Government Vocab
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- Privileges and Immunities (of citizens)
- States must respect citizenship rights of people from other states people can only vote in one state, states can't take away citizenship rights without due process, states must play fairly.
- Article III Section 3
- treason
- House of Burgesses
- house of representation in Jamestown, closer to Jamestown= more representatives, established in 1619, gave colonist a voice in government
- Stono Slave Rebellion
- 1739: South Carolina, Spain promises freedom to any slaves that can reach Florida, angry and inpired slaves rebel against their owners,
- Battle of Long Island
- 8000 troops and Washington went to Long Island to fight General Howe, Washington loses, but escapes during the night in boats, and Howe pursues him fruitlessly
- Article I Section 6
- Congressional Privileges and Immunities
- Battle of Yorktown
- American 3 prong Strategy; Lafayette flanked, G.W.& Rocheambeau waited, French Fleet blocked harbour, final battle, Parliament decided to pull out
- Public Policies
- things government decides to do, example: taxation, crime control, national defense, education, etc.
- Article I Section 5
- Rules of Congress: each house of congress makes it's own rules for conducting business
- Second Continental Congress
- 1775; hired George Washington, sent Olive Branch Petition to the King, sent Declaration of Causes and Necessities to Parliament
- John Rolfe
- married Pocahantas --> temporary peace with Natives, brought over sweet wide leaf tobacco --> cashcrop= $$$, helped Virginia's economy boom.
- Anti-Federalist Papers
- letters written in response as to why the Anti-Federalists wouldn't sign the Constitution
- Federalist Papers
- letters written explaining why NY, Virginia, Rhode Island and North Carolina should sign the constitution
- 5 Freedoms
- Speech, Press, Petition, Assembly, Religion
- Article III Section 2
- Jurisdiction
- Article I Section 7
- How a bill becomes a law
- State Constitutions
- essential to liberty, power should be divided into 3 branches (LEJ), legislative should be most powerful and power og government derived from the people, each state has written constitution and direct responsibility of the people.
- Battle of BrandyWine
- George Washington vs. Howe, Washington loses and retreats through Phillidelphia, American Leaders go west and the British have a victory
- Battle of Trenton
- George Washington attacked 1000 Hessian Mercanaries, 0 Americans killed, 30 Hessians killed, 10 wounded Americans, 900 Hessians captured, added to American war momentum
- Article IV
- National Supremacy