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2019 CBA
Brookside cba vocab review
Term | Definition |
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Cash crop | single crop grown for sale/export |
1607 | Jamestown settlement |
1620 | Mayflour Compact |
1776 | Colonies sign Declaration of Independence, separating from Great Britain |
1787 | Founding fathers drafted the U.S. Constitution |
Puritans | seeking to practice their faith without fear of persecution |
Pilgrims | a chance to build new lives, to worship as they chose |
Proclamation of 1763 | British government restriction on movement or settlement west of the Appalachian |
1619 | House of Burgesses |
John Paul Jones | “I have not yet begun to fight |
James Armistead | a slave who served as a spy for the colonial troops under General Lafayette |
Due Process | steps that must be applied before government/courts can take an individual’s life, freedom or property |
Guarantee | promise, pledge, assurance |
Provision | supply, provide, set aside amount |
Tariff | tax on imported goods, usually used to protect domestic production |
Unalienable rights | (natural rights, human rights) Thomas Jefferson in the DOI as “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” |
Limited Government | Government restricted by laws, people are protected |
Checks and Balances | power of one branch can be challenged by another branch |
Northwest Ordinance | Set up how states would be added to the Union and prohibited slavery in the Ohio River Valley |
Yorktown -- 1781 | final battle of the American Revolution |
Maryland, North And South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia | Southern Colonies |
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware | Middle Colonies |
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island | New England Colonies |
New England Colonies | seaports, whaling, trade, shipbuilding, fishing , logging |
Middle Colonies | Farming, esp. grains; iron mines |
Southern Colonies | Cash Crop Plantations indigo, tobacco and rice |
Government powers divided between branches of the government | Separation of Power |
Government power divided between national and state governments | Federalism |
Representatives elected by the people make up the government | Republicanism |
Republicanism | Population votes on who will represent them in congress |
Federalism | According to the Constitution, the national government has the power to raise an army but the States have the power to issue driver’s and marriage licenses |
Separation of Power | U.S. government divided into 3 branches Legislature who has the power to make laws; Executive who has the power to enact and enforce laws; Judicial who has the power to interpret the laws |
Federalist | For Strong central government to address issues resulting from AOC |
Anti-Federalist | Against Preferred the power be with States and the people; wanted individual rights included |
Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Mason | Anti-Federalist |
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, John Adams | Federalist |