Before America Was Cool
This document, signed in 1215, was the first to limit the power of the English king.
What is the Magna Carta?
This 1765 law required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
This Enlightenment thinker believed in “life, liberty, and property.”
Who is John Locke?
This 1689 document gave Parliament power over the English monarchy.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This phrase expressed the colonists’ belief that they shouldn’t be taxed without a voice in Parliament.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
The Mayflower Compact was important because it established this kind of government.
What is self-government?
This act allowed British soldiers to stay in colonial homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
This philosopher’s idea of “separation of powers” influenced the U.S. Constitution.
Who is Montesquieu?
This pamphlet helped convince colonists that independence from Britain was necessary.
What is Common Sense?
The idea that government power comes from the consent of the governed was inspired by this movement.
What is the Enlightenment?
This term describes Britain’s policy of allowing the colonies to rule themselves with little interference.
What is salutary neglect?
Colonists protested the Tea Act with this famous event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense argued that it was time for this major action.
What is independence from Britain?
This document declared that “all men are created equal.”
What is the Declaration of Independence?
According to the Declaration of Independence, if a government becomes destructive, people have this right.
What is the right to alter or abolish it?
After this war, Britain began taxing the colonies to pay its debts, ending salutary neglect.
What is the French and Indian War?
These harsh laws were Britain’s punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This economic thinker wrote Wealth of Nations and promoted free-market economics.
Who is Adam Smith?
Both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights showed that government power could be this.
What is limited by law?
The “Invisible Hand” describes how the economy works best under this system.
What is a free-market economy (capitalism)?
The first representative assembly in the American colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The colonial response to the Intolerable Acts that united representatives from all 13 colonies.
What was the First Continental Congress?
This period of intellectual movement encouraged the use of reason and questioning of authority.
What is the Enlightenment?
These two documents both emphasized self-government and consent of the governed.
What are the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence?
The Join, or Die cartoon by Benjamin Franklin encouraged colonies to do this.
What is unite for a common cause?