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SS Quiz 2
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Term | Definition |
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | The 1st written constitution in the English Colonies, written in 1639, & expanded the idea of representative government. |
Indentured Servant | People who signed a contract to work for 5 to 7 years for whoever paid their passage money to the New World and after that period they were freed. |
New England Town Meeting | Citizens got together and directly made the laws they were to live by- this was an example of direct democracy (self government) in the British Colonies. |
House of Burgesses | The 1st representative assembly in the British Colonies, started in Virginia in 1619, and was modeled after Parliament-Britain's law-making body. |
Dates of American Revolution | From 1775-1783 |
Frontier | The land Between areas occupied by European settlers & lands still occupied by Native Americans |
French & Indian War | At the end of the ______? Britain faced 2 major problems- 1st Britain needed money 2nd Native American discontent |
"No Taxation without Representation" | Instead of British Parliament taxing the colonies, colonists said that only colonists or their representatives had the right to pass colonial taxes |
Thomas Jefferson | He wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the third US president |
Constitution | The document which defines the supreme law of our country, written in 1787, went into effect in 1789, and has been the government of the US for over 200 years |
Northwest Ordinance | The federal law passed in 1787 which allowed a territory to become a state equal with the original 13 states once it had 60,000 free citizens |
James Madison | The "Father of the US Constitution" who took complete notes of the proceedings at the Constitutional Convention and was the 4th President |
Three-Fifths Compromise | One major problem for the Constitutional Convention was concerning how to count the slave population in a state in deciding the number of representatives each deciding to count only 3/5th of the slave population in each state |
Great Compromise | The Constitutional Convention decided that in the House of Representatives the number of representatives each state gets is based upon a state's population. In the Senate each state gets two senators. |
Republic | A nation in which the voters elect representatives to govern them. |
Federalism | US government is based upon a sharing of power between the three levels - federal, state, and local governments |
System of Checks & Balances | Each of the 3 branches (executive, legislative, and judicial) has some way to control and be controlled by the other two branches so that no one branch becomes too powerful |
Who Has the power to declare war? | Only CONGRESS has the power to declare war under the Constitution |
First Ten Amendments | These are also known as the Bill of Rights, these amendments were added to list the rights of the people and to protect individual liberties |
Reserved Powers | The Constitution states that "powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved for the states and the people" |
Concurrent Powers | The powers that are shared between the federal & state governments, for example, both have the power to collect taxes. |
How is the number of representatives from each stated decided for the House of Representatives? | The number of representatives a state gets in the House of Representatives depends on the number of people or population in that state |
What is the most cherished control exercised by the House of Representatives? | All money bills (appropriation bills) must be first introduced into the House of Representatives |