Civics Chapter 2 Flashcards
. What major influence of the new American government would limit the power of the monarch by guaranteeing that no body would be above the law?
Magna Carta
What is the name of the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys?
Mercantilism
What type of government could the Mayflower Compact be best known as?
Direct Democracy
Which policy forced the American colonies to sell raw materials to England for cheap prices and forced them to buy back at higher prices?
British Mercantilism
What levied taxes on goods imported to the colonies?
Townshend Acts of 1767
What event caused Parliament to pass the Intolerable Act?
The Boston Tea Party
Who was responsible for writing the Articles of Confederation?
Delegates at the Second Continental Congress
What was a large weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
It did not give National Government enough power
What is the name of the pamphlet where Thomas Paine argues for complete independence from England?
Common Sense
US’s first official government could be best described as what?
Confederation
What was main complaint of early American colonists.
No taxation without representation
Virginia House of Burgesses can be known as the first of what?
Representative assembly
Thomas Jefferson was the main author of what?
Declaration of Independence
What could not be amended without an agreement of all 13 states?
Articles of confederation
What incident resulted in the realization of the failings of the Articles of Confederation?
Shay’s rebellion
Boycotting British goods was a colonist protest in response to what?
Stamp Act of 1765
State government ultimately head political power under what?
Articles of Confederation
How many states would it require to pass a law under the Articles of Confederation?
9 states
Common law often deals with what?
Property, contracts and personal injury
When Parliament allowed the British East India Company to import tea with no taxes the colonists considered this a violation of what?
Equity law
Constitutional law is known as America what?
Bedrock
What is the name of the event where England parliament became more powerful than the king.
The Glorious revolution
What was the purpose of the snake cartoon created by Benjamin franklin?
To unite the colonies
