Colonial America
What was the first college in the new world?
What did New England Colonies stress in their schools?
What was the first college in the new world?
Harvard
What did New England Colonies stress in their schools?
Religion
How is the English Bill of Rights and the United States Bill of Rights similar?
Describe the difference between direct democracy and representative.
In a direct people take part in the day to day governing and in representative they choose (vote) for someone to take part in government for them.
What are John Locke's Natural Rights and what are Thomas Jefferson's Natural Rights?
Locke- Life, Liberty, Property
Jefferson- Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
Government that has a few people in control
Oligarchy
Why did the people on the Mayflower write the Mayflower Compact?
Where did they write it?
When?
Why did the people on the Mayflower write the Mayflower Compact?
They were not in Virginia and they wanted to establish a set of rules for the new land.
Off the coast of Cape Cod Provincetown in 1620 on the Mayflower
Define Habeas Corpus
person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention
Why did Rome use representative democracy and Athens Greece use direct democracy?
Rome= large land and population
Athens Greece- small land and small population
Define Enlightenment
a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
What document helped set up structure and self-government ideas for Plymouth Massachusetts?
Mayflower Compact
What was the first English representative government group in America?
House of Burgesses
The English Bill of rights limited government. Define limited government.
The idea that law limited the power of the king and the government.
Define Demos and Kratos
Demos= the people
Kratos =Rule
What Enlightenment thinker wanted the separation of powers with the three branches of government.
Baron de Montesquieu
Define the following:
Tyranny
Oligarchy
Anarchy
Tyranny- leader takes over by force- cruel and unjust
Oligarchy- ruled by a few
Anarchy- lack of government = chaos
What was the name of the 1754 plan to unite the colonies called and who created it?
(Combine the 13 colonies)
Albany plan of Union created by Ben Franklin
Identify three ideas we took from the English and now have in our government.
Which location had the assembly and which location had the senate? And what did they both have in common?
Athens Greece =Assembly
Rome = Senate
Both made laws
Define rule of law
The laws should be written down and applied to everyone
Define bicameral legislature and give an example
Two house or two part law making group
Congress- Senate and House of Reps
Name 1 out of the six native American tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy and identify one government idea we took from them.
Name 3 out of the six native American tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.
Idea from the Iroquois Confederacy: declare war, a way to remove a government official, states are part of a larger group.
What is parliament and what are the two parts? What can we compare it to in our government?
Parliament is the law making group in England and the two parts are House of Lords and the House of Commons
Congress, Legislative Branch
House of Representatives and Senate
Describe the progression Greece went through to finally get to a direct democracy.
Monarch
Oligarchy
Tyranny
Direct Democracy
Define Social Contract and Consent of the Governed
Social Contract- agreement between the people and the government. The people give up some rights to have protections from the government.
Consent of the governed-: that the authority of a government should depend on the consent of the people, as expressed by votes in elections
First English representative democracy in America
First religious tolerance in America
Frist combining of the Colonies
First governing document in Massachusetts
Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, Albany Plan of Union, Iroquois Confederacy, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
First English representative democracy in America = House of Burgesses
First religious tolerance in America =Fund Orders of CT
Frist combining of the Colonies Albany Plan of Union
First governing document in Massachusetts Mayflower Compact