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| What is an indentured servant? |
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| A person who agrees to act as a slave-like sevant for a limited period of time |
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| When did a person become an indentured servant? |
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| When somebody poor wanted to move to America but couldn't afford the trip over |
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| Who wrote the Declaration of Independance and when? |
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| Thomas Jefferson, in 1776 |
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| What were the The Articles of Confederation? |
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| (1781-1789) A lame early attempt at a Constitution for the United States |
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| What does the word "federal" mean? |
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| A country run by a king or queen |
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| An English political philosopher whose writing influenced Jefferson, John Adams, and other founders |
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| What was the Rule of Law? |
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| (John Locke) the idea that the law treats everybody equally, whether you are rich or poor, president or transient, justice is blind and doesn't take sides |
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| What was the Social Contract? |
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| (John Locke) The idea that we all agree to live in groups (societies), but in order to do so , we agree to give up certain freedoms. In exchange, we get the Rule of Law. |
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| What was the Great Compromise? |
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| The Decision at the Constitutional Convention (1787) to have our legislature split up into two houses-the Senate and the House of Representatives |
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| Explain what the Magna Carta was. |
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| In England (1215) King John was taxing the nobles all over the place. They got mad and had a war with King John. They won and forced King John to sign a document called Magna Carta, which surrendered 25% of his power. |
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| Where and when did the Glorious Revolution take place? |
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| What was the Glorious Revolution? |
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| another fight between the king of England and Parliament. This one was over religious arguements following the Protestant Reformation. King loses 40% of his power. |
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| What are the 3 branches of th U.S. Federal government? |
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1.the Executive (president)
2.the Judicial (Supreme Court)
3. the Legislature (Congress) |
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| What did the Declaratipn of Independence serve as? |
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| the U.S.'s official announcement that it was breaking up with England |
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| What did the Declaration of Indendence list? |
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| the reasons why the colonists were mad and explained what the things that the colonists thought a good government should be like |
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| What does the "Consent of the Governed"(Declaration of Indepenence) mean? |
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| We have governments to protects these rights and governments get their fair powers from the agreement of the people |
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| What is the regular language verison of the Declaration of Independence? |
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| When it becomes necessary for some people to break up with their country and make a new country (which they have the right to do) and they want other countries to like their new country, they should explain why they broke up. We think the next couple things are obvious-1. Everybody is equal 2. everybody is born with rights, three biggies; A. you should feel safe, B. you should be able to be mostly free, C. you should be able to try to be happy. |
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| The Olive Branch Petition was what? |
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| a letter from the Second Continental Congress that attempted to make peace with England (1775, just after the battle of Lexington Green) |
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| Explain what Valley Forge is. |
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| the place that Washington and an army of 11,000 camped during the Revolution (winter of1777-78) |
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| What happened at Valley Forge? |
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| 2,500 soldiers dies because of the cold, disease and starvation |
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| What was the Three Fifths Compromise? |
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| The desision to count three fifths of a countries slave population when a state was figuring out how many people they could send to the House of Represtentatives |
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| How many people does each state send to the Senate? |
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| How many people does each state send to the House of Representatives? |
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| it depends on that states population |
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| What is Checks and Balances? |
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| the idea that each of the three branches of the federal government should have power over the other two branches |
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| what power does the Supreme Court have over Congress? |
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| it can declare laws unconstitutional and they disappear in a puff of green smoke |
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| Tell me about Ben Franklin before the Revolution. |
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-Oldest most famous, most super awsome of the founding fathers
-69 at the time start of the Revolution
-printer, published a number of newspapers including the hugely popular Poor Richard's Almanac
-also a scientist, inventor, politicician, musician, librarian, postmaster general all around super dude
-lived in philadelphia |
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| Who was Jeferson and what did he do during and after the Revolution? |
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A rich, Virginia tobacco planter. also a lawyer.
During Revolution:in the second continental congress wrote the Decllaration of Independance
After:washington's Sec.of state, our third president and the leader of the anti-federalist or Democratic Rebublic |
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