Colonial Revolt
This act put a tax on almost all paper products including playing cards.
What was the stamp act?
The man who believed that humans were fundamentally good and therefore could be trusted with freedom. Government comes from the consent of the governed and the people can overthrow it if their natural rights are violated.
Who is John Locke
Ratified in 1789, this document became the basis of the US Government as we know it and is still in effect today.
What is the US Constitution
Democracy began in this Greek City State
What is Athens
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What is Open Note
The man who advocated for the separation of government powers into different branches
Who is Montesquieu?
America's first try at forming a government. Ratified in 1781, it gave too much power to the states and too little to the central (federal) government.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
The difference between Direct and Representative Democracy
What is in a direct democracy, the people directly make policy decisions for the country. In a representative democracy, they choose people to make decisions on their behalf.
Under this condition, you could consider a hotdog to be a sandwich.
What is if the bun is connected or not
Included the closing of the Boston Harbor, revoking of Massachusetts' charter, and the forced quartering of soldiers.
What are the intolerable acts
The man who advocated for free speech and free expression. He himself was often in prison for critiquing the French king.
Who is Voltaire
The first 10 Amendments to the United States Constiution. They were added to protect individual freedom and get the anti-federalists on board.
What is the Bill of Rights?
What were the "Twelve Tables."
This is the best college in North Carolina and everybody else are just haters
What is the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The first shots of the American Revolution were fired here
What is Lexington and Concord
This man believed that humans were fundamentally selfish and therefore government should "protect them from their own selfishness." People need a babysitter government that keeps them in check rather than protecting freedom.
Who is Thomas Hobbes
The rebellion that showed everything that was wrong with the Articles of Confederation and convinced everyone we needed something different.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
This body of officials served Ancient Rome in foreign and financial affairs.
What is the Senate?
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This man advocated for criminal justice protections and the rights of the accused. His ideas would go on to influence the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th amendments.
Who is Cesare Beccaria
The 1791 rebellion that showed how much better the government was under the Constitution than the Articles. George Washington himself personally put it down.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
The type of government that Rome had before it became an Empire
What is a Republic?
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