Semeser 1 Final - Terms

Question 1

Church members elect their leaders

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Congregationalism

Question 2

A law passed the required parents to get education for their children.

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Act of 1642

Question 3

A movement the rekindled the spiritual life of the colonies.

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Great Awakening

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Rights that cannot be given by government but given by God.

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Unalienable Right

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Any system of public rule or authority.

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Government

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Marring God’s image

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Human Depravity

Question 7

Conformity to a standard

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Righteousness

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The opposite of dictatorship

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Popular Government

Question 9

That power resides on regional governments

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Confederate Government

Question 10

Protects state power from the federal government

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10th Amendment

Question 11

The divisions of a country

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Townships

Question 12

Groups of elites rule a country

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Oligarchy

Question 13

When the people directly effect the government’s policy and actions.

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Direct Democracy

Question 14

Ruled by one person with supreme authority.

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Autocracy

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Absence of government

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Anarchy

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A government with power divided among national regional and local levels

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Federalism

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When the people directly elect their leader independent of the legislature

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Presidential System

Question 18

Government by the people

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Democracy

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A certain legal procedures enforced to protect the rights of the accused.

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Due Process

Question 20

The first Ten Amendments

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Bill of Rights

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The largest part of all voters who participate in governemnt electives.

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Popular Majority

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All citizens are the same

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Equality

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Largest group of elected officials.

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Representative Majority

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Largest group of the electorate.

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Majority Rule

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The first representative assembly in the new world.

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House of Burgesses

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One of two catalytic events foisted on American colonies by the

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Stamp Act of 1765

Question 27

Active protest in which business is withheld or refused.

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Boycott

Question 28

That was an assembly of American leaders that issued the Declaration of Independence 

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Second Continental Congress

Question 29

Along with Christian political thought, this line of thinking was a major influence on those who created the Declaration of Independence.

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Age of Enlightenment

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Opposed constitution's ratification

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Anti-Federalist

Question 31

Proposed making representation in the lower house based upon state population 

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The Great Compromise

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Body of early American leaders that created the government we have today. 

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Constitutional Convention

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Body of early American leaders that drafted a propsoal to meet and create a new government 

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Annapolis Convention

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Supported the ratification of the constitution

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Federalist

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1st Amendment

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Freedom of Expression

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3rd Amendment

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No quartering of troops

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5th Amendment

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Rights of the accused are protected

Question 38

7th Amendment

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Rights of the citizens in civil trials

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9th Amendment

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Unspecified rights of the people. 

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10th Amendment

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Reserved rights of the state's

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12th Amendment

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Separate ballast for president and vice-president.

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14th Amendment

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Citizenship Defined

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16th Amendment

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Income Tax

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18th Amendment

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National Prohibition

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The principle that government is formed by the consent of the governed 

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Social Contract