Famous documents
The first written plan of government for the United States.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
Known as the "Father of the Constitution"
Who was James Madison?
To pass laws under the Articles of Confederation, this is how many states had to approve a law.
What is 9 out of 13 states?
This philosophy believes people are naturally self-interested but deserve freedom.
What is Classical Liberalism?
The right that people have if a government becomes destructive.
What is the right to alter or abolish it and create a new one?
The year when the Articles were ratified.
What was 1781?
The British monarch who signed the Magna Carta.
Who was King John?
Under the Articles, the national government could not pay its bills because it did not have this power.
What is the power to tax?
This philosophy believes citizens should put the community’s needs before their own.
What is Classical Republicanism?
The three unalienable rights listed in the Declaration.
What is Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness?
The main branch of government created under the Articles of Confederation?
What was the legislative branch/Congress?
He struggled with debts in the severe post- Revolutionary War recession and lead a movement protesting high taxes and a lack of debt relief in Massachusetts.
Who is Daniel Shays?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government lacked these two branches that were later written into the Constitution.
What are the executive and judicial branch?
Rights that cannot be taken away or denied as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence.
What are unalienable rights?
Finish the line: “We hold these truths to be…”
What is “…self-evident, that all men are created equal"?
This the main purpose of the Declaration of Independence.
What is to announce and justify the colonies’ break from Britain?
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The national government had this foreign policy power under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the power to sign treaties? Declare war? Manage relations with Native Americans?
This word best describes the relationship between people and government according to Jefferson.
What is a social contract?
This King of England was accused of violating the colonists’ rights in the Declaration.
Who was King George III
According to the Declaration, the place where governments get their power.
What is the consent of the governed?
This Enlightenment thinker most influenced Jefferson’s ideas.
Who was John Locke?
The land north of the Ohio River and west of Pennsylvania to the Mississippi River.
What was the Northwest Territory?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine helped inspire independence.
What is Common Sense?
The Declaration refers to Britain as a government of “_____ and usurpations.”
What are “Repeated injuries”?