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Unit 2 Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| government in which all citizen vote on the laws and run the government | direct democracy |
| government in which citizens ELECT representatives to make governments decisions for then | republic |
| an emperor who had roman laws organized into a code (book of laws) | fustian |
| english philosopher who developed the idea of social contract. | john locker |
| philosopher who said the the best way to limit government is to separate power. | montesquew |
| document in England ( 1215) that increase peoples rights we borrowed the idea of rile of the law from this document | magma carta |
| first written code of laws.. | the code of Hammurabi |
| the idea that the human beings are born with certain rights these rights are called unalienable rights in our declaration of independence . | naturals rights |
| idea found in magma carta that says citizen and the government must obey laws | rule of the law |
| a decision made in a court case that is used to decide future cases. | precedent |
| body of laws based on court decision instead of written laws, borrowed this idea from England | common law |
| a group of legislators who made the laws in England | parliames |
| legislative (lawmaking) body in the united states today | congres |
| a religious group who came to a new world on the mayflower so they could have a religious freedom | pilgrams |
| agreement signed by the pilgrims that create a direction democracy for the plymouth colony | may flower compact |
| first government in Jamestown Virginia it was a form of representative democrazy | house of Burgess |
| the economy of these colonies shipping trading fishing | new England |
| the economy of these colonies lumber small farms | middle colonies |
| the economy of the colonies agriculture large plantation cotton tobacco | southern colonies |
| large farm inthe south many of this farms had slaves | plantations |
| route between europe africa and the americas in which many different goods were traded | triangular trade route |
| this mean to disagree | disent |
| this mean to agree | assent |
| search warrants that allowed the British to search whatever they wanted for whatever reason | Quentering |
| teh shot fired in lexington between british troops and colonial militia started revolutionary war. | Boston masacre |
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