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Slavery:
-slaves should count when determining a state's population and its number of representatives
-Slaves should count in deciding a state's share of federal taxes
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| What did the founding fathers take in consideration while making the three fifths compromise? |
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| What event happened in 1765? What person was the most important in this event? |
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| What event happened in 1770? What person was the most important in this event? |
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| Boston Massacre, Crispus Attucks OR John Adams |
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| What did the first three articles of the US Constitution reflect the principle of? |
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| Why did early English colonists of North America settle near rivers? (at least 3 reasons) |
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| crops, food, drinking (if fresh water), transportation, and easy trade |
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| What kind of colony was the Virginia colony? |
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| The Plymouth colony was established primarily by settlers who wanted...? |
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| Explain a representative government. |
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People elect the representatives...
They make the laws....
Representatives conduct the government on behalf of the people. |
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| What year did Washington and his troops flee NY? |
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| What year did Americans win the battle of Saratoga? |
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| What year did the British capture Charleston? |
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| What year did the surrender at Yorktown happen? |
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| What year did the Americans and British sign the treaty of Paris? |
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| The surrender at Yorktown |
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| What are all of the rights stated in the first amendment? |
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| speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition |
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| rights that cannot be taken away |
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| people who defended the colonists (INDEPENDENCE) |
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| People who supported the British |
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| Essays that explained and defended the Constitution |
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| called for counting 3/5 of the slave population for representation and taxation |
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| admits states as equal states when they enter the union |
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| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
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| Alexander Hamilton favored a strong federal government bc he believed it would benefit the economy. What are 2 examples of what Hamilton believed. |
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| industrial economy, FREE ENTERPRISE |
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| Why was Jamestown a successful colony? |
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| tobacco (fertile soil), and the working & eating policy |
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| How does the Amendment Process work? |
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| 2/3 house and senate & 3/4 of state legislatures vote a new amendment through |
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| Representation in the House of Representatives is based on ______________ . Senate ________ . |
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| What were the six problems of the Articles of Confederation? |
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| inflation, no $$, taxes, quarreling, disrespect from other countries, and Shay's Rebellion |
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| Why were the Bill of Rights added to the US Constitution? |
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| What country did Ben Franklin convince to support George Washington's Continental army? |
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| What were 3 of Thomas Jefferson's accomplishments? |
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| Louisiana Purchase, University of Virginia, President, writer of Statute of religious freedoms, and the Declaration of Independence |
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| 1819, the first representative assembly in the American colonies |
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| company that financed Jamestown expedition and founded the House of Burgesses |
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| the right to say wrongs of the government freely (First Amendment) |
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| a 1215 document granting all rights to English people |
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| turning point in the American Revolution which got France to support the Continental Army |
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| the residents vote to decide an issue |
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| business cannot be conducted freely based on choices of individuals (supported by Alexander Hamilton) |
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| ability of each branch of government to check each other |
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| pamphlet by Thomas Paine that supported the Revolution |
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| British order forbidding colonists to settle west of the Appalachians |
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| agreement signed by Pilgrims to obey colony laws |
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| British tax on imported sugar/molasses |
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| Law that taxed by many printed material in the colonies |
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| What did the colonists argue that the sugar and stamp act were? |
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| taxation without representation |
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| conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which 5 colonists were killed including Crispus Attucks |
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| What type of colony did New England have? |
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| What type of colony did the middle colony have? |
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| What type of economy did the Southern Colonies have? |
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| tobacco growing/plantaion |
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