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| What was the first government of the U.S.? |
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| The Articles of Confederation |
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| What was the first representative assembly in the English cononies? |
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| The Virginia House of Burgesses |
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| What document was King John forced to sign? In what year? |
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| Who's rebellion made it edvident that the Articles of Confederation needed to be revised? |
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| What is common law based on? |
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| Who was the author of the Decloration of Independence? |
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| Was congress not being able to see the country through the end of the Revooutionary War a weakness of the Articles Government? |
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| Many of the ideas in the Declaration of Independence were drawn from who? |
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| English Philosopher, John Lee |
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| In response to the taxes imposed by the British parlament, many American colonists decided to do what? |
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| What State constitution served as a model for the US constitution? |
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| What was the Southern colony of Georgia set up to be? |
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| A territory for prisoners and criminal outcasts |
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| What was one of the first rules established in Jamestown while building the settlement? |
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| If you don't work you don't eat |
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