Q2 Vocabulary Test

The United States split the government into different bodies, including Congress, the Supreme Court and President. This was done to make sure one part of the government did not have too much power. What is this an example of?

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Freedom of Speech

• House of Burgesses

John Locke believed that all people were born with the right to life, liberty and property. What are these rights collectively known as?

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Reason

• Enlightenment

When a person has the ability to speak about any topic, including the ability to be critical of the government without fear of repercussions, that person has which right?

• Natural Rights

• Freedom of Speech

• Secession

• Enlightenment

A philosophical movement of the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious, and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism. This time period heavily influenced the founding of the United State and its government.

• Natural Rights

• Freedom of Speech

• Enlightenment

• John Locke

The philosopher that first wrote down the set of rights known as Natural Rights. He heavily influenced Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence.

• John Locke

• Anthony Ashley Cooper

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

To think, understand, act and form judgements by a process of using logic.

• Enlightenment

• Stono Rebellion

• Nullification

• Reason

Representative assembly in colonial Virginia, which was an outgrowth of the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession, the General Assembly of Virginia.

• Lords Proprietors

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

• Carolina Charter 1663

A set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower, while off of the coast of Massachusetts.

• Mayflower Compact

• Carolina Charter 1663

• House of Burgesses

• Lords Proprietors

8 men who were given land in the New World via a charter from the King in England. These men had the rights to all of the profit that came from the area and to create the government that ran it.

• Lords Proprietors

• Anthony Ashley Cooper

• John Locke

• Secessionists

When a legislative body has two different parts, or groups, that must work together to pass laws. The United States Congress is an example of this with the House of Representatives and Senate.

• Unicameral Legislature

• Bicameral Legislature

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights