Enlightenment Thinkers
Colonial Influences
Haudenosaunee Influences
Articles of Confederation
British Influences
Miscellaneous
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According to Locke, this was the purpose of government.
To protect natural rights.
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Style of government common in New England where people speak in a gathered assembly.
Town Meeting.
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This person appointed chiefs and held ultimate political power in Haudenosaunee society.
The clan mother.
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Name of the rebellion started by angry farmers in Western Massachusetts.
Shays' Rebellion.
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British legislative body, similar to Congress.
Parliament.
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These are some characteristics of the state of nature.
Everyone has a right to everything, there are no laws to stop people so things become very chaotic.
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In a social contract, this is what people receive in exchange for giving up their rights.
Protection.
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Style of government in ancient Rome that influenced the colonists.
Republic.
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This is how many nations were in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Bonus points if you can name all of them.
Five (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga).
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One major problem the national government was dealing with after the Revolutionary war.
Large national debt.
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Name of foundational document in Britain limiting the king's power and establishing a legislature, signed in 1215.
Magna Carta.
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This is what John Locke's idea of tabula rasa means.
Blank slate, the idea that people are not born good or evil but shaped by their experiences/environment.
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This Enlightenment thinker wrote Leviathan, which argued that we should be ruled by absolute monarchs.
Thomas Hobbes.
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What is a veto?
Power that allows an official (governor, president) to reject a law.
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This is what a society ruled by women is called.
Matriarchy.
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Reasons why the government struggled to suppress the rebellion by Western Mass farmers.
National government can't raise troops or collect taxes.
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Writer of Common Sense, a popular pamphlet that spread around the colonies.
Thomas Paine.
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100 points for each weakness of the Articles of Confederation you can name from the hand turkey.
-Weak Central Government
-No money
-Land/Border disputes
-Disagreements between states
-No navy
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This was the philosopher Voltaire's main idea.
Separation of Church and State.
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Style of government in ancient Greece that influenced the colonists.
Direct Democracy.
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This is what Haudenosaunee means.
"People of the longhouse".
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Who was responsible for collecting taxes under the Articles of Confederation?
The states.
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This document further cemented individual freedoms in Britain such as due process, limited government, and individual liberties.
English Bill of Rights (1689).
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Reason why the farmers in Western Massachusetts rebelled.
They were having their property confiscated and being jailed because of their debts.
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This was the philosopher Rousseau's main idea.
Social Contract.
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Big ideas in the Mayflower Compact, written by the pilgrims.
Self rule, common good, social contract.
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This is the name of the governing document for the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois.
The Great Law of Peace.
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Greatest accomplishment of the Articles of Confederation.
Northwest Ordinance.
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Cato's Letters were originally posted here.
Newspapers.
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What would you say the creator of this image thought about government?
Government should be composed of an absolute monarch, or a sovereign, who was able to rule over and protect the people.
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This was the philosopher Montesquieu's main idea.
Separation of powers.
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Colonial representative government of Virginia.
House of Burgesses.
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This is the name of the group that made decisions for the Confederacy through consensus.
The Grand Council.
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System of government where power is shared between the national government and state governments.
Federalism.
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Big idea in Common Sense.
Argued that monarchies were inherently corrupt.
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This is what Cato's Letters argued for (big ideas).
Anti corruption, opposed to the wealthy manipulating government for their own gain.
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