Places
The birthplace of Democracy
A french philosopher that came up with the idea of separate powers
When The People elect representatives to make the laws in government
Representative Democracy
Name the Document:
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."
Declaration of Independence
The Stamp Act did what
Put a tax on all paper goods
The Magna Carta was singed in which country
This person gave us the idea of the social contract
John Locke
Natural rights are rights that...
Nobody can take away
Name the event:
colonists dressed up as Native Americans in the middle of the night to dump tea into a body of water
Boston Tea Party
The Tea Act
What type of democracy does America have today?
Representative Democracy
This person wrote a convincing document as to why the colonists should break away from England
Thomas Paine
Unalienable (or inalienable) rights are...
Natural rights/ Human rights. Nobody can take them away
When people stop using specific goods, or going to specific places as a form of protest.
What event caused England to tax the colonists in the first place?
The French and Indian War
Republic, or representative democracy comes from...
Ancient Rome
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Thomas Jefferson
This document limited the Kings Power
Magna Carta
Who were the colonists complaining about in the Declaration of Independence?
The King of England (King George III)
The quartering Act
America
John Locke
Ethical Ideas of Justice means
Our laws are based on Justice; good people are rewarded, bad people are punished.
What is a grievance
A complaint
A tax on all imported glass, paper, tea, lead, and paint.
The Townsend acts