Vocab
American Traditions that the Framers Relied On
Important People
100

A government where one person or a small group has complete authority.

What is a dicatorship?

100

Originaly only who could vote?

White property-owning men.

100

The maker of the Magna Carta.

Who is King John of England?

200

A government where citizens rule themselves through elected representatives.

What is a republic?

200

Other than white men, who else could enter into contracts and own property?

Unmarried women.

200

What american leader decided to look to the past to find answers for building the constitution?

John Adams

300

The system is designed to keep any person or group from gaining too much power.

What is the separation of powers/checks and balances system?

300

What document set up the court system?

The Constitution.

300

The Roman leader who invented the dictatorship.

Who is Caesar Augustus?

400

This document made monarchs obey the law and made monarchs unable to raise taxes without consulting other leaders.

What is the Magna Carta?

400

What is the military title of the President?

Commander-in-Chief of the military.

400

This man wrote Two Treatises of Government.

Who is John Locke?

500
What document said that parliamentary elections should be held regularly?

What is the English Bill of Rights?

500

The first document of self government.

What is the Mayflower Compact?
500

Who made the Checks and Balances system?

Charles-Louis Montesquieu