists
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Supported passage of the Constitution
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Anti-Federalist
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Did not support passage of the Constitution.
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Leaders of the Federalists
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Federalists-Alexander Hamilton and Madison
Anti-Federalists-Patrick Henry and John Hancock |
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Commander of the Continental Army
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George Washington
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Who proposed independence?
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Richard Henry Lee
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The first Vice President
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John Adams
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First President of the United States
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George Washington
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House of Burgesses
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First representative, elected body in the new world
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Amend
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to change
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Maryland
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Founded for Roman Catholics
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Electoral College
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Elects the President
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Two Reason some people opposed the Constitution
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No mention of God and No Bill of Rights
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Lexington and Concord
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The shot heard round the world and the start of the fighting war
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Father of the Constitution
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James Madison
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Jamestown
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1st English settlement
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First Capital under the Constitution
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New York
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What is the English lost colony?
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Rhonoke
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Oldest written Constitution
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Massachusetts
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