Enlightenment Thinkers
According to Hobbes, the only way to avoid civil war is what?
What is a strong central government?
In a monarchy, who rules?
What is a king or queen?
What document first established limited government in 1215?
What is the Magna Carta?
What is it called when people agree to give up some freedoms in exchange for protection?
What is a Social Contract?
Who is considered the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
All of the Enlightenment thinkers believed that the people should hold the power except for who?
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
What is the idea that a country’s leader should be chosen by the citizens in a general election.
What is Republicanism?
In his pamphlet "Common Sense", Thomas Paine presented the argument that what?
What is it was logical to part from England?
What is life with complete freedom, before rules and government?
What is the State of Nature?
According to the Declaration, what gives the government their power?
What is Consent of the Governed?
What is one way that John Locke influenced the Declaration of Independence?
What is Natural Rights, people have the right to overthrow the government, or the social contract?
When U.S. citizens elect members of Congress, they are practicing what?
What is a Representative Democracy?
What was the name of the document that had to be accepted by William and Mary, that permanently created a constitutional monarchy in England?
What is the English Bill of Rights?
What is the term for the European cultural movement that attempted to apply logic and reason to critically analyze and improve social, political, and cultural ideas?
What is the Enlightenment?
According to Thomas Jefferson, what is the name of the rights that cannot be taken away?
The theory of “tabula rasa” was championed by Locke and Rousseau. What does it state?
What is man is born inherently good with a clean slate
The British government raised taxes in the Thirteen Colonies during the 1760s and 1770s in order to:
What is to pay off debt accumulated during the Seven Years’ War?
What is one thing the Magna Carta guaranteed?
What is:
Protection from illegal imprisonment?
Equal treatment under the law?
Limits pon taxation?
What is the government gets their power from the people?
What are some of the grievances listed in the Declaration?
What is:
Imposing taxes on us without consent?
Depriving us the benefits of a trial by jury?
Quartering large bodies of troops among us?
What idea regarding the perfect form of government did the US adopt from Montesquieu?
What is Checks and balances/three branches of government?
Public opinion is given a lot of attention in democracies because the democratic form of government rests on
What is Consent of the Governed?
The idea of self-government that inspired the Founding Fathers and influenced the formation of the United States had its roots in what document?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What is George Washington's home called?
What is Mount Vernon?
How did the Declaration of Independence raise questions about the practice of slavery?
What is the practice of slavery went against the message of liberty and the notion that all men are created equal.