Civics Literacy Unit II Review

What are unalienable rights?

• Rights of this world
• Rights granted by the King
• Rights you have just because you were born
• Rights given in the Constitution

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What are our natural rights according to Jefferson?  (He got the idea from John Locke, but he changed the last right.)

• Freedom of speech, religion, and press
• Life, liberty, and property
• Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
• Voting, rebelling, and health

Which of the following was a complaint against the King mentioned in the Declaration of Independence?

• Suspended trial by jury in many cases

• He forced colonists to move back to England

• He let the rich people not pay taxes

• He had too much representation for the colonists

Forced colonists to give shelter (house) to British soldiers

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Act

• Quartering Act

• Housing Act

French writer who believed in freedom of speech, religious tolerance, and the separation of church and state.

• Voltaire
• Locke
• Rousseau
• Montesquieu

John Locke believed people were born with certain rights than no-one could take away. 

• Life, liberty, property
• Life , liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
• Freedom of speech, religion, and property
• Social Contract

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

This thinker believed in the separation of powers within a government.  Each part should have check and balances over the other parts.

• Montesquieu
• Wollstonecraft

• Locke
• Voltaire

This thinker believed that humanity was inherently evil.  Laws and governments are needed to protect people from each other. 

• Hobbes
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau

• Voltaire

This thinker wrote "The Social Contract." He believed that government was a contract between the ruler & the people.

• Rousseau
• Locke
• Montesquieu
• Voltaire

The founding fathers combined the ideas of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan to come up with -

• Compromise of 1820

• Three-fifths compromise

• Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention