Influential Documents
The leaflet that supported the Patriot cause.
Common Sense
A type of government where the monarch has total authority.
Absolute Monarchy
Free Market
Capitalism
What document is the quote from?
’TIS TIME TO PART. Even the distance at which the Almighty hath placed England and America, is a strong and natural proof, that the authority of the one, over the other, was never the design of Heaven.”
Common Sense
America's initial foreign policy approach during WWI
Isolationism
This document created one of the earliest self-governments in the colonies and is an example of social contract theory.
The Mayflower Compact
A type of government where a few people have power
Oligarchy
Government controls all means of production.
Communism
Which constitutional principle is established from the quote?
"No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned... or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him except upon the lawful judgment of his peers or the law of the land."
Habeas Corpus
A military alliance between 32 countries from North America and Europe with the goal to safeguard freedom through political and military means.
This document further limited the power of the English Monarch, established Parliamentary supremacy, and guaranteed rights to English citizens.
The English Bill of Rights
The type of government that America has
A Constitutional Monarchy
Government owns some to most means of production.
Socialism
What is the following an example of?
"We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James...do by these presents solemnly and mutually covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick...for our better ordering and preservation,..."
Creating a self-government and social contract theory.
President Truman's approach to the spread of communism
Containment- The Truman Doctrine and the MArshall Plan
The first document to ever limit the power of king establishing the principles of habeas corpus and eminent domain.
The Magna Carta
The type of government Rome had
A republic
A combination of capitalism with central government authority
A mixed economy
Which document is the quote from?
"That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament"
The English Bill of Rights
The that describes the period of geopolitical tension and ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1947 to 1991. Fought primarily through economic and political actions, propaganda, and proxy wars.
The Cold War
The Continental Congress sent this document was the last attempt of the colonists to seek reconciliation and resolve grievances before declaring independence.
The Olive Branch Petition
The name for the legislature in the UK
Parliament
Greek concept helped inspire America's formation of a federalism system of government
A polis
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
The U.S. formed this in response to the Persian Gulf War, the Afghanistan War (War on Terrorism), and the Iraq War.
A coalition