The circumstances in which the colonists found themselves.
What is the cause of the colonial governments unique development?
100
A broad set of ideas about representative government that can be traced back to ancient Greece and Rome.
What is republicanism?
100
A document signed by all adult men on board the Mayflower (ship), in 1620, agreeing to form a society governed by majority rule and based on the consent of the government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
100
A colony directly controlled by the king through an appointed government.
What is a royal colony?
100
A Renaissance scholar who argued that the government could survive so long as the citizens actively participate in it.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
200
Nobles made up the upper house while lesser officials and local representatives made up the lower house.
What is Parliament?
200
A french philosopher who argued that power had to be divided between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
Who is Charles de Montesquieu?
200
The first code of law in New England that protected the individual rights of citizens in the Bay Colony.
What is The Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641?
200
A colony operated under charters agreed to by the colony and the king.
What is a charter colony?
200
People who rejected the idea of a monarchy and looked to the Roman Republic for a model of representative democracy.
Who are the Framers?
300
Originally written to protect the rights of nobles.
What is the Magna Carta?
300
the monarch (the one), the aristocracy (the few), and the people (the many).
What are the three levels of society?
300
Proprietary, royal and charter.
What are the 3 types of colonies in North America?
300
The documents signed by King William that stated that English Monarchs would no longer be able to enact laws, raise taxes, or keep an army without Parliament's consent.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
300
A British political thinker who believed that people agreed to form government to protect their rights.
Who is John Locke?
400
A time when monarchs claimed the divine right of kings and wielded absolute power.
What is the Age of Absolutism?
400
Machiavelli's book on a republic based on civic virtue.
What is Discourses on Livy (1513-17)?
400
A colony based on a grant of land given to a proprietor, who financed the start of the colony.
What is a proprietary colony?
400
A document signed by King Charles I which required monarchs to obtain parliament's approval before levying taxes.
What is the Petition of Rights?
400
The Scottish economist who wrote about how to best protect economic freedom and rights to property in his work, The Wealth of Nations (1776).
Who is Adam Smith?
500
Parliament feared the king would impose the catholic religion on the country.
What is Parliament's reason for rebellion?
500
A reform movement whose leaders developed ideas about individual responsibility, the freedom to worship as one chooses, and self government.
What is Protestant Reformation?
500
the only two proprietary colonies that didn't become royal colonies
What are Pennsylvania and Maryland?
500
A charter agreed to by King John of England that granted nobles certain rights and restricted the kings powers.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
The English legal scholar whose work Commentaries of the Laws of England became the basis for law in the colonies and influenced the writing of the U.S. Constitution.