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8th Grade
11/05/2009

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Northwest Passage
Definition
Water route through North America
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Reason Spanish came to New World
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Gold
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Triangular Trade
Definition
Atlantic trade route with three stops
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Most important cash crop
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Tobacco
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Parliment
Definition
Great Britian's chief lawmaking body
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Salutary Neglect
Definition
Ignoring the Colonies but still being in charge of them
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2 effects of French and India War
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British in debt but the controlled the land east of the Mississipi River
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Proclamation of 1763
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Forbid settlement west of the Appalachian
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Boston Massacre
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Riot between colonists and British Soldiers
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The Stamp Act
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First tax the British made for the colonies
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Boston Tea party
Definition
Son's of Liberty tossed tea into Boston Harbor
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Intolerable Acts
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Acts British passed because of the Boston Tea Party
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Lexington and Concord
Definition
First shots of the Revolutionary War
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Patriots
Definition
Americans who supported independence
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Loyalists
Definition
AMericans who wanted British rule
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Document stating why Americans wanted separation from the British
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Declaration of Independence
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Saratoga
Definition
Battle that was the turning point in the war that led to French intervention
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Yorktown
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Battle that ended the Revolutionary War
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Continental Congress
Definition
Wrote the Articles of Confederation
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Level of government with the most power under the Articles of Confederation
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State Government
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Only branch of government under the Articles of Confederation
Definition
Legislative Branch
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Northwest Ordinance
Definition
action that set a pattern for orderly growth when admitting new states to union
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Shays Rebellion
Definition
Uprising of debt-ridden farmers in Massachusettes
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Why was the Constitutional Convention necessary?
Definition
Articles of Confederation was too weak
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Who was the "Father of the Constitution"?
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James Madison
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President of the Constitutional Convention
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George Washington
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1st to suggest a 3 branch government and a 2 house legislature
Definition
The Virginia Plan
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The Great Compromise
Definition
combined ideas from both the New Jersey and Virginia plan for representation in congress
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Three Fifths Compromise
Definition
handled the issue of taxes and representation of slaves in Congress
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Federalism
Definition
Political system in which power is shared by the states and a national government
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Federalists
Definition
People who wanted to ratify the Constitution without a Bill of Rights
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Anti-Federalists
Definition
People who wanted a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution before ratification
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Three branches of United States Government
Definition
Executive, Legislative, and Judicial
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Purpose of Checks and Balances
Definition
To limit power of each branch of government
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3 qualifications needed to become President
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Natural-born citizen, 35 years old, lived in US for at least 14 years
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Which branch of government can declare war?
Definition
Legislative branch
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Electoral College
Definition
The group that officially elects the President
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How do you change the Constitution today?
Definition
Amendments
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Purpose of the Bill of Rights
Definition
Protect citizens from the national government
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Three 1st Amendment rights
Definition
freedom of speech, freedom of relgion, freedom of assembly
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Name 3 weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Definition
National Government couldn't make taxes, only Legislative branch, states made the money, no army
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Length of a Presidental term
Definition
4 years
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