English Influence
Law based on the idea that humans are born with the ability to determine right from wrong
Natural Law
Groups of people living in one place under the rule of a parent country
What is a colony?
Tax on newspapers and legal documents
What is the Stamp Act?
Who is Thomas Paine?
The first version of the US Government
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Notion that power lies with the people
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The first document to establish self government in the new world
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Act that stated Parliament had the right to make decisions for the colonist in all cases, including taxes
What is the Declaratory Act?
First battles of the revolution
What is the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Group that created the Constitution
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The cultural movement that influenced the development of democracy in America
What is the Enlightenment?
Incident where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonist
What is the Boston Massacre?
Event that led to the Coercive Act
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Group that worked on the Declaration of Independence
What is the Second Continental Congress?
Plan that wanted representation in Congress to be based on population
What is the Virginia Plan?
Document that protected the nobles and upheld their authority
What is the Magna Carta?
Phrase the colonist used to show their feelings about english taxes
What is "No taxation without representation"?
Debt from this event led to Britain placing the tax acts on the colonist
The beginning of the Declaration of Independence
What is the Preamble?
The number of states that need to approve the Constitution before it would be ratified
What is 9?
The group that created the English Bill of Rights
What is Parliament?
Britain allowing the colonies to self govern as long as they were doing well economically
What is salutary neglect?
Tax on imported goods
What is the Townshend Act?
When the Declaration of Independence was approved
What is July 4th, 1776?
Clause that stretches the powers of Congress
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause (Elastic Clause)?