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1st Semester Exam CSCOPE
Units 1-5 #60-79
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History
8th Grade
01/08/2010

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60. All of the following were included in the Declaration of Indpendence
Definition

Statement of natural rights of man

 

List of grievance against the king

 

a statement that the colonies were no longer part of Britain

Term
61. Which battle is considered a turning piont for the Americans in the RevolutionaryWar?
Definition
Battle of Sartoga
Term

62. ...(Parliament declares) that the pretended power of suspending the laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without the consent of parliament is illegal...

English Bill Of Rights, 1689

 

Which documents expresses the same idea as above?

Definition
Declaration of Independence
Term

63.  1706 Born in Boston.

1732 Published the edition of Poor Richard's Almanac.

1778 Negotiated and signed Treaty of Alliance with France.

1787 Served as delegate to the Philadelphia Convention

1790 Died in Philadelphia

 

The list above describes the life of___________

Definition
Benjamin Franklin
Term

64. WHich of the following might be the least baised account of a battle in the Revolutionary War?

 

A. Patriot's letters

B. Loyalist's painting of the battle

C. Textbook account

D. editorial in the Boston newspaper

Definition
C. Textbook Account
Term
65. Which term means a complaint or resentment?
Definition
Grievance
Term
66. What is the correct term for the type of goverment made up of many parts in which the individual parts retain most of the power and the centralgovernment has very little power?
Definition
Confederation
Term

67. I. Boston Tea Party

II. Townsend Acts

III. Stamp Act

IV. Intolerable Acts

 

Put the above into the correct time sequence._______

Definition
II, III, I, IV
Term
68. The Three-Fifths Compromise at the Constitutional Convention concerned what?
Definition
Countries of slaves and/or Represenative and Taxation
Term

69. "A people deliberating in a temerate moment...on the plan of government most likely to secure their happiness, would first be aware, that those charged with public happiness might betray their trust. An obvious precaution against this danger would be, to divide the trust between different bodies of men."James Madison

 

The excerpt above was most likely written during the_________

Definition
Philadelphia Convention of 1787
Term
70. Which form of democracy was decided upon when the Constitution was written?
Definition
Republic
Term

71. To create this list, Legislator took ideas from the state ratifying convention. They also used the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.

 

To which list is the above statement referring?

Definition
Bill of Rights
Term
72. WHy is the year 1787 so important in the U.S. history?
Definition
THe Constitution was written
Term
73. The Federalist Papers were written to promote_____
Definition
The Constitution
Term
74. Anti-Federalist insisted upon________
Definition
Bill of Rights
Term

75. "For transporting us beyond Sea to be tried for pretended offencess..."

 

The colonial grievance above was addressed in the____

Definition
Bill of Rights
Term
76. What was the result of the great compromise?
Definition
Bicameral Legislature
Term
77. At the Constitutional Convention, the Virginia Plan included a proposal for______________
Definition
Seperaration of Powers
Term
78. The constitution describes a government with powers divided between the national government and state governments. This constitutional principle is known as____________________________________.
Definition
Federalism
Term
79.WHich two freedoms from the Bill of Rights have been violated?
Definition

Freedom of Speech

and

Right to Assemble

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