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- 2. Enlightenment thinker who wrote about the Social Contract: that government should exist to protect the rights of the people and should rule by the consent of the people
- 12. document that stated the colonies’ intention of separation from the UK; is a statement of beliefs about government, and served as a model to other countries.
- 15. what people have the right to do if a government does not protect their rights, according to the Declaration of Independence; “____________ it and create a new one.”
- 16. third English colony; established by the Puritans in Massachusetts; a “city on a hill;” had strict rules of behavior and punishment
- 17. main cash crop grown by Virginia and Maryland in colonial times; the first major crop grown by English people; introduced to Jamestown by John Rolfe
- 19. amendment that protects people from cruel, unusual, and excessive punishments
- 21. Native Americans believed that all of nature had this quality; therefore they did not believe in dividing up and owning the land; they lived in harmony with it
- 23. Puritan punishment that was given for most serious crimes such as lying, gambling, spouse beating, and swearing
- 24. religious revival movement; led people to question political authority as well as church authority
- 25. author of the Declaration of Independence; planter and slaveholder from Virginia who wrote the Declaration of Independence; and Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
- 26. second English colony; established by the Pilgrims in Massachusetts to practice their faith freely; famous for the first Thanksgiving
- 27. this devastated the Native American population such that it is said that the New England area was easy to colonize
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- 1. Enlightenment thinker whose ideas were the inspiration for the Declaration of Independence
- 3. first two rights listed in the Declaration of Independence; inspired by John Locke
- 4. founded as a haven for Catholics who were being persecuted in England at the time
- 5. Massachusetts lawyer and farmer who was an outspoken advocate of independence; he was a delegate to Congress and diplomat in Paris; later became the second president of the US
- 6. purpose of the system of separation of powers with its checks and balances
- 7. battle site at which the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired when the British army was on its way to Concord to retrieve the colonists’ weapons, starting the Revolutionary War
- 8. first English colony in North America; established by the Virginia Company, a joint stock company, as a money-making venture
- 9. term that refers to the male-dominated nature of European society which included the church, political, business, and domestic (home) affairs; they believed firmly in land ownership
- 10. law that established that there would be freedom of religion and separation of church and state in Virginia; became the model for the first amendment
- 11. the three main countries that colonized North America (in alphabetical order)
- 13. part of the colonial boycott of tea to protest British taxation policies
- 14. crop which was widely popular in Europe and came to be called the “killer crop” because of how harshly slaves were worked to grow it; particular in the Caribbean islands
- 18. Enlightenment thinker who wrote that there should be a separation of powers so that no one person or group would have all the power and be dictatorial; suggested three branches of government
- 20. a haven for Quakers; set up by William Penn
- 22. idea that John Locke is most known for and that inspired an American colonial document.