The Enlightenment
Locke believed people had the right to life, liberty, and this:
What is property?
Diverse groups with different religious, ethnic, political, and social beliefs coexist peacefully and share power when they are united by a common goal.
What is pluralism?
This many States comprised the United States in 1776.
What is 13?
Article I of the Constitution outlines this branch of the Federal Government.
What is the Legislative Branch? (Congress also an acceptable answer.)
Article II of the Constitution outlines the role and responsibilities of this branch of the federal government.
What is the executive branch?
This amendment outlines the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
What is the 2nd amendment?
This 1776 document reflects Locke’s ideas of government by consent of the governed.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
This is the name for whatever is lost when a decision is made via compromise.
This future president defended the British soldiers during their trial after the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention created a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great (or Connecticut) Compromise?
This Article IV clause is key in outlining Federalism, stating that the laws made by the Federal government take precedence over State laws.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This amendment protects the right of the people to peacefully gather.
What is the 1st amendment?
This philosopher argued that the State of Nature made life "nasty, brutish, and short."
Who is Hobbes?
This is the type of thinking that considers the long term consequences of a choice, not just immediate benefits and costs.
What is Second-Order Thinking?
This Son of Liberty famously warned the minutemen of Lexington and the surrounding that "the regulars are coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
This 1786 farmer uprising in Massachusetts exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of the Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This Article I clause was a major concern for Anti-Federalists because it allows congress to make any laws it needs to make in order to carry out the enumerated powers of the Federal government.
What is the Necessary & Proper/Elastic Clause?
This amendment ensures the right to due process of the law.
What is the 5th amendment?
This philosopher originated the idea of popular sovereignty (sovereignty lies within the general will of the people).
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This cognitive bias causes us to interpret new information according to our current beliefs in order to arrive at desired conclusions.
What is motivated reasoning?
This 1765 act is considered one of the triggering events of the Revolution; it required that all printed material in the colonies be produced on a specific type of paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
During the Constitutional Convention, this plan called for representation based on state population.
What is The Virginia Plan?
This is the number of representatives in the House of Representatives; the number is apportioned according to each state's population on the most recent census.
What is 435?
This amendment protects the unenumerated rights of the people.
What is the 9th amendment?
This theory, illustrated by examples like grazing land, pollution, and traffic, shows how shared resources can be depleted when individuals act in self-interest.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
This cognitive bias causes us to rely mostly on the information currently available/right in front of us to make decisions.
What is WYSIATI/Naive Realism?
This group sent the Olive Branch petition to the British Parliament in 1775.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
According to Article I of the Constitution, this chamber is granted the sole power to originate tax and other appropriations bills.
What is the House of Representatives?
This case expanded the enumerated powers of the Supreme Court by establishing the power of judicial review.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
This amendment guarantees the right of the people to be tried publicly by an impartial jury of their peers when prosecuted for a crime.
What is the 6th amendment?