Unit 1: American History Foundations

Photographs, Diaries, and Musical Recordings are examples of

• Primary Sources

• Secondary Sources

• Biographies

• Artifacts

A show on the History Channel and a Biography of Thomas Jefferson are examples of

• Primary Sources

• Secondary Sources

• Biographies

• Artifacts

A government in which a single ruler holds all or most of the power and can be cruel and oppressive.

• Tyranny

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Limited Government

An agreement between the governed and government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each is called a ______ ________.

Inalienable rights cannot be sold or transferred because they are natural and God-given.

• True

• False

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French Enlightenment philosopher who wrote The Social Contract, whose ideas inspired

• The Da Vinci Code

• The Declaration on Independence

• Two Treatises on Government

• The Magna Carta

An English Enlightenment philosopher who wrote Two Treatises on Government, whose ideas inspired the Declaration of Independence.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Thomas Jefferson

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A Republican Government is a type of government where power is held by the people.

• True

• False

No one is above the law

• Social Contract

• Manifest Destiny

• Rule of Law

• Republican Government

Limited Government is established through the _____ branches of government and the checks and balances system