Origins of American Political Ideals
When a government is restricted it is known as?
What is Limited Government?
King George III began to impose unfair ________ on the colonist.
What are taxes?
What was the Structure of the Article of Confederation?
What is a simple structure of 1 legislative house?
Who are the Framers/Delegates
A confederation was created by the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga and Mohawk Native Groups.
What is the Iroquois League?
The Idea that government should represent the will of the people is known as?
A meeting called by the seven norther colonies to discuss the British Board of Trade?
What is the Albany Plan?
the act that funds and troops would be provided by the states as requested by congress was known as?
What is Full Faith and Credit?
What were the two plans of Government?
What were the Virginia plan and the New Jersey Plan?
Colonies were subject to direct control of the Crown?
What were the Royal Colonies?
A group of Barons forced King John to sign an important document that limited the kings power?
What is the Magna Carta?
A stamp that required to be on all legal documents, business agreements and on newspapers.
What is the Stamp Act?
What was major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
What is it did not have the power to tax?
This compromise stated that "all other persons" would be counted as 60% of a human?
What is the three-fifths compromise?
The Royal Colonies had what type of legislature?
What is a Bicameral Legislature (Two Houses).
The Magna Carta guarantees which two fundamental rights?
What is a trial by jury and due process?
The Declaration Of Independence was influenced by which Enlightenment Thinker that was most famously known for his ideas of Natural Rights?
Who is John Locke?
Clashes between states that turned violent specifically involving one individual was known as?
What is Shays Rebellion?
What were the 3 branches of government in the new constitution?
Colonies that the king had made a grant of land were known as the ________?
What are Proprietary colonies?
This Document prevents a standing army in peacetime and it influenced the American Bill of Rights?
What is the English Bill of Rights?
When people are the only source of governmental authority?
What is popular sovereignty?
Most states had their own _______ during the Articles of Confederation?
What is their own money?
One group that wanted the ratification of the new constitution and one group that demanded more individual rights and a weaker government were known as?
Who were the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist.
These colonies were started because of religious dissidents?
What are the Charter Colonies?