Vocabulary
What is a boycott?
This enlightenment thinker believed in the natural rights of man: life, liberty, and property.
Who was John Locke?
This war caused the British Crown to increase taxes on the American Colonies.
What was the French and Indian War?
The Articles of Confederation gave each state this many votes for law-making.
What was one?
This man is considered the primary author of the Constitution.
Who was James Madison?
This is a type of constitution.
What is a charter?
A government where people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government
What is a representative government?
In 1215, the British Monarch King John was forced by nobility to sign this document.
What is the Magna Carta?
This was the first direct tax on the Colonists levied in 1765.
What was the Stamp Act?
What was nine out of 13?
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is trade between states.
What is interstate commerce?
An agreement that prohibits trade.
What is an embargo?
This French enlightenment thinker, wrote about the importance of separating the powers of government.
Who was Charles-Louis de Montesquieu?
The British passed the Coercive Acts in response to the Boston Tea Party in 1773. The Colonists called the Coercive Acts this.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This law passed in 1785, allowed the government to survey and divide the Northwest Territory in townships of equal acreage.
What was the Land Ordinance of 1785?
This is the chamber of Congress that is composed of two representatives from each state.
What is the Senate?
This compromise had a bicameral legislature, representation in the House based on Population and 2 members from each state in the Senate.
What was the Connecticut Compromise?
A person to whom money is owed
What is a creditor?
The idea that government power is not absolute
What is limited government?
Samuel Adams helps form these to keep lines of communication open through letter-writing.
What were the Committees of Correspondence?
This armed uprising by farmers in 1786, convinced many in Congress that the Articles were too week.
What was Shays's Rebellion?
This system to elect a president was created during the Constitutional convention.
What was the Electoral College?
A series of essays written to convince state legislatures to ratify the Constitution.
What were the Federalist Papers?
Legislation not sanctioned by law.
What is extralegal?
Created in 1639, this was the first colonial Constitution to go into effect in America.
What was The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Delegates formed this provisional government within three weeks of the battles at Lexington and Concord.
What was the Second Continental Congress?
Because the Articles did not create this, it became difficult for the central government to settle disputes among the states.
What was a national court system?
This compromise counted slaves differently for tax purposes and representation.
What was the Three-Fifths compromise?
This enlightenment thinker penned Leviathan, and believed human nature to be chaotic and destructive
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
Under the system of the Electoral College, voters vote for these, who then go on to select the President.
What are electors?