Civics Unit 2 Review 2 - Foundations of America

How are the Enlightenment ideas that influenced the Founding Fathers reflected in modern institutions?

• Colonies have been re-established to preserve popular sovereignty.

• Oligarchies have increased to safeguard natural rights.

• The United Nations promotes universal human rights

• The European Union encourages economic stability.

What are natural rights?

• agreements among people relating to their government

• freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and property

• ideas about freedom that were first discussed in the American colonies

• rights reserved only for monarchs

Enlightenment thinker John Locke believed that governments should

• become republics.

• cease to exist.

• serve the people.

• strengthen the monarchy.

The ideas of the Enlightenment period shaped the...

• city-state of Athens.

• Declaration of Independence.

• Magna Carta.

• Roman republic.

What were the Writs of Assistance?

• Search warrants that allowed customs officials to search the colonial ships

• Rap Cd's

• Papers that they passed out

• Big ships that carried messages

What did the Stamp Act tax?

• legal documents
• inns
• farm animals
• imports

Which series of Acts punished the town of Boston for the Boston Tea Party

• Intolerable Acts

• Quartering Acts

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

Which group asked for the repeal of the Intolerable Acts?

• First Continental Congress

• Committees of Correspondence

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

"No taxation without representation" means?

• Colonists shouldn't be taxed if they had no one representing them in Parliament

• The representative can tax me

• Seize weapons right away

• None of the above

______ were a group of men who boycotted British goods both peacefully and violently.

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• First Continental Congress

• Tax collectors