Thinkers and Colonial Traditions
This thinker identified natural rights as life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This form of protest involves refusing to buy goods.
What is a boycott?
This principle means government power is restricted by law.
What is limited government?
He was the principal drafter of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
He presided over the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Who is George Washington?
This thinker favored strong sovereign authority to maintain peace and order.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This 1765 British law taxed printed materials and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
In this system, people elect others to make laws and govern on their behalf.
What is representative government?
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet to persuade colonists to support independence.
What is Common Sense?
This plan favored larger states by proposing congressional representation based largely on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This thinker argued that dividing power among government branches helps prevent tyranny.
Who is Montesquieu?
These committees shared news and coordinated resistance among the colonies.
What are committees of correspondence?
This English document, accepted by King John in 1215, helped establish limits on royal power.
What is Magna Carta?
The Declaration identifies these three unalienable rights.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
This compromise created a House based on population and a Senate with equal representation for each state.
What is the Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise?
In 1620, the Pilgrims signed this agreement to form a government and obey laws made for the general good.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1774 meeting brought together delegates from 12 colonies and supported a boycott of British goods.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This 1628 document challenged taxation without Parliament’s consent and imprisonment without lawful cause.
What is the Petition of Right?
This principle means that legitimate government receives its authority from the people.
What is consent of the governed?
This compromise counted part of the enslaved population for representation and direct taxation without granting enslaved people voting rights.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
These elected colonial bodies gave colonists practical experience debating taxes and making laws.
What are colonial assemblies or legislatures?
This later congress organized the Continental Army and selected George Washington as its commander.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
This 1689 document protected the right to petition and placed further limits on the monarchy.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Congress approved independence on July 2, 1776, but adopted the Declaration on this date.
What is July 4, 1776?
These opponents or critics of ratification feared centralized power and demanded stronger protections for individual liberties.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?