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1. ______The colonies existed to benefit England economically.
2. ______A period of religious revival and growth for many denominations
3. ______The non-enforcement of trade laws in the colonies.
4. ______This ended due to British debt from the French and Indian War.
5. ______What began to be enforced at the end of the French and Indian War?
6. ______The colonists became angry and declared “no taxation without representation.” Where did the colonists want representation?
7. ______This imposed a tax on Sugar
8. ______This act required colonists to house British troops.
9. ______This act placed a tax on legal documents
10. ______This act said Parliament shall have the power to make laws that applied to the colonists in “all cases whatsoever.”
11. ______These acts placed duties on glass, tea, lead, and paper.
12. ______Colonists threaten British soldiers, British soldiers open fire resulting in the death of 5 colonists.
13. ______This act drove American tea merchants out of business.
14. ______This was a result of the Tea Act. A group of colonists dressed as Indians threw tea in the harbor.
15. ______These were a result of the Boston Tea Party.
16. ______the study of the rights and duties of citizens
17. ______those residing in the US without permission from the government
18. ______a member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full citizenship rights
19. ______an action required by law
20. ______an action that citizens should take
21. ______the agency responsible for the naturalization process
22. ______This phrase means “out of many, one” and is used to show that the US is a nation of immigrants
23. ______a person that is legally admitted as permanent residence of a country
24. ______the ruling authority of a community, organization that has the power to make and enforce laws
25. ______the English philosopher who developed the social contract theory
26. ______the theory that humans agree with one another to create a government and give up some freedom to this government in order to promote safety
27. ______the principle of one central government and several state or local governments
28. ______government in which the supreme authority rests with the people
29. ______kind of democracy in which citizens choose a smaller group of people to represent them (hint: we have this kind in the US!!!)
30. ______kind of democracy in which citizens vote on each matter proposed to the government
31. ______this document limited the King of England’s power
32. ______this uprising among back country farmers in Virginia against the gov’t of Jamestown for failing to protect them against Native American attacks.
33. ______this established freedom of press in the colonies
34. ______the first written Constitution in America
35. ______this document established freedom of religion in its colony
36. ______this form of democracy was found mostly in New England and displays a form of direct democracy at the local level of government.
37. ______without laws and government
38. ______ruled by a King
39. ______Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine.
40. ______Pamphlet mentioned in #39 encouraged this.
41. ______This person was the primary writer of the Declaration of Independence.
42. ______Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.
43. ______Jefferson used whose natural rights as foundations for the Declaration?
44. ______This treaty ended the American Revolution.
45. ______The first national government of the US – created in 1776.
46. ______The Articles outlined a weak ______govt.
47. ______The Articles outlined a stronger ______govt.
48. ______Passed by Congress under the Articles. Established steps for statehood for land around the Ohio River.
49. ______Passed by Congress under the Articles. Est. townships from western land and set aside part of that land for the establishment of schools.
50. ______This event was led by angry farmers and exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
51. ______What was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention
52. ______The Father of the US Constitution
53. ______Wanted representation in Congress based on population, this satisfied the large states.
54. ______Wanted representation in Congress based on equality, this satisfied the small states.
55. ______This plan settled the conflict over representation in Congress.
56. ______The Great Compromise gave us what kind of legislature?
57. ______In the US Congress today, the ____ is based on population and satisfies the Virginia Plan.
58. ______This group opposed the ratification of the US Constitution.
59. ______In the US Congress today, the ____ is based on equality and satisfies the New Jersey Plan
60. ______This compromise settled the dispute for how to count slaves for the purpose of representation in Congress.
61. ______what settled the compromise for how to elect the president.
62. ______This group supported the ratification of the US Constitution
63. ______The anti-federalists wanted a stronger ______govt.
64. ______The federalists wanted a stronger ______govt.
65. ______How many states needed to ratify the US Constitution?
66. ______This was added the US Constitution and led to its ratification
67. ______The first ten amendments to the US Constitution
68. ______These were written by Madison, Hamilton and Jay to persuade others to accept the Constitution.
69. ______form o f government in which the power to rule is held by a small group
70.______form of government in which officials are regarded as divinely inspired
71. ______form of government in which power is held by ruling elite
72. ______Enlightenment thinker who wrote the text ‘the Social Contract’ and majority rule
73. ______Enlightenment thinker who was in favor of separation of powers and checks and balances.
74. ______ways to help community without being paid
75. ______loose configuration of states joined for mutual benefit
76. ______political theory where immigrants assimilate into a new cultural identity
77. ______political theory where people retain ‘old world’ culture and ‘new world’ identity simultaneously.
78. ______First representative assembly in the new world
79. ______Written by the pilgrims and included the ideas of self-government and majority rule
80. ______These are guaranteed to you the day you are born
81. ______Term for government’s power comes from the consent of the governed
82. ______Term from dividing power amongst different branches of government
83.______Term from the concept that the government in not above the law and therefore is limited in its power
84. ______A form of government in which the leader has absolute power and authority, usually taken by force
85. ______Term for the movement of non-native people into a country in order to settle there
86. ______Term for conferring upon an alien the rights and privileges of a citizen.