Chapter 2 Section 1

Question 0

What was the main message of the Magna Carta signed in 1215?

Answer 0

No one - not even the King is above the law

Question 1

Describe the agreement between nobles and monarchs in England before the Magna Carta:

Answer 1

The kind gave noblesse and rights and in return the nobles have the King protections and money (taxes)

Question 2

Name England’s legislature:

Answer 2

Parliament

Question 3

Explain England’s “Glorious Revolution” of 1688:

Answer 3

Parliament removed King James from the throne and replaced him with Mary and William. CONSIDERED A PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER

Question 4

Why did parliament write the English bill of rights in 1689?

Answer 4

The rights of parliament and the people

Question 5

List 3 types of American law based on England’s common law:

Answer 5

A. Contracts
B. Property
C. Personal injury

Civil law/ law suits

Question 6

Explain John Locke’s idea of social contract that exists between a government and it’s people:

Answer 6

He believed that people agreed to obey the government as long as that government protected their rights

Question 7

Why did the French writer Baron de Montesquieu believe that government should be divided into 3 branches?

Answer 7

So that no one branch of government should become too powerful (separation of powers)

Question 8

What did the “thinkers” of the enlightenment believe?

Answer 8

1. God had created an orderly universe

2. The laws of the universe could be understood through logic and human reasoning (ex. gravity)

Question 9

What was the most important thing about the Jamestown colony? (1607)

Answer 9

First form of self-government in America and they established a representative legislature called the House of Burgesses

Burgesses are representatives.

Question 10

How was the Mayflower Compact a slightly different form of government?

Answer 10

It was a direct democracy

Question 11

List 3 important facts about the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut:

Answer 11

A. First written constitution in American (formal plan of government)
B. Representative democracy
C. Citizens elected lawmakers, judges, and a governor.

Question 12

How were colonial governments similar?

Answer 12

A. All had a governor (either elected or appointed by a King)
B. Each colony had an elected legislature

Question 13

Why did the colonies begin to “pull away” from Great Britain?

Answer 13

Colonies were getting used to ruling themselves away from Great Britain