Founding Documents

What are your natural rights according to Enlightenment thinker, Locke?

• Life, Liberty, Property

• Freedom, Taxes, Happiness

• Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness

• Liberty, Insurance, Low Prices

This document was created to establish a weak federal government with powerful state governments

• Northwest Ordinance

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution of the United States

• Declaration of Independence

This document was created to explain how the King of England violated the rights of the colonists and established a free United States

• Constitution of the United States

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

This was required by the Anti-Federalists for ratification of the Constitution

• Banning slavery

• Federalist papers

• Bill of Rights

• Representation based on population

This document created the rules for admitting new states into the Union (country)

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Northwest Ordinance

• Constitution of the United States

This document establishes 3 branches of government, checks & balances, and a system of fair representation

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution of the United States

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

This document in 1787, outlawed slavery in the territory that eventually becomes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin

• Northwest Ordinance

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution of the United States

Which of the following was NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• No power to collect taxes

• No power to enforce laws

• No power to coin money

• No power to establish new states

What effect did the Enlightenment have on political though in the colonies?

• Adoption of a state sponsored church

• Questioning authority of the monarchy

• Colonists shouldn't have to pay any taxes

• Britain was too far away to run the colonies effectively

Anti-Federalists believed that the Constitution would...

• Create a government like the British

• Give the States too much power

• Give the federal government too much power

• Balance power well between the federal and state government