Chapter 2 Review

Question 1

Albany plan of union

Answer 1

The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader (age 48) and a delegate from Pennsylvania,

Question 2

Bicameral

Answer 2

of a legislative body) having two branches or chambers.

Question 3

Charter

Answer 3

a written grant by a country’s legislative or sovereign power, by which a body such as a company, college, or city is founded and its rights and privileges defined.

Question 4

Constitution

Answer 4

a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.

Question 5

Limited government

Answer 5

political philosophy, limited government is where the government is empowered by law from a starting point of having no power, or where governmental power is restricted by law, usually in a written constitution. It is a key concept in the history of liberalism.

Question 6

Petition of right

Answer 6

1628, a statement of civil liberties sent by the English Parliament to Charles I . Refusal by Parliament to finance the king’s unpopular foreign policy had caused his government to exact forced loans and to quarter troops in subjects’ houses as an economy measure.

Question 7

Proprietary

Answer 7

relating to an owner or ownership.

“the company has a proprietary right to the property”

Question 8

Representative government.

Answer 8

Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative government or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.

Question 9

3/5 compromise

Answer 9

compromise was reached during a debate over whether or not slaves should be counted when a state was determining its total number of residents for legislative and tax purposes.

Question 10

Delaware

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Delaware is known as the “First State” because, on December 7, 1787, it became the first state to ratify the Constitution. Delaware’s landscape is mostly a low, flat coastal plain with rich soil.

Question 11

N Carolina

Answer 11

North Carolina History: … In the 1600s permanent settlers from Virginia began to move to North Carolina, and it eventually became part of a British colony known as “Carolina.” Many people believe that in 1775 North Carolina became the first colony to declare independence from Great Britain.

Question 12

Anti federalist

Answer 12

Against constitution

Question 13

Framers

Answer 13

Explore thousands of documents from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. This page was last reviewed on December 14, 2018.Dec 14, 2018

Question 14

Confederation

Answer 14

s called a confederation, allowing each member to govern itself but agreeing to work together for common causes. Perhaps the best-known confederation was the South during the U.S. Civil War.

Question 15

Commerce and slave trade

Answer 15

reached on import and export taxes, and most importantly, the slave trade. It was finalized after heated debates during the drafting of the United States Constitution in 1787. … Hence, the compromise

Question 16

Magna Carta

Answer 16

Definition of Magna Carta. 1 : a charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede. 2 : a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges.

Question 17

Philadelphia convention

Answer 17

The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.

Question 18

Quorum

Answer 18

the minimum number of members of an assembly or society that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings of that meeting valid.

Question 19

Royal

Answer 19

A royal person is a king, queen, or emperor, or a member of their family. … Members of the royal family are sometimes referred to as royals. [informal] The royals have always been patrons of charities pulling in large donations.

Question 20

Unicameral

Answer 20

A unicameral system is a government with one legislative house or chamber. Unicameral is the Latin word that describes a single-house legislative system. Worldwide, as of April 2014, about 59% of national governments were unicameral while about 41% were bicameral.

Question 21

New York

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First temporary capital

Question 22

Shays rebellion.

Answer 22

DescriptionShays’ Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among the citizenry and the state government’s increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades; the fight took place mostly in and around Springfield during 1786 and 1787. Wikipedia

Question 23

Articles of confederation

Answer 23

First try for gover. And weak

Question 24

Connecticut or great compromise

Answer 24

was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States …

Question 25

New Jersey plan

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the New Jersey Plan was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787. The plan was created in response to the Virginia Plan, which called for two houses of Congress, both elected with apportionment according to population