Founding Documents Review

Enlightenment thinker who maintained that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property, and that every society is based on a social contract.

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Locke

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

an agreement in which the people choose and obey a government so long as it safeguards their natural rights.

• Social contract

• Great Compromise

• Township

• Plots

a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine declaring that American independence would allow the country to trade freely and give them a chance to create a better society free of tyranny.

• Township

• Social contract

• Great Compromise

• Common Sense

a lawyer from Virginia who was chosen to prepare the final draft of a Declaration of Independence, and drew upon John Locke’s ideas of natural rights.

• Federalists

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Locke

• Anti-Federalists

a compromise proposed by Roger Sherman which suggested a two house Congress, with one house giving all states equal representation, and the other giving states representation proportionate their population size.

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Social contract

• Great Compromise

• Plots

a compromise reached over the issue of counting a states slaves towards total population; delegates agreed that each slave would count as ⅗ of a person.

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Township

• Social contract

supporters of the new Constitution who like the balance of power between state and national governments.

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists

• Thomas Jefferson

opponents of the new Constitution, who feared a strong central government would threaten personal freedom.

• Anti-Federalists

• John Locke

• Thomas Jefferson

• Federalists

a formal change to a legal document.

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Amendments

• Plots

• Township

36 square mile portion of new land acquired as part of the Northwest Territory.

• Social Contract

• Plots

• Amendment

• Township