SS.7.CG.1.4 Locke & Montesquieu
What is natural rights?
This document was written in 1620 and established self-government & consent of the governed.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The idea that we must all following the same rules.
What is Rule of Law?
A tax on tea that led to the Boston Tea Party.
The vocabulary term for an introduction.
What is a Preamble?
The idea that it is best to divide the powers of government into three parts.
What is separation of powers?
The document was written in 1776 and recommended that colonists declare their independence & establish a representative self-government.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
The idea that we were all born with certain basic rights.
What are natural rights?
A tax on every official document.
What is the Stamp Act?
The vocabulary term for a complaint.
What is a grievance?
The philosopher that came up with natural law, natural rights & social contract.
Who is John Locke?
This document was written in 1689 & promised to protect many individual rights, there would be no taxation without representation, no excessive punishments and speedy & fair jury trial.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The idea that our lives, liberty, and property cannot be taken away without a fair process such as a trial.
What is due process of law?
The policy that forced colonists to house soldiers in their barns and homes. (hint: 3rd amendment)
What is the Quartering Act?
The author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The philosopher that came up with separation of powers and checks & balances.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This document was written in 1215 & promised the right to justice, right to a fair trial, right to due process and created a limited government.
What is the Magna Carta?
The idea that we should be free to practice our own religion.
What is Protection of Religious Liberty?
Colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped chests of tea into the harbor as protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Name the category.
- "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly..."
- "For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us..."
- "For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent..."
- "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury..."
- "For suspending our own Legislatures..."
What is the List of Colonial Grievances?
A group of people make an agreement to form a community. This community makes an agreement with a ruler and the members of the community promise to obey the ruler.
What is a social contract?
What is the name of the movement in Europe and America that was based on applying human reasoning and scientific thinking.
What is the Enlightenment?
The division of government into 3 branches.
What is separation of powers.
The act that stated that Parliament had the right to pass laws for the colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are unalienable rights?
The policy passed by Parliament to punish Boston for destroying chests of tea. (Boston Tea Party)
What are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
The idea that government should be limited to specific powers and purposes.
What is limited government?