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Signed by King John in 1215. Limited the King's power and established a loose form of Parliament in the barons.
What is the Magna Carta?
This was the first governing document in America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Name the laws with which Britain attempted to control trade to and from its American colonies.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Give an example of something that would be considered an element of a nation's culture.
What is religion, food, clothing, language, jobs, beliefs, entertainment, etc...?
In the war that began in 1754, these people sided with the French.
Who are the Natives?
This is the idea that a gov't must give someone a fair opportunity to defend themselves before taking away their rights.
What is due process?
This term for a 2-house legislature used in British government made its way into U.S. gov't, too.
What is bicameral
Translate or paraphrase the term for Britain's attitude toward the colonies of beneficial ignoring.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This intellectual movement of the early 1700s in the colonies emphasized using logical, critical thinking.
This future Revolutionary hero led his first battles as a General during the F & I War.
Who is George Washington?
This central idea of the Rule of Law limited everyone's power, from the peasants to the King.
What is: No one is above the law OR everyone obeys the law equally?
The specific name for the Virginia legislative assembly.
Name one reason why the British did not continue to enforce their trade laws by the late 1600s.
What is: they were busy with their own affairs, it was cheaper, or it was hard to find people to enforce the laws?
This religious movement in the early 1700s in the colonies emphasized one's personal salvation and relationship with God.
What is the First Great Awakening?
These two groups fought on the same side against the French and their native allies.
Who are the British and the colonists?
Name the document that required the King to obtain Parliament's approval for any new tax.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This is where colonists met together to discuss issues and propose and vote on laws.
What are town meetings?
In terms of legal status and identity, how would an American colonist have described themselves in the late 1600s and early 1700s?
What is as a British/English citizen?
Both the Age of Reason and the 1st Great Awakening had similar underlying beliefs. Name/describe one of them.
What is less respect for established authority, or personal responsibility over tradition.
This country lost all of its North American territory in the war.
What is France?
In signing the Magna Carta, King John gave up this type of government, and instead allowed what would later become a representative government.
What is an absolute monarchy?
The Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights both relied on this central idea that also appeared in the Mayflower Compact- that the government only has power because of the people who give their permission to be ruled.
What is consent of the governed?
During the decades of salutary neglect, the colonies enjoyed political and economic freedom, and practiced (and got used to) this habit.
What is self-government?
Fill in the blanks:
Both the Age of Reason and the 1st Great Awakening made it _____________ for the colonists to think of themselves as ____________ from Great Britain.
What is easier/separate
This law, issued after the war, forbade the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?