Ch 1/2

Question 1

what are the 3 branches?

Answer 1

Legislative, Judicial, Executive

Question 2

what is the legislative (congress) branch?

Answer 2

makes the laws

Question 3

what is the judicial (judges) branch?

Answer 3

interprets the laws

Question 4

what is the executive (president/vice president) branch?

Answer 4

executes the laws

Question 5

what are the 4 political ideas?

Answer 5

force, evolutionary, divine right, and social contract theory

Question 6

force theory?

Answer 6

1 person or group that has control over a area

Question 7

evolutionary theory?

Answer 7

gov developed naturally

Question 8

divine right theory?

Answer 8

God created the state and gave birth to a “divine right” to rule

Question 9

social contract theory?

Answer 9

people give state as much power

Question 10

5 american concepts?

Answer 10

worth of the individual, equality of all persons, majority rule/minority rights, necessity of compromise, and individual freedom

Question 11

purpose of the government?

Answer 11

insure, promote, and secure for a perfect union

Question 12

established justice?

Answer 12

law must be reasonable, fair, and impartial

Question 13

insure domestic tranquility?

Answer 13

peace at home

Question 14

provide common defense?

Answer 14

security for the US

Question 15

promote general welfare?

Answer 15

provided by the gov to benefit most people

Question 16

secure blessings of liberty?

Answer 16

protection of individual rights

Question 17

authoritarian?

Answer 17

obey the leaders

Question 18

autocracy?

Answer 18

1 person rules

Question 19

dictatorship?

Answer 19

formed by group or individual

Question 20

totalitarian?

Answer 20

forms social and economic goals

Question 21

political values?

Answer 21

culture, liberty, equality, property

Question 22

virginia?

Answer 22

1607 jamestown

Question 23

massachusetts?

Answer 23

1620 plymouth

Question 24

charter colonies?

Answer 24

connecticut and rhode island

Question 25

proclamation of 1763?

Answer 25

no colonists past the appalachian mountains

Question 26

sugar act?

Answer 26

high tax on sugar

Question 27

quartering acts?

Answer 27

soldiers lived with colonists

Question 28

stamp act?

Answer 28

tax on all public documents, newspapers, and playing cards

Question 29

tea act boston tea party?

Answer 29

only buy east indian tea 12/16/1773- sons of libery threw out all the tea into the harbor

Question 30

intolerable acts?

Answer 30

boston port act, massachusetts government act, administration of justice act, quartering act, quebec act

Question 31

continental congress?

Answer 31

1774- non importation policy of british goods 1775- turn into the continental army led by washington

Question 32

annapolis convention?

Answer 32

1786- 12 delegates from 5 different states

Question 33

constitutional convention?

Answer 33

1787- formed the government we use today

Question 34

virginia plan?

Answer 34

virginia, massachusetts, pennsylvania, and new york had a larger government share

Question 35

new jersey plan?

Answer 35

rhode island, deleware, and new jersey had the same status as the large sates

Question 36

great compromise?

Answer 36

2-house legislatute

Question 37

3/5ths compromise?

Answer 37

north- slaves were tax not representation south- slaves were representation not tax 3/5 of slaves were both