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Chapter 2 Government

Question	Answer
Need orderly regulation of relationships	Ordered Government
Government should not be all-powerfull	Limited Government
Government should serve the will of the people	Representative Government
How did the Magna Carta affect English government?	Limited government fundamental rights of citizens, ect
How did the Petition of Right affect English government?	Limited monarchy, raise power of parliament, and rights of the people
How did the English Bill of Rights affect English government?	Re-defined the rights of parliament and individuals
How ere royal colonies governed?	Controlled by crown, run by appt. governors,advised
How were charter colonies governed?	Governed by the colonists themselves through electory governors, advised by councils
Written grant of authority from the king to establish a colony	Charter
Government that is not all-powerful	Limited Governenment
Consisting of two houses, as in a legislature	Bicameral
Government that serves the will of the people	Representative government
Document written in 1215 limiting the power of the English monarchy	Magna Carta
Consisting of one house, as in a legislature	Unicameral
The shape of American government is based on the English political idea of?	Ordered government, representative government,and limited government
Which of the following limitations on the English King's power was NOT included in the Petition of Right of 1628?	The king could not allow his child to follow him to the throne
What three limitations were included for the English King's power in the Petition of Right of 1628?	The king could not imprison critics without trial by jury, the king could not declare martial law in peacetime, and the king could not require people to shelter troops without a home owner's consent.
Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware were?	Proprietary Colonies
What was a characteristic of the royal colonies?	The governors and their councils shared the power to tax and spend.
The colonies were settled for all the following EXCEPT?	To provide a homeland for Native Americans.
Tell why the colonies were settled?	As refuges for victims of England's harsh poor laws, to provide a home for those in search of greater personal and religious freedom, and as commercial ventures
New England Confederation	1643
William Pen Plans for Unity	1696
Albany Plan of Union	1754
Stamp Act Congress	1765
Boston Massacre	1770, March 5
Committees of Correspondence	1772
Boston Tea Party	1773, December 16
Intolerable Acts	1774, Spring
1st Continental Congress	1774, September 5
Lexington Concord	1775, April 19
2nd Continental Congress	1775, May 10
Lee Proposes Independence	1776, June 7
Declaration of Independence	1776, July 2
New State Governments	1776, July 4
Articles of Confederation	1781, March 1
Representatives from each of the 13 colonies	Delegates
Joining of individual states	Confederatoin
Revoke	Repeal
Self-government in the early days of the colonies was made possible by the great distance between North America and England.	True
Colonies immediately accepted Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of the Union.	False
The 13 colonies, although fiercely independent, sometimes experimented with plans of union.	True
The colonist's unhappiness with taxation without representation, expressed in the Declaration of Rights, came as a surprise to the British King.	False
The Intolerable Acts prompted colonists to call the First Continental Congress.	True
Which of the following serves as the first National Government of the U.S.?	Second Continental Congress
Which of the following was NOT an example of early colonial attempts at unity?	The French and Indian War
Which of the following is NOT one of the "self-evident" truths listed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence?	The right to govern derives from God's law.
Which of the following defines the principle of popular sovereignty?	Government exists and functions only when the consent of the governed; people hold political power.
A common feature of the first State constitutions was that?	State governors were given little real power.
List the 10 Congressional Powers Under the Articles of Confederation.	Make War & peace, send & receive ambassadors, make treaties, borrow money, set up monetary system, establish poet offices, build a navy, ask states for troops for an army, fix uniform weights & measures, and settled disputes between states
What obligations did States have to one another?	Had to go by the same thing
What obligations did States have to citizens?	Treat them equally
What powers did Congress not have?	Lay and collect taxes or duties, regulate foreign and interstate commerce
What government action took place in response to Shay's Rebellion?	No federal response
Formal Approval	Ratification
Run the meeting	Presiding officer
Every one of the 13 states had to ratify the Articles of Confederation before it became effective.	True
The Articles set up three branches of government	False
After the Revolutionary War came a 10-year period of domestic harmony.	False
Economic issues first motivated Americans to get together to discuss the effectiveness of the Articles of Confederation.	True
As far as Congress was concerned, the main purpose for the 1787 convention in Philadelphia was to revise the Articles of Confederation.	True
Which of the following was a power given to Congress by the Articles of Confederation?	The power to appoint a presiding officer
The main reason that no amendments were ever added to the Articles of Confederation was that?	Amendments needed the consent of all 13 State legislatures
Which of the following was NOT a reason for changing the Articles of Confederation in the mid-1780s?	The Articles allowed slavery to continue
Delegates met at Annapolis to?	Recommend a federal plan for regulating commerce
The main concern of the rebels who carried out Shay's Rebellion was to protest?	The loss of their properties to tax collectors
Three branches of governmental, bicameral legislature, "National Executive" and "National Judiciary"	Virginia Plan
Type of state that benefited from the Virginia Plan?	Big States
Unicameral congress, equal representation of states of different sizes, more than one federal executive	New Jersey Plan
Type of state that benefited from the New Jersey Plan?	Small States
Delegates agreed on a bicameral congress, one segment with equal representation for states, and the other with other representation proportionate to the states population	Connecticut Compromise
Type of state that benefited from the Connecticut Compromise?	Big States
The farmers decided to count a slave as 3/5th's of a person when determining the population of a state.	Three-Fifths Compromise
Type of state that benefited from the Three-fifths Compromise?	Southern States
Congress was forbidden from taxing exported goods, and was not allowed to act on the slave trade for 20 years.	Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
Type of state that benefited from the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?	Southern States
Name a group whose interests seem to have been ignored, or even harmed, by the compromises that created the Constitution.	Women
55 builders of constitution	Framers
A plan to satisfy Southern fears that the federal Government might be funded through export duties	Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
Madison's plan for a National Government with greatly expanded powers	Virginia Plan
A combination of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans	Connecticut Compromise
A plan to satisfy Southerners' desire to inflate the population count of their States	Three-Fifths Compromise
Paterson's plan for a National Government, which greatly resembled the Articles of Confederation	New Jersey Plan
Why were Thomas Jefferson and John Adams not as the Constitutional Convention?	They were serving the United States abroad as ambassadors
Although the Constitution is often called a "bundle of compromises," nearly all the delegates were dedicated to the concept of?	Popular Sovereignty, Separation of powers, and Checks & balances
To whom did the Three-Fifths Compromise refer?	Enslaved people
Which of the following was NOT a major source of ideas for the Constitution?	Spanish colonial law
Which of the following summarizes Benjamin Franklin's judgment of the outcome of the Constitutional Convention?	The constitution was imperfect, but none better could be framed
For the ratification, thought articles of confederation were weak	Federalists
Opposed the ratification	Anti-Federalists
What were the five issues involved in the ratification debate?	Strength of the National government, ratification process itself, absence of the mention of God, denial to states of the right to print money, and lock of Bill of Rights
On what two States did the success or failure of ratification depend?	Virginia and New York
Where was the first national capital located?	New York
New nations president?	Washington
New nations vice president?	Adams
Was James Madison a Federalist or Anti-Federalist?	Federalist
Was Patrick Henry a Federalist or Anti- Federalist?	Anti-Federalist
Was Alexander Hamilton a Federalist or Anti- Federalist?	Federalist
Seven states were needed to ratify the Constitution	False
The absence of a bill of rights was cause for many people to oppose ratification of the constitution	True
Most opponents of ratification believed the new Constitution gave too little power to the National Government	False
A quorum is a majority	True
The votes in Virginia and New York brought the number of ratifying states to nine, the number that the constitution required for it to go into effect	False
Which of the following was NOT an objection to the new Constitution?	The Constitution did not incorporate principles of national law
Why was ratification of the Constitution crucial in Virginia and New York?	They were two of the largest, most populous states, so without them the government would probably not succeed.
What was the significance of the Federalist?	It was a convincing commentary on the meaning of the Constitution
Which of the following are rights the Constitution explicitly guaranteed during the ratification process?	None of the above
Why were Anti-Federalists so powerful during the ratification process?	Many of their leaders had also led during the Revolutionary War.

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