Life, Liberty and Property
What are natural rights?
Led to smuggling and the Boston Tea Party
What is a tax on tea?
The Articles limited the power of the central government and gave more power to the ______
What are states?
There are this many grievances in the Declaration of Independence.
What is 27?
This form of government, first practiced in ancient Greece, lets people rule themselves.
What is democracy?
Mayflower Compact
What created self-government in the United States?
This was a tax on all paper goods
What is the Stamp Act?
This event showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
What is Shays Rebellion?
The main purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to do this.
What is to announce and explain their separation from Great Britain?
This set of biblical rules influenced American ideas about law and morality.
What are the Ten Commandments?
The Magna Carta did this
What is the document that limited the power of the king and created no taxation without representation?
This event started with colonists throwing snowballs and rocks
What is the Boston Massacre?
Under the Articles, each state had this number of votes in Congress
What is one?
This pamphlet helped convinced people to support Declaration.
What is Common Sense?
The American government's system of elected representatives comes from this ancient civilization.
What is Rome?
Baron de Montesquieu's theories
What is Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances?
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?
This weakness was solved by putting an president in place.
What is no executive branch?
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.
The American idea of citizens voting on laws comes from this Greek-city-state.
What is Athens?
John Locke's three theories that influenced American Government
What are consent of the governed, social contract, and natural rights?
These were the colonial responses to the acts placed on the American colonies
What is smuggling and boycotting?
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?
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?
The Founders believed that rights like "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" cane from this source.
What is God?