AP Exam ch 1

Question 1

Government in which citizens vote in laws and select officials directly

Answer 1

Direct democracy

Question 2

Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws (a republic)

Answer 2

Representative democracy

Question 3

A government that enforces recognized limits on those who govern and allows the voice of the people to be heard through free, fair, and relatively frequent elections

Answer 3

Constitutional democracy

Question 4

The set of arrangements, including checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, rule of law, due process, and a bill of rights, that requires our leaders to listen, think, bargain and explain before they act or make laws

Answer 4

Constitutionalism

Question 5

The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the right if the individuals who make up the nation

Answer 5

Statism

Question 6

The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs

Answer 6

Popular consent

Question 7

Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority

Answer 7

Majority rule

Question 8

The candidate or party that wins more than half the voters cast in an election

Answer 8

Majority

Question 9

Candidate or party with the most vote cast in an election, not necessarily more than half

Answer 9

Plurality

Question 10

Government by religious leaders, who claim divine guidance

Answer 10

Theocracy

Question 11

The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in ?, ratified in ?, and replaced by the present Constitution in ?

Answer 11

1777, 1781, 1789

Articles of Confederation

Question 12

A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation, attended by 5 states
-important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention

Answer 12

Annapolis Convention

Question 13

The convention in Philadelphia, May 25-Sept. 17, 1787

-debated and agree upon the Constitution of the Unite States

Answer 13

Constitutional Convention

Question 14

Rebellion of farms in western Mass. From 1786-1787
-protested mortgage foreclosures, highlighted the need for a strong national government that coincided with the call for the Constitutional convention

Answer 14

Shays’s Rebellion

Question 15

The principle of a two house legislature

Answer 15

Bicameralism

Question 16

Initial proposal of the Const. convention that favored large states in the bicameral legislature, and was for a strong central government

Answer 16

Virginia Plan

Question 17

Proposal of Paterson for a central government with a single house legislature in which each state would be represented equally (favored small states)

Answer 17

New Jersey Plan

Question 18

Compromise agreement for bicameral legislature with a lower house in which representation would be based on population (VA plan) and upper house in which each state would have two senators (NJ plan)

Answer 18

Connecticut compromise

Question 19

Compromise between northern and southern states at convention that 3/5 of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives

Answer 19

3/5 Compromise

Question 20

Supported the ratification of the Constitution and of a stronger central government

Answer 20

Federalists

Question 21

Opponents of the ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government

Answer 21

Antifederalists

Question 22

Essays promoting the ratification of the Constitution

Published anonymously by Hamilton, Jay, and Madison in 1787 and 1788

Answer 22

“The Federalist”

Question 23

Government by the people, both directly or indirectly, with free and frequent elections

Answer 23

Democracy