Declaration of Independence
Reasons for Revolution
Founding Mothers & Fathers
Hobbes & Locke
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100
This was the publication date of the Declaration of Independence.
What is July 4, 1776?
100
Name the 4 main reasons for the American Revolution.
What were: Land, Taxes, Local Governments, and No Representation?
100
This founding father was extremely conflicted over the institution of slavery - defending a Black man's right to freedom AND enslaving over 600 people.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
100
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
Which philosopher is referenced? And which idea?
Who is Locke, and what are Natural Rights?
100
This country commissioned the Statue of Liberty as a gift to the United States.
What is France?
200
This person is the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This was the name of the British monarch at the time of the American Revolution.
Who was King George III.
200
This founding father laughed at his wife when she asked him to give women rights in the new United States.
Who was John Adams?
200
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Which idea belongs to Hobbes and which belongs to Locke?
What are:
Governments exist to protect Natural Rights - Locke
Consent of the Governed - Hobbes
200
List the continents from largest to smallest land mass.
What is: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia?
300
This was the first major document modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Vermont Constitution?
300
This war was the reason that Britain levied taxes on the Colonists.
What was the Seven Years War (or French & Indian War)?
300
This was the name of Thomas Jefferson's enslaved mistress.
Who was Sally Hemmings?
300
Whose ideas are included in this sentence? What is the idea?
"Prudence indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; ... all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms tot which they are accustomed."
Who is Thomas Hobbes.
What is the idea that it's better to be safe than free OR that the people should not revolt against their sovereign unless their safety is at risk.
300
Two US wars had battles that were fought in Yorktown, Virginia.Name these two wars.
What were the American Revolution and the Civil War?
400
These are four reasons why the Declaration of Independence is considered hugely significant.
What are (any 4):
- It is the first document to refer to the colonies as the "United States of America"?
- It sets up the goals of the USA?
- It served as a blueprint for future rights/independence documents?
- It was the first successful Declaration of Independence?
- It officially declared the war an effort to separate from Britain?
400
This phrase, which references a slogan from the Revolution, can be found on the DC license plate.
What is "taxation without representation"?
400
This is the name of the idea that women were responsible for the early education of the boys who would someday become voting citizens. This was considered a major responsibility.
What is Republican Motherhood?
400
Whose ideas could relate? What are the two philosophic ideas included here?
"When a long train of abuses and usurpations... evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such a Government..."
Who is John Locke?
What are tyranny (despotism) and Right of Revolution?
400
This is the quadratic formula.
What is?
500
This is another revolution inspired by the Declaration of Independence and Enlightenment ideas.
What is the French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and/or the Irish Rebellion?
500
The British made this law to prevent the colonists from moving west onto the new land because they had promised it to the Native American allies. The colonists felt betrayed.
What was the Proclamation Line of 1763?
500
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, James Madison and James Monroe practiced this religion/philosophy.
What is Deism?
OR: The idea that God created humans but gave them reason to solve their own social and political problems. God doesn’t get involved in people’s lives.
500
Locke believed that the sole purpose of government is to ensure the protection of peoples' Natural Rights (life, liberty, property). Locke's philosophy could be used to explain the principles of another philosophy we studied this year.
What is libertarianism?
500
The human skeleton has this many ribs.
What is 24 (12 on each side)?