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8th grade · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 10

Founding Ideas

Rome, Athens, the Enlightenment and 1787

What your child practices

Ideas the Founders drew from Greece and Rome, the Enlightenment and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, why the Articles of Confederation failed, and the compromises and debates of the Constitution.

Oregon State Standards learning standard: 8.C.PI.1; 8.C.PI.2; 8.C.PI.3 · the influence of Greece, Rome, the Enlightenment and Native American political ideas, and the move from the Articles to the Constitution

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    John Locke's idea of natural rights shaped which document?

    • the Declaration of Independence
    • the Articles of Confederation
    • the Treaty of Paris

  2. Question 2

    Changing the Articles of Confederation required…

    • a simple majority
    • the king's approval
    • all 13 states to agree

  3. Question 3

    Benjamin Franklin pointed to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy as an example of…

    • a colony of Britain
    • a union of nations working together
    • a monarchy

  4. Question 4

    The Federalist Papers were written to…

    • end slavery
    • persuade people to ratify the Constitution
    • start the Revolution

  5. Question 5

    In 1988, Congress passed a resolution recognizing the influence on the Constitution of…

    • the Aztec Empire
    • the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
    • the Mongol Empire

  6. Question 6

    Roman ideas of civic virtue meant citizens should…

    • obey a pharaoh
    • avoid public life
    • put the common good before their own interests

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