All of em here

Question 1

What does government mean

Answer 1

make decisions for a society

Question 2

What doe politics mean

Answer 2

way people select their leaders and the policies government pursues

Question 3

John Locke ideas

Answer 3

Government should protect peoples rights and if they fail they should be abolished

Question 4

Baron de Montesquieu

Answer 4

Separation of powers and checks and balances

Question 5

Magna Carta

Answer 5

King is not above the law

Question 6

New England religious?, people, and economy

Answer 6

very religious, puritans/pilgrims, shipbuilding

Question 7

Middle religion, people, economy

Answer 7

Diverse, Quakers, Breads, fur,

Question 8

Southern Colonies

Answer 8

Baptist, cash crops, plantations, tobacco

Question 9

what happened in the french and indian war

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 10

No settling west of Miss… it was natives land. Not enforced and colonist did it anyways

Question 11

Mercantilism

Answer 11

Colonies provide for the motherland and the motherland makes lots of money selling the goods.

Question 12

Why did Britain tax USA

Answer 12

Cuz they were in dept after the French and Indian War

Question 13

How did the colonist respond to this

Answer 13

They rebled and many acts happened.

Question 14

They went to war and what was the petition for a separation called

Answer 14

Olive Branch Petition

Question 15

After loosing to the British at Bunker Hill who wrote “_______” as a motivation for the colonist

Answer 15

Thomas Paine, common sense

Question 16

DOI was written and pulled idea from what main enlightenment person.

Answer 16

John Locke

Question 17

After revolution they came together to make the ______

Answer 17

Articles of Confederation

Question 18

What are some problems with the AOC

Answer 18

Not united, every state had one vote regardless of population, also made the us weaker because it was so separate.

Question 19

What was the wakeup call to get rid of the AOC

Answer 19

Shays Rebellion

Question 20

How did shays rebellion prove that the AOC wasn’t working.

Answer 20

It showed that the central government could barely handle a rebellion and could never handle a type of war. Central gov was jus weak

Question 21

The constitutional convention did what

Answer 21

brought together all of the states besides RI and they came to an agreement that the AOC was not going to work

Question 22

A few compromises came in to play they included….

Answer 22

Great Compromise, 3/5 Compromise, Commerce Compromise, and Electoral College Compromise

Question 23

Great compromise

Answer 23

Three branches of government and they would have a senate, HOR

Question 24

3/5 compromise

Answer 24

slaves only counted as 3/5 of a person

Question 25

Commerce compromise

Answer 25

Congress would deal with foreign and interstate state trade and slave trade but only for 20 years

Question 26

electoral college

Answer 26

Each state had a specific amount of elected legislators to represent them based off of population

Question 27

Few individual rights were added so they added the…..

Answer 27

Bill of Rights

Question 28

Federalsim

Answer 28

Power divided between state and central government

Question 29

Special Sessions

Answer 29

Held in emmergancy

Question 30

Join Sessions

Answer 30

House and Senate meet together

Question 31

Speaker of the House

Answer 31

Most powerful in the house in charge of floor

Question 32

President Pro Tempore

Answer 32

Chairperson of the Senate

Question 33

floor leaders

Answer 33

try to help out their party on the floor

Question 34

Party Whip

Answer 34

Support the floor leaders

Question 35

Standing committees

Answer 35

Permanant committees that help with lots of things

Question 36

Fillibuster

Answer 36

Senator stalls out a bill to prevent a vote

Question 37

cloture

Answer 37

can make the senator shut up if 3/4 agree