Foundational Documents

True or false~ Fundamental principles define and shape American Constitutional government?

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

In a democratic system of government______________

• the king rules
• the government rules
• no one rules
• the people rule

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In which of the Founding Documents would you find a long list of grievances (complaints) against King George III and Britain?

• The Bill of Rights
• The Constitution
• The Federalist Papers
• The Declaration of Independence

Your Natural Rights are:

• right to bear arms
• freedom of speech, assembly and religion
• right to revolt
• right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness or property

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What document allowed the colonists to break away from England?

• Declaration of Independence
• U.S. Constitution
• Articles of Confederation

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Why did the colonists want to break away from England?

• more money
• freedom to govern themselves
• more land

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The colonists used ideas from what time period to help write the DOI?

• Enlightenment
• Reconstruction
• Industrial Revolution

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What is the role of the government under the "social contract?"

• Protect the people and their rights
• Take away their rights and freedoms
• Force the people to live under a monarchy
• Give them to freedom to leave

If the people believed that the government was not protecting them..what could they do?

• Stay and remain under the rule
• Stage a revolution to overthrown the government
• Elect a new leader

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

This document, authored by Thomas Jefferson, suggested the colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America.

• The Constitution of the United States
• The Articles of Confederation
• The Supremacy Clause
• The Declaration of Independence

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9