Chapter 2

Question 0

Chosen as commander of continental army

Answer 0

George Washington

Question 1

Led rebellion of 1200 farmers in Massachusetts

Answer 1

Daniel Shays

Question 2

Came up with the Albany Plan of Union

Answer 2

Ben Franklin

Question 3

English king during the Revolutionary war

Answer 3

George III

Question 4

Father of the constitution

Answer 4

James Madison

Question 5

King that signed the Magna Carta in 1215

Answer 5

King John

Question 6

Wrote the widely read pamphlet Common Sense

Answer 6

Thomas Paine

Question 7

Wrote the famous book Two Treatises of Government

Answer 7

John Locke

Question 8

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

Answer 8

Thomas Jefferson

Question 9

2nd permanent colony in the New World

Answer 9

Plymouth

Question 10

All were rights the English won from the English Bill of Rights in 1689 except for

Answer 10

People have the right to a hearing to hear the charges against them

Question 11

All are true about the Magna Carta except for

Answer 11

It was made in 1454

Question 12

Which is not one of the natural rights stated in the Two Treatises of Government

Answer 12

Pursuit of happiness

Question 13

Which is not in the English lawmaking body called parliament

Answer 13

House of Burgesses

Question 14

3 parts of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 14

1. Statement of basic rights
2. Complaints about George III
3. Statement that we are independent

Question 15

3 groups of people who couldn’t vote in this chapter

Answer 15

1. Women
2. Slaves
3. People who didn’t own property

Question 16

4 accomplishments of the articles of confederation

Answer 16

1. Set up department of treasury, war, marine, foreign affairs
2. Set up policy for settling lands west of Appalachians so new states would have equal power as older states
3. Peace Treaty of 1783-US got land from Atlantic Ocean to Mississippi River and north to Canada to top of Florida
4. Got states to obey other states’ laws

Question 17

2 things that the colonists agreed to do in the mayflower compact

Answer 17

1. Choose their own leaders

2. Make their own laws

Question 18

4 reasons why some people didn’t like the constitution

Answer 18

1. No bill of rights
2. Extralegal-was supposed to only revise articles
3. Debated in secrecy
4. Gave too much power to national government