Enlightenment Thinkers
He is the father of modern political philosophy and is known for his ideas about the social contract.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
To create a more powerful government than the one under the Articles of Confederation.
What was the primary goal of the Constitutional Convention?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The first code of laws in the New England colonies.
What is the Massachusetts Body of Liberties?
Branches would act to limit the powers of the other branches.
What is the Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances?
The universal set of moral principles that can be applied to any culture or system of justice.
What is natural law?
Name one compromise of the convention.
Answers will vary.
(Great Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise, Electoral College Compromise, Commerce Compromise, and the Bill of Rights Debate)
Created the first government to rule over the colonies during the Revolutionary War.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
A war fought between the British and the French with its Indian allies on American soil.
What is the French and Indian War?
The idea states that more than 1/2 of the people in a group are needed to approve decisions.
What is majority rule?
An idea established by the Magna Carta which states that government is based on clear and fairly enforced laws and that no one is above the law.
What is the Rule of Law?
The father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
Explained key issues of the Constitution to support the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
Event that ended in 5 colonists dying at the hands of British troops.
What was the Boston Massacre?
A system of government that allows the decision-making to be made by elected officials.
What is representative government?
Which enlightenment thinker brought up the idea of natural rights- rights that all people have by just being human?
Who is John Locke?
Created the bicameral legislature we have today.
What is the Great Compromise?
A list of rights that was later added to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Tax was levied on all paper products in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
A body created to cast votes to choose the President.
What is the Electoral College?
Explain the concept of popular sovereignty, an idea of the social contract theory.
The general will of the people.
Part of Congress that favors the smaller states.
What is the Senate?
A charter that defined the rights and duties of English nobles and set limits on the monarch's power.
What is the Magna Carta, or the "Great Charter"?
The location of the first actual fighting in the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
Affirmed that the King's power was not absolute.
What is the idea of limited government?