Roots of Democracy
This ancient city developed the world’s first direct democracy.
What is Athens?
This movement used reason to develop new ideas about people and government.
What is the Enlightenment?
In 1620, the Pilgrims created this compact, agreeing to choose leaders and obey the laws they made.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Fishing and shipbuilding were important industries in this region, where the soil was rocky and the weather cold.
What is New England?
In 1776, the 13 colonies declared independence from this country.
What is Great Britain?
In this type of government, developed in Ancient Rome, citizens choose representatives.
What is a republic?
This thinker said people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
Founded in 1619, this body of elected representatives helped make laws in Virginia.
What is the House of Burgesses?
With better farmland, a milder climate, and busy ports like New York City and Philadelphia, this region grew wheat as a cash crop.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are called these rights because they cannot be taken away.
What are unalienable rights?
Each of Rome’s two consuls could do this, meaning block, the actions of the other.
What is veto?
This thinker supported separation of powers, an idea reflected in the three branches of government.
Who is Montesquieu?
New England town meetings, where community members made decisions, were an example of this type of democracy.
What is direct democracy?
These large farms along the coastal plains grew tobacco and rice in the Southern Colonies.
What are plantations?
The Declaration says governments get their just powers from this.
What is the consent of the governed?
This 1215 document forced King John to accept limits on his power.
What is the Magna Carta?
This thinker supported a social contract and believed people needed a strong government to maintain order (Social Contract).
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This 1639 document, an early written constitution, set up an elected assembly, governor, and judges.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
These people agreed to work for 4 to 7 years in exchange for their trip to America, food, and shelter.
Who are indentured servants?
The Declaration says that when a government stops protecting rights, the people have the right to do this.
What is alter or abolish it and create a new government?
Passed after the Glorious Revolution, this 1689 document protected rights like no cruel punishment and influenced the American government.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This thinker’s belief that people should decide how they are governed is reflected in the Constitution’s opening words “We the People.”
Who is Rousseau?
Because England was busy with conflicts at home, it paid little attention to the colonies at first, a policy known by this two-word term.
What is salutary neglect?
England believed the colonies should benefit the mother country, especially through trade. This idea has this name.
What is mercantilism?
The Declaration says the colonists petitioned the king again and again, and their petitions were answered only by this.
What is repeated injury?