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Vocabulary
13 Colonies
Influences on Colonial Government
Colonial Traditions of Self Government
100
monarch
What is a king or queen
100
Jamestown (Virginia)
What is the first permanent English settlement in North America.
100
Baron de Montesquieu
What is developed the idea about dividing the branches of government into different parts.
100
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
What is document called for an assembly of elected representatives from each town to make laws.
200
Triangular trade
What is this term describes the pattern of trade that developed between the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
200
New Jersey
What is became a royal colony in 1702, one owned and ruled directly by the king.
200
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What is wrote that "man is born free, yet everywhere he is found in chains."
200
House of Burgesses
What is the first representative assembly in the English colonies.
300
Precedent
What is a ruling in an earlier case that was similar.
300
Connecticut
What is where Pilgrims went when they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs.
300
Enlightenment
What is had a profound effect on Americans
300
Mayflower Compact
What is 41 men aboard the Mayflower signed this
400
joint-stock company
What is provided investors partial ownership and a share in future profits
400
Georgia
What is the last English colony founded in America.
400
John Locke
What is an English writer who supported the Glorious Revolution.
400
Virginia Company
What is appointed a governor and council to manage Jamestown.
500
natural rights
What is right to life, liberty, and property that no government could take away.
500
Religious dissenters (Puritans)
What is those who followed a faith other than the official religion of England.
500
The Constitution
What is Locke's ideas on natural rights and Montesquieu's theories on social contract became cornerstone ideas for which American founding document?
500
1619
What is the year the House of Burgesses was founded