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The Magna Carta established this type of government.

A 100

What is limited?

A 100

A country should sell more than it buys.

A 200

What is Mercantilism?

A 200

This is a written or unwritten plan of government.

A 300

What is a constitution?

A 300

Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Montesquieu were known as this

type of philosophers.

A 400

What is Enlightenment?

A 400

This group approved the Declaration and served as our

government during the American Revolution.

A 500

What is the Second Continental Congress?

A 500

This type of government has all powers in the hands of a

group of elite people.

B 100

What an oligarchy?

B 100

In this type of government the people are the source of power. It can be direct or

representative.

B 200

What is a democracy?

B 200

This form of government is headed by a queen or king.

Most today are Constitutional.

B 300

What is a monarchy?

B 300

This type of government has a leader that usually has one

person in control.

B 400

What is a dictatorship?

B 400

This type of government shares power between the

national and local governments.

B 500

What is a federal government?

B 500

This Enlightenment thinker felt man was basically greedy

and evil.

C 100

Who is Thomas Hobbes?

C 100

This thinker felt there should be branches with a system of checks and balances to limit

the power of each.

C 200

Who is Montesquieu?

C 200

He believed man had natural rights and government should be

a social contract. (Jefferson copied his ideas)

C 300

Who is Locke?

C 300

DAILY DOUBLE

C 400

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The people give government it’s power. In return it should protect their natural rights. If it doesn’t

the people can replace it.

C 400

What is Social Contract Theory?

C 400

Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau would agree that government should serve and protect this

group.

C 500

Who are the people?

C 500

This document was the first to limit government and establish

the Rule of Law.

D 100

What is the Magna Carta?

D 100

These three rights are part of the Preamble to the Declaration of

Independence.

D 200

What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

D 200

This document made the British Parliament more

powerful than the monarchy. It was signed by William and

Mary.

D 300

What is the English Bill of rights?

D 300

Charles I lost his head because he didn’t follow this document

that guaranteed rights like control of taxation. His son learned and kept his head.

D 400

What the Petition of Right?

D 400

This contains sections that spell out reasons for changing

government.

D 500

What is the Declaration of Independence?

D 500

He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.

E 100

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

E 100

This is the statement of the purpose of the Declaration of

Independence.

E 200

What is the preamble?

E 200

There were several of these listed in the Declaration of Independence to justify the

colonies breaking from England.

E 300

What are complaints or grievances?

E 300

This act was a reaction to the Boston Tea Party and angered the

colonists.

E 400

What are the Intolerable Acts?

E 400

This act made many colonists angry because they didn’t

want to take care of soldiers they didn’t want there. This was a complaint written into

the Declaration. E 500

What is the Quartering Act?

E 500

This was a favorite protest of the colonies against British

Acts. It hurt in the pocketbook.

F 100

What is boycott?

F 100

This act charged a tax on printed paper items such as

cards and newspapers.

F 200

What is the Stamp Act?

F 200

This act taxed paint, paper, glass, and tea.

F 300

What were the Townshend Acts?

F 300

This group decided to have the Declaration of

Independence written?

F 400

What the Second Continental Congress?

F 400

The money England spent on this war led to taxation on the

colonies.

F 500

What is the French and Indian War? Also acceptable the 7

Years War.

F 500

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Government

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These two forms of government are exactly opposite. The first has power in the central government

and the second in the state or local governments.

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What is unitary and confederal?

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