Ideals of American Democracy
This is the ability of people to act and think as they choose so long as their choices don't harm someone else.
What is liberty?
This first step toward colonial unity was a defense pact signed by Plymouth, Connecticut, and Massachusetts Bay Colonies.
What is the New England Confederation?
This is the name of the charter signed in 1215 that limited the power of the King of England.
What is the Magna Carta?
This was the name of the first U.S. constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
These two groups argued about the size of the new federal government during the Constitutional Convention.
Who are federalists and anti-federalists?
The principle that all people possess a fundamental moral worth that entitles them to fair treatment under the law.
What is equality?
This Native American council of leaders inspired Benjamin Franklin's idea of democracy.
What is the Iroquois Confederation?
This document required British monarchs to get Parliament's approval to levy new taxes.
What is the Petition of Right?
This term means to formally approve and was necessary for the adoption of the Articles of Confederation.
What is ratify?
This document lists the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the belief that ordinary people can rule themselves a s political equals.
What is self-government?
This plan, created by Benjamin Franklin, proposed a colonial council that would have governing power in colonial America.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
This document secured freedom of speech and protection from cruel and unusual punishment in Britain.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This plan, adopted in 1787, established a plan for settling areas now known as Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This is the name of the essays that described what a new constitution should look like.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This idea refers to the fact that whoever gets the most votes gets to rule.
What is majority rule?
This gathering of colonial delegates demanded the repeal of the Intolerable Acts in 1774.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This set of laws in an English colony gave all free men the right to serve as judges.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This uprising by farmers led to the Constitutional Convention.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This term refers to the fact that the Supreme Court can judge a law's constitutionality. It is a check on the other 2 branches.
What is judicial review?
These are the political rights held by less than half of the population.
What are minority rights?
This gathering of colonial delegates organized militias and made George Washington its commander.
What is the Second Continental Congress.
This type of British colony was based on a grant of land by the king to a group who financed the colony.
What is a proprietary colony?
This man pushed for the strengthening of the Articles of Confederation after Shay's Rebellion.
Who is George Washington?
This clause in article VI of the Constitution states that federal law is the "supreme law of the land."
What is the supremacy clause?