Origins & Social Contract
The four characteristics of a state include territory, population, government and ____________.
What is sovereignty?
This is how the British Parliament planned to pay off the debt from the French & Indian War.
What are taxes on the colonists?
This revolutionary from England wrote the pamphlet, "Common Sense," encouraging the colonists to keep fighting
The name of the first governing document of the United States of America.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This founding father is considered the "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
This is a state with one ethnic group within it's borders.
What is a nation-state
Colonists must take British soldiers into their homes and provide them with food and water
What is the Quartering Act?
What two founding fathers of America were able to persuade the French to join the war on the side of the colonists?
Who are Ben Franklin and John Adams?
This is the sharing of power between the National, State, and Local governments.
What is Federalism?
The US Constitution was written in this year.
What is 1787?
The political authority to rule and act independently
What is sovereignty?
Because of this sensationalized event, the colonists are more united against the British
What is the Boston Massacre?
This is the biggest advantage the colonists had in the Revolutionary War.
What is that the colonists didn't have to win, they just had to not lose?
What is a confederation?
Combining the Virginia and New Jersey plans to create the legislative branch and Constitution.
What is the Great Compromise?
What is the Social Contract?
Who is John Adams?
What is Guerilla Warfare?
This is a form of government where one, strong central government controls everything in the nation.
Unitary Government
This part of the US Legislative Branch bases its representation of the different states on their populations.
What is the US House of Representatives?
John Locke added these three specific rights for the Government to Protect
These three things are what Coach McKee said caused the Revolution.
What is Economics, Philosophy, and Propaganda?
This is the location of the British surrender that ends the Revolutionary War.
What is Yorktown, Virginia?
This example of Federalism, is when the Federal Government provides funds to the states, but only if they comply with certain standards.
What is a categorical grant?
Gaining citizenship in the US by being born in the US is referred to as this Latin Phrase.
What is Jus Soli?