Unit 1: Contact to Constitution (1492-1897)

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The basic freedoms all people are born with; according to John Locke they are life, liberty, and property.

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Natural Rights

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What period emphasized reason & science and encouraged questioning the role of government, contributing to the American Revolution?

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Age of Enlightenment

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English Enlightenment Thinker who argued: 1) that all people were born with natural rights; 2) a government gets its power to rule from the people (popular sovereignty); and 3) the main role of government is protect people's natural rights, and if it will not or cannot the people can change it.

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John Locke

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Beginning in May 1787 and lasting until September of that year, 55 men--who were led by James Madison--met in Philadelphia and participated in the Constitutional Convention in an initial effort to:

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Revise the Articles of Confederation

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In an effort to help it make decisions (like raising money to fight an ongoing revolutionary war against the British), the Continental Congress formed a national government in 1777 under this document, which was the first attempt at self-government by the 13 American colonies.

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Articles of Confederation

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What led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787? Options: the continued practice of slavery, the threat of war with France, frustration over the Articles of Confederation, an agreement with Native Americans

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frustration over the Articles of Confederation

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_____________ is having both the national government and the state government with shared power.

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federalism

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Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

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reason and logic

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Social contract is best described as

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When people agree to obey the government as long as it protects their rights

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The main cause for many of the rules in the Articles of Confederation was that the delegates at the Continental Congress...

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were concerned about giving the central government too much power because the King had used his power unfairly.