14. Capitalize the following:
- Articles of Confederation
- Bill of Rights
- Commonwealth (Cromwell’s)
- Commune
- Constitution
- Crusades
- Hundred Years’ War
- Inquisition
- Magna Charta
- Middle Ages
- Reformation
- Renaissance
- Restoration
- Revolution of July
- Seven Years’ War
- Stone Age
Do not capitalize:
1. Words derived from proper names and their derivatives when such words are so familiarly used as to lose the significance and personality of their origin: e.g., fletcherize, macadamize, quixotic, italicize, etc.
2. Nouns and adjectives when they merely fix a point of the compass: e.g., He came from the north, western New York, upper Canada, etc.
3. The words father, mother, mamma, and all other family appellations, except when used with the proper name of the person or without a possessive pronoun: e.g., I expect to meet my mother, but, I have received a telegram from Mother; My aunt gave me this, but, It is a present from Aunt Mary.
TITLES
Capitalize:
1. The word State when it refers to a political division of the Union: e.g., the State {25} of Massachusetts; but use lower case when the word is employed as an adjective.
2. The words Federal, Government, Constitution, Cabinet, Administration when they refer to United States Government, and President when referring to the President of the United States.