What form of government does the US use?
o :## Representative Democracy
What was one of the main reasons the English colonists came to the New World?
o :## Land Acquisition, religious persecution, political liberty, economic opportunity
What rights are stated in the Declaration of Independence?...
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What form of government does the US use?
o :## Representative Democracy
What was one of the main reasons the English colonists came to the New World?
o :## Land Acquisition, religious persecution, political liberty, economic opportunity
What rights are stated in the Declaration of Independence?
o :## life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
What were the reasons the colonists separated from England?
o :## Five reasons the American colonists separated from Britain are the Proclamation of 1763,
the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and the Quartering Act.
How did the French and Indian War (1763) affect the colonists?
o :## changed the relationship between England and its American colonies in that its outcome
eliminated the colonies' need for the British military and led to the Proclamation of 1763, the
Quartering Act, and various taxes, all of which angered the colonists and contributed to the
American Revolution
What was the Virginia House of Burgesses?
o :## The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English
colonists in North America.
What are the three branches of the US government?
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o :## Executive, Legislative, Judicial
What is the system of checks and balance of the US government?
o :## stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful. This means that each
branch can block, or threaten to block, the actions of the other branches
What are the three levels of the US government?
o :## local, state, federal
What are the powers of Congress?
o :## 1. taxing
2. printing money
3. declaring war
What are the powers of the president?
o :## Commander of military, nominate Federal judges, ambassadors, and other high ranking
officials, negotiate treaties, Pardon citizens (forgive a crime), Represent the United States for
other countries
What are the powers of the Supreme Court?
o :## Declare laws unconstitutional and declare presidential acts unconstitutional, interpret the
meaning of a law, to decide whether a law is relevant to a particular set of facts, or to rule on
how a law should be applied
What was the "Great Compromise"?
o :## Small-state delegates demanded, with comparable intensity, that all states be equally
represented in both houses. Also called Connecticut Compromise of 1787
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How are the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate chosen?
o :## Directly elected by the public
How are the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate allocated?
o :## After extensive debate, the framers of the Constitution agreed to create the House with
representation based on population and the Senate with equal representation. 2 Senators
from each state and Representatives based off of population
What is the process of Presidential succession?
o :## If the President of the United States is incapacitated, dies, resigns, is for any reason
unable to hold his/her office, or is removed from office, he/she will be replaced in the
following order: Vice President. Speaker of the House. President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
What is the Electoral College?
o :## A body of electors who represent the people's vote in choosing the president.
What is gerrymandering?
o :## when a political group tries to change a voting district to create a result that helps them
or hurts the group who is against them. It is named after Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814).
Proclamation of 1763
o :## A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling
west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the
mountains to move back east.
Sugar Act of 1764
o :## An act that raised tax revenue in the colonies for the crown. It also increased the duty on
foreign sugar imported from the West Indies.
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