Unit 2 Review: Colonial America Part 1

Unit 2 Review Part 1:
Colonial America
Chapter 2: The American Colonies and Their Government

This is a review for the Unit 2 Test

Unit 2 Benchmarks

What are we being tested on?

SS.7.CG.1.1: Analyze the influences of ancient Greece, ancient Rome and the Judeo-Christian tradition on America’s constitutional republic.

SS.7.CG.1.2: Trace the principles underlying America’s founding ideas on law and government.

SS.7.CG.1.3: Trace the impact that the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, English Bill of Rights and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense had on colonists’ views of government.

SS.7.CG.1.4: Analyze how Enlightenment ideas, including Montesquieu’s view of separation of powers and John Locke’s theories related to natural law and Locke’s social contract, influenced the Founding.

SS.7.CG.1.5: Describe how British policies and responses to colonial concerns led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

SS.7.CG.1.6: Analyze the ideas and grievances set forth in the Declaration of Independence.

Match

Match each term with its correct Unit 2 synonym.

• Liberty

• Grievance

• Legislative

• Delegate

Freedom

Complaint

Law-Making

Representative

• Freedom

• Complaint

• Law-Making

• Representative

Match

Match each term with its correct Unit 2 synonym.

• England

• Act

• Duty

• Founding Fathers/Founders

Great Britain

Law

Tax

Framers

• Great Britain

• Law

• Tax

• Framers

Multiple Choice

Which important document created the United States of America when it was approved at the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776?

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

• U.S. Constitution

Multiple Choice

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Alexander Hamilton

• King George III

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

Multiple Choice

Which term means "government by the people"?

• DEMOCRACY

• MONARCHY

• OLIGARCHY

• AUTOCRACY

• RULE OF LAW: Everyone is equal before the law

Judeo-Christian Tradition

• DIRECT DEMOCRACY: All citizens vote and have a say in making government decisions

Ancient Greeks (Athens)

• REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: Citizens elect leaders to represent them and make government decisions

  • REPUBLIC

Ancient Romans

​Early Foundations of Democracy

Multiple Choice

In ancient Athens, all Greek citizens could vote and have a say in government decisions.

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Republic

Multiple Select

In ancient Rome, upper class citizens elected representatives to make government decisions for them.

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Republic

• Natural Rights—All people are born with the right to...

  • Life

  • Liberty

  • Property

• Social Contract—An agreement between the people and the government

  • People give the government power, and it exists to protect their rights

• Ideas heavily influenced the Declaration of Independence

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ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS & IDEAS

JOHN LOCKE

Fill in the Blank

According to the theory of Natural Law, all people are

with certain rights that should be protected by the government.

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SOCIAL CONTRACT: The

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give ​

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to the ​

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in exchange for ​

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of rights.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

people

government

power

protection

• Separation of Powers—government should be divided in 3 parts:

  • Legislative Branch

    • Makes Laws

  • Executive Branch

    • Enforces Laws

  • Judicial Branch

    • Interprets Laws

• Checks and Balances—makes sure 1 branch doesn’t get too much power

• Ideas heavily influenced the U.S. Constitution

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ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS AND THIER IDEAS

​BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Labelling

In the system of SEPARATION OF POWERS, which power is given to each branch of the government?

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Interpret Laws

Enforce Laws

Make Laws

Categorize

Options (6)

Natural Law/Rights

Social Contract

Separation of Powers

Checks and Balances

Declaration of Independence

U.S. Constitution

Organize each idea with the correct Enlightenment Thinker who wrote about it along with the important United States document they influenced most.

John Locke

Baron de Montesquieu

1215: The English nobles created the first document that set limits on the monarch's power. It created a LIMITED GOVERNMENT with a legislature called Parliament and guaranteed rights like TRIAL BY JURY.

Magna Carta

1689: Further LIMITED the British monarch's power by listing PROTECTED RIGHTS of citizens including free speech in Parliament, the right to bear arms, and protection from cruel punishment.

English Bill of Rights

1620: The Pilgrims who sought religious freedom by settling the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts created the first form of European SELF-GOVERNMENT in the American colonies.

Mayflower Compact

​Influential Historical Documents

Categorize

Options (3)

Magna Carta

English Bill of Rights

Mayflower Compact

Organize each influential document with the concept of democracy that it exemplifies most.

Limited Government

Self-Government

• English settlers began colonizing North America in the 1600s.

  • 1607: Jamestown Colony

  • 1620: Plymouth Colony

• By 1732, there were 13 colonies under the control of Great Britain and the English monarch King George III.

  • Although their lifestyles and resources differed, individuals throughout all 13 colonies still considered themselves English citizens and valued the idea of self-government.

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13 British Colonies

Categorize

Options (13)

Massachusetts

Connecticut

Rhode Island

New Hampshire

New York

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Delaware

Maryland

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

Organize the 13 British colonies into the correct region.

New England Colonies

Middle Colonies

Southern Colonies

Reorder

Reorder the following historic actions in the correct order.

• British policies limit colonial rights.

• Colonial demand for political change increases.

• British ignore colonial grievances.

• Declaration of Independence is approved.

1

2

3

4

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

• Colonial Grievances

• Thomas Paine's Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

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