Study guide for the mini test – Revolutions & Founding Documents
You might want to review your notes on the changes that took place in England and the American Revolution. Re-read the following; prologue, sections 3 and 4, chapter 5 - section 5, chapter 6 section 1. Also look at your four homework papers from those sections and chapters. If you didn’t do any homework you are at a disadvantage. The following is only a partial list of what may be on the test: Magna Carta o what was it o why important o year Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution o (check notes, homework and re-read prologue, section 4 about them) Stamp Act (what was it – why important) Vocabulary – know these terms, names and phrases (What did they do or why were they important) o James II o Charles I o Parliament o Bill of Rights o habeas corpus o petition of rights o Oliver Cromwell o absolute monarchy o constitutional monarchy o “England’s Bill of Rights” Philosophers – what they believed (Study philosopher chart and prologue, section 4) o Voltaire o John Locke o Montesquieu o Thomas Hobbs o Mary Wollstonecraft o Jean Jacques Rousseau