ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHERS
The philosopher that came up with the idea of separation of powers.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
The first document that limited the King's power.
What is the Magna Carta?
This document was written by a group of men who were part of a group of Pilgrims who travelled to the colonies in 1620 and landed at Plymouth Rock.
This act taxed printed papers, newspapers, legal documents, and decks of cards.
Colonists refused to buy British products.
What is a boycott?
The philosopher who came up with the idea of a social contract and natural rights.
The document that gave more rights to all people of England and gave more power to the British Parliament.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This document explained why colonists should declare that they wanted their independence from Great Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This act forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers, saving Great Britain from having to pay.
What is the Quartering Act?
Finish the sentence: A colonial complaint was that the British violated colonial _________ when they forced them to live in certain areas, house British soldiers, and were searched by British soldiers.
What are rights?
Separating the branches of government does this.
What is limits government power?
This document gave rights to English nobles, including trial by a jury of their peers.
What is the Magna Carta?
Common Sense was written by this man.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This act was passed to protect the British East India Tea Company, and forced colonists to buy their tea only from that company.
What is the Tea Act?
This event made the British VERY angry. They punished Massachusetts harshly afterwards.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These are the three things one of the philosophers said all people have the right to. Thomas Jefferson borrowed and changed these three things in the Declaration of Independence.
What is life, liberty, and property?
This document included rights such as the right to free speech, Parliament had to approve taxes the king wanted, and banned cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil...Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government" is from this document.
What is Common Sense?
The event that caused the British to start taxing colonists after defending them from two enemies.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was a major complaint of the colonists when the British taxed colonies without their input.
What is taxation without representation?
Both Enlightenment philosophers' ideas appear in this founding American document.
The Magna Carta was written to address cruel and unfair policies set by this king.
Who was King John?
Quote from this document: [...]"mutually and in the presence of God and one another, Covent and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation [...]
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This act had one name given by the British, and one name given by the colonists. It was a punishment for the Boston Tea Party, closing Boston Harbor, and making colonists ask the governor for permission to meet. Either name is acceptable.
What is the Coercive/Intolerable Act?
What is the Second Continental Congress?