EOC Review: Pt. 1

1. Term: compromise between Virginia and New Jersey Plans

2. Amendment: protection from double jeopardy

3. Court Case: established judicial review

4. Terms: the idea that people form governments to protect their natural rights

EOC Review: Pt. 1

Early America• British Colonization of America (1607-

1776)–Motivations: • Economic: joint-stock companies – triangular trade route, middle passage

• Religious Dissenters: Puritans, Quakers– Regions• Southern Colonies • Middle Colonies• New England

Revolutionary Ideas• In Europe– Magna Carta: created limited monarchy– Social Contract (Rousseau):

• People establish governments to protect their natural rights

• In America– Mayflower Compact: first direct democracy– House of Burgesses: first legislature– Fundamental Orders of Connecticut: first

written Constitution– Rebellion: Bacon and Shay’s

The Revolution• British Offenses– Navigation Acts, Proclamation of 1763, Stamp

Act, Intolerable Acts (Quartering Acts, Writs of Assistance)

• American Reactions– Sons of Liberty, Boston Tea Party, Common

Sense• American Revolution– Lexington and Concord: first battle– Second Continental Congress: revolutionary

government

"Every thing that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of

nature cries, 'tis time to part."

Absolute

Monarchy

Anarchy

Aristocracy

Autocracy

Democracy

Dictatorship

Limited

Monarchy

Oligarchy

Republic

Theocracy

Totalitarianism

Typically ruled by a single person

Ruled by more than one personThe people have rights protected from the

governmentGovernment typically has total authority

over people

The people have a say/vote in government

United States of America; Canada

Modern Britain; modern Japan

“Olde” Britain; Imperial Japan

Somalia

Sparta

Saudi Arabia

Nazi Germany