Enlightenment Thinkers
This author created the idea that the citizens and government have a social contract with one another.
Who is John Locke?
This document signed by a king was the original document that limited the powers of the king.
What is The Magna Carta?
This branch of government is in charge of making laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This founding father was the leader of the independence movement in the Constitutional Convention.
Who is John Adams?
This man was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This theorist, created the idea of separation of powers.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This king was the one who signed The Magna Carta.
Who is King John?
This branch of government is in charge of enforcing the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
The book Thomas Paine wrote?
What is Common Sense?
This man is on the 100 dollar bill.
Who is Ben Franklin?
This Founding Father wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomes Jefferson?
After the English Civil War this document gave rights to everyone in England like Right to a Jury and No Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This branch of government is in charge of interpreting laws.
What is the judicial branch?
The name of the act that LOWERED the cost of tea which angered American Merchants?
What is The Tea Act?
This war was fought by England over the territory of the Ohio Valley.
What is The French and Indian War?
This man wrote the book Common Sense and led Americans more in favor of Independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This document made the United States of America an independent nation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This legislative branch of government is the lawmaking branch in England.
What is Parliament?
These laws were awful retaliation for American Actions at the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Intolerable Act?
The Declaration of Independence was voted on what day?
What is July 2nd 1776?
The King who was the reason the revolution happened in America.
Who is King George III?
Documents like the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights created a tradition of this.
What is Limited Government?
What is the King/Queen?
This battle was the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
What are the three unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence.
What is Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness?