Government & Rights
This document signed by King John required the king to consult Parliament before making laws.
What is the Magna Carta?
These laws controlled colonial trade to benefit England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Puritans wanted people to learn to read this religious text.
What is the Bible?
This political thinker developed the idea of natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
The French and British disputed control of this region.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This English document helped colonists believe the king was violating their rights by taxing them without consent.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Under the Navigation Acts, these were the only ships allowed to transport trade goods.
What are English ships?
Girls could receive an education from tutors or attend these all-girl schools.
What are Dame Schools?
This thinker’s ideas are reflected in the three branches of the U.S. government.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
At the start of the war, Native Americans generally allied with the ____ because they were these.
What were their trading partners?
An assembly of representatives who make government decisions is called this.
What is a legislature?
Under the Navigation Acts, cash crops such as tobacco and cotton could only be sold to this country.
What is England?
In this colonial region, public schools were created based on population size.
What is New England?
These are the three branches of government: executive, legislative, and this third branch.
What is the judicial branch?
The French and Native Americans used this fighting style involving hiding and surprise attacks.
What is guerrilla warfare?
According to John Locke, these three natural rights belong to all people.
What are life, liberty, and property?
Colonies supplied these to England and served as markets for English products.
What are raw materials and new markets?
People who paid for an individual’s passage to the New World expected this in return.
What is 4–7 years of work as an indentured servant
This inventor used reason to improve the world and created the iron stove and lightning tool.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The British used their powerful navy to do this along the Atlantic coast, preventing French resupply.
What is establish a blockade?
Locke believed people should do this if their government failed to protect their rights.
What is replace their government?
This was the main purpose of the Navigation Acts from England’s perspective.
What was to maximize England’s profits and benefit the mother country?
Name one tool or invention introduced by enslaved Africans and explain its benefit.
What are rope for stronger structures, barrels for safe storage, or shipbuilding methods that improved and sped up construction?
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield helped spread this religious movement, which encouraged thinking about self-rule.
What is the Great Awakening?
Name two major outcomes of the war involving land and money.
What are Britain gaining the disputed territory and French-held Canada, and the king going deeply into debt?