Early Influences
Colonial Period
Independence
The Failed Government
Constitution
100
King John was forced to sign this document that was meant to limit the monarchy's power.
What is The Magna Carta
100
Colonists attacked tax collectors and their homes because of this act.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
The relationship between the American Colonies and Britain is often compared to this.
What is a parent/child relationship?
100
This document created a loose alliance of states.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
This plan called for congressional representation to be based on state population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
Government leaders, even monarchs, must act according to this.
What is the Rule of Law
200
Taxation without _____ is tyranny.
What is representation?
200
This is the list of abuses put forth to legitimize the need for independence.
What are grievances?
200
In the American confederacy system each state was able to retain it's _____.
What is sovereignty?
200
The framers were able to come to an agreement on how to set up the legislative branch in what is now know as this.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
A grant from the king to be able to establish a colony.
What is a charter?
300
Sticks and stones were the colonists only weapons against armed British soldiers in this bloody encounter.
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
This group of men called ____ gathered in Philadelphia created the Declaration of Independence.
What is the second continental congress?
300
Because of this event the states finally saw the need to strengthen the central government.
What is Shays Rebellion?
300
Southern states were able to gain more representation in congress through this agreement.
What is the 3/5 compromise?
400
Together the Magna Carta, Petition of Right, and English Bill of Rights helped form the basis for these concepts of the American governmental system.
What are limited and representative government?
400
New laws called ___ tightened British control over the colonies which pushed them to Independence.
What are the intolerable acts?
400
Rights that no government can take away.
What are unalienable rights?
400
Under the Articles of Confederation congress did not have the power to perform this necessary function.
What is tax?
400
After the constitution was written it was passed to the states for _____.
What is ratification?
500
The belief that English kings derived their power from God, not from the people, belongs to this governmental theory.
What is Divine Right?
500
The Tea Act was meant to help this company.
What is the East India Trading Company?
500
The Declaration was founded on the concept of "consent of the governed" which forms this basis of this governmental theory.
What is social contract theory?
500
This man is sometimes referred to as America's first president.
Who is John Hanson?
500
This emblem on the back of George Washington's chair provided Benjamin Franklin with a metaphor for the nation.
What is a rising sun?
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