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French and Indian War
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Birth of a Democratic Nation
Types of Governments
100
This guarantees that nobody is above the law, not even the King or Queen.
What is the Magna Carta?
100
The French and Indian War was part of this much larger global conflict.
What is the Seven Years War?
100
This problem for the British resulted from the Seven Years War.
What is Financial Debt (Money Trouble)?
100
This enlightenment thinker greatly influenced the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
100
This specific type of government has a "strongman" leader who rules through fear and/or force.
What is a Dictatorship?
200
This is a ruling from a prior court case that is used to guide the decision in a later case that has similar facts.
What is Precedent?
200
The French and Indian War was fought between these two global powers.
What are the British and French?
200
In order to recover from the wars, the British had to put these in place on the colonists.
What are taxes?
200
This was the official reaction to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
200
The hallmark of this type of government is that people vote on bills that may become law.
What is direct democracy?
300
The Mayflower Compact established this type of government in colonial America.
What is direct democracy?
300
Originally published in the Philadelphia Gazette in May 1754, the Join or Die cartoon is attributed to this man.
Who is Ben Franklin?
300
This revolutionary leader was determined to benefit after the war by claiming some of the new land.
Who is George Washington?
300
This pamphlet was created by Thomas Paine and inspired many to support independence.
What is Common Sense?
300
This type of government follows a religious code as its constitution.
What is a theocracy?
400
Self-government in the American colonies began with this.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
400
The French and Indian War resulted in the British gaining this.
What is large amounts of territory in the Ohio Valley region (west of the Appalachian Mountains)?
400
This forbids American colonists from claiming newly acquired land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
According to the Declaration of Independence, this is the primary purpose of government.
What is the protection of the rights of the people?
400
This type of government has a constitution with various features of representative government and a royal head of state.
What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
500
This policy led to the American colonists growing accustomed to making their own decisions.
What is Salutary Neglect?
500
This plan of union between the thirteen colonies was considered at the start of the French and Indian War.
What is the Albany Plan?
500
The British enacted the Proclamation of 1763 in order to prevent this problem from creating unnecessary expenses.
What is conflicts between colonists and Native Americans.
500
This is what may be done, according to the Declaration of Independence, if the government fails to do what it is supposed to do.
What is alter or abolish it?
500
This type of government holds regular elections in which voters elect politicians to serve in government, typically with a president or prime minister serving as head of state.
What is Representative government?