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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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