Chapter 2 Test

• How many votes were required to pass a law under the Articles of Confederation?


  9 out of the 13
• What was the debate surrounding the ratification of the Constitution?


  It was between federalists who believed in a strong government, and anti-federalists who believed in the state.
• What principle did the Magna Carta establish?


  Limited government
• What is a charter colony?


  the people had to ask the king for permission to create and self-govern a colony.
• What were the key causes of the American Revolution?


  Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, Intolerable Acts, committee of correspondent, rebellions
• What significant rights did the English Bill of Rights guarantee?


  Freedom of speech, the right to petition the king, individual rights, and limited the powers of the monarchy
• What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention in 1787?


  To revise the Articles of Confederation.
• What document asserted rights against arbitrary royal authority?

  Magna Carta
• What was the three-fifths compromise?


  The African Americans would be counted as three-fifths of a person since the northerners didn't think their vote should be counted as one since there were so many of them.
• Who were the delegates of the constitution commonly referred to?

  Founding Fathers or Framers
• What was the Boston Massacre?


  There was a violent confrontation between British soldiers and American colonists in 1770 because the British kept taxing the colonists, so they started to protest, and the British soldiers fired into the crowd, killing five colonists.
• What did the Enlightenment philosophers influence in the American government?


  Separation of powers, individual rights, freedom of speech, natural laws, and checks and balances.
• What type of legislature was established under the Articles of Confederation?


  Unicameral
• Important Landmark Documents:

  Magna Carta (1215): limited government

  Petition of Rights (1628): due process

  English Bill of Rights (1689): king can't raise taxes
• How many delegates were required per state?


  One
• What was the Constitutional Convention?


  A meeting in Philidelphia (1787) to revise the Articles of Confederation
• These individuals are ready to fight in a moments notice?

  Minute Men
• What is an agreement between countries called?

  Treaty
• This individual is considered the Father of the Constitution.


  James Madison
• Name 3 Enlightenment philosophers who influenced the American government, and what was their ideology?

  John Locke - Natural rights

  Montesquieu - checks and balances

  Voltaire - freedom of speech
• The idea that the government is restricted in what they do


  limited government
• Describe the structure of government under the Articles of Confederation?


  it was unicameral and they needed one delegate per state
• government that serves the will of the people


  a representative government
• A refusal to buy or sell certain goods.

  boycott
• Who were the opposing sides in the argument for ratification of the Constitution?

  Federalists and Anti-Federalists
• what does it mean to have one house?

  unicarmeral
• This is a meeting to accomplish certain goals.


  a convention
• Most of the 13 colonies were what type of colonies?


  Royal colonies
• Which group opposed ratification of the constitution?

  Anti-Federalists
• What is the name of the plan of government that was adopted at the Second Continental Congress?


  Articles of Confederation
• 3 features of the New Jersey Plan


  unicarmeral, population,
• What did the first Continental Congress accomplish?


  He petitioned King George that he couldn't raise taxes and boycotted British goods.