B1 Unit 2 Vocab

A written legal agreement signed in 1215 by King John that limited the English monarch’s power, effectively ending the

absolute monarchy and offering protections to the people.

• Magna Carta

• Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

• Articles of Confederation

A constitutional document in England, signed in 1628 by King Charles I that laid out specific protections against the state

• Petition of Right
• Magna Carta
• Bill of Rights
• Habeas Corpus Act

A pamphlet published by Thomas Payne in 1775 or 1776 that advocated for the independence of the American colonists from

Great Britain

• Common Sense
• The Rights of Man
• The Age of Reason
• The Crisis

Act signed in 1689 signed by King William III and Queen Mary II which outlined specific constitutional and civil rights, and which

gave the parliament power of the monarchy.

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta
• Act of Settlement
• Royal Proclamation

An agreement by which people give up freedoms to a leader who can ensure protection of their rights

• Social Contract
• Communism
• Anarchy
• Monarchy

Unchanging moral principles and rights, such as Locke’s “life, liberty, and property”

• Natural Laws

• Social Contract
• Utilitarianism
• Divine Right of Kings

A system of government that separated government power and then creating “checks” in the system to ensures one branch of

government does not gain too much power

• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Checks and Balances
• Communism

A formal document written by the passengers of the Mayflower upon landing in North America that outlined the governing

system of the Plymouth colony.

• Mayflower Compact
• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution of the United States
• Bill of Rights

A document drafted in 1776 by George Mason that declared the

inherent rights of man, and became the basis for the Declaration

of Independence

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights
• The Magna Carta
• The Bill of Rights
• The Constitution of the United States

Document written in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson that declared the

American colonists’ intention to break away from British rule

• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution of the United States
• The Bill of Rights
• The Magna Carta