Name That Year
The Declaration of Independence was written in THIS year.
What is 1776?
THIS seventeenth-century thinker believed that without government, society would descend into chaos and bloodshed.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
The central argument of the Declaration of Independence is that people living under a tyrannical government have a right to do THIS.
What is rebel?
"The states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with one another."
In what year did the Boston Tea Party take place?
What is 1773?
The Articles of Confederation were written in THIS year.
What is 1777?
Thomas Hobbes wrote that life without government was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and THIS."
What is short?
A primary purpose of the Declaration was to publish an extensive list of THESE.
What are the abuses of the King?
"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Stamp Act was a tax on THESE.
What are documents?
The Mayflower Compact was written in THIS year.
What is 1620?
Thomas Jefferson paraphrased THIS Enlightenment thinker in the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
The idea of popular sovereignty is expressed in the Declaration of Independence with the famous phrase, "to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from THIS."
What is the consent of the governed?
To satisfy one's hunger is not robbery if you don't take away anything in your bag or your pocket.
What is the Manden Charter?
The British won the French and Indian War but it left them with THIS problem.
What is a massive war debt?
The Magna Carta was written in THIS year.
What is 1215?
Enlightenment writers often talked about what society was like BEFORE the invention of government, a time they referred to as the "state of THIS."
What is nature?
The Declaration lodged many complaints against the King, including the fact that he forced colonists to house British soldiers, a practice known as THIS.
What is quartering?
The War Chief shall now address the women of the deposed Lord and say:
"Mothers, as I have now deposed your Lord, I now return to you the emblem and the title of Lordship, therefore repossess them."
What is the Iroquois Great Law of Peace?
The Intolerable Acts were known officially as THESE Acts.
What are the Coercive Acts?
The US Constitution went into effect in THIS year.
What is 1789?
THIS thinker believed that government was invented not merely out of necessity, but also because powerful individuals often take advantage of the chaos of war.
Who is David Hume?
THIS is the Declaration's most famous sentence. It begins with "We hold these truths..." and ends with "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
What is: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
"Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith, and the honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another; covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic."
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The opening shot of the American Revolution is popularly known as THIS?
What is the shot heard round the world?