He was the main author of the Declaration of Indepednence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson
100
Where was the shot heard around the world fired?
What is Lexington and Concord
100
What is the lower house of the British Parliament?
What is the House of Commons
100
Governments in the Middle Ages generally followed a hierachical pattern know as ______?
What is Feudalism?
100
Locke belived that all individuals had three inalienable rights, what are those rights?
What is life, liberty, and property
200
He led the American troops at Valley Forge.
Who is George Washington
200
This became a British law in 1765, that required the payment of tax through the purchase of stamps for docuemnts such as newspapers, magazines, and commercial papers.
What is the Stamp Act
200
What is the upper house of the British Parliament?
What is the House of Lords
200
This form of government placed the need of the community above liberty and self determination?
What is classical republicanism.
200
Locke belived that are natural rights were given to each individual citizen by who?
Who is God or Divine Being
300
He was a Massachusetts brewer who led the Sons of Liberty and was an early opponent to the British government.
Who is Samuel Adams
300
This was an act of rebellion against British authority and the Tea Act?
What is the Boston Tea Party
300
What is the document that King John was forced to sign in 1215?
What is the Magna Carta
300
Men, such as George Washington, who voluntarily relinquish poltical power to resume private life are considered to have this?
What is civic virtue
300
The natural rights philosophy starts with the state of what?
What is the state of nature
400
This lawyer from Massachusetts defended the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre and later argued for independence.
What is John Adams
400
On March 5, 1770 a mob of colonist harrassed British soldiers guarding the tax collector's offcie in Boston. This event is known as the_______?
What is Boston Massacre
400
This 1641 Act stated, no man could be put on trial except before the courts "by due process and writ original"
What is Writ of Habeas Corpus
400
What caused the Roman Republic to fall?
What is greed and corruption
400
This is one of the most widely read works on poltical thought and has been called "the bible of the American Revolution".
What is Two Treatises on Government
500
This Viginia delegate formally introduced the proposal for the colonies to become independent from the British Empire.
Who is Richard Henry Lee
500
This was an organization created in 1765 in every colony to express opposition to the Stamp Act. One of their leaders was Samuel Adams.
What is the Sons of Liberty.
500
What are the three rights of Englishmen?
What are the right to trial by jury, security in one's home from unlawful entry, and limits on government to tax.
500
What are the three main aspects of classical republicanism?
What is small, uniform communities, civic virtue (citizenship), and moral education
500
The idea that humans are not naturally social and live together in civil society only by agreement is at the core of understanding this theory?