What is the term that best describes the practice of creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade?
100
Lexington and Concord
What is the official beginning of the American Revolution?
100
They had no representation in British Government
Why did the colonist object paying taxes to the British?
100
Thomas Paine
Who encouraged the American Colonies to declare independence from Great Britain by writing Common Sense?
100
4th amendment
What amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizures?
200
To Secure Religious Freedom
What is the most important reason Pilgrims came to America?
200
Virginia House of Burgess
What was the first Representative Democracy?
200
The Bill of Rights
When this was added the Anti-federalist agreed to ratify the constitution.
200
Established the principle of self government
What did the Mayflower Compact Establish?
200
8th
Which amendment protects citizens from cruel and unusual punishment?
300
Protest against English trade regulations
What was the Boston Tea Party?
300
Taxation Without Representation
What was the cause of the American Revolution?
300
Essays in the Newspapers
How were the debates between the Federalist and Anti-Federalist conducted?
300
They remembered how the King of England ruled the colonies
Why did many Americans not big on the idea of a strong central government?
300
2nd Amendment
What amendment allows the forming of militias and the right to bear arms?
400
Toleration Act
Which of the following was not a long term cause of the American Revolutionary War?
Stamp Act
Navigation Act
Toleration Act
400
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
400
Central government had too much power
Why did the Anti-federalist oppose the Constitution?
400
Equal Opportunity
What is the absence of discrimination, as in the workplace, based on race, color, age, gender, national origin, religion, or mental or physical disability?
400
Northern or New England, Middle, and Southern
What are the names of the three colonies?
500
Organized boycotts of British goods
How did the American colonist protest taxes on colonial goods and British Imports?
500
Equal Representation for all states in the senate
What was the important contribution that the New Jersey Plan contributed to the creation of the Constitution?
500
The Bill of Rights
What are the first ten amendments of the constitution called?
500
Democracy
What is a government in which citizens hold the power to rule?
500
Separation of Power
What keeps one branch of government from becoming more powerful than the other through checks and balances?