Origins of American Government review 2025

The English Document which first identified the concept of limited government. Also called the great Charter.

• English Bill of Rights

• Representative Democracy

• Magna Carta

• Glorious Revolution

A government in which people elect representatives to make laws and conduct government.

• English Bill of Rights

• Representative Democracy

• Magna Carta

• Glorious Revolution

This made Parliament the supreme lawmaker for England and effectively moved England from an absolute monarch to a consitutional monarchy.

• English Bill of Rights

• Representative Democracy

• Magna Carta

• Glorious Revolution

John Locke's idea; That all people have a right to life, liberty and property.

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Salutary Neglact

The power of government was divided into three branches

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Salutary Neglact

As long as the colonies sent the required raw materials, England allowed them to govern themselves for about 150 years.

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Salutary Neglact

A tax on legal documents, pamphlets, newspapers, dice, playing cards etc.

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Salutary Neglact

This was the colonial response to tax on tea. Colonists threw the tea into the harbor.

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

Who could vote in the colonies?

• All white men

• African Americans

• women

• white, men who owned land

The debt from this war caused Great Britain to tax the colonies in order to pay for it.

• Revolutionary War

• French and Indian war

• The War of 1812

• The Civil War