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100What is an immigrant?
A person who moves permanently to a new country.
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100What is government?
The ruling authority for a community.
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100What is the Englightenment?
The movement that heavily influences American government and focused on the ideas of science and reason.
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100What is the House of Burgess?
This was the first form of self-government in the colonies.
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100What is July 4, 1776?
This is the date that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
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200What is naturalization?
The legal process to obtain citizenship.
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200What is legislature?
A group of people that make laws. (ex. Parliament)
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200What is England.
This is where the US got most of their ideas about government. (hint: its a country)
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200What is a joint-stock company?
The Virginia company was started as this kind of company.
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200What is mercantilism?
The theory that a country should sell more goods than it buys.
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300What is Latin America?
Where most to the US come from today.
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300What is representative democracy?
When citizens elect members to Congress, this is what they are practicing.
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300What is natural rights?
John Locke's philosophy that contributed to American government.
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300What are the Middle Colonies?
Most people made money by farming cash crops and ironworks in this region.
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300What is the French and Indian War?
Parliament taxed colonists to help pay for this war.
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400What is Europe?
Where most immigrants came from before 1900.
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400What is the national government?
This level of the US government holds the highest authority and most power.
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400What is separation of powers?
Montesquieu's philosophy that is seen in the American government.
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400What is New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts?
Name the 4 New England colonies.
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400What is 'no taxation without representation'?
This was the slogan or catchphrase used by the colonists (Patriots) during the American Revolution against England.
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500What is civics?
The study of rights and duties of a citizen.
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500What is the people?
Accorinding to the Declaration of Independence, this is where the government gets its power.
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500What is a social contract?
When people agree to give up part of their freedom in exchange for government protection.
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500What is economic opportunity?
Most people came to the Southern colonies seeking to find this.
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500What is (any two of these) Quartering Act, Tea Act, Stamp Act, Intolerable Act, Townshend Act, Declaratory Act?
Name two Acts passed by Parliament that angered the colonists and led to the American Revolution.
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