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Jolly Olde England
100
This document was also known as the Great Charter.
What is The Magna Carta
100
The Declaration of Independence was written during this meeting in Philadelphia in 1776.
What is Second Continental Congress.
100
This plan was favored by large states and requested a bicameral legislature where one House was based on population, and the other on money.
What is The Virginia Plan?
100
This is the number of parts of the Declaration of Independence.
What is 4?
100
This was the name (and number) of the king during the American Revolution.
What is George III?
200
This Document is a royal grant to a piece of land.
What is a Charter?
200
The Annapolis Convention called for a new meeting in Philadelphia to do this.
What is revise the Articles of Confederation?
200
This plan called for a unicameral legislature with equal representation and more than one executive.
What is The New Jersey Plan?
200
This is the number of states that were needed to accomplish anything under the Articles.
What is 9?
200
This is the concept of British Government that says the Government should fulfill the wishes of its people.
What is Representative?
300
This Document was written by Benjamin Franklin.
What is The Albany Plan of Union?
300
If Lord DeLaWare, Lord Baltimore and William Penn had a meeting, they would be discussing owning this type of colony.
What is a Proprietary Colony?
300
This was the main compromise that was found in the "Great Compromise."
What is a bicameral legislature with one house based on population and one based on equality.
300
This is the number of votes each state got under the Articles of Confederation.
What is 1?
300
This type of colony was under the direct control of the King.
What is Royal?
400
These are the four parts of the Declaration of Independence.
What are the Preamble, Declaration of Rights, List of Grievances and Resolution.
400
This meeting decided to boycott British goods and got a piece of legislation repealed. They didn't, however, see the Intolerable Acts coming next.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
400
The south wanted slaves to count for this purpose even though they didn't want them to count for taxes.
What is representation?
400
This is the number of states that met financial obligations under the Articles of Confederation.
What is 0?
400
This concept of government means that governments are restricted in the things that they can or can not do.
What is limited?
500
This was the name of the document written after the Magna Carta, but before the English Bill of Rights.
What is the Petition of Right?
500
The people who met here were called the Framers, and George Washington served as its president.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
500
This compromise said that the slave trade could not be inhibited for the 20 years as long as Congress would not try to tax exports.
What is the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?
500
This the number of states required to change the Articles of Confederation.
What is 13?
500
This two word concept was first introduced in the Magna Carta, and is still a central tenant of individual 800 years later.
What is Due Process?