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Why did explorers search for a northwest passage to asia?

• To shorten the return trip from america to europe

• Hoped it would led to the golden cities in the Americans

• For a direct water route from North America to asia

• For a major route from Mexico City to Lima

A tax on the money people earn

• Income tax

• Excise Tax

• Property tax

• Sales Tax

The first 10 amendments to the constitution are called?

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of confederations

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Each of the 3 branches limits, or restrains the exercise by power by the other two branches so that no branch becomes powerful.

• Veto Process

• Bicameral

• Checks & Balences

• Federalism

Virginia's first law in body and first attempt at representative government

• Habeus Corpus

• Constitution

• House of Burgess

• Mayflower Compact

Lincoln ordered a blockade and Charleston south to:

• Keep southerners from escaping the north

• Keep a closer watch on the south

• Catch seafood along the coast

• Keep the south from getting any supplies

Why was popular sovereignty so important in the civil war?

• People living in a new territory could decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether to have slavery or not

• If you didn't want to vote in another state, you didn't have to

• People wanted to vote but were in another state than the one you lived in could vote without signing papers

• To vote, you could send a letter of who you wanted to vote for

Overall rise in the price in goods

• Suffrage

• Income tax

• Inflation

• Opportunity cost

The trade the allowed the movement of goods, people, and materials among the continents during early european exploration.

• Triangular trade

• Continental trade

• European trade

• Slave trade

Colonists refused to buy British goods and refused businesses with certain companies. This is an example of

• Boycott

• Militia

• Loyalist

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