American Government: Chapter 3 Review

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  1. 2. Laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for resistance to British regulations
  2. 6. Document issued by the Stamp Act Congress protesting British taxation and regulations
  3. 7. England's representative government
  4. 8. First representative assembly in the American colonies
  5. 11. Evangelist used during the Great Awakening throughout the colonies
  6. 13. Document in which the Pilgrims covenanted under God to establish a civil body politick
  7. 18. Consisting of one legislative house
  8. 19. Benjamin Franklin's plan for uniting the colonies
  9. 20. Upper house of the British Parliament
  10. 21. English king forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215
  11. 24. English king who laid the foundation for trial by jury in the royal courts
  12. 25. A trial in which a person is judged guilty or not guilty by a group of peers
  13. 26. Lower house of the British Parliament
  14. 29. King who came to the English throne in 1760 and sought to restore the monarchy's power
  15. 30. Documents issued by the Crown establishing the relationship between the king and his colonial subjects
  16. 31. First commander in chief of the colonial army
  17. 32. Non-codified form of law based on long-accepted customs and traditions
  18. 33. Preacher used during the Great Awakening
  19. 35. The idea that church and government should remain separate institutions
  20. 36. Document adopted July 4, 1776 declaring the American colonies independent from England
  21. 37. Universal principles of right and justice that stand above human law
  22. 38. English parliamentarian who supported the cause of the American colonists
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  1. 1. Colonial assembly that protested taxation without representation in 1765
  2. 3. Document signed in 1215 that placed the king under the law
  3. 4. Assembly that supported an army, appointed Washington commander, and became America's first central government
  4. 5. Assembly that protested parliamentary interference while pledging loyalty to the Crown
  5. 9. English nobleman who called representatives together for an early meeting of Parliament
  6. 10. Author of Commentaries on the Laws of England
  7. 12. Consisting of two legislative houses
  8. 14. Local unit of government used in the southern colonies
  9. 15. 1689 document that strictly limited the monarch's power
  10. 16. English parliamentarian who was an ally of prominent American patriots
  11. 17. Primarily responsible for drafting the Declaration of Independence
  12. 22. 1775 act that cut off colonial trade with England and removed the colonies from the King's protection
  13. 23. Presented the resolution for American independence on June 7, 1776
  14. 27. Spiritual revival that swept the American colonies between 1730 and 1760
  15. 28. Gathering where local citizens assembled to govern their town
  16. 34. English king who convened the Model Parliament in 1295