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Government ch. 2
Mr.Orr
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the federalist want to do? | Ratify the consitution |
| what are charters? | Written grant of authority from the king |
| 3 types of colonies | Proprietary, Royal and Charter |
| 3 ideas of government from our English Heritage | Ordered government, limited government, and representative government |
| What are expressed powers? | powers in writing in the consitution |
| What are the intolerable acts? | series of laws that punish people from Boston for The Boston Masacre and The Boston tea party |
| what are 4 early attempts to unify colonies? | New England Confederation, Albany plan, Stamp act congress, and First Continental congress |
| what is the Right of Rebellion | It is a booklet that is written by John Locke and he adapted the social contract theory to fit the New American Revoultion |
| Who was the author of the Albany plan? | Ben Franklin |
| What are the 4 common features of the first state government? | Popular sovereignty, limited government, civil liberty, separation of powers and checks an d balances |
| who were federalist leaders? | James Madison and Alexander Hamilton |
| who were anti-federalist leaders? | Patrick Henry and John Hancock |
| what is the connecticut compromise? | bi cameral and equal representation |
| what is the 3/5 compromise? | considered slaves 3/5th of a person when counting how many people they have per state for representation |
| what was Shay's rebellion? | armed forces uprising about taxes and debt since they fought for the war and the money they were given is no longer valid |
| what is the Virginia plan and who was it created by? | It was created by the big states and it has 3 separate branches of government(legislative, executive and judicial) and the members would be based on the size of the state so the big states would eliminate the small states |
| What is the New Jersey plan and who was it created by? | it was created by the small states and it was unicameral legislature with equal representation |