A refusal to buy or sell certain products or services
What is Boycott
200
Representatives
What is Delegates
200
A joining of several groups for a common purpose
What is Confederation
200
The process of blending and adjusting competing views and interests
What is Compromise
200
The group of delegates who attended the Philadelphia convention
What is Framers
300
Government can exist only with the consent of the governed
What is Popular Sovereignty
300
Established "a firm league of friendship" among the states
What is Articles of Confederation
300
Congress chooses one of its members as its president
What is Presiding Officer
300
A new government with three separate branches: Legislative, executive, and Judicial
What is Virginia Plan
300
Congress should be composed of two houses
What is Connecticut Compromise
400
Retained the unicameral congress of the confederation, with each of the states, equally represented.
What is New Jersey Plan
400
All "free persons" should be counted, and so, too, should "three-fifths of all other persons"
What is Three-fifths Compromise
400
Congress was forbidden the power to tax the export of goods from any state
What is Commerce and Slave trade Compromise
400
A group of determined barons forced King John to sign
What is Magna Carta
400
It prohibited a standing army in peacetime, except with the consent of Parliament
What is English Bill of Rights
500
Basic principle of American government which states that government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has rights that government cannot take away.
What is Limited Government
500
Idea that government should serve the will of the people
What is Representative Government
500
Document prepared by Parliament and signed by King Charles I of England in 1628, challenged the idea of divine right of kings.
What is Petition of Right
500
Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade.
What is Albany Plan of Union
500
Colonies that were organized by a proprietor, a person to whom the kind had made a grant of land.