Vocab
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What is Magna Carta?
What was Shays Rebellion?
What is an uprising by farmers?
Name the formal statement issued declaring freedom of the colonies.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What was America's system of government called during most of the American Revolution & 6 years after?
What are Articles of Confederation?
What is the absence of government?
What is anarchy?
What was the English Bill of Rights?
What limits the power of the king?
Which state did Shays Rebellion take place?
What is Massachusetts?
What is the purpose of government?
What is to protect the people?
Who presided over the Constitutional Convention?
Who is George Washington?
Define limited government.
What is a government's power is restricted by law?
What is Popular sovereignty?
What is the ability to vote by the people?
What year did Shays Rebellion take place?
What is 1786?
What is the full date when the Declaration of Independence was published?
What is July 4, 1776?
List the years in which the Articles of Confederation were in place.
What is 1777-1789?
Name the English philosopher responsible for the social contract.
Who is John Locke?
What is Philadelphia?
Who broke up Shays Rebellion?
What is the Massachusetts militia?
to declare that we aren't part of England anymore
What was the goal of the Declaration of Independence?
Where was the United States first capital city?
What is Philadelphia?
Name the term for a body of principles that governs a state.
What is a constitution?
Name the term where a state is ruled by an absolute ruler.
What is an absolute monarchy?
What is the reason for Shays's Rebellion?
What is Massachusetts taxed farmers?
Name three of the five members who wrote the Dec. Of Ind.
Who are Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, & Robert Livingston?
What are the main problems of the Articles of Confederation?
What are raised taxes, no navy or army, and couldn't enforce laws?
The term that means one house.
What is unicameral?