types of colonies
In this type of colony, the king appointed the governor and council.
What is a royal colony?
All people are born with these because they are human
What are natural rights?
The Stamp Act Congress protested taxation without this
What is representation?
This man authored the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Articles created the first government of these States
What are the United States?
In this type of colony, the king granted land to proprietors.
What is a proprietary colony?
According to Enlightenment thinkers, government gets its power from this group.
What is the people (or consent of the governed)?
The First Continental Congress organized a boycott of British these.
What are goods?
The Declaration of Independence was adopted on this date.
What is July 4, 1776?
Under the Articles, Congress could not directly collect these
What are taxes?
In this type of colony, colonists or a company received a charter and elected leaders.
What is a charter colony?
In the social contract, people give government power in exchange for protection of these
What are their rights?
The Second Continental Congress created the Continental this and chose Washington to lead it.
What is the Army?
The Declaration explained separation from this nation.
What is Britain (or Great Britain/England)?
The Articles government had no judicial branch and no this branch
What is the executive branch?
John Locke believed people could do this to a government that violates their rights.
What is overthrow (or replace)?
The Second Continental Congress sent this Branch Petition to the king.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
The Declaration stated people have natural rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of this.
What is happiness?
Under the Articles, these entities held most of the power.
What are the states?
The Second Continental Congress created the Articles of this
What is Confederation?
According to the Declaration, governments receive power from the consent of these people
What are the governed?
This man led Massachusetts farmers in a rebellion that showed the national government was too weak
Who is Daniel Shays?