Civics EOC Category 1

Which Enlightenment thinker argued that all people were born equal and had natural rights to life, liberty, and property?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

This is the idea that "the people" give the government power to protect their natural rights and must live by the rules?

• Separation of Powers

• Social Contract

• Checks and Balances

• Rule of Law

Montesquieu is most known for his ideas on?

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

• Separation of Powers

• Protection of life, liberty and property

A pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England.

• Common Law

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

• Magna Carta

A government document that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility: written by English Nobles in 1215.

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

• English Bill of Rights

The idea that people have the rights to fair and reasonable laws, and that the government leaders and officials have to follow rules when enforcing laws and treat all people in the same way

• Limited Government

• Rights

• Due Process

• Self Government

What was the significance of the stamp on the newspaper?

• It demonstrated that Parliament ignored colonists media communications.

• It represented the colonists' opposition to English tax policies

• It demonstrated that Parliament controlled the colonists' press outlets

• It represented the colonists' fulfillment of English tax policies.

Why did Parliament eventually repeal the Stamp Act?

• The colonists established a blockade against British goods

• The colonists started buying British goods

• The colonists were able to produce their own goods

• The colonists began boycotting British goods.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." Which document contains this passage?

• Declaration of Independence

• English Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• U.S. Constitution

The List of Grievances is the part of the Declaration that

• detailed the colonists' complaints with King George.

• introduced the Declaration

• listed a man's natural rights.

• concluded the Declaration, declaring America a free country.