Government Ch.2

Question 1

Bicameral

Answer 1

2 houses in legislative branch

Question 2

Charter colonies

Answer 2

Colonies that were self governed (the people)

Question 3

Constitution

Answer 3

A body of fundamental principles set according to a state or group of individuals to be governed.

Question 4

Limited Government

Answer 4

Government doesn’t have all the power

Question 5

Petition of Rights

Answer 5

An idea established in England that even a monarch had to obey the law

Question 6

Proprietary

Answer 6

A colony run by a proprietor (land lord)

Question 7

Representative Government

Answer 7

Government that should serve the will of the people.

Question 8

Three-Fifths Compromise

Answer 8

Slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person in voting and also had a head tax of three-fifths as well.

Question 9

Anti-Federalists

Answer 9

Opposed to the new Constitution made by James Madison

Question 10

Commerce and Slave Compromise

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Confederation

Answer 11

All local agencies had the power not the central government (States)

Question 12

Federalists

Answer 12

In favor of the new constitution

Question 13

Manga Carta

Answer 13

Principle that the monarchy was not absolute

Question 14

Philadelphia Convention

Answer 14

The meeting where all leaders in America were to revise the constitution. (Start it over and make new one)

Question 15

Quorum

Answer 15

An amount of people that must be at a assembly for it to be valid.

Question 16

Royal Colonies

Answer 16

Colonies run by the king

Question 17

Unicameral

Answer 17

Just one house in the legislative branch

Question 18

Articles of Confederation

Answer 18

First constitution of the USA drafted during the revolutionary war in 1777.

Question 19

Great Compromise

Answer 19

Represented that the constitution would have all states based on population in the lower house and equal representation in the upper.

Question 20

Framers

Answer 20

Group of delegates sent to Philadelphia in 1787

Question 21

New Jersey Plan

Answer 21

A plan made by William Patterson that contended with the plan made by James Madison.

Question 22

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 22

The people Are able to choose the the make up of the government through each states representatives.

Question 23

Ratification

Answer 23

When all 13 states had to choose either the new constitution being presented or stay with the old one.

Question 24

Second Continental Congress

Answer 24

The first time that all colonies United!

Question 25

Virginia plan

Answer 25

A plan made by James Madison to make a bicameral legislative branch.

Question 26

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 26

Attempt to address colonial trade and unite during French and Indian war.