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100What is The Declaration of Independence?
The most important accomplishment of the 2nd Continental Congress.
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100What is the power of the judicial branch?
This branch can strike down any law or action.
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100What is the Magna Carter or Great Charter?
Document King John was forced to sign in 1215?
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100What is the French and Indian War?
This war (1754- 1763) changed relations between the colonists and Great Britain.
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100What is Conneticutt?
This state provided a solution known as the Great Compromise.
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200What is the Articles of Confederation?
The name of our 1st constitution that failed.
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200What is judicial review?
The tool or means used to strike down a law or action.
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200What is the Mayflower Compact?
The 1620 document considered one of the first attempts at self-government in the New World.
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200Who is King George?
He became the king of Great Britain in 1760.
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200What is the delegates agreement that every fifth enslaved person would count as three free persons. And, thus three-fifths of the slave population in each state would be used in determining representation in Congress.
This is also known as the Three-Fifths Compromise.
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300What is Philadelphia?
The city in which the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was held.
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300What is the legislative branch or Congress?
This branch creates or makes U.S. laws.
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300Who is John Locke?
The philosopher who wrote of natural right & protection of those rights.
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300What are the Intolerable Acts?
The acts imposed after the Boston Tea Party.
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300What is Virginia?
This state represented the large states at the Constitutional Convention.
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400What is power divided between the national & state levels?
Federalism
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400What is the executive branch?
This branch is the law-enforcing branch of government. It has the power to carry out or enforce the law.
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400What is English common law?
The system of law upon which our laws are based.
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400What is "No taxation without Representation," double taxation and unfairly singled out?
At least two of the reasons, the colonists opposed the Stamp Act.
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400What is a compromise?
"To give up some of your ideas and accept others to reach an agreement."
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500Who were Jay, Madison, and Hamilton?
The three authors of "The Federalist" Papers.
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500What is nine (9)?
Article VII, required this specific "number" of states must ratify the Constitution before it took effect.
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500What is the English Bill of Rights in 1689?
This document restricted the monarch's power and guaranteed free elections to Parliament, the right to a fair trial, and the elimination of cruel and unusual punishments.
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500What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts?
The first battle of the American Revolution, made famous in Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous line, "And fired the shot heard round the world."
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500What is the Electoral College?
The method used for electing the President.
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