STAAR Quiz Week 2

This branch of government interprets the laws.  The Supreme Court makes up this branch of government.

• Judicial Branch
• Legislative Branch
• Executive Branch

Separation of Powers

• interprets the laws
• divides the powers of the government into 3 branches
• makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.

Checks and Balances

• Interprets the laws.
• Divides the powers of government into 3 branches
• makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.

Federalism

• power is shared between the states and national government
• power of the government is restricted by the U.S. Constitution
• system where people vote for elected representatives to run the government

Limited Government

• power is shared between the states and the national government
• the power of the government is restricted by the U.S. Constitution
• A system where people vote for elected representatives to run the government.

Republicanism

• power is shared between the states and the national government
• power of the government is restricted by the U.S. Constitution
• system where people vote for elected representatives to run the government.

This document represented an early form of colonial self-government and an early form of a written constitution.

• Mayflower Compact 
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• Virginia House of Burgesses
• Proclamation of 1763

Drafted by the settlers in the Connecticut River colony in 1639, it was the first written constitution in the colonies establishing a democratic government controlled by citizens.

• Mayflower Compact
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• Virginia House of Burgesses
• Proclamation of 1763

First representative assembly in the American Colonies, established in 1619. Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington were delegates.

• Mayflower Compact
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• Virginia House of Burgesses
• Intolerable Acts

Law from King George III, to prevent further Indian attacks, colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Mayflower Compact
• Proclamation of 1763
• Mercantilism
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut