EOC Review Flashcards
(111 cards)
New England colonies
purtians: shipping fishing and mercantilism
mayflower compact
first written government
house of burgesses
modeled after Parliament with colonial governor and legislature
Middle colonies
mercantilism and staple crops
southern colonies
crops and slavery
Locke’s 3 rights
life, liberty, and property
magna carta
great charter that limited England king rights
limited government
government must obey come law
social contract
people give up rights to be governed
French and Indian war
french and Indians trade together, British and colonist attack them for lands, Ben Franklin calls on colonies to unite, Franklin fears french and Indians will take over their land/ culture
common sense
US ought to govern themselves; persuaded colonists to fight for freedom
system that promised 50 acres of land to settlers coming to new world
headright system
system in which southern colonies relied on large farms
plantations systems
wealthy, upper class in southern colonies
gentry
religious group established on biblical teaching
puritans
religious group that started Pennsylvania
quakers
philosophy in which English government essentially left colonies alone to govern themselves
salutary neglect
governments in which individuals elect others to speak for them
representative government
governments that must obey a set of laws
limited government
legislative government of the British government
parliament
guaranteed key freedoms to British people
English bill of rights
7/4/1776
the US formally declares independence; wins it later on (revolution)
inalienable rights
given by God, cant be taken by government
leader of the antifederalist
Thomas Jefferson