COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
This term means government controlled by the people who live in the colony.
What is self-government?
This 1765 law taxed printed materials and led to the slogan “No taxation without representation.”
What is the Stamp Act?
The principle that government power comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
This 1215 document helped establish that rulers must obey the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
The Articles of Confederation created this:
What is the first U.S. national government?
Most English colonies first began as...
What are business ventures or trading companies?
Colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor during this protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Rights all people are born with, such as life and liberty.
What are natural rights?
This 1620 agreement is an early example of colonists choosing to govern themselves.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Under the Articles, these governments had more power than the national government.
What are the states?
The English crown allowed colonies to run many of their own affairs as long as they did this.
What is pay the required dues / make money for the crown?
These intense 1774 laws punished Massachusetts and helped unite the colonies against Britain.
What are the Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)?
This phrase means that people agree to be ruled by their government.
What is consent of the governed?
This 1689 document limited the English monarchy and protected rights such as protection from cruel punishment.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
A major weakness was that the national government could not effectively do this with its laws or decisions.
What is enforce them?
Northern colonies often specialized in these two products or industries.
What are ships and timber?
This 1775 battle marked the beginning of open warfare in the American Revolution took place in 2 cities).
What are Lexington and Concord?
This thinker argued that people are naturally free and cannot be ruled without their consent.
Who is John Locke?
This 1776 document says government gets its just powers from the consent of the governed.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What was one major weakness of the Articles of Confederation that made it difficult for the national government to solve financial problems?
What is Congress could not collect taxes directly from the states or citizens?
South Carolina became wealthy largely because of this crop and the plantation system built around it.
What is rice?
This 1776 pamphlet used simple language to argue that the colonies should become independent.
What is Common Sense?
According to social contract theory, government exists mainly to do this for the people.
What is protect their rights?
This 1787 law organized the Northwest Territory and protected rights such as trial by jury.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This 1787 law was an important accomplishment of the Confederation Congress.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?