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Question 1

What does outside the system mean?

Answer 1

Using illegal methods to create change

Question 2

What does democratic mean?

Answer 2

A government where people are involved in decision making

Question 3

What doe inside the system mean?

Answer 3

Using legal methods to create change

Question 4

What is a political system?

Answer 4

Government + other powers

Question 5

What does the common good mean?

Answer 5

What is beneficial for the majority

Question 6

What is an authoritarian?

Answer 6

Power is held by one or a few people who make all decisions such as a king or dictator.

Question 7

What does create a new system mean?

Answer 7

Destroying the government and replacing it

Question 8

What is the definition of Protect Rights?

Answer 8

Rights provided by nature and by the government are being protected equally.

Question 9

What is the definition of Promote rule of law?

Answer 9

Everyone is protected under the law equally.

Question 10

What is the definition of prepare for common defense?

Answer 10

The government provides a military to protect its citizens.

Question 11

What is the definition of Provide public services?

Answer 11

It is the government’s duty to provide basic services for its people.

Question 12

What is the definition of Support the economic system?

Answer 12

It’s the government’s duty to provide basic economic needs to its people.

Question 13

What is the 1st Continental Congress?

Answer 13

Meeting of representatives from most colonies in 1774 to address the Intolerable Acts.

Question 14

What is a boycott?

Answer 14

Refusal to buy an item in order to protest a government action

Question 15

What is a petition?

Answer 15

An official letter of complaint with signatures

Question 16

What is the Stamp Act?

Answer 16

A tax on newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards

Question 17

What does repeal mean?

Answer 17

To cancel a law

Question 18

What is the Quatering Act?

Answer 18

Required colonial authorities to feed and house British troops

Question 19

What is the Townshend Act?

Answer 19

Taxed items imported to the colonies from Britain such as paper, glass, and tea

Question 20

What is the Tea Act?

Answer 20

Gave the British East India Company exclusive right to sell tea in colonies

Question 21

What are the Intolerable Acts?

Answer 21

Law passed to punish Boston for the Tea Party

Question 22

Who are the sons and daughters of liberty?

Answer 22

A group that protested British control of the colonies

Question 23

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

Answer 23

The author of the Declaration of Independence

Question 24

What is the 2nd Continental Congress?

Answer 24

Meeting of representatives from each colony that took place after the Battle of Lexington in 1775

Question 25

Who is King George lll?

Answer 25

The King of Britain at the time of the Revolutionary War

Question 26

Who is George Washington?

Answer 26

Commander of the Continental Army

Question 27

What is the Proclamation of 1763 about?

Answer 27

Prohibited the colonists from living west of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 28

What were the causes of the French & Indian War?

Answer 28

Land disputes over the Ohio River Valley and Trade disputes

Question 29

How did the French and Indian War impact the relationship between Britain and the colonists?

Answer 29

The British started taxing the colonists due to debt accrued from the French and Indian War. Due to not having representation in Parliament, they protested the laws leading to more control over the colonies.

Question 30

Why was the Battle of Lexington important?

Answer 30

It was the battle that started the American Revolution.

Question 31

What are the main principles of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 31

Natural rights, Consent of the Governed, and the Right to alter or abolish the government.

Question 32

What is the definition of Natural Rights?

Answer 32

People are born with certain rights that cannot be given or taken away by the government.

Question 33

What is the definition of the Consent of the Governed?

Answer 33

The people create the government, the government does not control the people.

Question 34

What is the definition of the Right to alter or abolish the government?

Answer 34

If a government does not protect the people’s liberties, the people have a right to alter or abolish it.

Question 35

What factors helped the Colonists win the Revolutionary War?

Answer 35

Help from France and the Europeans and Home Turf - Fighting the war on lands familiar to the Colonists, helped them win.

Question 36

What roles did the African Americans play in the War?

Answer 36

*Fought on the British Side when offered freedom

Question 37

How did the War impact the African Americans?

Answer 37

Ultimately not many slaves were given their freedom.

Question 38

What roles did the Native Americans play in the War?

Answer 38

A lot of Native Tribes were divided by the war. *Some fought for the British

Question 39

How did the War impact the Native Americans?

Answer 39

Eventually, they would be kicked off their land by the U.S government.

Question 40

What roles did the Loyalists play in the War?

Answer 40

*Some were imprisoned *Some fought for the British

Question 41

How did the War impact the Loyalists?

Answer 41

A lot of loyalists were exiled after the war, not allowed to live within the United States.

Question 42

What roles did the Women play in the War?

Answer 42

*Nurses *Took on the jobs of the men back home on the farms. *Some were “active continental army”

Question 43

How did the War impact the Women?

Answer 43

Ultimately didn’t receive many rights after the war.

Question 44

What does reliability mean?

Answer 44

How accurate or trustworthy a source is.

Question 45

What does credibility mean?

Answer 45

How convincing an argument is.

Question 46

What does corroboration mean?

Answer 46

Comparing sources to identify areas of agreement and disagreement.

Question 47

What does Point of View mean?

Answer 47

The author’s attitude, opinion, or beliefs on the topic.

Question 48

What does Claim mean?

Answer 48

The author’s argument or position on an issue.

Question 49

What does uses mean?

Answer 49

What you can learn from a source, why it is valuable.

Question 50

What does reasoning mean?

Answer 50

The explanation provided for why evidence supports the claim.