POLS 206: CHAPTER 2 QUESTIONS
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French and Indian War - ✔✔a war fought between France and England, and allied
Native Americans, from 1754 to 1763; resulted in France's expulsion from the New
World
Declaration of Independence - ✔✔the political document that dissolved the
colonial ties between the United States and Britain
Where did the founding principle of "all men are by nature equal" first come from?
- ✔✔Locke's Second Treatise on Government
Document that determines who gets what in the US - ✔✔the constitution
What was the event that led to the first shots of the revolutionary war? - ✔✔The
attempt by British authorities to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock
, constitution - ✔✔the rules that establish a government
Articles of Confederation - ✔✔the first constitution of the United States (1777),
creating an association of states with a weak central government
confederation - ✔✔a government in which independent states unite for common
purpose but retain their own sovereignty
popular tyranny - ✔✔the unrestrained power of the people
Shays's Rebellion - ✔✔a grassroots uprising (1787) by armed Massachusetts
farmers protesting foreclosures
How did the Articles of Confederation contribute to economic instability in post-
revolution America? - ✔✔High state taxes depressed the economy.
Constitutional Convention - ✔✔the assembly of fifty-five delegates in the
summer of 1787 to recast the Articles of Confederation; the result was the U.S.
Constitution
federalism - ✔✔a political system in which power is divided between the central
and regional units
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS {
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French and Indian War - ✔✔a war fought between France and England, and allied
Native Americans, from 1754 to 1763; resulted in France's expulsion from the New
World
Declaration of Independence - ✔✔the political document that dissolved the
colonial ties between the United States and Britain
Where did the founding principle of "all men are by nature equal" first come from?
- ✔✔Locke's Second Treatise on Government
Document that determines who gets what in the US - ✔✔the constitution
What was the event that led to the first shots of the revolutionary war? - ✔✔The
attempt by British authorities to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock
, constitution - ✔✔the rules that establish a government
Articles of Confederation - ✔✔the first constitution of the United States (1777),
creating an association of states with a weak central government
confederation - ✔✔a government in which independent states unite for common
purpose but retain their own sovereignty
popular tyranny - ✔✔the unrestrained power of the people
Shays's Rebellion - ✔✔a grassroots uprising (1787) by armed Massachusetts
farmers protesting foreclosures
How did the Articles of Confederation contribute to economic instability in post-
revolution America? - ✔✔High state taxes depressed the economy.
Constitutional Convention - ✔✔the assembly of fifty-five delegates in the
summer of 1787 to recast the Articles of Confederation; the result was the U.S.
Constitution
federalism - ✔✔a political system in which power is divided between the central
and regional units
