Enlightenment
Colonial Responses
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
Early Influences
100

Life, Liberty and Property

What are natural rights?

100

Led to smuggling and the Boston Tea Party

What is a tax on tea?

100

The Articles limited the power of the central government and gave more power to the ______

What are states?

100

There are this many grievances in the Declaration of Independence. 

What is 27?

100

This form of government, first practiced in ancient Greece, lets people rule themselves. 

What is democracy?

200

Mayflower Compact

What created self-government in the United States?

200

This was a tax on all paper goods

What is the Stamp Act?

200

This event showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

What is Shays Rebellion?

200

The main purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to do this. 

What is to announce and explain their separation from Great Britain?

200

This set of biblical rules influenced American ideas about law and morality. 

What are the Ten Commandments?

300

The Magna Carta did this

What is the document that limited the power of the king and created no taxation without representation?

300

This event started with colonists throwing snowballs and rocks

What is the Boston Massacre?

300

Under the Articles, each state had this number of votes in Congress

What is one?

300

This pamphlet helped convinced people to support Declaration.

What is Common Sense?

300

The American government's system of elected representatives comes from this ancient civilization. 

What is Rome?

400

Baron de Montesquieu's theories

What is Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances?

400

This was a response to the Boston Tea Party intended to force the Colonists to pay off the tea debts. 

What is the Intolerable Acts?

400

This weakness was solved by putting an president in place. 

What is no executive branch?

400

Some specific grievances listed in the Declaration (at least 2)

What are trial by jury, suspending legislatures, quartering troops, and no taxation without representation? Could also include stopping us from trading around the world. 

400

The American idea of citizens voting on laws comes from this Greek-city-state.

What is Athens?

500

John Locke's three theories that influenced American Government

What are consent of the governed, social contract, and natural rights?

500

These were the colonial responses to the acts placed on the American colonies

What is smuggling and boycotting?

500

Made it impossible to pass laws or amend the Articles

What is 9/13 state required to pass laws and unanimous agreement to amend the Articles?

500

Name the 6 purposes of government

What is establish justice, form a more perfect union, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, provide for the common defense, and secure the blessings to ourselves and our posterity?

500

The Founders believed that rights like "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" cane from this source. 

What is God?