Bonus
Clue: Who was primarily responsible for drafting the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Clue: After independence, the thirteen colonies considered themselves to be what?
Answer: What are free and sovereign states?
Clue: Machiavelli believed a prince should primarily do what?
Answer: Be loved by the people by always keeping a veneer. If you cannot be loved it is better to be feared than to be hated. People will obey who they fear while people try to kill leaders they hate.
Clue: What economic problem occurred when states printed their own currencies and charged tariffs against one another?
Answer: It hurt the overall economy and weakened the sense of cohesiveness between the states.
Clue: Name the three branches of government that the delegates agreed power should be divided among.
Answer: Legislative, executive, and judicial.
Answer: Legislative, executive, and judicial.
Clue: Rousseau wanted what form of democracy in which everyone votes on everything?
Direct Democracy
(No representatives)
Clue: The Declaration's opening section identifies the source of the rights Americans possess. What does it identify as that source?
Answer: What are the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"?
(Objective Morality)
Clue: Patrick Henry was one of the leading opponents of the Constitution. What was one of his major concerns?
Answer: That rights not explicitly reserved to the people could be taken away.
(He wanted a bill of rights to be added to the Constitution)
Which issues with the Articles of Confederation became evident with the event of Shay's Rebellion.
1. The federal government's inability to exert control over the states.
2. Lack of tax money to fund an America army.
3. A weak federal government lacked the ability to fix America's 40 million dollar debt.
Clue:
The Declaration says government exists by the consent of the governed and that people possess unalienable rights.
Which Enlightenment philosopher's political ideas are most clearly reflected in this section, and what rights does the study guide specifically identify?
Answer: John Locke; life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness (property)
The new state constitutions generally contained a bill of rights and recognized the people as the sole source of government authority (sovereignty).
What fundamental political idea does this demonstrate about the relationship between the people and government?
Popular Sovereignty
What did the 1689 English Bill of Rights say about petitioning government?
Answer: People had the right to petition their government.
Clue:
The Declaration contains four major parts:
One explains the source of rights.
One establishes natural rights and the purpose of government.
One lists grievances
One announces a political break.
Identify all four parts in their correct order.
Answer:
The New Jersey Plan would have kept a one-house Congress in which every state received one equal vote.
Why did small states favor this plan?
Answer: They feared that large states would dominate them and outvote them if representation were based on population.
Who wrote Common Sense and what did they argue?
Answer: Thomas Paine. He argued that monarchy was a corrupt form of government and King George III was an enemy to liberty.