JAHKMLHS Topic 2 The Beginnings of American Government
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| Albany Plan of Union | show 🗑
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| Anti-Federalists | show 🗑
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| show | appropriate, correct, fit
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| show | not restrained or limited in the exercise of power
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| show | store of arms or military equipment
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| Articles of Confederation | show 🗑
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| Benjamin Franklin | show 🗑
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| bicameral | show 🗑
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| show | a French political philosopher of the Enlightenment whose major work, The Spirit of Laws, was a major contribution to political theory--separation of powers
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| show | In 1628, when Charles I asked Parliament for more money in taxes, Parliament refused until he agreed to sign the Petition of Right.
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| charter | show 🗑
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| Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise | show 🗑
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| show | the joining of several groups for a common purpose
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| Connecticut Compromise | show 🗑
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| Daniel Shays | show 🗑
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| delegates | show 🗑
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| due process | show 🗑
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| show | a tax on imports
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| show | this document written in 1689 and designed to prevent abuse of power by English monarchs forms the basis for much in American government and politics today
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| envoy | show 🗑
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| show | those persons who supported the ratification of the Constitution in 1787–1788
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| Framers | show 🗑
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| full faith and credit | show 🗑
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| show | the charter which this man requested for a royal charter to establish a colony where he could practice his religion was granted to his son Cecil
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| George Mason | show 🗑
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| George Washington | show 🗑
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| show | events that led to Parliament in 1688 inviting William and Mary of Orange to peacefully replace King James II on condition that they recognize the authority of Parliament and the rights of individuals
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| inauguration | show 🗑
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| James Wilson | show 🗑
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| Jamestown | show 🗑
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| Jean Jacques Rousseau | show 🗑
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| show | defended British officer and soldiers charged with the killings in the Boston Massacre
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| John Jay | show 🗑
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| show | English philosopher whose theories about the natural rights of man, the social contract, the separation of church and state, religious freedom, and liberty influenced the American and French revolutions.
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| show | legal authority
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| King George II | show 🗑
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| show | signed the Magna Carta
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| landmark | show 🗑
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| levy | show 🗑
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| limited government | show 🗑
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| show | guarantees of such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of law (protection against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty, or property).
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| New Jersey Plan | show 🗑
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| Petition of Right | show 🗑
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| show | a government that exists only with the consent of the governed
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| presiding officer | show 🗑
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| show | organized by a proprietor (a person to whom the king had made a grant of land)
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| show | fewest number of members who must be present for a legislative body to conduct business; majority
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| ratification | show 🗑
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| representative government | show 🗑
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| Roger Sherman | show 🗑
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| show | A Founding Father; leader in Boston politics through his writing; delegate to the First and Second Continental congresses and helped draft the Declaration of Rights.
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| show | series of confrontations between debtor farmers and State government authorities in western Massachusetts in 1786–1787
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| Thomas Jefferson | show 🗑
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| show | an agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be added into the population of a State for representation in Congress
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| show | having the approval or consent of all
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| unicameral | show 🗑
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| venture | show 🗑
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| show | chief executive's power to reject a bill passed by a legislature; literally (Latin) "I forbid"
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| show | plan presented at the Constitutional Convention that called for a three-branch government with a bicameral legislature in which each State's membership would be determined by its population or its financial support for the Federal Government
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| show | In 1689, after years of revolt and turmoil, Parliament offered the crown to William and Mary of Orange. The events surrounding their ascent to the throne are known as the Glorious Revolution.
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| show | an important Enlightenment figure who believed in protecting the rights of the innocent, and in basing judgements on common law—that is, on previous decisions about similar issues.
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| show | An English Quaker leader who advocated for religious freedom, Penn (1644–1718) came to North America in 1682 and established the colony of Pennsylvania as a haven for Quakers and other religious minorities.
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