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Us Government 9/17
Question | Answer |
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Magna Carta was originally intended to protect the rights of which groups? | Nobles |
Which of the following was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation? | Congress lacked the power to tax... |
Which document was passed by Parliament in the Glorious Revolution? | English Bill of Rights |
Which of the following was the most pressing challenge facing the Confederation Congress? | Paying off the war debt |
Which type of colony enjoyed the most independence from the Crown? | Charter |
Which of the following was a set of law that limited the power of government and gave all free men the right to choose judges? | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
Antifederalist believed that representative government... | Could only exist in a small territory |
Why did the colonial assemblies reject the Albany Plan of Union? | They feared that the plan gave too much power to the Crown |
Republican ideas can be traced back to which of the following? | Ancient Greece and Rome |
Thomas Jefferson argued in the Declaration of Independence that, if a government disregards the will of the people, the people are free to do which of the following? | Change their government |
Civic virtue is the idea that people should do which of the following? | Place the common good over private interests |
For ideas on how to use the law to protect people's natural rights to life, liberty, and property, the Framers looked to..... | William Blackstone |
The Farmers took the idea of separation of powers from which philosophers? | Montesquieu |
For the Confederation Congress to pass any major legislation, how many states had to agree? | Nine |
Why did the large states favor the Virginia Plan? | Representation in the legislature would be based on population |
Why was the Great Compromise acceptable to the smaller states? | States would be represented equally in the Senate |
What ideal did the Antifederalist find the Constitution lacked? | Individual rights |
When King John signed ________ at Runnymede, he conceded that even kings and queens had to obey English law. | Magna Carta |
_________ colonies were directly controlled by the king through an appointed governor who served as the colony's chief executive. | Royal |
The term _________ refers to a board set of ideas about representative government that can be traced back to Ancient Greece and Rome. | Republicanism |
The __________ of 1765 was a tax on paper goods and all legal documents. | Stamp Act |
The second Continental Congress organized and official Continental Army and made _________it's commander. | George Washington |
The __________was one of the Confederation Congress' greatest accomplishments. | Northwest Ordinance |
At the Constitutional Convention, the __________plan called for a bicameral legislature. | Virginia |
In May 1787, delegates arrived in Philadelphia to revise the _________. | Articles of Confederation |
During the struggle to ratify the constitution, those who opposed its ratification were known as ___________. | Antifederalists |
The Federalist papers into that whole name of ________. | Publius |
One of the earliest English efforts towards limited government was... | Magna Carta |
Opposed ratification of the Constitution was.... | Antifederalists |
Based on grant by the English monarch to an owner... | Proprietary colony |
A Type of colony enjoying greatest independence from the Crown... | Charter colony |
formally approved... | Ratify |
Called for a bicameral legislature... | Virginia plan |
First ten amendments of the Constitution... | Bill of Rights |
Supported ratification of the Constitution... | Federalists |
Essays written in support of the ratification of the Constitution... | Federalist Papers |
Proposal that called for an unicameral legislature... | New Jersey Plan |
Passed by Parliament in the Glorious Revolution... | English Bill of Rights |
Created a system for admitting new states to the Union... | Northwest Ordinance |
Parliaments first attempt to text the colonist directly... | Stamp Act |
Delegates to the Constitutional convention... | Framers |
The nations first constitution adopted June 12, 1777... | Articles of Confederation |
Revolt of Massachusetts farmers led by a former revolutionary war captain... | Shays's Rebellion |
Settle disagreements about how enslaved people should be counted in calculating congressional representation | Three_fifths compromise |
Combined elements from both the Virginia and New Jersey plans | Great Compromise |