Vocabulary
A raid on 3 British ships in Boston Harborin which colonists threw tea overboard?
What was the Boston Tea Party?
An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in the year 1620, just before they landed on Plymouth Rock.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Enlightenment thinker who believed that government and people shouold have a social contract.
Who was Rousseau?
"the pursuit of happiness"
What was the change Thomas Jefferson made to Locke's ideas when he wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Name at least 3 founding fathers.
Who were.....George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson?
A real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment?
What is a grievance?
Rights that people supposedly have under natural law
What are natural rights?
He wrote Common Sense - a phamplet that convinced many colonists that the colonies should separate and form their own country.
Who was Thomas Paine?
He discovered electricity, was a mastermind behind the development of our nation, was an ambassador to France and wrote the first almanac?
Who was Ben Franklin?
An event during which some young people from Boston taunted the British soldiers - the result was that the British opened fire.
What was the Boston Massacre?
When a person is provided with a quality, ability or asset?
What is "endowed"?
In some countries, the group of elected politicians or people who make the laws for their country.
What is a parliament?.
He believed in the separation of Church and State?
Who was Voltaire?
Prolonged or unjust treatment or control.
What is oppression?
The first colony is the New World (it is considered a lost colony)?
What was Roanoke?
The word for "deny (a person or place) the possession or use of something.
What is to "deprive"?
An implicit agreement among members of a society to cooperate for social benefits.
What is a social contract?
This writer believed in the separation of powers - government, he thought, should be divided into 3 groups: executive, legislative and judicial.
Who was Montequieu?
Not needing to be demonstrated or explained; obvious.
What is self-evident?
He wasn't read his rights and sparked a landmark Supreme Court case as a result. This case was....
What was Miranda v. Arizona?
A European intellectual movement that focused on logic and science.
What was the Enlightenment?
An act of the British Parliament in 1765 that demanded revenue from the American colonies by impossing a stamp duty on official documents.
What was the Stamp Act?
He believed that people had natural rights. The most important natural rights, according to this writer, are "life, liberty and property". Further, it is the government's job to protect these rights.
Who was John Locke?
roughly from 1600-1800
When did the Enlightenment occur?
They believed in copying the ideas and beauty of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Who were people during the Romantic period?