Colonial Foundations
This 1620 agreement created self-government for the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This Enlightenment philosopher believed in natural rights—life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This tax placed a fee on newspapers, legal documents, and printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
The Boston Tea Party is an example of this type of protest.
What is civil disobedience? (or What is a boycott?)
This war left Britain in debt, causing the taxation that angered the colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
This Virginia assembly was the first representative legislature in British North America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This idea states that government’s power comes from the people.
What is consent of the governed?
This 1773 law gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea.
What is the Tea Act?
This famous cartoon encouraged colonial unity during the French and Indian War.
What is “Join, or Die”?
This religious revival movement increased equality ideas and questioned traditional authority.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This policy of weak British enforcement allowed the colonies to develop their own governments and economic systems.
What is salutary neglect?
Both Locke and Rousseau believed that people create governments through this agreement.
What is the social contract?
These harsh laws were Britain’s punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Colonists hated taxes because they had no say in Parliament.
What is “taxation without representation”?
This was the final major battle of the American Revolution, where Cornwallis surrendered.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
New England’s town meetings were important because they encouraged this democratic practice.
What is citizen participation in local government?
These rights listed in the Declaration of Independence—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—are called this.
What are unalienable rights?
This event was used as anti-British propaganda after British soldiers killed five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraged independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This document explained why the colonies were breaking away and emphasized natural rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Name one major difference between the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies in economy, education, or social life.
New England relied on fishing/shipbuilding, Middle Colonies on wheat & trade, Southern colonies on plantation agriculture.
A government whose powers are restricted by rules or a constitution is practicing this principle.
What is limited government?
After the French and Indian War, this act banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This group met in 1774 to organize colonial resistance and create a united response to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
A colonist who supported independence during the Revolution.
What is a Patriot?