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| When people agree to form a government and follow the laws |
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| Life, liberty and property |
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| Believed all people were reasonable and good. |
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| Men who were the political leaders of the colonies |
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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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| 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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| a legal document that granted colonists land |
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| A war where the British fought the French and won land west of the Appalachian mountains. |
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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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| When the government and the governed must both obey the same laws |
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| When governmental power is divided into 3 different branches |
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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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| Slowed westward expansion when Great Britain said no one could move west of the Applachian mountains |
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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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| Law required that colonists must house and feed British soldiers |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| British troops killed 5 unarmed colonists. |
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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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