What is a form of government where the people hold power
What is a democracy?
100
Dictatorship
What type of government is it when one person or a group of people holds total power.
100
Power is ruled by a small group of people
What is an oligarchy?
100
Magna Carta included guarantees of such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of law (protection against arbitrary taking of life, liberty, or property)
What is the Magna Carta?
100
They did not have the power to tax or they could only raise money by borrowing from the states.
What were the weaknesses of Congress?
200
Who are the supporters of the Constitutions' ratification.
Who were the Federalists
200
Force theory, evolutionary theory, divine right theory, and Social contract theory.
What are the four origins of a state?
200
Several individuals states join to form a group or alliance, the centralized government is weak and only individuals states can make laws.
What is a confederate government?
200
Impartial Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act, Boston Port Act, Quartering Act, Quebec Act.
They were set as punishments
What were the Intolerable Acts and why were they implemented?
200
A judicial or executive branch
What did the articles NOT establish?
300
What is a legislative body that is made up of two parts. Example: The House of Representatives and Senate
What is a bicameral legislature?
300
Federal, Unitary, and Confederate
What are the three kinds of distributions of power?
300
a government that features a separation of powers between the executive and the legislative branches of the government.
What is a presidential government?
300
That law required the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, on certain business agreements, and on newspapers.
What was the Stamp Act of 1965?
300
November 15th, 1777
When were the Articles of Confederation approved?
400
Powers are evenly distributed within the government.
What is the balance of powers?
400
territory, population, sovereignty, and government
What makes a state?
400
It is the purest democracy based on will of people, every person is equal under the law.
What is a direct democracy?
400
Magna Carta, The Petition of Right, The English Bill of Rights
What are the landmark documents of United States history?
400
Delaware
Which state was the first one to ratify the Constitution?
500
The activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.
What is politics?
500
Judicial, Legislative, and Executive
What are the three branches of government?
500
When people choose a representative to make decisions on their behalf. The United States is an example of an indirect democracy.
What is an indirect democracy and give an example?
500
Was a meeting for discuss the problems of colonial trade and the danger of attacks by the French and their Native American allies.