Topic 2: Foundation of American Government Vocabulary Game

A written legal agreement signed in 1215 by King John that limited the English monarch's power, effectively ending the absolute monarchy and offering protections to the people

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Petition of Right

• Mayflower Compact

A constitutional document in England, signed in 1628 by King Charles I that laid out specific protections against the state

• Social Contract

• English Bill of Rights

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Petition of Rights

Act signed in 1689 by King William III and Queen Mary II which outlined specific constitutional and civil rights, and which gave the parliament power of the monarchy

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Natural Laws

• Declaration of Independence

An agreement by which people give up freedoms to a leader who can ensure protection of their rights

• Checks and Balances

• Natural Laws

• Social Contract

• "Common Sense"

Unchanging moral principles and rights, such as Locke's "life, liberty, and property"

• Natural Laws

• Social Contract

• Checks and Balances

• "Common Sense"

A system of government that separated government power and then creating "checks" in the system to ensure one branch of government does not gain too much power

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Checks and Balances

• Petition of Right

A formal document written by the passengers of the Mayflower upon landing in North America that outlined the governing system of the Plymouth colony

• Petition of Right

• Mayflower Compact

• Social Contract

• Declaration of Independence

A pamphlet published by Thomas Payne in 1775 or 1776 that advocated for the independence of the American colonists from Great Britain

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• "Common Sense"

A document drafted in 1776 by George Mason that declared the inherent rights of man, and became the basis of the Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

• Petition of Right

Document written in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson that declared the American colonists' intention to break away from British rule

• Magna Carta

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Natural Laws