Vocabulary
Colonial Experience
Roots of Government
Nationhood
Potpourri
100
A group of people chosen to make the laws
What is legislature?
100
The characteristics of a "citizen" in the 1700s
What is a white, land-owning man?
100
The source of direct democracy
What is Ancient Greece? (Or Ancient Athens?)
100
The document whose signing we celebrate every July 4
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
A written agreement to make and obey laws for the welfare of the group
What is a compact?
200
The abuse of power
What is tyranny?
200
A person appointed by the English king to "baby-sit" the colonies
Who is a colonial governor?
200
The source of limits to leaders' powers
What is the Magna Carta?
200
What is the decision colonists made during the First Continental Congress
What is cutting off trade with England?
200
The plan for a loose, weak national government that states came up with BEFORE they wrote the Constitution
What are the Articles of Confederation?
300
Dividing government power among legislative, executive, and judicial branches
What is separation of powers?
300
The abuse of power
What is tyranny?
300
The source of the republic
What is Ancient Rome?
300
The catchphrase that colonists cried when Parliament issued taxes on them without representing them in Congress
What is "no taxation without representation?"
300
A reason people didn't have confidence in American money
What is there wasn't enough gold to back up the paper money?
400
A government in which representatives were elected to make laws
What is a republic?
400
The person who is the figurehead for "freedom of the press"
Who is Peter Zenger?
400
The source of "Government exists for the people; people do not exist for the government"
Who is John Locke?
400
The pamphlet that Thomas Paine wrote to try to convince colonists to revolt
What is "Common Sense?"
400
The rebellion that demonstrated that we need a STRONG national government
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
A written agreement to make and obey laws for the welfare of the group
What is a compact?
500
The state that Roger Williams founded for religious freedom
What is Rhode Island?
500
The source of the three branches of government
Who is Montesquieu?
500
The truths we hold to be self-evident
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
500
The step needed before the Articles of Confederation could go into effect
What is ratification by all 13 states?
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