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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the New England colonies? | Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New Hampshire |
| What are the Middle colonies? | New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware |
| What are the southern colonies? | North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Virginia Maryland |
| What was big in the New England colonies? | ship building fur trapping whaling lumber |
| What was big in the Middle colonies? | cattle farming cash crops saw mills mines factories |
| What was big in the Southern colonies? | slaves cash crops fishing plantations |
| what is the Magna Carta? When was it written? | the "great charter" that protected the nobility's rights and gave land owners rights 1215 |
| What is common law? | the idea of precedent, or making court decisions based on earlier cases |
| What is the English bill of Rights? What year was it written? | a further restriction to a monarch's power -elections to parliament -right to a fair trial -no cruel and unusual punishment 1689 |
| What did John Locke think? | All people are born free, equal, and independent everyone has natural rights to life, liberty, and property that no government can take away |
| What did Rousseau think? | people have the right to determine how they should be governed social contracts |
| what did Montesquieu think? | government should have a separation (or balance) of powers so that no one branch can threaten an individual's rights |
| What is the Virginia House of Burgesses? | the first representative assembly/ legislature in the colonies founded in 1619 |
| What is the Mayflower Compact? | a written plan for government created on the Mayflower signed by 41 of the male passengers in 1620 |
| what is mercantilism? | the idea that a country should export more than it imports |
| what is Bacon's rebellion? | When Nathaniel Bacon and other farmers were upset the Virginian government would not give them native American lands so they attacked the colonial government |
| what is Shay's rebellion? (1786-87) | Daniel Shay and many other farmers were in debt because of high taxes after the war, the Massachusetts government threatened to take his farm so he gathered a group of 1,200 armed farmers and led them against a federal arsenal |
| why did Daniel Shay rebel against the government? | he felt the government had no right to punish him for a problem they created |
| Who was Thomas Paine? | the writer of the revolutionary pamphlet "Common Sense" he called for America to free itself from the British tyranny |
| who was Thomas Jefferson? | a delegate of the Continental Congress from Virginia main author of the Declaration of Independence 2nd president |
| What were the battles of Lexington and Concord? | the first 2 battles of the revolutionary war in Massachusetts "shot heard round the world" |
| What were some weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? | - no executive or judicial branches -9/13 states have to approve of a bill for it to become a law - federal government cannot collect taxes -federal government cannot create an army -states regulate their own trade and taxes |
| what was the 3/5 compromise? | the north said slaves were not people south said they were 3 slaves equals 5 people |
| what is the electoral college? | a group of people elected by each state's legislature that selects the president and vice president |
| What is the bill of rights? | the first 10 amendments to the constitution |
| who were the federalists? | a political party that wanted a strong national government and to divide power between the state and national government |
| who were the anti-federalists? | a political party that did not want a large national government, more power given to the states, and a bill of rights |
| what was the Great (Connecticut) compromise? | 2 houses in congress 1 with equal state representation 1 with representation based on a state's population |
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