Chapter 4 Study Guide

Chapter 4 Study Guide

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Question	Answer
How was Locke’s social contract theory related to his belief in natural law?
What was the House of Burgesses and why is it important?
What was the Magna Carta and why is it so important? What did it do to the king’s power?
Explain the Tea Act of 1773.
What was the Mayflower Compact and why is it important?
What did most colonial government have in common?
Who was responsible for the Declaration of Independence?
What was the Proclamation of 1763? Why did this upset so many colonist? What was the outcome of the proclamation?
What was the Enlightenment?
What was the Great Awakening? How did this impact the colonist?
Name 3 Enlightenment thinkers and their views on government.
What are grievances?
What were the actions taken by the First Continental Congress? What was King George’s reaction?
Colonist elected local assemblies. Most governors, however, were appointed by the King. Why did the king want royal governors?
What are the main reasons why people came to the colonies?
How did the ideas of John Locke and other great thinkers contribute to the Declaration of Independence?
What are the Coercive Acts? What was included in them? What did the colonist call them?
Why did the Tea Act anger the colonist?
What was the outcome of the Second Continental Congress?
Name 2 early English documents that influenced the foundation of democracy. What did they have in common?
What was the world’s first republic?
Who was Thomas Paine? What did he write? Why was it important?
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
Explain the difference between a direct democracy and a representative democracy.
What is a legislature?
How did the English Bill of Rights change the nature of the English government?