Chapter 2 Test key terms

Question 1

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 1

A plan that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military and other purposes-failed

Question 2

Bicameral

Answer 2

A legislative body having two bodies or chambers

Question 3

Charter

Answer 3

A written grant of authority from the king that gives colonists or companies a grant of land and some governing right but the crown kept a certain amount of power (direct control of the ppl) (least restricted)

Question 4

Constitution

Answer 4

Nations fundamental law or supreme law of the land

Question 5

Limited government

Answer 5

The concept that the government is restricted in what it may do and every individual has certain rights that the government can not take away

Question 6

Petition of rights

Answer 6

The idea that even the monarch (king) must obey the law

Question 7

Proprietary

Answer 7

A person the king gives a grant of land to and that person has complete control of the land

Question 8

Representative Government

Answer 8

The government should serve the will of the ppl and the ppl should have a voice in deciding what the government should and should not do

Question 9

Three- fifths comprise

Answer 9

All “free persons” should be counted and three fifths of all others

Question 10

Delaware

Answer 10

The first state to ratify

Question 11

North Carolina

Answer 11

The second to last state to ratify in 1789

Question 12

Anti-federalist

Answer 12

People who were opposed to the new constitution

Question 13

Commerce and slave compromise

Answer 13

Congress was forbidden from taxing exports and congress could not regulate the slave trade for 20 years

Question 14

Magna Carta

Answer 14

The Magna Carta was signed by King John and it established the principle that the monarchy/Government was not absolute and this is the Cornerstone of the US constitution

Question 15

Bill of Rights

Answer 15

The idea that the ppl had certain rights (free speech, religion etc…)

Question 16

Royal Government

Answer 16

The type of government where the crown had direct control of everything (most restrictive)

Question 17

Second continental congress

Answer 17

This was the first time all the colonies United

Question 18

Unicameral

Answer 18

A one house body with one chamber

Question 19

Confederation

Answer 19

A joining of several groups for a common purpose

Question 20

Popular sovereignty

Answer 20

People are the source of the governments power “we the ppl”

Question 21

Articles of Confederation

Answer 21

The first constitution that was designed to have a weak central government and strong state governments

Question 22

Ratification

Answer 22

Formal approval of a constitution

Question 23

Framers

Answer 23

55 delegates who drafted the United States Constitution

Question 24

Virginia Plan

Answer 24

Plan represented by delegates from Virginia at the Constitutional Convention that called for…

1) 3 branch government
2) bicameral legislature
3) representation was based on population or the amount of money given to the government
4) Executive should be 1 person- president
5) Judicial should be 1 Supreme Court
6) greatly increase the power of the central gov.-unitary

Question 25

New Jersey Plan

Answer 25

A plan presented as an alternative to the Virginia Plan…

1) A 3 branch government-same
2) A unicameral legislature
3) Representation should be equal-one vote per state
4) Executive should be 3 ppl
5) Judicial should be Supreme Court and State courts
6) Limited power should be granted to the central government-federal

Question 26

Connecticut or Great compromise

Answer 26

A compromise to the Virginia and New Jersey plans..

1) 3 branches
2) bicameral legislature
3) representation would be based on population in the lower houses and equal representation in the upper houses
4) Executive would be one person(president)
5) judiciary would be supreme courts and state courts
6) gave co equal powers to the local and central governments-federal

Question 27

Three-Fifths compromise

Answer 27

An agreement at the constitution convention to count a slave as three-fifths of a person when determining the population of a state

Question 28

Commerce and slave compromise

Answer 28

Congress was forbidden the power to tax the exports goods from any state and they couldn’t touch the slave trade for 20 years

Question 29

Federalists

Answer 29

Those who supported the ratification of the constitution

Question 30

Anti-Federalists

Answer 30

The ppl who opposed the ratification of the constitution

Question 31

Quorum

Answer 31

Majority- the least number of ppl who must be present for a legislative body to conduct business

Question 32

Second continental congress

Answer 32

The first time all the colonies united And it is the first national government during the war for independence

Question 33

Philadelphia convention

Answer 33

A convention held to revise the articles of confederation

Question 34

Shays Rebellion

Answer 34

A revolt against land/home foreclosures (taxes)

Question 35

New York

Answer 35

The first capital city and Congress met here for the first time. New York was also one of the major states that didnt ratify at first

Question 36

Virginia

Answer 36

Virginia was one of the major states that didn’t ratify at first

Question 37

Name given to the group who favored the new constitution

Answer 37

Federalists

Question 38

Name given to the group who opposed the new constitution

Answer 38

Anti federalists