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15 Cards in this Set
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What were some of the 'roots' (causes) leading to the War for Independence and American Revolution? |
Mercantilism, taxation, and administrative rules |
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What were the British revenue acts that Americans protested? |
Sugar act Stamp act townshend act coercive/intolerable act quartering act |
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What were the 'Committees of Correspondence'? |
News sources in each separate American colonies that were dedicated to reporting on what the British were doing and giving news to each colony |
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What did the First Continental Congress achieve? |
Opposed the Coercive Acts(taxes)
established a formal organization to boycott British goods. Also drafted a Declaration of Rights and Resolves. |
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What did the Second Continental Congress achieve? |
Adopted the Olive Branch Petition, but when rejected they voted for independence,
Drafted the Declaration of Independence Established the National Army. Appointed George Washington as their leader. |
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What did the Declaration of Independence achieve? |
Set out reasons for separation of the colonies from Great Britain. Enumerates wrongs suffered by the colonists under British rule. Reasons why to rebel. Justification to our actions |
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What was America's first constitution? |
Articles of confederation Weak central government Voluntary
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What were the major problems with the Articles of confederation |
No power to tax States didn’t always agree, rarely could assemble the states, war debts, no executive/judicial branch, no commerce regulation no strong central gov’t. |
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What were the 'Virginia' and 'New Jersey' plans? THE GREAT COMPROMISE |
Virginia- big state plan. the bigger you are, the more authority you should have New Jersey- small is beautiful. everyone should have equal representation |
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What were the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise? |
Great Compromise- When states agreed on how representation would be achieved 3/5- For every 5 slaves, 3 will be counted as people (representation) |
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What was the basic principles of the US constitution? |
Seperation of powers- Lesgislature, executive, judicial Checks and balances- President can not nominate a judge, If congress doesn't like you,they don't fund you |
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What do Articles I, II, III, IV, V, and VI do? |
1- establish legislative branch 2- establish executive branch 3- establish judicial branch 4.full fate and official documents of one government are likely to be transferred to another gov (different states) ex- drivers license) 5. How you amend the constitution 6.supremacy laws- cali says yes, gov says no |
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What was a 'Federalist'? What was a 'Anti-Federalist'? |
Fed- favor stong central gov, sharing of a power Anti-fed - opposed the constitution, want to protect state gov from strong fed gov, national gov didn't have enough power to do their job |
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Why was the 'Bill of Rights' necessary to ratification of the US Constitution? |
as a protection for individual liberties, they offered numerous specific limitations on the national government's ability to interfere with a wide variety of personal liberties, Contains numerous safeguards for those accused of crimes. |
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How can the US Constitution be amended? |
formal ⅔ of congress votes to propose an amendment. ¾ of congress actually vote on it after the discussion Informal- Judicial interpretation. Judges with their decision can decide what the definition means Social and cultural change- women have the right to vote, abortions Changes in technologybirthing- don’t need a male to get pregnant |
