Ancient Influences
What ancient country did we get the Idea of letting people have a say in the government?
Ancient Greece
Who wrote the DoI?
Thomas Jefferson
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Power to the people (popular vote)
Thomas Paine wrote a book that emphasized reasons for the colonies to separate from Britain. What is it called?
Common Sense
What are the 3 branches of government?
What articles in the Constitution correspond with them?
1. Legislative
2. Executive
3. Judicial
Where did the U.S. get their ideas of law and civic duty?
Ancient Rome
What are the natural rights listed in the DoI?
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
The idea that the government gets their power through the consent of the people.
Social Contract
John Locke invented which Constitutional principle?
Natural Rights
Limited Government
Rule of Law
Where was Democracy founded?
Ancient Greece
What was the purpose of the DoI?
To announce the colonies separation from Britain.
Respecting somebody's rights and providing them with a trial by jury, lawyer, and innocence until proven guilty is known as?
Due Process
First self-government in the colonies?
Mayflower Compact
What document/government came before the Constitution?
Articles of Confederation
What term describes citizen participation in government?
Democracy
The paragraph of the DoI where it says "He" and "For" many times repeatedly is talking about?
Be specific
Abuses and wrongdoings by King George the Tyrant
What was the time period called when Britain neglected the colonies?
Salutary Neglect
Define the Enlightenment
A time period of thinking and change where people were becoming less reliant on strong, centralized government and more interested by human rights
What did the British do in response to the Boston Tea Party?
Intolerable/ coercive Acts
How did Jewish and Christian values spread throughout the world?
*Through the growth and expansion of the Roman Empire, starting with Julius Caesar*
What is the difference between Capitalism and Communism?
Capitalism = individual
Communism = shared
A refusal to buy goods as a form of protest is known as?
Boycott
Montesquieu founded which principle?
Separation of powers
What is the Declaratory Act?
Britain voiding all laws made by the colonists