Vocabulary
Influences on Colonial Government
Colonial Traditions of Self-Government
100
What is a group that lives separate from the mainland, yet still governed by it's ruler called?
What is a colony
100
What is Parliament?
What is the British government
100
What is a compact?
What is an agreement among a group
200
What is acceptance of other religions?
What is toleration
200
What are rights that no government can take away?
What are natural rights
200
What was the House of Burgesses?
What is the first representative government in America
300
What is a document granting land and power?
What is a charter
300
What is the charter that the British government made to protect peasants rights and make the ruler abide by laws?
What is the Magna Carta
300
What kind of democracy did the Mayflower Compact describe?
What is direct democracy
400
What is the system in which decisions are made by courts not lawmakers?
What is common law
400
Who came up with the idea of three branches of government?
Who is Baron de Montesquieu
400
What is a Joint-Stock company?
What is a company that allows parts of the company to be bought
500
What is a system in which people give up parts of their freedom for protection?
What is a social contract
500
Who wrote the quote, "...every man is born free, but everywhere he is found in chains?"
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau
500
What did the Pilgrims call their settlement, and what modern day state is it in?
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts
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