Government UNIT 2: The Road to the Constitution

First permanent English settlement in America, it was located in the colony of Virginia.

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Philadelphia

• Boston

Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies & the Crown.

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Albany Plan of Union

• Connecticut Compromise

A series of laws set up by British Parliament to tax the American Colonies, without American approval or representation.

• English Tax Codes

• Foraker Acts

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Intolerable Acts

A system that provides orderly regulation of citizens' relationships with one another.

• Ordered Government

• Limited Government

• Representative Government

• Authoritative Government

Extended conflict between the thirteen American colonies and the British Empire over the right of self-governance.

• War of 1812

• Spanish American War

• Revolutionary War

• French and Indian War

People with authority to represent others at a conference or convention.

• Nobles

• Vassals

• Colonists

• Delegates

Basic principle of American government which states that government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has rights that government cannot take away.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Due Process

• Authoritarian Government

• Representative Government

A philosophical movement which started in Europe in the 1700's and spread worldwide, it emphasized reason and the scientific method with writers focusing on government, ethics, and science, rather than on imagination, emotions, or religion.

• The Progressive Movement

• The Middle Ages

• The Enlightenment

• The Gilded Age

Document that guaranteed more rights for the English, including outlawing taxation without representation as well as other basic rights.

• English Bill of Rights

• Albany Plan of Union

• Declaration of Independence

• The Bible

Puritan leader who lived in Plymouth, he became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

• John Locke

• John Winthrop

• John Smith

• Pocahontas