founding documents

Question 1

No one is above the law
Earliest document to place limits on King(what document)

Answer 1

Magna Carta
1215

Question 2

Earliest social contract
First attempt at forming a government(what document8

Answer 2

Mayflower
Compact
1620

Question 3

Rights for individuals
Right to petition king(document

Answer 3

English Bill of
Rights
1689

Question 4

Social Contract influenced founders
Natural Rights, Right to Rebel.(document

Answer 4

Locke’s Two
Treatises of
Government
1689

Question 5

One of many taxes imposed by British to collect for war debt.
“no taxation without representation!”

Answer 5

Stamp Act
1765

Question 6

Influential in convincing colonists to declare independence -
Most effective piece of propaganda for the colonial cause
Written by Thomas Paine

Answer 6

Common Sense
1776

Question 7

statement of independence from Great Britain.
Written by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman
and Robert Livingston
Heavily Influenced by Locke; “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Answer 7

Declaration of
Independence
1776

Question 8

Loose agreement among states with most of the power
remaining with the states
Had many weaknesses causing founders to call for the
Constitutional Convention

Answer 8

Articles of
Confederation
1777-1788

Question 9

Second attempt at government (current governing document)
Established a Federal system where central and state
governments share power

Answer 9

U.S.
Constitution
1787

Question 10

essays written to argue for the ratification of the Constitution
Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
under the name “Publius”

Answer 10

Federalist
Papers -
1787

Question 11

First ten amendments of the Constitution - protect basic
individual rights from gov interreference
Anti-Federalists argued for their inclusion

Answer 11

Bill of Rights
1791

Question 12

Attributed to Benjamin
Franklin
* Published originally in 1754
to encourage unity among
the colonies to join the
British in the French and
Indian War
* Later became a symbol of
unity to rally the colonies to
band together and fight
against the British in the
Revolutionary War

Answer 12

“Join, or Die”

Question 13

Ended WWI;
Example of checks and balances
Senate did not ratify the treaty, which meant the U.S. would not be part of the League of
Nations that President Wilson had helped negotiate

Answer 13

Treaty of
Versailles
1919

Question 14

Banned discrimination in public accommodations, education,
and employment
Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 14

The Civil
Rights Act
1964

Question 15

Banned discrimination in voting (i.e. literacy or understanding
tests)
Resulted in a massive increase in Black voter registration in the
South.

Answer 15

The Voting
Rights Act
1965

Question 16

Bans discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex
familial status, national origin and disability in housing

Answer 16

Fair
Housing Act
1968