Unit 2: Foundations of Government

Match the following

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Written by Thomas Jefferson and led to separation of church and state and served as a model for the 1st Amendment.

• Petition of Right

• Enlightenment-era work by Thomas Hobbes in which he expresses his ideas on government.

• Social Contract

• Document signed by Charles I of England that further limited the powers of the English monarch.

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

• An agreement by which people give up some freedoms for an organized society.

• Leviathan

• Document written by George Mason and served as a model/example for the U.S. Bill of Rights.

Match the following

• English Bill of Rights

• Document signed in 1689 that guaranteed the rights of English citizens.

• Checks and Balances

• Montesquieu's plan of a separation to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch.

• Natural Rights

• This was a tax placed on finished goods like lead, glass and paint.

• Tea Act

• The rights of “life, liberty, and property” that John Locke argued for.

• Townshend Act

• This led to the Colonists dumping goods in Boston Harbor in 1774.

Match the following

• Lexington and Concord

• This was the event that caused the British to start taxing the colonies.

• French and Indian War

• This was a tax on all paper goods including newspapers and playing cards.

  This was a tax on all paper goods including newspapers and playing cards.

• Intolerable Acts

• These were the final acts that the Colonists just couldn’t take.

• Stamp Act

• This act required the colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.

• Quartering Act

• This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War in 1775.

Match the following

• Declaration of Independence

• Protesters dressed up like Native Americans and threw goods into Boston Harbor during this event.

• Boston Massacre

• Colonial representatives met at this gathering to respond to the British and act as a governing body for the “nation”

• Continental Congress

• This document announced that we were splitting ties with England.

• Boston Tea Party

• The event that occurred when British soldiers fired on an unarmed crowd in Boston.

In Ancient Greece, Athens had the first ___ which greatly influenced the US government.

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Republic

Ancient Rome set up a ___ where citizens elected representatives to the Senate to rule.

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Republic

Who wrote The Social Contract about the agreement between the people and the government in which people gave up some freedom in order to have their rights protected?

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Hobbes

Which enlightenment thinker believed that a strong government is needed to keep order?

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Hobbes

The Pilgrims created the Mayflower Compact in order to -

• guarantee universal religious tolerance in the colony

• reinforce the laws of England in the new colony

• establish an orderly community

• show that they opposed representative government.

What did citizens of Athens and the Pilgrims have in common?

• Both traveled to a new country

• Both were persecuted for their religious beliefs

• Both created a direct democracy

• Both started a new holiday that we still celebrate today