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Founding Principles
Founding Fathers
Alexis de
Tocqueville
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3. 10 Point Question “All Men Are Created Equal”
This Founding Principle allowed the passage of Suffrage Amendments and Civil Rights Acts.
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4. This Principle is protected in the Bill of Rights.
Individual Rights
This Principle is protected in the Bill of Rights.
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5. This Principle prevents the government from getting too powerful.
Limited Government
This Principle prevents the government from getting too powerful.
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6. This Principle helped create the three branches of our government.
Balance of Power
This Principle helped create the three branches of our government.
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7. He was a physician, writer, educator, and created the U.S. Mint.
Benjamin Rush
He was a physician, writer, educator, and created the U.S. Mint.
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8. John Hancock
Representative from Massachusetts, President of the Continental Congress, first to sign the Declaration of Independence.
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9. 30 Point Question John Jay
He was an important member of the Continental Congress, helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution.
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10. 40 Point Question John Witherspoon
He was an active clergyman, signed the Declaration of Independence, became President of Princeton University.
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11. 10 Point Question Liberty
This value is crucial to America’s success, states that individuals are free to pursue their own work.
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12. 20 Point Question Egalitarianism
This value crucial to America’s success, states there is no class distinction, that every man has the same opportunity to succeed or fail.
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13. Individualism
This value crucial to America’s success, states hard work and labor are considered key to becoming successful.
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14. Populism
This value crucial to America’s success, states that all individuals are allowed an opinion and are able to voice it.
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15. American Values
According to Alexis de Tocqueville, these values reinforce and reward the spirit of hard work and money-making vs. other nations’ ideology of heredity and that a person is destined to remain in one social group.
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16. Laissez-Faire
Hard work and money-making leads to success and the government does not interfere, defines this value described by Alexis de Tocqueville.
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17. The Constitution and Bill of Rights
According to most U.S. citizens, the belief in these two documents bonds Americans together and gives the hope of liberty and a better future for themselves and their children.
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18. 40 Point Question John Peter Muhlenberg
This Founding Father was a clergy, an American Revolutionary War soldier, elected to the first U.S. Congress.
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19. This Latin term that means “Out of many, one”
E Pluribus Unum
This Latin term that means “Out of many, one”
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20. 20 Point Question In God We Trust
Even though this motto appeared on coins dating back to the 1860s, it became official until the 1950’s.
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21. 30 Point Question E Pluribus Unum
This motto symbolized the 13 original States uniting together to form one compact and represented body.
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22. 40 Point Question In God We Trust
This motto was made official in response to communism’s intolerance to religious freedom.
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23. Final Jeopardy Question
This motto was never made official, but is generally accepted as a de facto motto.
E Pluribus Unum