Sponge Quiz #5 2021

Main idea of John Locke’s Natural Rights

• Separate the power into three branches

• Contract between people and their government

• Representation in Parliament

• Life, Liberty and Property

Baron de Montesquieu main idea

• Life, Liberty and Property

• Representation in Parliament

• Separate power into three branches

• Give King unlimited power

Identify what type of freedom the Pilgrims were seeking in the new world

• Speech

• Press

• Religion

• Assemble

Identify the name of the first constitution the Pilgrims set up here in America

• Mayflower Compact

• Deceleration of Independence

• Common Sense

• Deceleration of the rights of man

Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet called, ‘Common Sense’. Identify his main idea or main argument in this pamphlet.

• Separate the power of government

• Life, Liberty and Property

• America should seek independence from England

• Mayflower Compact

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" What does self-evident mean?

• Obvious

• Alter

• Abolish

• Unalienable

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. What does unalienable mean?

• Only aliens from other planets have them

• Rights that can not be taken away

• Rights only reserved for Kings

• Rights for the wealthy only

According to the social contract, the government gets their power from the consent of the governed, how do the people give the government permission or power to rule?

• Royal Family decides

• Random lottery

• Hunger Games winner

• Voting

Americans did not want to pay taxes to England especially with no representation in British Parliament. Identify the battle cry among colonist that supports this idea.

• NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

• God save the Queen

• America Rocks!

• We will, we will; rock you!

Identify the act that placed a tax on all paper products including books, pamphlets and certificates.

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act