1.2 Founding Ideas

This is the idea that government power must not be unlimited.

• Self Government

• Limited Government

• A Monarchy

• An Autocracy

This is the idea that people should be able to believe what they want or choose not to believe.

• Freedom of Speech

• Freedom of the Press

• Freedom of Religion

• Freedom from Cruel Punishment

This is the idea that everyone should be treated fairly under and before the law?

• Natural Rights

• Freedom of Conscience

• Freedom to Prosecute

• Due Process

This is a type of government based on a set of laws and not based on the decisions of men?

• Limited Government

• Rule of Kings

• Rule of Law

• Anarchy

This means that people are basically "politically equal", even though we are all very different and in many ways, unequal. At least in this sense, we are equal?

• Equality of Thought

• Equality of Work

• Equality of Mankind

• Equality of Religion

One of the problems in the "old world" that American colonists did not like was?

• Too much freedom

• No freedom of thought

• No freedom to live

• No freedom to work

The people of the colonies were English and so they had English rights, but why were they getting so upset with England?

• Because the English Government would not allow them to trade with France!

• Because the English Government denied them their rights!

• Because the English Government made an agreement with France to tax the colonists!

• Because the English Government refused to allow colonists to return to England.

One of the main reasons why the English Government decided to make things harder for people in the colonies was?

• The Government had to pay off massive debt, so it had to raise taxes.

• The Government disliked the colonists and decided to make life harder for no reason.

• The Government heard there were troublemakers in the colonies and decided to punish them all.

• The Government worried that the American colonies were considering joining Canada.

One of the main reasons that the colonies eventually decided to break away from England?

• Because England would not allow the colonies representation in parliament.

• Because England would not allow the colonists to say and think whatever they wanted.

• Because England took away the right of colonists to produce their own goods.

• Because England forced the colonies to buy only English made goods.

Why were rights so important to the colonists?

• Because they felt they were better than people in England.

• Because they always had rights and did not want to lose them.

• Because French colonies allowed their people rights.

• Because the colonists wanted to build their own goods to sell in the colonies.