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set #2 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Indentured servant | people who signed a contract to work for 5 - 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 English colonies |
House of Burgesses | the first representative assembly in the British colonies, started in Virginia in 1619, and modeled after Parliament, Britain's law-making body |
dates of the American Revolution | 1775 - 1783 |
frontier | the land between areas occupied by European settlers and lands still occupied by Native Americans |
French and Indian War | At the end of the _______________________ , Britain faced two major problems: 1. Britian needed money 2. Native American discontent. |
Fundamental orders of Connecticut | the 1st written constitution in the English colonies, written in 1639, and expanded the idea of representative government |
"No taxation without representation" | Instead of British Parliament taxing the colonies, colonists said that only colonists or their representative 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 | "Father of the Constitution" who took complete notes of the proceedings at the Constitutional Convention and was the fourth president |
Three-Fifths compromise | One problem for the Constitutional Convention was concerning how to count the slave population in a state. The 3/5th compromise resolved the issue by 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 gets is based on it'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 on a sharing of power between the three levels of governments - federal, state and local |
System of Checks and Balances | each of the 3 branches (executive, legislative, & 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 |
First ten ammendments | 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"f |
Concurrent Powers | the powers that are shared between both the federal and state governments, For example, both have the power to collect taxes |
The number of Representatives a state gets in the House of Representatives depends on ________________________. | the number of people or population in that state. |
The most cherished control exercised by the House of Representatives is that ______________________________ | all money (or appropriation) bills must be first introduced into the House. |