Government in the English Colonies
The lawmaking body of government.
What is Legislature.
A conference or meeting held to discuss important issues.
What is Congress.
Document that was adopted. on July 4, 1776. Americans declared they were a nation separate from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence.
An overall rise in prices.
What is Inflation.
A two-chamber legislature.
What is Bicameral.
A social contract signed on the Mayflower setting forth rules of government in the new U.S. Colonies.
What is Mayflower Compact
This tax was passed by the British Parliament in 1764, and it placed an import tax on sugar from the French and Dutch colonies.
What is the Sugar Act of 1764.
A political idea that spreads government functions and powers among different branches of government.
What is Separation of Powers.
Meaning one legislative house.
What is Unicameral.
The most privileged and powerful members of society.
What is Elites.
A set of rules that establishes the framework of a government and the powers of the government.
What is Constitution.
This tax was passed by the British Parliament in 1765, it imposed taxes directly on colonists by taxing everyday items. (Example: documents, newspapers, playing cards.)
What is the Stamp Act of 1765.
The idea that the people hold the ultimate power of government.
What is Popular Sovereignty.
The first constitution of the United States; a set of laws adopted in 1777 that established each statin the Union as a republic, replaced by the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation.
The business of bringing slaves into the country, beginning in 1808.
What is Slave Importation.
This crop grown in Virginia was the start-up to America's agriculture success.
What is Tobacco.
Pamphlet published in Philadelphia in 1776 by Thomas Paine. The goal of the pamphlet was to lead the American colonies to want to become a new republic that would be a model in the world.
What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense
These three people were delegates that were apart of the Committee of Five to draft the Declaration.
What is John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson.
What branch of government was missing under the Articles of Confederation?
What is Executive Branch.
An agreement at the Constitutional Convention that established different methods for apportioning representation in the House and Senate.
What is the Great Compromise
(Connecticut Compromise)
A government under the control of the people who live in an area rather than that of a distant ruler.
What is Self-Government.
This was a British law that required all colonies to stay east of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763.
"That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and Independent States, that they are absolved from allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
Meeting that occurred on September 11, 1786 that discussed extending national authority to matters of interstate commerce and trade.
What is the Annapolis Meeting.
The _____________ favored a strong central government and the new Constitution.
The _______________ opposed a strong central government and the new Constitution.
What is Federalists & Antifederalists.