Module 4 Vocabulary Quiz

Government structure with no effective limits on government actions

• unlimited government

• divine right

• magna carta

• intolerable acts

Government structure where the government actions are limited by law

• unlimited government

• limited government

• sugar act

• stamp act

belief that ruling authority comes directly from God

• sugar act

• intolerable acts

• divine right

• magna carta

a charter of liberties that King John of England was forced to sign making him follow that same laws as citizens

• Declaration of the rights of man and citizen

• magna carta

• sugar act

• stamp act

A form of government where king remains head of state, but the elected body makes new laws and taxes

• stamp act

• constitutional monarchy

• olive branch petition

• reign of terror

Series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Boston Tea party.

• sugar act

• stamp act

• intolerable acts

• Napoleonic Code

An act passed by British Parliament to raise money from American colonies by requiring them to purchase stamps for newspaper, legal or commercial documents.

• divine right

• stamp act

• sugar act

• magna carta

law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies.

• limited government

• sugar act

• stamp act

• magna carta

A document officially declaring the American colonies breaking away from Britain

• sugar act

• Declaration of Independence

• magna carta

• stamp act

statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at beginning of French Revolution

• stamp act

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

• sugar act