Enlightenment Era
Name three Enlightenment Philosophers.
Who is ____, _____, _____?
John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton and Thomas Jefferson, etc..
The British ruler the colonists want to separate from.
Who is King George III.
The Articles of Confederation lasted __ years.
What is 10 years?
The first President of The United States.
Who is George Washington?
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The Enlightenment Philosophers helped create and influenced this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are _______.
What is created equal?
The Articles of Confederation created a form of ______.
What is a form of government?
Name the two groups that were for and or against the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists?
The British were referred to as this because of the color of their coats.
Who are the Red Coats?
This Enlightenment Thinker stated that we have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Who was John Locke?
Define Tyranny.
What is cruel and oppression under government rule.
This was created when the Articles of Confederation ended.
What is the Constitution?
A nation that governs themselves.
What is a sovereign nation?
Killed Hamilton in a duel
Who is Aaron Burr?
In Montesquieu’s view, there are also three administrative powers within a state, each providing a check and balance on the others.
These are the unalienable rights.
What is the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
This many states had to vote in favor of a law for it to pass.
The Anti-Federalists created this list to protect our rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The final battle of the Revolutionary War where the US defeated the British.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Believed that women should have the same rights as men (including life and liberty).
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
The reasons the colonists want to separate from Britain.
What is separation from church and state and no taxation without representation?
This rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The US has this type of government.
What is a democracy?
Hamilton created this for the nation as the nations first secretary treasurer.
What is the first national bank?