Document where Colonials made their own government to create their laws that would protect them.

a written document by nobles that limited the kings power and introduces other rights

1689 laws protecting the rights of English subjects and Parliament

A body of representatives that makes laws for a nation

a written agreement

tax on printed goods

said colonist had no more power

taxed things the colonists couldn't make themselves

Law that required colonists to feed and shelter British troops

Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States as a free state.

rights that cannot be taken away

Permission to get governed

a system of government in which people make their own laws

A joining of several groups for a common purpose.

A written plan of government

A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution

A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War.

Proposal to create a strong national government

Proposal to create a weak national government

the federal principle or system of government.

Makes laws

Interprets the laws

people who opposed the Constitution

a request to government with people signing it

special rights

Housing and feeding soldiers without consent

anonymous newspaper articles that supported the constitution.

power is divided between states and central

each state has most power

government structure in which government actions are limited by law

Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.

Legislative, Executive, Judicial

A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers.

a law that established a procedure for the admission of new states to the Union

They had to Fight or leave the land they were living on

Western migrants who set up farms on unoccupied land without a clear legal title.

a person who goes to live in a new place where usually there are few or no people

British goods

They had fewer rights than citizens living in Britain.

The government the American colonists did not want to be like

A square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the United States into a series of townships.

A war between the British and the colonists. The colonists wanted to be free of British rule.

States had to give up land