The Colonies
The Colonies
Independence
The Constitution
Bill of Rights
100
This was an agreement between Parliament and the King, signed in 1689, that expanded the rights of Parliament and the people, while limiting the monarchy.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
100
This was a law passed by the British that said that the colonies were entirely dependent on the King, and any law passed in the colonies was null and void.
What is the Declaratory Act?
100
In 1776, the colonies adopted this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence.
100
In this plan, the legislative branch had two chambers, and the nmber of votes for each state depended on the state population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
100
This set of 10 Amendments passed immediately after the Constitution, based on an agreement that the Constitution's authors had made with those who were concerned that the Constitution put too much power in the federal government, and did not protect individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This was a pamphlet published by a journalist named Thomas Paine in 1776, arguing for independence.
What is Common Sense?
200
This was a revenue act that taxed things that the British knew that the colonists couldn't make itself, such as paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea. The Act also allowed British government to search people's houses without specific warrants.
What is the Townshend Revenue Act?
200
The colonists describe and list these in the Declaration of Independence.
What are (1) natural rights and (2) complaints about King George?
200
Under this plan, the legisltaure had one chamber, and each state would get one vote.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
200
This Amendment guarantees the right to counsel, and the right to a speedy and public trial.
What is the 6th Amendment?
300
The British Parliament was very short of money because of this war, and started to increase taxes on the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
300
These acts forced certain colonists to let British troops live in their houses.
What are the Quartering Acts?
300
This document said that men had unalienable rights (natural rights), including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that government was illegitimate without consent of the governed; and that government could only exercise just powers.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
This compromise set up a bicameral legislature, with equal representation across states in the Senate (two Senators for each state) and representation based on population in the House.
What is the Connecticut Compromise or Great Compromise?
300
This is the Amendment that protects the right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
400
This was an act passed by the British Parliament that forced colonists to put expensive stamps on various documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
400
This was the first government of the United States, with no central government, no ability to raise revenue.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
400
This is the type of government in which all of the country is governed by one central government (the country is not broken down into states and provinces).
What is a unitary government?
400
These are some things that the Constitution provided that the Articles of Confederation did not.
A stronger central / national government; the ability of government to tax and to regulate trade; the ability of government to decide on currency; the ability to amend the Constitution.
400
These are some of the powers of Congress that are found in Article I Section 8.
What is promotion of the general welfare, regulation of interstate commerce, establishing the courts, taxation, declaring war, maintaining an army and navy, establishing post offices, regulating Indian affairs.
500
This is what the colonists did in response to the Stamp Act of 1765. The British repealed the act after a year.
What is boycott?
500
This is a type of government in which multiple sub governments (state, national, etc.) have control over the same territory.
What is federalism?
500
This is a country that is a group of governments loosely aligned with each other, with no single central authority.
What is a confederacy?
500
This clause says that the Constitution, treaties, and federal law is supreme to other measures.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
500
This is the new territory that the U.S. acquired from Great Britain as part of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Northwest Territory?
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