| A | B |
|---|
| purpose of government | keep order, security, guide the public, and provide services |
| dictatorship | controlled by one person, usually with the most guns |
| absolute monarchy | ruled by a king or queen |
| constitutional monarchy | king or queen, but elected legislature makes laws |
| authoritarian gov't | ruled by small group, ex. Communists |
| direct democracy | all citizens vote on issues |
| representative democracy | citizens elect others to vote for them on certain issues |
| republic | other name for representative democracy |
| Magna Carta | signed by King John in 1215. Limited kings powers. |
| Glorious Revolution (1688) | King James II taken off the throne by Parliament and replaced with daughter Mary and her husband William |
| precedent | the way it was done in the past |
| common law | unwritten law based on precedent |
| Parliament | British legislature that gradually gained power from the monarchy |
| House of Burgesses | representative democracy established in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 |
| Mayflower Compact | est a direct democracy for settlers at Plymouth, Mass |
| mercantilism | economic policy that stated that a nation must export more than it imports |
| French and Indian War | resulted in France's loss of Canada to the British; caused the British to raise steep taxes |
| Philidelphia | where Continental Congresses met |
| First Continental Congress | event in Philadelphia where they drew up list of complaints against Parliament and sent them to King George III |
| Second Continental Congress | Declaration of Independence written |
| Common Sense | Thomas Paine's pamphlet encouraging independence |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | social contract and popular sovereignty |
| John Locke | natural rights - life, liberty, property |
| Stamp Act | taxed all legal documents and newspapers |
| Coercive Acts | Britain's punishment for the Boston Tea Party |
| Intolerable Acts | another name for the Coericive Acts |
| Thomas Paine | wrote Common Sense |
| Thomas Jeffeson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| July 4, 1776 | when the Declaration of Independence was signed |
| Articles of confederation | the first government of the United States |
| Declaration of Independence | Document signed during the 2nd Continental Congress that explained our intentions to Great Britain. |
| English Bill of Rights | gave citizens certain rights like no imprisonment without due process, or no taxation without parliament's consent |
| Jamestown | first permanent British Settlement in the new world. |
