A period in European history when many educated people stressed the importance of learning and reasoning; education was considered the key to understanding and solving society's problems
What is the Enlightenment?
100
a government document that expanded the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further limited the rights of the king; written by the members of the English Parliament in 1689
What is the English Bill of Rights?
100
A British law increasing taxes on sugar imports and other items
What is the Sugar Act?
100
Being forced to pay taxes without a voting member of Parliament
What is Taxation without Representation?
100
He theorized natural rights, social contract, and consent of the governed
Who is John Locke?
200
a principle of the federal government, according to the U.S. Constitution, that allows each branch of government to limit the power of the other branches
What are checks and balances?
200
a pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England
What is Common Sense?
200
This act gave one company all trade rights to Tea in the colonies; Tax on Tea; Leads to the Boston Tea Party?
What is the Tea Act?
200
A complaint; The colonists had many of these against King George
What is a Grievance?
200
Theorized separation of powers and check/balances
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
300
the belief that individuals are born with basic rights that cannot be taken away by governments; life, liberty, and property
What are natural rights?
300
a government document that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility; written by the English nobles in 1215
What is the Magna Carta?
300
Tax on paper products, stamps, contracts etc.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
Refusing to buy something as a form of protest; done in response to British Taxes
What is a boycott?
300
representatives from each of the 13 colonies who decided to meet and write a document stating their reasons for separation and independence from England.
Who are the Founding Fathers
400
the structure of the federal government, according to the U.S. Constitution, that sets up three branches with their own distinct powers and responsibilities
What is separation of powers?
400
an agreement between individuals that created a government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists; written by a group of English Puritans in Massachusetts in 1620
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
Tax on imports of paper, lead, paint, glass, tea; took away right to jury trials, and allowed unwarranted searches
What is the Townshed Acts
400
Being Forced to house and feed soldiers
What is Quartering?
400
The colonial journalist who wrote Common Sense in 1776
Who is Thomas Paine?
500
an implied agreement among the people of an organized society that defines the rights, duties, and limitations of the governed and the government
What is social contract?
500
1. taxation without representation (the colonists had no representative in British Parliament who voted to increase their taxes 2. The British violated the colonists individual rights (by suspending trial by jury, dissolving colonial legislatures, searching the colonists property etc..) and 3. Being forced to quarter (house) British soliders.
What are the 3 main grievances (complaints) the colonists had against the British
500
Act that closed Boston Harbor, mandated quartering of troops, ended the right to town meetings
Response to the Boston Tea Party?