Continent to the Colonies
Colonial Influences
Hey, King: Get off our backs!
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100

What are the “three G’s”?

God, Gold, Glory

100

Popular or representative system where the people create and run their own government

Self-Government

100

What did the Quartering Act do?

Forced Colonists to house British soldiers

100

Name one of the basics of the Articles of Confederation

Each state was independent and had its own government.

 Each state would send representatives to the “Congress of the Confederation,” a lawmaking body.

Congress was the only branch of government. (No president or courts.)

In Congress, each state got one vote.

100

Natural Rights

Rights people are born with

200

Colonists throughout the Americas enslaved Africans and this other ethnic group to work on plantations...

Native Americans

200

What does Rule of Law mean?

The idea that all people must follow the laws, and that the laws are enforced fairly

200

The British passed what series of laws in 1774 that cracked down on rebellious activity in the Massachusetts colony...

Intolerable Acts

200

This plan proposed that: 

Legislative branch has one chamber

Each state gets one vote

New Jersey Plan

200

What document limited the power of the king and protected certain rights for the nobles.

Magna Carta

300

What was the route from Africa to the Americas called?

The Middle Passage

300
Common Sense was written in 1776 by this man...

Thomas Paine

300

If you sold a newspaper in 1765, you would have to put this on it...

stamp

300

This plan saw that: 

Legislative branch has two chambers

Number of votes for each state depends on the state’s population

Virginia Plan

300

Rights that cannot be taken away

Unalienable Rights

400

People who worked in the colonies in exchange for travel expenses and a place to live were called these...

Indentured Servants

400

This document was written by the Pilgrims to solve a basic problem: Who is in charge?

The Mayflower Compact

400

This act allowed British government workers to search and seize property from the colonist's houses

Townshend Revenue Act

400

Lawmakers decided that 3/5ths of the enslaved population would be counted towards a state’s population in this agreement...

3/5 Compromise

400

The colony of Pennsylvania was established in 1681 by a Christian group called...

the Quakers

500

The Colony of Maryland was set up by this religious group

Catholics

500

These were written by two anonymous English journalists in the 1720’s. They were asking for changes to prevent the wealthy from manipulating the government for their own interests.

Cato's Letters

500

Virginia Colony’s first government, where each community had two representatives, was called the...

the House of Burgesses.

500

Under the Great Compromise, Congress is divided into two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. In the Senate, each state gets how many votes, no matter what size it is...


two

500

Under the Constitution, Congress is divided into two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives.  In the House of Representatives, what determines the amount of votes a state gets...

the more people it has OR population
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