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29 Cards in this Set
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Bicameral |
Consisting of two houses |
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Magna Carta |
A character agreed to by King John of England that granted nobles certain rights and restricted the king's powers |
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Petition of Right |
1628- a document signed by Charles I of England that limited the powers of the English monarch |
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English Bill of Rights |
1689- document signed by King William that stated that English monarchs would no longer be able to enact laws, raise taxes, or keep an army without Parliament's consent. |
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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1639- a framework of laws agreed to by settlers of the Connecticut colonies that put limits on the power of government and gave all free men the right to choose judges |
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Proprietary Colony |
a colony that was based on a grant of land by the English monarch to a proprietor, or owner, in exchange for a yearly payment |
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Royal Colonies |
colonies directly controlled by the English king through appointed governors who served as the colonies' chief executive |
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Charter colonies |
colonies based on a grant of land by the British Crown to a company or a group of settlers |
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New England Confederation |
An alliance formed in 1643 by the Plymouth, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, and New Haven colonies in order to defend themselves from threats posed by Native Americans and by settlers from nearby Dutch colonies. |
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Iroquois Confederation |
An alliance of six Native American nations (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora) formed in 1570 to end wars between the nations and stand together to resist European takeover. |
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Albany Plan of Union |
First plan for uniting the colonies; proposed by Ben Franklin. |
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Stamp Act |
1765 - Law passed by the English Parliament that required a government tax stamp on paper goods and all legal documents, such as contracts and licenses. |
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First Continental Congress |
1774 - A meeting go colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the abuses of authority by the British government. |
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Second Continental Congress |
A meeting in Philadelphia where they discussed the Declaration of Independence. |
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Virginia Declaration of Rights |
1776 - A declaration of citizens' rights issued by the Virginia Convention. |
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Articles of Confederation |
1777 - The document that created the first central government for the United States; it was replaced by the Constitution |
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Ratified |
Formally approved |
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Northwest Ordinance |
1787 - legislation passed by Congress to establish a plan for settling the Northwest Territory, which included areas that are now in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. |
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Shay's Rebellion |
1786-1787 - The revolt led by former Revolutionary War captain Daniel Shays to prevent judges in Massachusetts from foreclosing on the farms of farmers who could not pay taxes the states had levied. |
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Framers |
Delegates of the Constitutional Convention who developed the framework for the government and wrote the Constitution |
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Virginia Plan |
1787 - The plan for government in which the national government would have supreme power and a legislative branch would have tow houses with representation determined by state population. |
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New Jersey Plan |
1787 - A proposal to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states instead of representing by population. |
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Great Compromise |
1787 - An agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention establishing that a state's population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house. |
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Three-Fifths Compromise |
1787 - an agreement stating that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted when determining a state's population for representation in the lower house of Congress |
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Federalists |
Group of people who supported the adoption of the U.S. Constitution and a strong national government |
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Anti-Federalists |
A group of people who opposed the adoption of the U.S. Constitution |
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Publius |
The pen name that Framers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay used when writing the Federalist Papers; latin for "public man" |
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Federalist Papers |
Collection of essays on the principles of government written in defense of the Constitution in 1787 and 1788 |
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Bill of Rights |
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution concerning basic individual liberties. |
