When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? Month, day, year.
July 4, 1776
100
Name the three shared powers in a modern government.
Executive, Legislative, Judicial
100
What is the difference between unicameral and bicameral?
One house vs. Two houses
100
What year was the Albany Plan of Union?
1754
100
What was Shay's Rebellion (1786)?
A rebellion by farmers over not being paid.
200
Ratification day/Constitution Day
9/17/1787
200
Define "state" and "sovereign".
State: a body of people living in a definied territory, organized politically, and with the power to make and enforce laws.
Sovereign: the state having supreme and absolute power.
200
Name the three British documents that inspired our Founding Fathers.
Magna Carta, Petition of Right, English Bill of Rights
200
What was the most pivotal/most important time during the Revolutionary War for General Washington?
Valley Forge
200
What was the two main differences between the Virgina and New Jersey plans?
1. Throw out the Articles for a new document 2. Representation in congress (equal or proportional)
300
Townshend Acts created taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. When were they passed?
6/29/1767
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1. What are the origins of the state? 2. Define Social Contract Theory.
1. Force, Evolutionary, Divine Right, Social Contract. 2. A population gave up as much power to a government as needed to promote the well-being of all. In doing so, they create a sovereign state.
300
What was the purpose of the Magna Carta?
No imprisonment without reason
300
Name the three parts of the Declaration of Independence.
1. Rights
2. Grievances
3. Independence
300
Name two Federalists and two Anti-Federalists.
Federalists: James Madison, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, John Hancock Anti-federalists: George Mason, Edmund Randolph, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee
400
When was the English Bill of Rights passed? Year.
1689
400
Over history, governments have been organized into three levels relating to the number of people who may take part in the governing process. Name them.
Dictatorship, oligarchy, and democracy.
400
The 13 colonies were divided into three different types. Name the three types.
1. Royal Colonies
2. Proprietary Colonies
3. Charter Colonies
400
What did the Articles of Confederation provide? (Don't give negatives - at least 4)
Unicameral congress, no executive, equal representation, no judicial, congress makes war & treaties, congress could borrow money, congress could raise an army.
400
What was the Connecticut Compromise?
The current bases for our representation in congress.
500
When were the Articles of Confederation adapted? When were they overturned?
1781, 1787
500
Name five of the six purposes of government.
Form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, secure the blessings of liberty
500
Name the three basic concepts of government that were influences on the English colonies.
Limited, ordered, representative.
500
What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
p. 49
500
Other than the Connecticut Compromise, what other compromise were there?
Three-fifths Compromise & Commerce and Slave Compromise