Unit 3

Question 1

What are Natural Rights?

Answer 1

The Rights people are born with and not granted or denied by a government.

Question 2

What is the reason for the separation of powers?

Answer 2

So, one branch of government shall not acquire too much power.

Question 3

What is a social contract?

Answer 3

The agreement with people to form and obey a government.

Question 4

What did King James II want in 1686?

Answer 4

More control of the American Colonies.

Question 5

Who took away colonies rights to govern themselves?

Answer 5

King James II

Question 6

How was King James II overthrown?

Answer 6

He was overthrown peacefully.

Question 7

Why is the Glorious Revolution called the Glorious Revolution?

Answer 7

Because of how peaceful it was.

Question 8

What led to the New Dominion of England?

Answer 8

The Glorious Revolution

Question 9

Who did the English Bill of Rights limit the power of?

Answer 9

Monarchs

Question 10

What made the Parliament the main ruling body in England?

Answer 10

The Glorious Revolution

Question 11

Who was John Locke?

Answer 11

An English Philospher

Question 12

What did John Locke believe everyone was born with?

Answer 12

Individual Rights

Question 13

What did Mary Wollstonecraft believe women should have?

Answer 13

Political and Economical Equality

Question 14

Who was Jean-Hacques Rousseau?

Answer 14

French Philospher

Question 15

What ideas did Rousseau promote?

Answer 15

Democracy and Representative Government

Question 16

Who was Baron de Montesquieu?

Answer 16

French Enlightenment Thinker

Question 17

What does the Legislative branch do?

Question 18

What does the Legislative Branch Do?

Answer 18

Makes the Laws

Question 19

Who was Jean-Hacques Rousseau?

Answer 19

French Philospher

Question 20

Who was John Locke?

Answer 20

English Philospher

Question 21

What led to the New Dominion of England?

Answer 21

The Glorious Revolution

Question 22

What did Locke believe everyone was born with?

Answer 22

Individual Rights

Question 23

Who was Baron de Montesquieu?

Answer 23

French Enlightenment Thinker

Question 24

Who was Francois-Marie Arouet?

Answer 24

French Philospher

Question 25

What did Arouet argue in favor of?

Answer 25

Religious Tolerance

Question 26

Who did the Iroquois Confederacy ally with?

Answer 26

Britain

Question 27

After what defeat did the British officially declare war?

Answer 27

The Attack on Fort Duquesne

Question 28

What plan did Benjamin Franklin propose?

Answer 28

The Albany Plan

Question 29

Who would be the colonial government in the Albany Plan?

Answer 29

Grand Council

Question 31

Who would be the British government in the Albany Plan?

Answer 31

President General

Question 32

Why did the Colonies reject the Albany plan?

Answer 32

They feared losing power, independence, and territory.

Question 33

Why did the British resist the Albany plan?

Answer 33

They felt uneasy over the idea of colonial unity and believed that colonial needs were being met.