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Document that limited the monarch's power and protected certain rights.
What is the Magna Carta?
This was the first permanent English colony in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This system required colonies to supply raw materials and buy goods from the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This is the study of citizens’ rights and duties.
What is civics?
This government allows citizens to elect representatives.
What is a republic?
John Locke's three natural rights that the government should protect.
What is: life, liberty, and property?
This type of colony was controlled by an owner or group given land by the king.
What is a proprietary colony?
This slogan protested taxation without colonial representatives in Parliament.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
These are the two basic ways to become a U.S. citizen.
What are birth and naturalization?
One is usually ruled by a royal family; the other is controlled by one person or a small group.
What are a monarchy and a dictatorship?
This theory says people may replace a government that breaks its agreement with them.
What is social contract theory?
Created in 1619, this was the first representative legislature in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This act taxed paper products, while another required colonists to house British soldiers.
What were the Stamp Act and the Quartering Act?
This process includes an application, an interview and examination, and the Oath of Allegiance.
What is naturalization?
These features include private ownership of businesses and the pursuit of profit.
What are key features of capitalism?
These Enlightenment ideas encouraged representative government and limits on political power.
What are reason, individual rights, and government by consent?
New England sought religious freedom, the Middle Colonies attracted diverse settlers, and the Southern Colonies focused on agriculture and trade.
These were the main reasons for what?
What were the main reasons for founding the colonial regions?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine used simple arguments to support independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This principle says government gets its authority from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
In one system, individuals generally own businesses; in the other, the community or government owns or regulates major industries.
What are capitalism and socialism?
The Magna Carta, Parliament, Locke’s ideas, and colonial self-government helped establish these principles.
What are limited government, representative government, individual rights, and popular sovereignty?
Different colonial economies, religions, and political traditions encouraged cooperation but also created future conflicts over representation, liberty, labor, and slavery.
These were the effects of colonial what?
What were the effects of colonial diversity?
British taxes and regulations, colonial protests, fighting, and Paine’s pamphlet led to this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Unlike ancient Greece and Rome, modern American citizenship generally does not depend on property ownership.
What is the major change in citizenship?
This form of government allowed representation, popular sovereignty, and constitutional limits across a large and diverse nation.
What is a republic?