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Number of original colonies
What is thirteen (13)
This biblical creature serves to defend and protect.
What is leviathan?
What is a state of war?
The date of observance for American Independence
What is July 4, 1776?
English translation of publius
What is "public"?
Latin phrase for "greatest work"
What is magnum opus?
Monarch of Great Britain during the Revolutionary War
Who is King George III?
The definition of natural rights
What are God-given rights that all humans possess from birth?
The first constitution of the United States
What are the Articles of Confederation?
(1781) Location of Lord Cornwallis's surrender of British troops
What is Yorktown, Virginia?
(1770) This event resulted in the death of five colonists
What is the Boston Massacre?
Battle cry of the American Revolution
What is "No Taxation without Representation"?
(1775) These events mark the beginning of the American Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Requirements of Locke's social contract
What is "We must surrender certain liberties and freedoms in exchange for an organized society"?
The right of revolution according to Locke
What is "In the event that your government becomes tyrannical or violates the peoples' natural rights, the people have the right to abolish that government and institute a new government."
(1763) This event resulted in the British defeat of the French and the British acquisition of the Canadian Territory.
What is the French and Indian War?
The physical description of the state of nature according to Hobbes
What is "nasty, poor, solitary, short, and brutish"?
The political purpose of Machiavelli's Prince
What is to serve as a handbook for rulers on how to gain and maintain power?
The four primary reasons for the failure of the Articles of Confederation
What are no centralized government, Congress could not tax, Congress could not regulate commerce, and Congress could not raise a national military?
The constitutional provisions conceded to the Southern States in exchange for ratifying the Constitution.
What are the Slave Trade Clause (Article I, Section 9), the Three-Fifths Clause (Article I, Section 2), and the Fugitive Slave Clause (Article IV, Section 2)?
The prince must know when to be a lion, when to be a fox, and when to be both
What is flexible disposition?
(1775) The author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This omission in the Declaration of Independence secured an unanimous vote of approval for the Declaration.
What is the abolishment of slavery?
Authors of the Federalist Papers
Who are Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison?
(1783) Revolutionary War ends with the signing of this document.
What is the Treaty of Paris?