Practice Homework

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.

"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

According to the Declaration of Independence, where does government get its power?

• From the King

• From God

• From the courts

• From the people

Which weakness of the Articles of Confederation led to Shay's Rebellion?

• The national government lacked the power to tax

• Executive regulation of farm trade

• The national government lacked a national court system

• Debt relief was enacted