VOCAB REVIEW

Question 1

Country party has best strategy and opportunity to preserve liberty against the “Court party”

Answer 1

Commonwealth Ideology

Question 2

citizens of the political state govern themselves rather than submit to a monarch, despot, oligarchy

Answer 2

Republic

Question 3

The people choose

Answer 3

Democracy

Question 4

Rule of Law: Laws should apply equally to all

Answer 4

Generality

Question 5

laws should not punish behavior that was legal at the time

Answer 5

Prospectivity

Question 6

Law must be known and published before people can obey or disobey it.

Answer 6

Publicity

Question 7

Law must be generally acceptable by those who live them

Answer 7

Consent

Question 8

When laws are applied they must be administered impartially

Answer 8

Due Process

Question 9

Dividing powers between national and state governments

Answer 9

Federalism

Question 10

Power of Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of laws

Answer 10

Judicial Review

Question 11

Founded the Democratic-Republican Party and promoted the idea of a small federal government.

Answer 11

Thomas Jefferson

Question 12

Economic regulations passed by British Parliament to enforce trade regulations in the colonies: all trade had to go through British or colonial merchants and be shipped in British or colonial ships with the end goal to generate large exports from England, with a few imports, so that gold and silver would floew into the motherland

Answer 12

Navigation Acts

Question 13

British Government outlaws Westward expansion

Answer 13

Proclamation line of 1763

Question 14

Required purchase of govt. stamps for a variety of legal and comerical documents, became the most infamout of the tax squables

Answer 14

Stamp Act

Question 15

The declaration stated that Parliament’s authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament’s authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies.

Answer 15

Declaratory Act of 1766

Question 16

British troops fire into crowd of colonists, kill five, John Adams defends soldiers

Answer 16

Boston Massacre

Question 17

Known for “give me liberty or give me death” speech in Virginia House of Burgesses, was an Anti-Fed who pushed for a bill of rights to be added to the Constitution after its ratification

Answer 17

Patrick Henry

Question 18

The battle after the crossing of the Delaware, Continental army agains hessians, all hessians captured. Huge turning point in war

Answer 18

Battle of Trenton

Question 19

Battle that ended British Hudson River campaign, convinced French to enter the war.

Answer 19

Battle of Saratoga

Question 20

free slaves at some date in future and prohibit additions to slavery. Cannot be considered seriously in U.S.

Answer 20

Gradual emancipation

Question 21

See Abigal Adams

Answer 21

Abigal Adams

Question 22

A legislature in which there are two separate divisions or houses

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Bicameral legislature

Question 23

established religious freedom

Answer 23

virginia act for establishing religious freedom

Question 24

called for the governmental development of the west based on creating self giverning republics that would be systematically added to the Union

Answer 24

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Question 25

convention that organized constitutional convention (5 states met here)

Answer 25

Annapolis convention

Question 26

was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787

Answer 26

Shays Rebellion

Question 27

Governor of Virginia and delegate to the Constitutional Convention, refused to sign the Constitution in Philly, but later was instrumental in persuading Virginia leadership to ratify it.

Answer 27

Edmund Randolph

Question 28

New Jersey rep at the Const. Convo who presented the NJ Plan, which gave equal rep to states regardless of size or population

Answer 28

William Patterson

Question 29

Conneticut delegate to te Const. Convo that prposed the great compromise of one legislative house having proportional rep while the other had equal rep.

Answer 29

Roger Sherman

Question 30

when the selection of govt. officials is distanced from direct election by the people in order to protect against mob rule and public whim. filters include indirect election, time between elections, and size of representative regions

Answer 30

Filtered Consent

Question 31

The written listing of the powers of govt.

Answer 31

Enumeration