Unit 2- The Road to Revolution

Types of Gov't & Democracy

100

This type of government has all the key powers in just the national government. 

Unitary

200

This type of government is ruled by a small group of just a few people.

Oligarchy

300

In this system of government, one ruler has absolute power

Autocracy

400

The type of democracy in Ancient Greece where individuals voted using stones

Direct democracy

500

The type of democracy we have in the USA, where citizens elect representatives to vote for them on major issues

Representative Democracy or Republic

Philosophers

100

Thomas Jefferson was really inspired by this philosopher - a lot of his ideas ended up in the Declaration of Independence

John Locke

200

Said life was "Nasty, Brutish, & Short" without government

Thomas Hobbes

300

According to John Locke, these cannot be taken away

Natural Rights or Life, Liberty, & Property

400

We can thank Montesquieu for these two ideas about government

Separation of Powers, Checks & Balances

500

According to John Locke & Thomas Jefferson, government exists to:

protect your natural rights

Mercantilism & The Thirteen Colonies

100

This colonial region was known as the "breadbasket"

Middle Colonies

200

Mercantilism is the idea that a government's power comes from: 

wealth or money

300

This colonial area relied mainly on agriculture for its economy and was known for plantations

Southern Colonies

400

Sugar, Tobacco, and Cotton were shipped from the Americas to: 

Europe

500

Name two items shipped from Europe to Africa in the Triangular Trade. 

Guns, cloth, iron, beer, rum, textiles, manufactured goods

The End of Salutary Neglect

100

A major event in which the colonists boycotted British tea by dumping it into the Harbor

Boston Tea Party

200

An act that put a tax on printed paper goods

Stamp Act

300

Debt from this war led to the British taxing the colonists

The French & Indian War

400

Define Salutary Neglect.

Period of time when the King did not strictly enforce regulations on the colonies as long as they continued to produce raw materials and exports

500

This told the colonists that, even after the French & Indian War, they could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

Proclamation of 1763

Declaration of Independence

100

What is a grievance?

A complaint

200

Define inalienable. 

Cannot be taken away - natural rights

300

What was the purpose of the DoI?

To explain why the colonies wanted to separate from Britain

400

Which section of the DoI is this?

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Preamble

500

Name two people from the Committee of Five. 

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• Robert Livingston

• Roger Sherman

• John Adams