British Policies and DOI

One punishment under the Intolerable Acts was...

• the British closed down Charleston harbor.
• The British forced the colonists to quarter soldiers in their homes.
• The colonists could only trade with Spain.

This act taxed all paper goods such as newspaper, playing cards.

• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act
• Declaratory Act
• Intolerable Acts

Which act said that only Parliament could tax the colonists?

• The Declaratory Act
• The Stamp Act
• The Sugar Act
• The Townshend Acts

Which of the following was a grievance listed in the Declaration of Independence?

• Quartering of soldiers

• Closing of the Boston Harbor

• Ending religious toleration

• Disregarding freedom of speech

The unalienable rights are

• life, liberty, and property

• life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• the freedom from fear, want, and tyranny

• the freedoms of speech, religion, assembly, and petition

Rights that cannot be taken from the people.

• Unalienable Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

The idea that people give up some of their power and rights to the government, and government is supposed to maintain order.

• Unalienable Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

The idea that all people are born equal and entitled to the same basic rights

• Unalienable Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

“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 important ideas does this language express?

• Popular sovereignty/social contract

• Natural rights/unalienable rights

• Social contract/natural rights

• Unalienable rights/popular sovereignty

Thomas Jefferson borrowed many of his ideas from which Enlightenment Philosopher?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Thomas Paine

• John Adams