- Which dressing is served with boneless wings?
- We survive by fishing, whaling, trading and lumbering.
- Placed strict rules on government leaders and protected the people.
- People elect delegates to make laws and conduct government business.
- Promoted the idea of a social contract, where people give up some of their rights for the benefits of order.
- Believed that the decisions of the majority should apply to everyone.
- Introduced the theory of natural rights: life, liberty, and property.
- How did the Enlightenment period influence political thought in the colonies?
- Promoted freedom of thought, speech, and religion... basis of the first amendment.
- Document that established the principle of majority rule in the colonies.
- Created a colony based on religious tolerance.
- The idea of a social contract will layer be incorporated in the Declaration of Independence because this idea justified:
- According to historic English & colonial documents such as the Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights, and the Mayflower Compact, who should hold the majority of power in government?
- The idea that Britain would not interfere with colonies in any matters.
- How does the cartoon demonstrate the colonist's frustration with the policy/practice of mercantilism?
- What policies did Britain put in place to strictly control trade and enforce mercantilism?
- Believed that government power should be divided into three branches.
- Why did the colonies have such a heavy reliance on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
- The idea that the colonies would be left alone to govern their own affairs.
- What was the British economic policy in which colonial trade was strictly controlled to ensure wealth for England?