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the power or authority that rules a country
What is government?
100
an agreement or contract made among a group of people
What is a compact?
100
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
People who have not become citizens
What are aliens?
100
First legislature established in Jamestown
What is the House of Burgesses?
200
the citizens have the power to rule
What is a democracy?
200
a system of law based on precedent
What is common law?
200
Signed in 1620 to set up a direct democracy in the colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
?This means an alien has been sent back to their own country
What is deported?
200
This required the colonists to purchase a stamp for to certain documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
people who have lost their homes due to war, famine, or political oppression
What is a refugee?
300
a group of people who make laws for a state or country
What is the legislature?
300
Parliament wrote this to guarantee free elections, free speech, a fair jury, and no cruel and unusual punishments.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
300
How often the government conducts a census.
What is every 10 years?
300
Number of states need to amend the Articles of Confederation
What is 13?
400
the citizens' representatives carry on the work of government
What is representative democracy?
400
a group of individuals who band together for a certain common purpose
What is a confederation?
400
Document King John signed that upheld rights of landowner including equal treatment under the law and trial by one's peers
What is the Magna Carta?
400
A requirement of naturalization is to have an understanding of this:
What is an understanding of American history and government?
400
This changed the role of Parliament in the late 1600s.
What was the Glorious Revolution?
500
the process in which aliens become citizens
What is naturalization?
500
the theory that a country should buy less goods than it sells
What is mercantilism?
500
This is the name the colonist gave to the Coercive Acts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
Reason why America called a "nation of immigrants"
What is everyone who lives here is descendant of an immigrant.
500
Who is John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Paine.
He was an influence on Thomas Jefferson