Historical Documents Vocabulary

The first document put into writing that limited the king's power and his government.

• Magna Carta

• Bill of Rights

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Common Sense

guaranteed certain rights to English citizens and declared that elections for Parliament would happen frequently.

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower compact

• Magna Carta

• Common Sense

What did the mayflower compact create?

• self-government

• pilgrim community

• Plymouth Rock

• due process

What did the Mayflower Compact influence on the early government?

• Bill of Rights

• self government through laws made BY THE PEOPLE (direct democracy)

• Oligarchy community

• Natural laws

What did the Magna Carta influence on the early American government?

• rights to trial by try & due process

• natural laws & self-incrimination

• self-government & direct democracy

The principle that the government has to provide a cause or reason for holding a person in jail

• habeas corpus

• judicial review

• 5th amendment

• English Bill of Rights

Journalist who wrote Common Sense

• Thomas Paine

• John Locke

• Jefferson

• Montesquieu

What was the purpose of Common Sense? What did it aim to do?

• convince the American colonists to remain loyal to Britain

• convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England

• connive the American colonists to join the revolutionary war

every citizens right to fair treatment through the normal judicial system

• due process

• judicial review

• judicial fairness