Types of Gov't
This form of government has no rules or rulers.
What is Anarchy?
This is the process where non-citizens gain citizenship.
What is Naturalization?
The primary author of the Declaration Of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The first constitution/government of the United States was called the this.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
First legislative body of government in new world - Jamestown, Virginia-It was a form of representative democracy
What is the House of Burgesses?
This form of government is controlled by a small group of people.
What is an Oligarchy?
This civic duty is necessary to maintain our judicial system.
What is Jury Duty?
This was a turning point in colonial affairs because the British now needed to tax the colonists to help pay off war debt.
What is the French & Indian War?
The author of the pamphlet, Common Sense, that swayed public opinion toward independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
People who have fled their homes because of war or famine.
Who are refugees?
This form of government advocates for changing who or which group is in charge in line with the will of the people.
What is Democracy?
A ---- is a count of the population given every ten years.
What is a Census?
(TWO PARTS) This event featured colonists dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor in 1773 to protest the tea tax & was organized by this group.
What is the Boston Tea Party & who are the Sons of Liberty?
The Magna Carta established this very important principle of American democracy.
What is the Rule of Law?
Fulfilling this responsibility enables individuals to influence their government, even if citizens are not required to do it.
What is voting?
TWO names for a form of government that uses elections to allow citizens to choose public officials who will make and enforce laws.
What is a republic or a representative democracy?
Citizen obligations we fulfill voluntarily. We do not have to do these things but we should in order to be good citizens.
What are responsibilities?
This issue caused the Colonists to resent the British Government trampling on their personal space and privacy rights.
What is Quartering/being forced to house British Troops?
The Mayflower Compact set up a ---- in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and example of which is town meetings.
Direct Democracy or Self-Government
This was added to the Constitution after it was ratified to gain the support of Anti-Federalists.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Form of government where little freedom or opposition is allowed. This government that is usually controlled by one person who allows very little freedom or opposition.
Possible answers: Dictatorship, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, autocracy
These two scenarios qualify as person as a "natural born" citizen.
What are birth on American soil or parents who are citizens?
British law that prohibited the colonists from crossing beyond the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
(TWO PARTS) The Document saying that citizens have the ability to abolish or rebel against an abusive government; When this document was written.
What is the Declaration of Independence & July, 1776?
(TWO PARTS) The Virginia Plan argued for _______ bodies of gov't, with numbers determined by ____________
What is 2 (Bicameral Legislature); based on population?