social 12- chapter 2

Question 1

What other parts of the world influenced US government?

Answer 1

French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedes, English, Romans

Question 2

English brought what 3 forms of government?

Answer 2

ordered, limited, and representative

Question 3

Ordered Government

Answer 3

orderly regulation of their relationships with one another

Question 4

Limited Government

Answer 4

the idea that government is restricted in what it may do, and every individual has certain rights that the government can’t take away

Question 5

Representative Government

Answer 5

Idea that government should serve the will of the people.

Question 6

Magna Carta

Answer 6

King John… the great charter. included guarentees of such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of law. Linited the monarchy’s power.

Question 7

Petition of Right

Answer 7

Charles I…. limited the kings power. demanded that the king no longer imprison or otherwise punish any person but by judgement by peers or law of land. also insisted that the king may not impose martial law, or military rule.

Question 8

English Bill of Rights

Answer 8

James II… William and Mary… Glorious Revolution… prohibited a standing army in peacetime. except with the consent of parliament, and required that all parliamentary elections be free.

Question 9

Due Process

Answer 9

protection against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty, or property.

Question 10

First English Colony and Settlement? Last?

Answer 10

First: Colony: Virginia Settlement: Jamestown
Last: Colony: Georgia Settlement: Savannah

Question 11

Charter

Answer 11

a written grant of authority from the king

Question 12

Royal Colonies

Answer 12

(majority) were subject to the direct control of the crown.

Question 13

Bicameral

Answer 13

two house legisature

Question 14

Proprietary Colonies

Answer 14

,king gives someone land and they are in charge of that land (maryland, pennsylvania, and delaware)

Question 15

unicameral

Answer 15

consists of only one house

Question 16

Charter Colonies

Answer 16

Largely self governing (conneticut and rhode island)

Question 17

What was the relationship between Britain and the colonies like in the min 1700s, and how did it change in the 1760s?

Answer 17

The relationship was good. Colonies were allowed a wide amount of self rule. but in 1970s britain started to deal more firmly with its colonies. started changing because king george III came to throne.

Question 18

Albany Plan? Who proposed it?

Answer 18

annual congress of delegates (representatives) from each of the 13 colonies. they would have the power to raise militart and naval forces, make war and peace with the native americans, regulate trade with them, tax, and collect customs duties. Ben Franklin.

Question 19

Boycott

Answer 19

refusing to use or but british made goods

Question 20

What was the importance of the Second Continental Congress?

Answer 20

Served as the first government of the united states for 5years from he adoption of the declaration of independence until the articles of confederation went into effect.

Question 21

What was the Declaration of Independence

Answer 21

a proclamation of independence proposed by Richard Henry Lee

Question 22

What common features did state constitutions have in common?

Answer 22

• popular sovereignty
• limited government
• civil rights and liberties
• separation of powers/ and checks and balances

Question 23

popular sovereignty

Answer 23

a government that exists only with the consent of the governed

Question 24

Articles of Confederation

Answer 24

established a firm league of friendship among the states. Each state kept its sovereignty, freedom, and independence

Question 25

ratification

Answer 25

formal approval

Question 26

Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

Answer 26

1. only one vote for each state, regardless of size
2. no executive power to enforce acts of congress
3. Amendments require the consent of all states
4. a 9/13 majority required to pass laws
5. only a “firm league of friendship” among states

Question 27

What was taking place at the Pliladelphia Convention?

Answer 27

(constitutional convention) began as an assembly to revise the existing articles of condeferation but soon evolved into a meeting to create an entirely new kind of government for the united states

Question 28

framers

Answer 28

the delagates who attended the philadelphia convention. framers of the constitution.

Question 29

Virginia Plan

Answer 29

called for a new government with 3 seperate branches: legislative, executive and judicial. this legislature would be bicameral. The members of the lower house, the house of representatives, were to be popularly elected in each state. those of the upper house, the senate, were to be chosen by the house from lists of persons nominated by the state legislatures. Also provided that all state officers should take an oath to support the union and that each state be guarenteed a republican form of government.

Question 30

New Jersey Plan

Answer 30

retained the unicameral congress of the confederation, with each of the states equally represented. The plan would add closely limited powers to tax and regulate trade between states.

Question 31

The Connecticut Compromise

Answer 31

It was agreed that congress should be composed of two houyses. in the smaller senate, the states would be represented equally. in the house, the representation of each state would be based on population. Dispute was dissolved.

Question 32

Three-Fifths Compromise

Answer 32

(representation) provided that all “free persons” should be counted, and so, too, should “three fifths of all other persons.” others were slaves.

Question 33

Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise

Answer 33

congress was forbidden the power to tax the export of goods from any state. Commerse control slaves and exporting.

Question 34

Federalists

Answer 34

favored ratification

Question 35

anti-federalists

Answer 35

opposed ratification

Question 36

the lack on one major feature of the proposed constitution drew the heaviest fire, what was that feature?

Answer 36

a bill of rights