| Term | Definition |
|---|
| english french | who defeted who isn the french and indian war |
| paris | the treaty of what ended the french and indian war |
| stamp | the what act placed a tax on all legal documents |
| boycott | a what is a refusal to by goods and services |
| townsand | the what acts were laws that placed taxes on several items such as lead and glass |
| writs of assistance | what gave british authorities the power to search ships for illegal goods |
| daughters of liberty | the what organized a boycott of british cloth |
| boston tea party | what was the event that the sons of liberty held when they dressed as indians and threw tea in the harbor |
| paul revere | who made a midnight ride to let colonists in boston know the bristish were coming |
| boston massacure | john adams was the lawyer who defended the british soldiers after the what |
| quartering | the what act said that residents had to allow british soldiers to live in their homes |
| export imports | mercantilists said that a country should what more than it whats |
| patrick henry | who was a virginian who said give me liberty or give me death |
| patriots | what was the name given to colonists in the american revolution |
| lexington concord | the first shots of the american revolution were fired at what and what near boston |
| minutemen | the militiamen who fired the shots were called minutemen |
| loyalists | what was the name of colonists who helped the british during the american revolution |
| appalachia | what is the region that includes a mountain chain up the east coast |
| the scottish highlanders | what was the group that was brought into GA to protect GA and other colonies for the spanish |
| darien and st. marys | what 2 places did the scottish highlanders settle around |
| william penn | who was the founder of the pennsylvania colony |
| oglethorpe | who was the founder of the georgia conlony |
| salsburgers | who was the group of people who settled around augusta and tried to produce silk |
| quaker | the what colony was the name given to Pennsylvania |
| savannah | what was the 1st city in GA |
| charleston | what was the city located between the ashley and cooper rivers |
| royal | a what colony was the type that was ruled by a royal gv'r who in turn answered to the king/queen of england |
| quakers | who was group of people who were nonviolent and resisted slavery |
| mason-dixon line | what was the line that divided the southern colonies from the nothern colonies |
| new ampsterdame | what was the colony that was taken frome the dutch by the british without firing a shot |
| proprietary | a what colony is ruled by a group of lord proprietors |
| maryland | what depended on the sea and was set up by lord baltimore |
| delaware | what was the colony that broke off from pennsylvania |
| tabacco cotton indgo | what were 3 crops grown in the southern colonies |
| georgia | what was known as the debtors colony even though it really was not |
| preamble | the what is the opening statement of the constitution |
| religon speech press assembly | first amendment freedoms include the freedoms of what 4 things |
| bill of rights | the first 10 amnedments of the U.S. Constitution is referred to as the what |
| domestic tranquility | to ensure peace and order at home is to insure what |
| general welfare | to promote the what means to promote the well being of all of its citizens |
| limited government | what means that the gov't only has the power taht the constitution gives it |
| poupular soverinty | what means that people have the right to alter or abolish their gv't |
| federalism | what is the division of power between the federal gv't and the states |
| checks and balances | a system of what means thateach branch of government and the states limit the power of the other 2 |
| executative | what is the branch that consists of the president and his cabinet |
| leguslative | what branch consits of congress |
| judicial | what branch consists of supreme court and the rest of the federal court system |
| senate house of representatives | what are the two houses of congress |
| bills | all laws start as proposals called what |
| amendment | the constitution my be changed by what |
| "there shall be a seperation of chuch and state" | the establishment clause exists becuse why |
| yes only to support education though | is it legal for a state to give state money to a religous supported school |
| not | the state of arkansas passed a law banning the teaching of evolution in the classroom constiutional or not |
| no | is a sit down strike legal |
| seditious speech | what is any speech using resistance to lawful authourity or advocating the overthrow of the government |
| saying the president should be shot | what is an example of seditious speech |
| no | if someone pickets infront of your house because they did not like a newspaper article you had written is it legal |
| slander | what is spoken lies |
| liabel | what is written lies |
| yes | someone writes a truthfull article that causes you emotional distress is this legal |
| yes | you are at a school event and use lewd or indecent speech can you be held accountable |
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