All of em here Flashcards
What does government mean
make decisions for a society
What doe politics mean
way people select their leaders and the policies government pursues
John Locke ideas
Government should protect peoples rights and if they fail they should be abolished
Baron de Montesquieu
Separation of powers and checks and balances
Magna Carta
King is not above the law
New England religious?, people, and economy
very religious, puritans/pilgrims, shipbuilding
Middle religion, people, economy
Diverse, Quakers, Breads, fur,
Southern Colonies
Baptist, cash crops, plantations, tobacco
what happened in the french and indian war
F and I won, King sent troops and a treaty of Paris was signed, Britain got E of Miss… and Spain got W of Miss… France got some islands
Proclamation of 1763
No settling west of Miss… it was natives land. Not enforced and colonist did it anyways
Mercantilism
Colonies provide for the motherland and the motherland makes lots of money selling the goods.
Why did Britain tax USA
Cuz they were in dept after the French and Indian War
How did the colonist respond to this
They rebled and many acts happened.
They went to war and what was the petition for a separation called
Olive Branch Petition
After loosing to the British at Bunker Hill who wrote “_______” as a motivation for the colonist
Thomas Paine, common sense
DOI was written and pulled idea from what main enlightenment person.
John Locke
After revolution they came together to make the ______
Articles of Confederation
What are some problems with the AOC
Not united, every state had one vote regardless of population, also made the us weaker because it was so separate.
What was the wakeup call to get rid of the AOC
Shays Rebellion
How did shays rebellion prove that the AOC wasn’t working.
It showed that the central government could barely handle a rebellion and could never handle a type of war. Central gov was jus weak
The constitutional convention did what
brought together all of the states besides RI and they came to an agreement that the AOC was not going to work
A few compromises came in to play they included….
Great Compromise, 3/5 Compromise, Commerce Compromise, and Electoral College Compromise
Great compromise
Three branches of government and they would have a senate, HOR
3/5 compromise
slaves only counted as 3/5 of a person
Commerce compromise
Congress would deal with foreign and interstate state trade and slave trade but only for 20 years
electoral college
Each state had a specific amount of elected legislators to represent them based off of population
Few individual rights were added so they added the…..
Bill of Rights
Federalsim
Power divided between state and central government
Special Sessions
Held in emmergancy
Join Sessions
House and Senate meet together
Speaker of the House
Most powerful in the house in charge of floor
President Pro Tempore
Chairperson of the Senate
floor leaders
try to help out their party on the floor
Party Whip
Support the floor leaders
Standing committees
Permanant committees that help with lots of things
Fillibuster
Senator stalls out a bill to prevent a vote
cloture
can make the senator shut up if 3/4 agree
