Foundations of US Gov't - Review Unit 1

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Before they started building a settlement, what document did the Pilgrims write to establish self-rule?

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Mayflower Compact

Front

What was the first governing document of the United States (it was unsuccessful and was later replaced)?

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Articles of Confederation

Front

What is the term for the idea that men give up some freedom to the government in exchange for protection?

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Social Contract Theory

Front

Which event dealt with the issue of freedom of press in the American colonies?

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Zenger Trial

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When colonists came here, they began to set up governments based on democratic principles. Of the following documents, list the one that is NOT an example of this: Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, The Pennsylvania Charter.

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The Pennsylvania Charter

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From which document does the following statement sound like it came? "His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges that the said United States viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states." Hint: End of American Revolution.

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Treaty of Paris 1783

Front

How many seats did the colonies ever have in English Parliament? (How much representation did they get (think no taxation without representation)?)

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Zero

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Which answer is the best example of a summary of the following excerpt: "His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges that the said United States viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states."

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America is free from British rule

Front

After the Boston Tea Party, England passed a series of acts as punishments that, among other things, closed the port of Boston. By which two names were these acts known?

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Intolerable/Coercive Acts

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What did Thomas Paine want the colonists to do when he wrote Common Sense?

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Rebel against Great Britain