Enlightenment Government
Each person is essentially equal and deserving of the same rights including life, liberty, health, and property.
What are Natural Rights?
He was an American printer, philosopher, and scientist who conducted many famous experiments.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
The first Protestant English king who created the Church of England.
Who was Henry VIII?
The name of the colony founded by the Pilgrims.
What was Plymouth?
These people were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619 as forced laborers by Portuguese traders.
What were African slaves?
The century in which both the American Revolution and the Enlightenment took place.
What is the 18th Century or 1700s?
He developed the theory of the Blank Slate.
Who was John Locke?
The daughter of Henry VIII and the first English queen to support the creation of the Church of England.
Who was Queen Elizabeth?
The name of the colony founded by the Quakers.
What was Pennsylvania?
Poor Europeans who signed 4-7 year labor contracts to get the opportunity to come to the New World.
What were indentured servants?
Absolute monarchy, hereditary privilege, state-enforced religion, serfdom, and slavery.
What are things opposed by Enlightenment?
He was a French judge that argued for three separate branches of government.
Who was Montesquieu?
This Act made the English monarch the official head of the Church of England/Anglican Church.
What was the Act of Supremacy?
The colony founded as a haven for English Catholics.
What was Maryland?
Who were English debtors?
Individuals willingly give up some freedoms in exchange for the protection and benefits of a structured society governed by a government.
What is the Social Contract?
He was a French atheist that argued in favor of personal religious beliefs but not government mandated religion.
Who was Voltaire?
The Act that required Anglican Church attendance and further required worship according to the use of the Common Book of Prayer.
What was the Act of Uniformity?
The full name of the colony founded by English Puritans.
What was the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Religious radicals who wanted to build 'a city upon a hill'.
Who were the Puritans?
A government’s legitimacy is maintained through the protection of individual rights and that if any government fails to do this, the people are obligated to reform or remove the government.
What is the Consent of the Governed?
He was a Swiss philosopher who created the concept of the Social Contract Theory.
Who was Rousseau?
The historical name for English Protestants who wanted to completely leave the Church of England.
Who were the Separatists?
This colony passed the first ever Act of Religious Toleration.
What was Maryland?
The two Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims survive their first years in the New World.
Who were Squanto and Samoset?