Historians use this to prove their theories about what happened in history.
What is evidence
100
this person thinks, reads and writes for a living
What is a philosopher?
100
This is the supreme "law of the land" in America.
What is the United States Constitution?
100
This theory claims that rulers are giving their power to rule from God.
What is The Divine Right Theory?
100
This means "show the body".
What is habeas corpus?
200
This is the most credible kind of source.
What is a primary source?
200
This theory was written by John Locke and its describes a state in which humans exist yet laws and government does not.
What is the state of nature?
200
This is a theory that government evolved from family structure and relationships.
What is the evolution theory of government?
200
This is a wealthy or powerful class in society. Members of this class typically rule or help rule the country.
What is the aristocracy?
200
This document was a compilation of political pamphlets. Many of the pamphlets were written during the time just before and during the American Revolution. These works gained support for the war.
What is Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"?
300
This is the study of origins.
What is genealogy?
300
Life, liberty and property
What are natural rights?
300
According to John Locke and our founding framers, government should not be able to exist with out the ___________ of the people.
What is consent?
300
This person inherits the right to rule from their family.
What is a monarch?
300
This is the document that Thomas Jefferson and the other founding framers read that gave them ideas about how to justify their separation from Britain and structure new American government.
What is John Locke's "Two Treatise on Government"?
400
These people do not like to join the military because of religious beliefs.
What are Quakers.
400
This is the name for Locke's theory about how a government and its people should co-exist. In this theory he states that the government and the people should exchange responsibilities and obligations.
What is the Social Contract?
400
this is a form of government in which the people are represented in government by elected officials.
What is a republic?
400
The Magna Carta was written because the English nobility wanted this.
What is limits on government?
400
This was a document written by settlers traveling to the America. They wanted to set up a form of law before they reached land.
What is "The Mayflower Compact"?
500
This is someone's tendency to lean toward one one side or another.
What is bias?
500
To protect the rights of the people.
What is John Locke's purpose for government.
500
This is the legal grounds on which the American Colonists justified their separation from England.
What is American colonists claimed that England broke their social contract.
500
to say something bad about someone, to ruin a person's reputation.
What is defamation?
500
This document limited the power of the King of England and created another powerful branch of government in England. It also served as an example for the first 10 amendments to our Constitution.