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100

What document written in 1215, guaranteed a trial by jury, private property, and limited government?

What is the Magna Carta?

100
How many amendments are there in the constitution?
What is 27!
100
Name TWO 1st amendment rights.
What is the right to free speech, freedom of religion, peacefully assemble, and freedom of the press.
100

Who wrote about protection of natural rights: life, liberty, and property?

Who is John Locke?

100

Which laws were passed after the Boston Tea Party?

What was the Intolerable or Coercive Acts?

200
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
How many articles are there in the Constitution?
What is 7!
200
How many amendments are there in the BOR?
What is 10!
200

Who thought it would be better for leaders to be feared, rather than loved?

Who is Machiavelli?

200

Which form of government does Iran have?

What is a theocracy?

300
What did King George of England do that angered the colonists?
What is raised their taxes - taxed their tea!
300
What is the first ARTICLE about (hint: which branch of government)?
What is congress or the legislative branch!
300
Which amendment protects us from unreasonable SEARCH and SEIZURE?
What is the 4th amendment!
300

Who believed that once people had entered into a social contract with a Sovereign, they couldn't change their leader?

Thomas Hobbes?

300

Which form of government does North Korea have?

What is a dictatorship?

400

Which government body established in 1619 was the first elected representative assembly in the new world?

What is the Virginia General Assembly (House of Burgesses)?

400

What is amendment 17 about?

What is popular election of Senators?

400
Which amendment guarantees a speedy trial?
What is the 6th!
400

What did form of government did Jean-Jacques Rousseau believe could solve the problem of inequality in society?

What is direct democracy?

400

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

What is 1776?

500

Which document, created in 1689, allowed for a set of civil liberties in exchange for William & Mary taking the throne?

What is the English Bill of Rights?

500
Which amendment gave WOMEN the right to vote?
What is amendment 19!
500

Which amendment states you don't have to give testimony against yourself?

What is the 5th amendment?

500

Which philosopher believed in checks and balances as well as the separation of powers?

Who was Montesquieu?

500

Which document initially bound Massachusetts colonists to a set of laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers necessary to ensure the colony’s common good?

What is the Mayflower Compact?