| A | B |
|---|
| limited government | government is restricted as to what it can |
| ordered government | colonists saw the need for regulating their relationships for government |
| representative government | government should serve the will of the people |
| reason for creating government | the need for orderly regulation of peoples' relationships with one another |
| three influential documents from England | Magna Carta, The Petition of Right and the Bill of Rights |
| royal colony | these colonies were under direct control of the king |
| proprietary colony | these colonies were established from a land grant from the king |
| charter colony | these colonies were established from a written grant of authority from the king |
| Ben Franklin | "We must hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately". |
| 150 years | how long the British ruled the colonies after the founding of Jamestown |
| British responsibility towards the colonies | establishing colonial defense |
| British responsibility towards the colonies | conducting foreign affairs |
| British responsibility towards the colonies | creating a common market for colonial trade |
| King of England during the American Revolutionary War | King George III |
| an action by the king that upset the colonists | restricted trade |
| an action by the king that upset the colonists | imposed new taxes |
| confederation | the joining of several groups for a common purpose |
| boycott | refusal to purchase products as an act of protest |
| Committees of Correspondence | network of people that provided the exchange of information among the colonies |
| popular sovereignty | government functions with the consent of the people |
| Ben Franklin | proposed the Albany Plan |
| Stamp Act | taxes on newspapers, business contracts and legal documents |
| Stamp Act Congress is significant because | it was the first meeting of the colonists to oppose the British policies |
| Stamp Act Congress result | sent the Declaration of Rights and Grievances to King George III |
| How did the British react to the colonies opposing the Stamp Act? | The British repealed the Stamp Act |
| Intolerable Acts | a series of British laws to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party |
| Philadelphia | meeting place of the First Continental Congress |
| The Second Continental Congress | created a continental army |
| The Second Continental Congress | appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief |
| The First Continental Congress | agreed to meet a second time |
| The First Continental Congress | sent a Declaration of Rights to King George III |
| What the British called the members of the Second Continental Congress | traitors |
| This was our first national government | The Second Continental Congress |
| civil rights and liberties | unalienable rights - sovereign people hold certain rights that the government must respect |
