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Who do you think of when you think of the force theory?

Who is Hitler?

100

famous for a speech called A City on a Hill (close to God)

Who is John Winthrop?

100

How many times has the constitution been changed?

What is 27 times?

100

When you export more than you import

What is Mercantilism?

100


Freedom of speech, religion, press, petition, assembly


What are our rights based on the First Amendment?

200


An individual or group claimed control over a territory and forced the population to submit. 

Person or small group claimed control over an area and forced inhabitants to submit to their rule

What is the force theory?

200
  • Population
  • Territory
  • Sovereignty
  • Government

What are the four characteristics of a state?

200

1st permanent English colony founded by the Virginia Company

What is Jamestown?

200

men and women who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia

Who are indentured servants?

200

What is Life, liberty, and property?


What is 3 aspects that due process covers?

300
  • State grew out of the family, whoever the head of the house was had power
  • Developed naturally from a family, relatives, clan, tribe, settled down to farms, formed government

What is the evolution theory?

300
  • Guaranteed:
  • Trial by jury
  • Due process of law
  • Established that the king’s power was limited and not absolute

What is the Magna Carta?

300

What were the colonist asking  about taxing during the stamp act?


What is can Parliament tax the colonies directly?

300

Name the push factors for the New England colonies

What are:

  • Religious Freedom
  • Wanted to the “model of godliness” and exiled anyone who broke their rules?
300
  • Pay your way to the colonies and  granted 50 acres of land
  • Wealthy people could get more land by paying the travel for multiple people in exchange for work. (one person=50 acres...the more people that go over for you=more land you get)

What is the Headright System?

400

Required colonies to provide housing and supplies for British troops after French and Indian War


What is the Quartering Act of 1765?

400


The English Bill of Rights included the right to Due Process.  What is protected under Due Process?

  • What is  Habeas Corpus, No cruel of unusual punishment, Trial by jury-peers only?
400


Which part of the government  has the most power and what kind of government is it?


What is Legislative and bicameral?

400
  • US to Europe- Sugar tobacco and cotton to Europe
  • Europe to Africa- Textiles, rum and manufactured goods to Africa
  • Africa to US- Slaves to the America

What is triangle trade?

400


Two third (Senate, House of Representatives(Congress)) (propose) of both houses, three fourth of all states (Ratify)

What is the most important saying for the amendments?

500
  • Sons of liberty used this as propaganda to entice people to want to revolt
  • Riot in Boston
  • Colonists were killed by British officers

What is the Boston Massacre?

500

Great Britain won the French and Indian War.  The win also came with a huge price tag with the British going into debt. Whom did the British tax to get out of debt?

Who are the colonists?

500
  • Establish our government
  • Limit the government
  • Give power but may take away
  • Limiting the power to protect our rights
  • What is the purpose of the US constitution?
500

What is the first Supreme Court Case and what was its ruling? 

What is Marbury v Madison and judicial review=unconstitutional?

500

If the police find something without a warrant it is excluded from where? What case does this deal with?

What is the court?

What is the court case Mapp v Ohio?