Qt3 G8 Test Feb 29: Flashcards
What steps did Great Britain take to increase control over its colonies? 2 points.
Great Britain started to have their tax movements which were the Townshend Act and Stamp Act. The British wanted the colonies to pay their taxes because the British were paying everything before, controlled trading, and taxes to pay for the French-Indian War.
List three reasons why did many colonists become dissatisfied with Great Britain’s control over the colonies. 3 points
- no taxation without representation, 2. they thought it was an interference over their own government and economic procedure which had been there over a hundred years 3. Politics, they were threatening to impose new political leaders.
Please list three sources of colonial dissatisfaction.
- The Boston Massacre, 2. The Boston Tea Party, 3. The Coercive act which is divided into parts the first part is where the British blocked and closed the boston harbor, and the second is where the colonists were forced to provide hospitality for soldiers, and lastly No more protesting.
What ideas and/or philosophies about government were expressed in the Declaration of Independence?
- life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, 2. The government was created to protect these rights, 3. If the government doesn’t protect them you have the right and the duty to overthrow the government.
what is Rationalism?
Rationalism: it’s the theory that reason can solve all problems not god religion nor beliefs.
what is Empiricism?
Empiricism: to observe the real world and by observing it and how things work you can get conclusions out of it
what is Progressivism?
Progressivism: it’s the theory that if things are done right you can always progress.
what is Cosmopolitanism?
Cosmopolitanism: it is the idea that you are well informed, inversed, smart, read about certain topics, researched and believe you are different than general population.
