Influences on the Founding Fathers
The birthplace of democracy
The first government of the United States of America
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The main complaint of the colonists against the British
What is taxation without representation?
The document that separates the colonies from Britain and creates the United States of America
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The number of branches in the current government of the United States of America
What is Three?
The theory taught by the French philosopher Montesquieu
What is separation of powers?
What are the states?
The colonists' response to the British passing the Tea Act
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The document that replaced the Articles of Confederation as the government of the United States of America
What is the Constitution?
The Ancient Greek word for an independent city-state and the people it governs
What is a polis?
The SYSTEM of government created by the Articles of Confederation
What is confederal?
The British response to colonists' protests and boycotts against the Stamp Act
What is repeal the act?
The word that means 'a formal complaint'
What is a grievance?
The name for the first 10 amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
The theory that states that governments get their powers from the people as long as they protect the people's natural rights
What is social contract?
The event that ultimately lead to the replacement of the Articles of Confederation
What is Shays' Rebellion?
What the colonists called the Coercive Acts passed by Britain
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Who the grievances in the Declaration of Independence were aimed at
Who is King George III?
The number of Justices on the Supreme Court
What is Nine?
The ancient civilization known for republicanism
What is Ancient Rome?
The number of votes needed to pass a law under the Articles of Confederation
What is 9 out of 13?
The British laws that put taxes on all imports into the colonies
What are the Townshend Acts?
The three unalienable rights that are listed in the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
What are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
The Supreme Court case which established a convicted person's right to a lawyer no matter what the case is
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
The document that established the tradition of self-government in the American colonies
What is the Mayflower Compact?
One of the only real powers that the national government had under the Articles of Confederation
What is dealing with foreign policy/maintaining the army and navy?
What is 1770?
The philosopher who had a major influence on Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is John Locke?
The number of states needed to ratify a new amendment to the Constitution