Colonial Cribs
Rocky soil, a cold climate, shipbuilding, fishing, and tightly grouped towns characterized this colonial region.
What are the New England colonies?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that people possess natural rights, including life, liberty, and property and believe Government should be founded on consent.
Who is John Locke?
This war left Britain deeply in debt and led Parliament to begin taxing the colonies more directly.
What is the French and Indian War?
Under the Articles of Confederation, each state received this many votes in Congress.
One vote
“Men are by nature all free, equal and independent, and no one can be…subjected to the political power of another without his own consent.”
Use one vocabulary term to summarize the political principle expressed by Locke in this passage.
What is Popular sovereignty, consent of the governed, or social contract?
Fertile soil and a warm climate allowed this region to develop plantations producing tobacco, rice, and indigo.
What are the Southern colonies?
This philosopher argued that governmental power should be divided so that “power should be a check to power.”
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This phrase described Britain’s earlier policy of loosely enforcing colonial laws and allowing colonial assemblies to govern themselves.
What is salutary neglect?
Because Congress lacked this power under the Articles, it had to request money from the states and could not reliably pay national debts.
The power to levy or collect taxes
“To prevent abuse, it is necessary that by the arrangement of things, power should be a limit to power.”
Which constitutional principle most directly reflects Montesquieu’s argument?
This British economic system required colonies to provide raw materials and purchase manufactured goods from the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Jean Jacques Rousseu’ ____________ theory held that legitimate government rests on the will and consent of the people.
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping approximately 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This uprising by indebted Massachusetts farmers demonstrated that the Articles government could not maintain order effectively.
Shays’ Rebellion
“Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power…which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States.”
Does this passage create a strong national government or a system dominated by the states? Use evidence from the passage.
It creates a system dominated by the states because each state retains its sovereignty and the national government is weak and cannot raise and army of collect taxes
Both Northern and Southern colonists formed military and trade alliances with these people, but the South depended more heavily on these relationships for trading purposes
What are Native Americans?
Unlike the Magna Carta, this 1689 document protected Parliament’s authority and the rights of all citizens from interference by the monarch.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Put these developments in chronological order: Declaration of Independence, parliamentary acts, French and Indian War, and Boston Tea Party.
What is the French and Indian War → parliamentary acts → Boston Tea Party → Declaration of Independence?
Federalists supported a strong national government, while Anti-Federalists demanded this addition to protect citizens from federal overreach.
The Bill of Rights
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Identify the Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas are most visible and explain the connection.
Who is John Locke, because the passage argues that people possess natural rights and that government receives its authority from the consent of the people.
The Mayflower Compact, and New England town meetings are all examples of this American political principle
What is Republicanism, self government, democracy, etc?
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” This quotation from the Declaration most directly combines these two Enlightenment principles.
What are sovereignty(I'll accept voting) and the social contract?
Unlike Thomas Paine, who called for independence, this Pennsylvania writer opposed British taxation but hoped to restore harmony with Britain through peaceful resistance.
Who is John Dickinson?
Shays’ Rebellion exposed the weakness of the Articles government, while this 1794 event demonstrated that the Constitution created a government capable of enforcing federal law.
The Whiskey Rebellion
“The unity of government which constitutes you one people is…a main pillar…of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad…[and] your prosperity.”
What danger is Washington addressing, and what does he believe Americans should do to avoid it?
Washington is warning against sectionalism and disunity. He believes Americans should value their national identity and preserve the union instead of allowing regional interests to divide the country.
(I'll accept political factions)