Unit 2 - Foundations of Government

The king’s policy of ignoring the colonies and allowing them to govern themselves

• Salutary Neglect
• Mercantilism
• Excessive Taxation
• Do whatever you want, just pay me

Term to describe that a country's power would be measured by its wealth (instead of land)

• Mercantilism
• Salutary Neglect
• Excessive Taxation
• Bimetallism

Enlightenment Thinker that helped influenced US Government by introducing the ideas of separation of powers and checks and balances as a way to limit the power of the government

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Rousseu

Enlightenment thinker that influenced the first amendment of the US Constitution by introducing individual rights such as freedom of religion, speech and press

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine called for complete independence from England

• Common Sense
• 95 Theses
• Two Treatises of Government
• The Guide to why People are Selfish

The Declaration of Independence borrowed ideas from which Enlightenment philosopher?

• John Locke
• Thomas Hobbes
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Jefferson

John Locke believed in a social contract between the government and the citizens it governed. In this contract, the government's only job was to:

• Become a dictatorship so it could manage everyone's interests
• protects everyone's natural rights
• Enforce any laws necessary to keep order
• Become a tyranny

Under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government had all the following powers EXCEPT:

• The power to declare war
• The power to sign treaties
• The power to regulate international trade
• Levy taxes on state citizens

The ability to regulate trade with other states was a power given to whom under the Articles of Confederation?

• The Federal Government
• The States
• Thomas Paine
• The King Of England

The Federal Government under the Articles of Confederation was able to declare war but it could not:

• Draft Soldiers
• Establish an Army and Navy
• Recruit Soldiers who would volunteer
• Sign Treaties