Unit 5: Path to Democracy

Which Enlightenment Thinker was responsible for the concept of the Natural Rights?

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Ms. Duhigg

• Thomas Jefferson

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• Alexander Hamilton

• George Washington

Which event came first?

• The Stamp Act

• The Boston Tea Party

• Lexington and Concord

• The Boston Massacre

What war lead to the establishment of the Stamp Act and the Intolerable Acts?

• The Revolutionary War

• World War 1

• The French and Indian War

• The Civil War

A boycott is when people will stop buying goods in protest.

• True

• False

What document addressed colonial concerns about English policies?

• Bill of Rights

• The Constitution

• The Grievance Letters

• The Declaration of Independence

Parliament would eventually repeal the Stamp Act due to the colonists protests through boycotting. 

• True

• False

Self-Government is government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.

• True

• False

The principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to the law.

• Rule of Law

• Natural Rights

• Social Contract

• Representative Democracy

What is the correct timeline?

• Boston Massacre -> Boston Tea Party -> Intolerable Acts

• Intolerable Acts -> Boston Tea Party -> Boston Massacre

• Declaration of Independence -> 1st Continental Congress -> 2nd Continental Congress