What is an official agreement made by two or more parties
100
Thomas Paine
Who is the colonial Journalist who wrote Common Sense in 1776
100
English Bill of Rights
What is 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
100
Common Sense
What is a pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England
100
1607
What is the year that Virginia becomes the first colony
200
rights
What is a set of things that people believe they should be free of to do without restrictions
200
Thomas Hooker
He was a prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts.
200
self-government
What is a popular or representative system where the people create and run their own government
200
Mayflower Compact
What is 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
200
1620
What is the year that Massachusetts is founded
300
Preamble
What is the introduction to the U.S. Constitution
300
John Winthrop
He was a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony.
300
Due Process
What is the idea that people have the right to fair and reasonable laws, and that government leaders and officials have to follow rules when enforcing laws and treat all people in the same way
300
Magna Carta
What is 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
300
1623
What is the year that New Hampshire is founded
400
Colonist
One who organizes or settles in a new country
400
Anne Hutchinson
She was a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638
400
rule of law
What is a concept that those who govern are bound by the laws; no one is above the law
400
English Bill of Rights
What is 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
400
1624
What is the year that the colony of Maryland is founded
500
Quakers
What is an English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preach a doctrine of pacifism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania
500
William Penn
He was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
500
Limited Government
What is a government that has been limited in power by a constitution, or written agreement
500
The constitution of the United States
What is A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed
500
1636
What is the year that the colony of Connecticut was founded