Ch. 4 Study Guide
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What role did the colonists have in self government?___________________________________
To vote in the colonies you were required to be what?_______________________________
Which freedom has its roots in the colonial period? ____________________________
The colonists talked about tyranny because royal governors tried to do what? _______________
American colonists were unlike people in most colonies and nations because they had what?
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An argument for freedom of the press was made during the 1735 trial of who?
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The Roman republic offered the colonial legislatures a model of what?
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Both the Magna Carta & the English Bill of Rights did what? _____________________________
Locke & Montesquieu inspired the colonists with the ideas of what?
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Unlike the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights applied to who? ________________________
Some of the colonists’ influences were what? ____________________________________
The colonists and the English government disagreed about what items?
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What items made the colonists complain about Parliament?
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Which document outlined the reasons the colonists separated from England?
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The purpose of the Articles of Confederation was to create what?
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Under the Articles of Confederation, most of the power remained with who /what?__________
After Shay’s Rebellion, Americans wanted a what? __________________________________
Parliament raised taxes in the colonies in order to do what?
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To protect against tyranny, each state constitution does what?
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Who had final authority over the colonists? __________________________________
Rhode Island was the first colony to promise which freedom? ____________________________
Natural rights are people’s rights to what? _____________________________________
The Declaration of Independence listed the ways in which the English government had done
what?_____________________________________
After they became free and independent, the states each wrote their own what?
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Montesquieu’s idea of dividing authority among the legislative, the executive, and the judicial
branches of government is known as? ______________________________________