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soc st review set 2
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | the first written constitution in the English Colonies, written in 1639 and 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 first representative assembly in the British colonies, started in Virginia in 1619, and was modeled after Parliament, Britain's law making body |
| Dates of the American Revolution | from 1775 to 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 French and Indian war, Britain faced two major problems - Britain needed money, and 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 tax colonists |
| 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 fourth president |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | how to count the slave population in a state, deciding the number of representatives each would have in the House. The 3/5th Compromise resolved the issue by deciding to count only 3/5th's 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 on a state's population. In the senate, each state gets 2 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 of government - federal, state, and local |
| System of Checks and Balances | Each of the 3 branches of government has some way to control and be controlled by the other 2 branches so that no one branch becomes too powerful |
| Who has the power to declare war? | Congress |
| 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 | powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved for the states and the people |
| Concurrent Powers | the powers that are shared between both the federal and state governments, for example, both have the power to collect taxes |
| How is the number of representatives from each state decided for the House of Representatives? | The number of representatives a state gets in the House 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 |
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