Magna Carta
The United States does NOT have a House of Lords or Commons. What do we call the two houses of Congress?
House of Representatives
Senate
What year was the Mayflower Compact made?
1620
Which amendment protects your freedom of speech?
1st
Who established the colony of PA through an independent charter?
William Penn
What are the 3 branches of the US government?
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Who agreed to the Magna Carta?
King John
Who wrote the Mayflower Compact?
A group of English Puritans.
Who wrote the English Bill of Rights?
Members of the English Parliament
What was the first representative government in the New World?
House of Burgesses
Who were the BIG Three when it came to exploration?
France, England, Spain
What did the Magna Carta limit?
Power of the King
What did the Mayflower Compact do?
It created a government for the colonists.
How many amendments are in the US Constitution?
27
What is seen as the worlds first written constitution?
Mayflower Compact
Who were the settlers who founded Plymouth for religious freedom?
Separatists
What did the Magna Carta protect?
The rights of the people
What else did the Mayflower Compact do besides create a government for the puritans?
Protect the rights of the colonists.
What did the English Bill of Rights do?
Parliament took power over the monarchy, Expanded the rights of the people, as well as further limited the rights of the king.
What is the term that means setting up the colonies to take raw materials from this new land, bringing them back to the mother country, and then turning them into goods to sell back to the colonies?
mercantilism
What was the Great Convergence?
Different people from different countries (religion, ethnicity, language) coming to the English colonies.
What were 4 big ideas of the Magna Carta?
Limited Government, Rights, Rule of Law, Due Process
What were the big ideas of the Mayflower Compact?
Self Government, Rule of Law
Which amendments make up the Bill of Rights?
the first 10 amendments
What did the colonial charters promise the residents of a colony?
The rights of Englishmen.
The system of exchange between England, Africa, and the New World was called....
Columbian Exchange