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Lesson 7
Lesson 7 Quiz Review
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Civics
7th Grade
02/29/2012

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Social contract
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When people agree to form a government and follow the laws
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Natural rights
Definition
Life, liberty and property
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John Locke
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Believed all people were reasonable and good.
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Founders
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Men who were the political leaders of the colonies
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Civic Virtue
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When you put the good of the community (common good) above your own needs and desires.
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Constitutional government
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a government that has a written constitution
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The Stamp Act
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Tax on printed and legal documents. Colonists felt laws like this should be invalid since the colonists were not represented in congress.
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Charter
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a legal document that granted colonists land
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French and Indian war
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A war where the British fought the French and won land west of the Appalachian mountains.
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Writs of Assistance
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Search Warrants
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The 5 ideas that influenced American government
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Natural rights
Representative government
Rule of law
Separation of powers
Checks and balances
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Representative government
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A government in which elected representatives are chosen by the people to act on their behalf
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Rule of law
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When the government and the governed must both obey the same laws
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Seperation of powers
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When governmental power is divided into 3 different branches
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Checks and balances
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Making sure that no branch has more power than any other branch. Each branch has the power to check what the other brach does. Ex. - Supreme Court can declare a law that the President has signed unconstitutional.
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Proclamation of 1763
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Slowed westward expansion when Great Britain said no one could move west of the Applachian mountains
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Sugar Act of 1764
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This law set taxes on sugar, molasses, coffee, cloth and wine. In response to all the smuggling that went on, British Navel officers used writs of assistance.
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Quartering Act
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Law required that colonists must house and feed British soldiers
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Declatory Act
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This law stated that Parliament had the right to pass laws for the colonies in all cases.
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Tea Act
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East India Company had the sole right to sell tea to the colonies
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Committees of correspondence
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Patriots who volunteered to make sure each colony know about events in the other colonies.
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Sons of Liberty
Definition
organized resistance to the Stamp Act, burned effigies, and sometimes committed violent acts. Dressed as Indians and dumped tea into the harbor.
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Daughters of Liberty
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Helped boycott of British goods be successful. Begain spinning their own yarn and making their own linen. Gave up drinking tea in response to the Tea Act.
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Boston Massacre
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British troops killed 5 unarmed colonists.
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Boston Tea Party
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Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea off a British ship and into the harbor.
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First Continental Congress
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Twelve of the thirteen colonies sent representatives to this meeting in Philadelphia. They agreed to impose their own ban on trade with Great Britain.
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Second Continental Congress
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Congress created the Continental Army and called upon the colonies to send troops. George Washington led the army.
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