Key Terms
A relationship in which each member of a society is dependent on another.
What is interdependence?
The idea that a hereditary king rules from the authority of God.
What is the Divine Right?
What is farming?
The first internal tax ever placed on the colonies in their history.
What is the Stamp Act?
A hunter and trapper who explored the Kentucky country and opened up the Wilderness Road.
Who is Daniel Boone?
A practice in treating people in a fatherly manner, especially to their material welfare.
What is paternalism?
A political and social philosophy that emphasizes the freedom of individuals to follow their own desires in their social, religious, and economic life.
What is liberalism?
The social order of the colonists was based on this principle.
What is intercedence?
The act of the British Parliament that said the colonists held their rights only at Parliament's pleasure.
What is the Declaratory Act?
Was tried and convicted of treason against the Patriots.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
A Protestant revival in Colonial America that sparked new interest in religion.
What is the Great Awakening?
An ideology that holds that government derives from the authority of the people and is merely the representative and voice of the people, established by the people so they could enjoy security in the free possession of their rights.
What is republicanism?
Remained loyal to the British crown out of self-interest or conscience.
Who are tories?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Middle-class colonists who organized themselves to take direct action against the Stamp Act.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
The first shot fired at Lexington.
The shot heard round the world?
The most important inalienable rights that Locke argues for?
What are life, liberty, property?
Were guilty of harming civilians, including women and children during the Revolutionary War.
Who are the Americans and the British?
The second time the colonies attempted to act as one. They discussed what steps they should take in the face of the Coercive and Quebec Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This person calls human society a "blessing" but even the best government a "necessary evil." His pamphlet Common Sense undermined whatever reverence English Americans felt for the king.
Who is Thomas Paine?
The act which allowed French Catholics in Quebec to practice their Catholic faith. It angered the Protestant Americans.
What is the Quebec Act?
The theory that the government is only valid if it has the consent of the people governed.
What is the social contract theory of government?
Adopted by the delegates of the First Continental Congress on Oct. 1774 and stated that "the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America" hold their rights, "by the immutable laws of nature, the principle of the of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts."
What are the Declaration and Resolves?
The siege at which General Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans on September 28, 1781.
What is the siege at Yorktown?
Drafted the Declaration of Independence in June of 1776 at 33 years old.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?