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Water route through North America |
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Reason Spanish came to New World |
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Atlantic trade route with three stops |
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Great Britian's chief lawmaking body |
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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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Forbid settlement west of the Appalachian |
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Riot between colonists and British Soldiers |
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First tax the British made for the colonies |
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Son's of Liberty tossed tea into Boston Harbor |
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Acts British passed because of the Boston Tea Party |
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First shots of the Revolutionary War |
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Americans who supported independence |
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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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Battle that was the turning point in the war that led to French intervention |
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Battle that ended the Revolutionary War |
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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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Only branch of government under the Articles of Confederation |
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action that set a pattern for orderly growth when admitting new states to union |
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Uprising of debt-ridden farmers in Massachusettes |
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Why was the Constitutional Convention necessary? |
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Articles of Confederation was too weak |
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Who was the "Father of the Constitution"? |
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President of the Constitutional Convention |
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1st to suggest a 3 branch government and a 2 house legislature |
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combined ideas from both the New Jersey and Virginia plan for representation in congress |
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handled the issue of taxes and representation of slaves in Congress |
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Political system in which power is shared by the states and a national government |
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People who wanted to ratify the Constitution without a Bill of Rights |
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People who wanted a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution before ratification |
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Three branches of United States Government |
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Executive, Legislative, and Judicial |
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Purpose of Checks and Balances |
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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? |
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The group that officially elects the President |
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How do you change the Constitution today? |
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Purpose of the Bill of Rights |
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Protect citizens from the national government |
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Three 1st Amendment rights |
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freedom of speech, freedom of relgion, freedom of assembly |
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Name 3 weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation |
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National Government couldn't make taxes, only Legislative branch, states made the money, no army |
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Length of a Presidental term |
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