Unit 1 - Quiz 2 Review (lead up before the American revolution)

What year was the magna Carta written in

1215

What did the magna Carta say?

The king couldn’t tax without consent from the people

What is parliment

the legislature of England

what are the 2 groups of parlimant

house of Lords and house of commons

rule of law/limited goverment

everyone in the government (even the king) must obay a set of laws.

english bill of rights

gave parliment more power in the government, and guaranteed people in England certian rights.

what was the house of burgrass

1st colonial leguslature

what was the mayflower compact

a pact that says the colonies would rule as majority rules

who was John locke

a thinker during the engligtment

what did John lock develop?

the social contract theory

what was the social contract theory

men have the natural rights, and the government must protect life, liberty, property, and the right to govern themselves. the government can take natural rights away for the good of the people. if the government violates a persons rights they can have the responsibility to change the gov’t.

what were the two types of government in the colones

legislatures and a royal govener

what was the legislatures

a group of elected colonists who made laws and taxes

what were the royal govner

a colonist chosen by the king of England to oversee the colony

what is saluatory neglect

the colonies could have their own government as long as merchantilism

what was the French and indian war faught against

french/native Americans vs britins/colonist

what was the French and Indian war faught over

land and natural resourses

who won the French and Indian war

british - they gained all of the French land east of the Mississippi river

what happened after the war

the British went into a lot of debt, so they passed new laws and taxes on the colonys to help raise money, whicheve ended salutory neglect.