Chapter 2

Question 1

What is “salutary neglect”?

Answer 1

British government enabled the colonies to develop institutions of self-government and allowed them to considerable economic freedom.

Question 2

What was the Pamphlet War?

Answer 2

colonial protests against restrictions on trade and imposition of taxes (“no taxation without representation”)

Question 3

What was Common Sense?

Answer 3

Tom Paine’s radical pamphlet Common Sense–no compromise, time for revolution is at hand.

Question 4

Who was John Locke?

Answer 4

Political scientists who added state of nature, social contract, natural or unalienable rights (life, liberty, property), right of revolution

Question 5

What was a social contract?

Answer 5

Lockian idea – distrust of authority and of people wielding authoritiy.

Question 6

What are natural rights?

Answer 6

Rights that people supposedly have under natural law. The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness