Midterm Study Guide, 2014

American Founding

Two of these will appear as options on the midterm examination this coming Friday.  You will answer (your choice) one of the two offered.  Enjoy studying!

• Using the Cato Letters assigned and Cato: A Tragedy as the basis of your evidence, explain the ideas of the Commonwealth Men.
• Define the nature and importance of republican thought and theory for the period leading up to the writing Declaration of Independence.
• Explain the Protestant nature of the American character leading up to the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
• Define Common Law rights as well as Natural Rights as understood by Americans in the period leading up to the writing of the Declaration of Independence.