Belief that a country should have more exports than imports.
What is Mercantilism
100
Representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers.
What is Republic
100
Rights people posses.
What is Natural Rights
100
Ruling authority doesn't have more power than the law.
What is Limited Government
100
Document signed by King John of Great Britain that limits an monarch's power.
What is the Magna Carta
200
A system of laws based on precedent and customs.
What is Common Law
200
a legislature, a lawmaking body, of King John's nobles, church officials, and kings who followed John of the 1300's.
What is Parliament
200
A form of direct democracy , giving citizens a clear voice in decision making.
What is Town Meetings
200
Document that guaranteed free elections to Parliament, the right to a fair trial, no more cruel unusual punishments, and no ruler in England had more power than the Parliament.
What is English Bill of Rights
200
Theory where where people gave part of their freedom for protection of natural laws.
What is Social Contract Theory
300
Signed by the Pilgrims and first example of many colonial plans for self-government.
What is Mayflower Compact
300
the first representative assembly in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses
300
Act that required the colonists to to provide barracks and supplies to Britain troops.
What is the Quartering Act
300
A form developed in the Renaissance inspired by the government forms and writing of classical antiquity.
What is Classical Republicanism
300
Pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
What is Triangular Trade
400
Delegates from 12 of the colonies went to Philadelphia to discuss their concerns for 7 weeks in September 1774.
What is the 1st Contienetial Congress
400
described the government set up by Connecticut River Towns, setting its structure and powers.
What is Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY !!!
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The difference between the values of the exports and imports of a country.
What is Favorable Balance of Trade
400
the war between Great Britain and France from 1754 to 1763.
What is the French and Indian War
400
act that required colonists to attach expensive tax stamps to all newspapers and legal documents
What is the Stamp Act
500
A meeting held October 1775 consisting from 9 of the British colonies representatives to protest against the Stamp Act.
What is Stamp Act Congress
500
written order issued by the Parliament to assist customs officers in arresting smugglers.
What is Writs of Assitance
500
Colonial settlers were forbidden to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains without permission from the British government in order to prevent conflict with Native Americans over land.
What is Proclamation of 1763
500
colonial leaders meet in a meeting in Philadelphia in May 1775.
What is the 2nd Continental Congress
500
Nathaniel Bacon and settlers showed they were not willing to be restricted by government policy that keep them from taking Native American land.