First Quiz: Hobbes, Locke, and Founding Fathers Flashcards
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Jefferson
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- Author of Dec. of Independence
- Wrote that all men are created equal, but owned slaves
- fathered two children with slave
2
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Franklin
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- died from STD
- lived in France and often interacted with king
- got king of France to lend $16 million and troops to help win revolution
- son was a loyalist and a governor during revolution
- “first American”- born here, self-made
- came up with fire department and public library system
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Adams
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- bossy but very loyal and well educated
- wrote Mass. constitution
- wife was pretty powerful in politics, especially with Jefferson
- First VP, second President
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Madison
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- father of Constitution and Bill of Rights
- had private princeton education
- only President to lead troops (out of D.C., 1812)
- his wife, Dolly, saved George Washington portrait from burning White House
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Washington
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- commanding general of continental army
- not from ‘elite’ family
- was first a British soldier, but born in America
- married the wealthy Martha
- Robert E. Lee is great nephew
- Defeated a world power! but did absolutely nothing after he won
- set many precedents
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Hamilton
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- born in Caribbean
- very poor, unlike most other founders
- died in a dual vs. VP
- saw Washington as a father figure
- first secretary of treasury, and many of his policies are still in place
- very intelligent
7
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Committee of 5 that signed Dec. of Independence
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- Thomas Jefferson (VA)
- Phillip Livingston (NY)
- Roger Sherman (CT)
- John Adams (MA)
- Ben Franklin (PA)
8
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Sequence of events leading to revolution
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- Thomas Hobbes, “State of Nature”
- John Locke, “Natural Rights of Man”
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Social Contract”
- French and Indian War
- Sugar Act, Quartering Act, Stamp Act (1764)
- Boston Massacre, (1770)
- Boston Tea Party (1773) and Coercive Acts
- First Continental Congress (1774)
- Second Continental Congress (1775)
