Early Demographics & Colonization
Between 1610 and 1700, the English colonial population in Virginia grew from around 100 people to roughly this number.
What is 72,000?
Written aboard a ship in 1620, this document was the first written framework for self-government in North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Five colonists were killed on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a crowd during this event in Massachusetts.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Colonists were outraged that King George III kept these military forces in the colonies during times of peace without local permission.
What are standing armies?
Indigenous populations in North America collapsed during the 17th century largely due to military conflict and these imported illnesses.
What are European infectious diseases (such as smallpox and measles)?
Pilgrim leaders created the Mayflower Compact to form a "civil body politic" and pass these kinds of laws for the general good of the settlement.
What are "just and equal laws"?
Paul Revere created a famous engraving of the Boston Massacre to spread this type of biased information to turn colonists against the British.
What is propaganda?
Thomas Jefferson based the principles of the Declaration of Independence on the natural rights theories of this Enlightenment philosopher.
Who is John Locke?
The Powhatan Native American population dropped from 15,000 down to this number by the year 1700.
What is 1,000?
Written in 1776, this Virginia document stated that all political power belongs to and comes from the people.
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
homas Jefferson was the primary author of this July 4, 1776 document that officially broke political ties with Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Connecting British military actions in 1770 to the decision to issue the Declaration of Independence in 1776 is an example of this historical relationship.
What is cause and effect?
Along with advanced weaponry, this factor contributed directly to the severe loss of Native American land and population.
What is disease?
This fundamental democratic principle states that a government gets its power only from the agreement and permission of the citizens it rules.
What is consent of the governed?
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness are examples of these natural human rights that cannot be taken away.
What are unalienable rights?
Paul Revere's engraving titled "The Bloody Massacre" was designed specifically to increase colonial hostility toward standing armies and this royal authority.
What is the British monarchy (or King George III)?
This term describes a rapid and severe decrease in the population of a specific group of people.
What is demographic decline?
The Mayflower Compact established governance by mutual consent, serving as an early colonial example of this Enlightenment political theory.
What is social contract theory?
According to the Declaration of Independence, if a government becomes abusive or tyrannical, citizens have the right and duty to do this.
What is alter or abolish it?
The Declaration of Independence listed specific grievances against King George III, including enabling military overreach and imposing these types of rules.
What are arbitrary rules?