| A | B |
|---|
| British legislation punishing the colony of Massachusetts | Intolerable Acts |
| agreement between the government & its citizens by which the people agree to support the government as laong as it represents their best interests | social contract |
| government structure in which each branch has the abitlity to limit the power of the others | system of checks and balances |
| legislature with only one group of representatives | unicameral body |
| colonists who remained loyal to King George III | Tories |
| idea that ordinary people can and should govern themselves | popular sovereignty |
| device for selecting the President of the United States | Electoral College |
| amendments to the constitution that guarantee individual freedoms to American citizens | Bill of Rights |
| document in which George III renounced sovereignty over his thirteen former colonies | Treaty of Paris |
| proposal supported by James Madison that called for a bicameral national legislature with proportionate representation | Virginia Plan |
