Founding Ideas
•Which ancient civilization gave the U.S. the idea of direct democracy?
•Ancient Greece
•What English document signed in 1215 limited the king’s power?
•Magna Carta
•What was the first written framework for self-government in the American colonies?
•Mayflower Compact
•What was the U.S.’s first national plan of government, adopted during the Revolution?
•Articles of Confederation
Who wrote the U.S. Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
•Which ancient civilization gave the U.S. the idea of representative government?
•Ancient Rome
•Which 1628 document prohibited arbitrary arrests and quartering troops?
•Petition of Right
•What was the first representative assembly in the colonies, established in 1619?
•Virginia House of Burgesses
•What was the major compromise about representation at the Constitutional Convention?
•The Great Compromise
What’s the smallest U.S. state by area?
Rhode Island
•What Enlightenment thinker believed people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property?
•John Locke
•What 1689 document guaranteed individual rights like trial by jury and freedom from cruel punishment?
•English Bill of Rights
•What was the name of New England’s meetings where citizens made decisions directly?
•Town Meetings
•What document lists the first 10 amendments guaranteeing individual rights?
•The Bill of Rights
What is the world’s largest ocean?
Pacific Ocean
•Who believed in separation of powers with three branches of government?
•Montesquieu
•The Magna Carta established which key principle that no one, even the king, is above the law?
•Mayflower Compact
•What 1765 act caused colonists to cry 'No taxation without representation'?
•Stamp Act
•According to the Declaration of Independence, governments get their power from whom?
•The consent of the governed / the people
Which animal is known as the “Ship of the Desert”?
Camel