Colonial Life and Government
What document signed in 1215 by King John promised protections for the life, liberty, and property of English citizens?
What is the Magna Carta?
In 1763, what event ended the Seven Years’ War and led Britain to take control of large parts of North America, angering the colonists?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Who was the English philosopher whose ideas about natural rights and the social contract influenced American political thought?
Who is John Locke?
What was the first significant tax imposed by Britain on the colonies, requiring taxes on paper goods?
What is the Stamp Act?
Who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What was the first elected representative body in colonial America, established in Virginia in 1619?
What is the House of Burgesses?
What law passed in 1763 restricted colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
According to Locke, what are the three "natural rights" that no government should violate?
What are life, liberty, and property?
Which act passed in 1767 taxed items such as glass, tea, and paint?
What are the Townshend Acts?
Which two rights are emphasized in the Declaration of Independence as being inalienable and given by God?
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
What was the primary reason why American colonists felt a sense of independence even before the Revolution?
What is the tradition of self-government?
What event in 1770, where British soldiers killed several colonists, intensified anti-British sentiment?
What is the Boston Massacre?
What is the name of the agreement Locke believed existed between the people and their government, in which people give up some freedoms in exchange for protection of their rights?
What is the social contract?
In 1775, what event marked the beginning of armed conflict between British troops and colonial militias?
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Which part of the Declaration lists the grievances and abuses by King George III that justified the colonies' decision to declare independence?
What is the list of grievances?
Which act, passed by the British Parliament in 1765, imposed a tax on almost all paper products in the colonies?
What is the Stamp Act?
What was the name of the protest in 1773 where colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
What was the term for the right that English citizens had, as established by the Magna Carta, that guaranteed a fair trial and protection against arbitrary imprisonment?
What is due process?
What was the name of the second Continental Congress document that formally declared the colonies' separation from Britain?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What phrase in the Declaration reflects the idea that people can change or abolish a government that does not protect their rights?
What is "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"?
What was the group that met in 1774 to address colonial concerns and form a united resistance against British rule?
What is the First Continental Congress?
What series of laws passed by Parliament in 1774 were designed to punish Massachusetts and restore order in the colonies?
What are the Coercive Acts (also called the Intolerable Acts)?
What concept proposed by Locke suggested that when a government abuses its power, people have the right to overthrow it and form a new one?
What is the right of revolution?
What act passed by the British government in 1763 was intended to prevent colonists from moving westward and encroaching on Native American lands?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
What was the significance of July 2, 1776, in relation to the Declaration of Independence?
What is the day the Second Continental Congress officially voted to declare independence from Britain?