US History: Units #1-3

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In Colonial America, the House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact, and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are examples of ____________________.

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Representative government

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Why did people in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies adapt different ways of life?

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The regions had different geographies and resources

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New England's economy was based on: Ship building, fishing and lumbering, Art and music, Plantations and slavery, Farming grains, wheat, and corn.

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Ship building, fishing and lumbering

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Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, spoke about the colonies becoming independent from Great Britain.

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Common Sense

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Jefferson's political ideas were influenced by the ______________________, a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly.

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Enlightenment

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Which group was initially in FAVOR of the Constitution as it was written? Federalists, Antifederalists, Loyalists, Conventionalists

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Federalists

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What is the significance of Marbury v. Madison?

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It established the Supreme Court’s right to declare a law unconstitutional.

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Name of the act that forbid colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War.

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Proclamation of 1763

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The Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts represented-

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factors leading to the American Revolution

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What was America's first Constitution?

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The Articles of Confederation