Unit 1 Quiz Study Guide Flashcards
Magna Carta
guaranteed certain rights to citizens of England
English Common Law
Listen to earlier court rulings (precedence)
Glorious Revolution
At the point in time kings will have no more power than Supreme Court
John Locke
Natural Rights
Thomas Hobbes
War of all against all (humans natural state is anti-social)
Salutary Neglect
Point in time that the colonies will be self governing
Stamp act
Tax on printed documents
Quartering act
Colonists had to house soldiers
Proclamation of 1763
Can not move past the Appalachian mountains
French and Indian war
French and British fight over Ohio river valley (debt)
Barón de Montesquieu
Separation of powers
Sugar Act
Refined sugar and molasses
Benjamin Franklin
Albany Plan of Union
Fundamental Order of CT
First constitution
Townshend Act
Tax on imports