Enlightenment and Documents
This enlightenment thinker said we should separate the powers into three branches
Montesquieu
The event where the colonists threw the tea in the harbor
Boston Tea Party
The natural rights found in the Declaration of Independence are.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
The name of our first Constitution.
The Articles of Confederation
The Anti-Federalists wanted to add this to the U.S. Constitution in order to ratify it.
Bill of Rights
This document urged the colonists to declare independence from Great Britain.
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
This war put the British King into debt, which led him to decide to tax the colonists without their consent.
French and Indian War
The complaints about the king.
Who did the Articles of Confederation give most of the power to?
The states
They wanted and stronger central government and wanted to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
The Federalists
This philosopher said Life, Liberty, and Property are our natural rights
John Locke
A tax on paper goods.
Stamp Act
You give up power to the government, which agrees to protect your rights. If the government doesn't do its job, you can change/remove it.
Social Contract
How many branches did the Articles of Confederation have?
One (Legislative)
They wanted the states to have the power
Anti-Federalists
This document, written in England, included freedom of speech and no cruel and unusual punishment.
English Bill of Rights
Quartering Act
The ideas of natural rights and a social contract discussed in the Declaration of Independence come from which Enlightenment philosopher?
John Locke
The name of the attack on the courthouses that led the colonists to decide to revise the Articles of Confederation.
Shays' Rebellion
They believed that the Constitution itself already protected our rights
Federalists
This document included limited monarchy and trial by jury.
Magna Carta
The lawmaking body that the British king took away from the colonists that added to their decision to declare independence.
Legislature
What two government things did the colonist complain the King took away from them.
Legislatures and Courts
Two things that congress could not do under the Articles of Confederation.
Collect taxes and regulate trade
They were worried that a strong central government would lead to tyranny.
Anti-Federalists